Sioux in her wartime camouflage. (Photo courtesy of Ken Garrett)

Christmas Day 1944 at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands. HMCS Sioux is alongside HMCS Uganda. Photo by John M. Turner  RCN who rowed a dory out  in order to record this event.  (Photo from the collection of Jack Adams)

Wartime photo of Sioux .(Photo via Naval Museum of Manitoba)

Firing the Pom Poms during target practice. (Submitted by John Parkin)

Post war photo of HMCS Sioux. (Courtesy of the Naval Museum of Manitoba).

Sioux makes her way through the Panama Canal. (Photo courtesy of Naval Museum of Alberta)

A great aerial shot showing Sioux sailing into St. John's, Newfoundland. (Photo courtesy of Naval Museum of Alberta).

In the summer of 1962, Sioux is entering the harbour of St. Anthony on the northern tip of Newfoundland and is just squeezing by an iceberg aground in the harbour mouth . She had just completed taking the Governor General on a tour around the Island.  (Photo by Horace McNeill.  Submitted by Curt McNeil).

A Sikorsky H-5 Dragon Fly helicopter lands on the aft superstructure. This was Sioux's first helicopter landing at sea. (Photo courtesy David Benson.  email: benson(at)pembinatrails.ca)

SIOUX and HAIDA in Hamilton. In 1963, both ships did a Great Lakes cruise simultaneously. Here HAIDA is berthed at Pier 9, the same spot where she berthed today. Sioux is at the easterly side of the pier. (Photo by George Goodwin . email: george.goodwin(at)sympatico.ca)

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Contributors and Credits:

1) Jack Adams <jkadams(at)rogers.com>
2) John Parkin <jparkin59(at)yahoo.ca>

Feb 28/10