The college was housed in a refurbished three storey brick building , the former naval hospital , at the north end of HMC Dockyard . The structure was built in 1863 to replace the original hospital destroyed in an 1815 fire . However , the building was heavily damaged in the 1917 Halifax Explosion . In the Spring of 1918 , the college was temporarily moved to facilities at the Royal Military College ( RMC ) in Kingston , Ontario . In September , the college was relocated to the naval dockyard at Esquimalt , British Columbia . The college was closed in 1922 after a parliamentary decision
Halifax Explosion
Halifax Explosion
Royal Naval College of Canada