CSS Acadia is a former hydrographic surveying ship. Acadia played a monumental role in charting the coastlines of Northern and Eastern Canada, served in both World Wars, and survived the 1917 Halifax Harbour Explosion. Today she is a museum ship, designated as a National Historic Site of Canada, moored in Halifax Harbour at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic.
Installed on the Halifax waterfront "CSS ACADIA" letters were designed with the reference to the ship's wooden plaque. At six feet tall and with benches made from ship's deck wood, these letters serve both as storytellers and photo opportunities. On the front faces of the letters are images and textures related to the ship's history, and on the backs are stories about the ship's past and present, crew, and even ship cats (aka rodent-control officers).
Halifax, NS – 2022
Project Management and Design - AldrichPears Associates
Exhibit Fabrication - Skyline Atlantic Canada
Ship Illustration - Christopher Hoyt
Custom letters were designed with reference to the ship's wooden plaque.
