100th Anniversary Of The Royal Canadian Navy

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    A Royal Review

    September 21, 2010 by Tom MacGregor
    Rear-Admiral Paul Maddison could not help noticing it as an echo from the darkest days of the Second World War. There, after all, was Halifax’s Bedford Basin, filled with warships ready for whatever task may fall to them. Behind him were 28 ships from Canada and...
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    Changing Tides

    January 9, 2010 by Richard Oliver Mayne
    The helicopter detachment with HMCS Winnipeg (2nd) prepares a Sea King for operations over the Gulf of Oman, July 2005. PHOTO: CANADIAN FORCES In 1945, naval minister Douglas Abbott announced he wanted Canada to have “a good, workable little fleet.” Some interpretations of Abbott’s statement...
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    Scrappy Little Corvettes

    January 5, 2010 by Mac Johnston
    Corvettes leave Halifax, April 1941. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA105334 “Adventure and serving your country, what a drawing card, eh?” said my wife as she examined the photo of the 17-year-old sailor and put it on the scanner. “Wow!” It’s a remarkable Second World War...
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    Launching The Service

    January 1, 2010 by Marc Milner
    Crew members of HMCS Niobe pause for a photograph taken before the First World War. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA139190 One hundred years ago, on Jan. 12, 1910, the government of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier introduced the Naval Service Bill. After third and final reading...