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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