{"id":99669,"date":"2026-04-19T02:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=99669"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:27:04","slug":"hmcs-magnificent-canadas-forgotten-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/04\/19\/hmcs-magnificent-canadas-forgotten-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>HMCS Magnificent<\/em> &#8211; Canada\u2019s Forgotten Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NovbHJCblho?si=bfENoF_FcQm0DNj8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Skynea History<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 13 Nov 2025<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Canadian Navy is probably not the first one you think about for naval aviation. You&#8217;re more likely to think of lighter ships, like <em>Haida<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Canadians would operate three aircraft carriers during the Cold War. The short-lived (well, short-lived in Canadian service) <em>Warrior<\/em>. The more famous <em>Bonaventure<\/em>, that I&#8217;ve covered before. And, the topic of this video, <em>HMCS Magnificent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The middle child and probably the least famous of the three. But the one that is, largely, responsible for building Canadian carrier doctrine. It was <em>Magnificent<\/em> that built up the Canadian naval air arm. <em>Magnificent<\/em> trained the pilots that would go on to serve with <em>Bonaventure<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And <em>Magnificent<\/em> is often overlooked for being the middle child. Hence why I chose to cover her today.<\/p>\n<p>Further Reading:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbVBHUjJsWDh4SXFyMWRicHQ0MWJuZVJIdFBEd3xBQ3Jtc0tsVnd4Y05zQkVVdGEzcjBYWkVVWWNiTV9kcWliR0E3YmVvSmZUSUl5aF9HTk1qYUM1VzMzVGh4NG5VQU1VMEtLTUhjMzh0U2U2ZktBbUVFbnFGNGUtaXNfLWZIaEJndUt5SVJMaVVyci1CNXd2amRpdw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fforposterityssake.ca%2FNavy%2FHMCS_MAGNIFICENT_CVL21.htm&#038;v=NovbHJCblho\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/forposterityssake.ca\/Navy\/HMC&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGdMc3JIWDNJWmFhN2FSRTF6eUhLTXdPU3k5QXxBQ3Jtc0trc0xWQkNIb1F6bnZPbGF4X2NBZjNMQnNCeFphaHBJRkR5c0MyZUQyVzJURUF2N0VpOVdvVUszajA5dG5CTTBwNG5CRnpkbXJYcjFHYVNMNzJaZEtiX0QwU0QyOWhPWFYwRHRrcjhIR2xaRmFvWDh0Yw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fnaval-museum.mb.ca%2Frcnships%2Fcanadas-aircraft-carriers%2F&#038;v=NovbHJCblho\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/naval-museum.mb.ca\/rcnships\/c&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skynea History Published 13 Nov 2025 The Royal Canadian Navy is probably not the first one you think about for naval aviation. You&#8217;re more likely to think of lighter ships, like Haida. However, the Canadians would operate three aircraft carriers during the Cold War. The short-lived (well, short-lived in Canadian service) Warrior. The more famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[1063,617,108,30,745,61],"class_list":["post-99669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-history","category-military","tag-1950s","tag-carriers","tag-coldwar","tag-navy","tag-rcn","tag-ships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pVz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99670,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99669\/revisions\/99670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}