In the May/June issue we tested your knowledge of National Defence. Here are the answers:
- The Militia Act of 1883, which established the Infantry School Corps and the Cavalry School Corps. The infantry and cavalry units formed the basis for Canada’s professional army, through both regular duties and providing permanent instructors for the non-permanent militia, male Canadian citizens who volunteered as part-time soldiers.
- The Department of Naval Service, the Department of Militia and Defence, and the Air Board.
- James H. MacBrien, who was head of the army during a period of financial retrenchment. Later he became Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
- Defence Scheme No. 1, which proposed a limited Canadian offensive into and fighting withdrawal from the U.S. until British reinforcements arrived in North America.
- The Department of Labour.
- C.D. Howe. His duties included, during the Second World War, minister of Munitions and Supply and minister of Reconstruction. After the war he led Trade and Commerce and the Department of Defence Production, the latter created in 1951.
- The Military Cooperation Committee, Canada-U.S., which was active in the late 1940s.
- The airborne/air transportable Mobile Striking Force (MSF), which consisted of infantry and air force units. The MSF was specifically designed to rid Canada’s north of Soviet invaders.
- The CF101 Voodoo. It was replaced by the CF18 Hornet.
- Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, B.C. The Royal Navy first established a naval base there in the 1850s. CFB Esquimalt is now Canada’s west coast naval base under the Maritime Command (Navy) element of the Canadian Forces.
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