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S3: Project Habakkuk, Jasper’s top secret ice ship

The Secret Life of Canada

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World War II - The Battle of the Atlantic

By 19 forty two, things were not going well at sea for the allied forces. They needed a place cold enough and remote enough that no spy would ever find out what they were doing. The super secret location would be patricia lake and jasper alberta. This is going to be a story of how a jewish inventor from the u k came up with one of the most eye opening plans to win the war. And then what happened when canada took it on and tried to build an enormous ship out of ice using the labor of conscientious objectors.

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