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Gunfire on the Lakes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Gunfire on the Lakes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1977
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A War Guest in Canada
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

A War Guest in Canada

During the Second World War, hundreds of children were sent from the UK to stay with family and friends in Canada as “war guests.” This book collects the letters of one such war guest, young W.A.B (Alec) Douglas, who wrote from his wartime home in Toronto to his mother back home in London. Alec wrote home every week, although sometimes he forgot to post his letters, and they were delayed, and some letters did not get through. Occasionally his godmother and host, Mavis Fry, would add comments and write her own more detailed letters. Also included are letters from Lillian Kingston, who brought Alec to North America in 1940. This is a story of exposure, at an impressionable age, to ocean passage in wartime, the sights and sounds of New York, the totally new and unfamiliar world of Canada, the wonderful excitement of passage home in a Woolworth Aircraft Carrier as a "Guest of the Admiralty," and his eventful return to a world he had left behind three years before. A War Guest in Canada includes a foreword by Cynthia Comacchio and an introduction by Roger Sarty.

A Blue Water Navy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 662

A Blue Water Navy

Although the Royal Canadian Navy had spent the early years of the Second World War in a desperate struggle against German U-boats on the North Atlantic convoy routes, the service's professional officers never lost sight of the need to build a balanced national navy, one that included the larger warships required for Canada to project its naval power around the globe. Part 2 of the Official Operational History continues the story of the Royal Canadian Navy begun in No Higher Purpose and carries the narrative into the decisive final years of the Second World War, as the navy largely achieves its "blue water" ambitions. Based on extensive research in Canadian, British, American and German archi...

Out of the Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Out of the Shadows

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996-07-26
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

First published in 1977 this accessible general overview of Canada’s contribution to the Second World War and of the war’s effect on Canada’s evolution. This revised edition incorporates new information, particularly in the realms of intelligence and cipher, allowing new interpretations of policies and operations. It also makes new judgements on Canadian generalship.

No Higher Purpose
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 690

No Higher Purpose

Depository Library Program.

Out of the Shadows
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Out of the Shadows

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1995
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  • Publisher: Dundurn

This new edition of the highly regarded work includes recent research on the topic of radio intelligence and cryptography.

A Blue Water Navy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 650

A Blue Water Navy

Although the Royal Canadian Navy had spent the early years of the Second World War in a desperate struggle against German U-boats on the North Atlantic convoy routes, the service's professional officers never lost sight of the need to build a balanced national navy, one that included the larger warships required for Canada to project its naval power around the globe.Part 2 of the Official Operational History continues the story of the Royal Canadian Navy begun in No Higher Purpose and carries the narrative into the decisive final years of the Second World War, as the navy largely achieves its "blue water" ambitions. Based on extensive research in Canadian, British, American and German archiv...

The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force: The creation of a national air force
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 834
Halifax as an Element of Sea Power, 1749-1766
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 199

Halifax as an Element of Sea Power, 1749-1766

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 196?
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force: Canadian airmen and the first world war
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 928

The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force: Canadian airmen and the first world war

The first of three volumes of the Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, this book provides the definitive story of Canadian airmen in World War I and, moreover, a revisionist account of the war in the air. Organized topically, this volume begins with an overview of military aviation in Canada prior to 1914, as successful aircraft experiments like Baldwin's and McCurdy's Silver Dart are set against Defence Minister Sam Hughes' rejection of any government air policy. Financial timidity and political uncertainty subsequently decreed that the 20,000 Canadians who trained for, or fought in, history's first air war would have no air force of their own but would fly in the British flyin...