Commissioned November , 1941

Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve unit, Edmonton, Alberta.

All 'Royal' naval installations were and are considered and listed as a 'ship'.

This tradition continues at Canadian Forces naval installations.


plaques with this NONSUCH crest are advertised and traded to the public by a Canadian company



NONSUCH . . .
"That which has no equal in art or fame, Britons do rightly 'Nonsuch' name."


In the ship's badge of HMCS NONSUCH is incorporated the "Beaver Rampant", symbolic of the Hudson Bay Company's fur trade and the part that NONSUCH played in it. The ship's motto really brings out the spirit of this inland Naval Division and the many "prairie sailors" that proved so efficient as members of the crews of His Majesty's Canadian Naval vessels during the Second World War, especially In the Battle of the Atlantic. It is "A CAMPIS AD MARIA"..... "From the Prairies to the Seas". This has been the admiration of the rest of Canada, how the men from the prairies, trained in the inland Naval Divisions, became such staunch seafarers.

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