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To talk about their time spent on Disney's Discovery Island.
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Before it closed many families made memories here and they will continue
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It was closed to the public on April 8, 1999, but continued to operate until July 9, 1999, at which point all of its animals had been relocated to new homes at Disney's Animal Kingdom (which retained the Discovery Island name in the hub area formerly called Safari Village) and other zoos.ĭisney's Discovery Island has been abandoned since 1999. It opened as " Treasure Island" on April 8, 1974, and was a place to observe wildlife. Discovery is also the site of the Naval Museum of Vancouver and Vancouver Naval Veterans Association.Discovery Island, also known as " Bay Lake's Tropical Island Paradise," is an 11½- acre island in Bay Lake at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In addition to the Naval Reserve, Discovery houses Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps Captain Vancouver and Navy League Cadet Corps Captain Rankin. The unit continues to serve as host and ambassador to dozens of foreign vessels visiting the Port of Vancouver. It is also the site of the Western Region Diving Centre, coordinating the efforts of the various port inspection diving teams at Naval Reserve Divisions in Western Canada. It was the Olympic Maritime Operations Centre for the 2010 Winter Olympics and conducted port-security around the country. The facility provided support for the 1997 APEC meeting in Vancouver. Discovery personnel have been deployed to Korea, the Persian Gulf, Egypt, Bosnia and Afghanistan. HMCS Discovery continues to serve as a training facility, force-generating personnel for Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) operations. At the end of the war, Discovery became the discharge centre for the whole of the British Columbia mainland, and 8,378 men and women were discharged through the base. During the Second World War, Discovery was one of the greatest sources of naval recruits in Canada, having enrolled 372 officers, 6,974 ratings and 650 Wrens ( Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service – WRCNS). In 1944, the unit was permitted to occupy Deadman Island in Stanley Park and turn this property into a training facility. On 1 November 1941, the division was newly commissioned as HMCS Discovery and it moved into Stanley Park Barracks.
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Robert Louis Stevenson's schooner Casco was used for a time to train cadets in the 1920s.ĭuring the Second World War, the role of the reserves increased, reflecting the need to maintain sufficient manpower for the war effort. Hobbs was given permission to form the first "Vancouver Half Company" of the Naval Volunteer Reserve. It was not until May 1924 that Lieutenant-Commander J.W. This small group was composed of 87 members of the Royal Vancouver Yacht Club who served and were demobilized at the end of the war. Discovery traces its history to the creation of the "Number 2 (Vancouver) Company" of the Royal Naval Canadian Volunteer Reserve at the beginning of the First World War.