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ABBREVIATIONS:

CGS – Canadian Government Ship; HMCS – His/Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship; CCGS – Canadian Coast Guard Ship; RCMP – Royal Canadian Mounted Police

1904 CGS ARCTIC

Photo: Royal Canadian Navy

1908 CGS CANADA

Photo: Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

1940 RCMP Vessel ST ROCH

Photo: Major James Skitt Matthews, City of Vancouver Archives

1942 HMCS REGINA (Flower-class corvette)

Photo: Royal Canadian Navy

1955 HMCS ST LAURENT

Photo: Daniel Miller

1962 CCGS LABRADOR

Photo: George Smith

1965 HMCS OJIBWA

Photo: Elgin Military Museum

Present HMCS CALGARY with USS STENNIS – Asia Pacific operations

Photo: Mass Communications Specialist 3rd Class Sierra D. Langdon, US Navy

2011-present Op CARIBBE – Caribbean counter narcotics support operations

Photo: Canadian Armed Forces Image Gallery

1994 CCGS CAPE ROGER (Turbot War)

Photo: Hans Toom Photography

1991 First Gulf War

Photo: WO Wayne Loane

1914 HMCS RAINBOW

Photo: Royal Canadian Navy

1920

1939-1945

1950-1953

1950-1990

1994-1996 1990-1991 1910 1936 19621867 1872 2017

Confederation –

Formation of the Ministry

of Marine and Fisheries

Formation of the Royal

Canadian Navy (received Royal

designation in 1911)

Formation of the RCMP

Second World War Cold WarFirst World War

Korean Conflict Turbot War

Formation of the

Fisheries Protection

Service

1914-1918

Formation of the

Department of Transport

Formation of the

Canadian Coast Guard

CANADA - A MARITIME NATION SINCE 1867

First Gulf War

by Norman Jolin