The Armdale Yacht Club is a yacht club on Melville Island, at the head of the Northwest Arm of Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Canada. The club was founded in 1937 and settled at its present location in 1947, and it is known for founding the Bluenose fleet. Its clubhouse is the former officers quarters built on Melville Island in 1808 under Admiral John Borlase Warren, and the island itself was a prison for French and American prisoners of war during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, a reception depot for Black refugees in 1815 to 1818, and a quarantine site for Irish famine migrants in 1847. The club has reciprocal agreements with other yacht clubs, among them the Britannia Yacht Club, and its notable members have included the marine architect William James Roué, designer of the Bluenose, and the Halifax mayor Ronald Wallace.
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is a yacht club located on Melville Island, at the head of Halifax Harbour's Northwest Arm in Nova Scotia, Canada
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is a yacht club located on Melville Island, at the head of Halifax Harbour's Northwest Arm in Nova Scotia, Canada
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The Armdale Yacht Club is a yacht club
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