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This sedimentary stone was king when the Dry Dock opened
What is coal?
When the Museum opened on this date, the number one movie in Canada was (fittingly) "Jaws"
What is July 1, 1975?
Broken tool? You don't have to go very far for a fix - just visit this nearby location
What is the forge?
The type of ship built at the Dry Dock during World War II - or a classic car
What is a corvette?
The Kingston Dry Dock was built at this point, also the name of an Ontario city
What is Mississauga Point?
This steel box controls entry into the Dry Dock, and is the French word for "gate"
What is the caisson?
The Museum returned to the Dry Dock in this year, 109 years after the launch of the first vessel constructed at the dock (a quarantine ship)
What is 2020?
Without this common garden tool, you would have to move each piece of the 1500 tons of coal used at the Dry Dock every year by hand!
What is a wheelbarrow?
This local artist was sent into active warzones to capture images of men and women in service - talk about suffering for your art!
Who is Grant Macdonald?
Kingston was originally known as this Anishinaabe-Haudenosaunee word, meaning "place where there is clay"
What is Cataraqui?
This term refers to the process of taking a ship's hull, built on land, and placing it in the water safely
The arrival of SS Keewatin on this date has attracted hundreds of visitors to the Museum
What is October 2023?
Uh-oh, your power tool has stopped working! Looks like you sprung a leak in this component
What is a canvas hose?
The average workforce while the Dry Dock was active during was this number - a far cry from the four or five employees who manned the dock during the 1930's
What is 1500?
Kingston and the surrounding waters are the traditional territories and trade routes of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and this nation, whose name means "people of the island"
Who are the Huron-wendat nation?
This is the reason why the original pump house building was built entirely of local limestone
What is fire safety/fire suppression?
What is the "Alexander Henry"?
Don't get bent out of shape - you can restructure pipes by adding this rock byproduct
What is sand (specifically heated sand)?
What is "Trentonian"?
His leadership of the Haudenosaunee Mohawk during the American War of Independence earned his family a plot of land in Kingston
Who is Joseph Brant?
Without this Kingston local (no, not Sir John A), the Kingston Dry Dock would not have been constructed
Who is Henry Perley?
The pier that the Museum was built on shares a name with a local school hall
What is Carruther's?
Without this design element in the Dry Dock, ships would topple onto their sides (and create way more work!)
What are the stepped walls of the Dry Dock?
Named after a Canadian town (like all corvettes), this ship, moored in Halifax, is the last of the corvettes still in one piece
What is the HMCS Sackville?
This "Great Law of Peace" prophet inspired the establishment of a Haudenosaunee settlement at Tyendinaga
Who is the Peacemaker?