HMCS Venture was a three-masted schooner built for the Royal Canadian Navy as a training ship in 1937.

The schooner was sold to private interests following the war and renamed Alfred & Emily before being lost by fire in 1951.

[1] She was one of only thirteen Royal Canadian Navy ships in service at the outbreak of the Second World War.

[6] She became an accommodation vessel at Halifax for Royal Navy ratings assigned to the 3rd Battleship Squadron.

In November 1941, she was recommissioned as a guard ship at Tuft's Cove, which lies at the entrance to Bedford Basin.