A list of main sources used in the construction of our website. Special thanks to our instructors Dr. John Lutz and Jim Kempling, and Bryan Smith and the employees and volunteers at the Maritime Museum of British Columbia. Also, special thanks to Lt. Jaime Webb from the RSCCC Cadet Corps. All provided valuable information and assistance to this project
Website Images:
Main Banner Image: Rainbow at sea. Image Source: Maritime Museum of British Columbia
Background Image: Rainbow in Vancouver Harbour. Image Source: Vancouver City Archives.
History Section and Crew Section:
Brock, Admiral Patrick. “Rainbow 1891-1910.” in the Brock Files. Original documents in Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria B.C. n.d.
Duguid, Archer Fortescue. Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919. General Series Vol. I, from the Outbreak of War to the Formation of the Canadian Corps, August 1914-September 1915. Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude, Printer to the King, 1938.
Longstaff, F. V. Esquimalt Naval Base: A History of its Work and its Defences. Victoria, B.C: distributors Victoria Book & Stationery Co, 1941.
Milner, Marc. Canada’s Navy: The First Century. 2nd ed ed. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Photo Album Collection. Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria, B.C.
Tucker, Gilbert Norman. The Naval Service of Canada: Its Official History. Ottawa: King’s Printer, 1952.
Tucker, Gilbert Norman. “The Career of the H.M.C.S. Rainbow.” British Columbia Historical Quarterly. Vol. 3, No. 1, 1943.
Vertical Files. “Rainbow.” Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria B.C.
Ship Section:
Brock, Admiral Patrick . “The Brock Files: Rainbow 1891-1910.” manuscript., Maritime Museum of British Columbia, Victoria B.C.,
MacMillan-Murphy, Jim. Esquimalt Remembers (Esquimalt Heritage Advisory Committee) Retrieved April 2 2014
ReadyAyeReady.com, “Timeline: 1910-1919 HMCS Rainbow.” Accessed April 3, 2014. http://readyayeready.com/timeline/1910s/rainbow.htm.
Sugrue, Clare. CFB Esquimalt Naval Museum, “HMCS Rainbow.” Last modified 2011. Accessed April 3, 2014. http://www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org/resource_pages/ships/rainbow.html.
Tunnicliffe, Mark. Rainbow’s Guns – What and When? (The Northern Mariner, XVI No.3, July 2006
Rainbow Cadet Corps Section:
RCSCC Rainbow: A Pictorial History 1918-1993