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The '''Canadian Nautical Research Society''' ('''CNRS'''; {{langx|fr|Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique}}, ''SCRN'') was originally established as the '''Canadian Society for the Promotion of Nautical Research''', then incorporated 25 October 1984 under its current name and achieved the status of a registered charity shortly thereafter.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Canadian Nautical Research Society - about us |url=https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/admin/index_e.html |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=www.cnrs-scrn.org}}</ref>

The objectives of the Society are:
* to promote nautical research in Canada,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Canadian Nautical Research Society - Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique |url=https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/ |access-date=2024-01-18 |website=www.cnrs-scrn.org}}</ref>
* to disseminate the results of such research, and
* to encourage an awareness of Canada's maritime heritage
To those ends, the Society publishes in association with the [[North American Society for Oceanic History]] a quarterly journal ''[[Northern Mariner|The Northern Mariner/Le marin du nord]]'' and a quarterly newsletter ''Argonauta''; holds an annual conference; and makes several awards:<ref name=":1" />
* the Jacques Cartier MA Prize in Maritime Affairs, to encourage graduate students at the Master's level,
* the Gerry Panting Award, which is a bursary to a young scholar to attend the annual conference to present a paper, and
* the Keith Matthews Awards, named in honour of the Society's first President, to recognize outstanding publications in the field of nautical research.
The Society is also the Canadian national sub-commission of the [[International Commission for Maritime History]].<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cnrs-scrn.org The Canadian Nautical Research Society / Société canadienne pour la recherche nautique]

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[[Category:Naval history of Canada]]
[[Category:Canadian maritime historians|*]]
[[Category:1982 establishments in Ontario]]
[[Category:Historical societies of Canada]]
[[Category:Organizations established in 1982]]
[[Category:Maritime history organizations]]


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