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Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships

The title Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships reflects a common Canadian attitude during the First World War: Canada's "Tin-Pot Navy" was maligned while the "Kaiser's Pirates" were feared. Not since Gilbert Tucker's classic, The Naval Service of Canada, has there been so comprehensive a study of the origins of the Canadian Navy, and no previous study has examined those origins from the perspective of the Canadian Navy's response to the German threat.

Guardian of the Gulf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 536

Guardian of the Gulf

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: Unknown

A vivid and long overdue account of one of the great untold Canadian military stories: Sydney's importance as a major convoy port, a base in the hunt for German submarines, and an industrial centre producing critically important coal and steel.

Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Canada and the Battle of the Atlantic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Art global

The Battle of the Atlantic was the longest sustained conflict of the Second World War, a critical fight for the Allies to stop Nazi U-boats and other warships from sinking supply ships to Europe. Canadians played a vital role in that war.

The Maritime Defence of Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

The Maritime Defence of Canada

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book is a collection of papers on maritime defence up to 1950, beginning with an overview of Canadian maritime defence 1892-1914. Subsequent papers cover the defence of British Columbia, the naval aspects of Canadian sovereignty, Pacific coast defence, rearmament and mobilization in the late 1930s, coastal fortifications of World War II, anti-submarine warfare in the north-west Atlantic 1943-45, and submarine warfare 1909-1950.

The Seabound Coast
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1014

The Seabound Coast

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-01-14
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

Commended for the 2011 Keith Matthews Award From its creation in 1910, the Royal Canadian Navy was marked by political debate over the countrys need for a naval service. The Seabound Coast, Volume I of a three-volume official history of the RCN, traces the story of the navys first three decades, from its beginnings as Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Lauriers tinpot navy of two obsolescent British cruisers to the force of six modern destroyers and four minesweepers with which it began the Second World War. The previously published Volume II of this history, Part 1, No Higher Purpose, and Part 2, A Blue Water Navy, has already told the story of the RCN during the 19391945 conflict. Based on extensi...

Dictionary of Cape Breton English
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Dictionary of Cape Breton English

The first regional dictionary devoted to the island s linguistic and cultural history, the Dictionary of Cape Breton English is a fascinating record of the island s rich vocabulary. "

Guardian of the Gulf
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

Guardian of the Gulf

A vivid and long overdue account of one of the great untold Canadian military stories: Sydney's importance as a major convoy port, a base in the hunt for German submarines, and an industrial centre producing critically important coal and steel.

No Higher Purpose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 690

No Higher Purpose

Depository Library Program.

Felix A. Sommerfeld and the Mexican Front in the Great War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Felix A. Sommerfeld and the Mexican Front in the Great War

The German government decided in the fall of 1914 to corner the U.S. arms and ammunition market to the detriment of England and France. In New York German Military Attaché Franz von Papen and Naval Attaché Karl Boy-Ed could not think of anyone more effective and with better connections than Felix A. Sommerfeld to sell off the weapons and ammunition to Mexico. A few months later, Sommerfeld received orders to create a border incident. Tensions along the U.S. - Mexican border suddenly increased in a wave of border raids under the Plan de San Diego. When Pancho Villa attacked the town of Columbus, NM, on March 9, 1916, virtually the entire regular U.S. Army descended upon Mexico or patrolled the border. War seemed inevitable. Federal agents could not prove it, but suspected German involvement. Felix A. Sommerfeld and fellow agents had forced the hand of the U.S. government through some of the most intricate clandestine operations in the history of World War I.

In Plain Sight
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

In Plain Sight

Felix A. Sommerfeld was a German secret service agent assigned to Mexico. During the Mexican Revolution (1910 to 1920) he became a close confidante of Mexican President Madero as well as revolutionary leaders Carranza and Villa. He significantly influenced German and American foreign policy towards Mexico.