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Title A nation's Navy : in quest of Canadian naval identity / edited by Michael L. Hadley, Rob Huebert and Fred W. Crickard
Published Montreal, Qué. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 460 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: SOUNDINGS -- 1 The Historiography of the Canadian Navy: The State of the Art -- 2 The Popular Image of the Canadian Navy -- 3 Strategy, the Fleet-in-Being, and the Strategic Culture of the Officer Corps -- PART TWO: THE NAVY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF NATIONAL POLICY -- 4 The RCN: Royal Colonial or Royal Canadian Navy? -- 5 The Roots of the Royal Canadian Navy: Sovereignty versus Nationalism, 1812-1910
6 The Rise of Proto-nationalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Founding of the Naval Service of Canada, 1902-1910 -- 7 Sailors and Soldiers: The Royal Navy, the Canadian Forces, and the Defence of Atlantic Canada, 1890-1918 -- 8 Fleet Replacement and the Crisis of Identity -- PART THREE: THE NAVY AS A FIGHTING SERVICE -- 9 A Minute Bletchley Park: Building a Canadian Naval Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1943 -- 10 Muddling Through: Canadian Anti-submarine Doctrine and Practice, 1942-1945 -- 11 MIFor MNF? The Dilemma of the Lesser Navies in the Gulf War Coalition
12 A Good, Workable Little Fleet: Canadian Naval Policy, 1945-1950 -- 13 Sailors, Admirals, and Politicians: The Search for Identity after the War -- PART FOUR: THE NAVY AND CANADIAN SOCIETY -- 14 A Nursery of Fighting Seamen? The Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, 1901-1920 -- 15 The Social Background of the Wartime Navy: Some Statistical Data -- 16 The Wrens of the Second World War: Their Place in the History of Canadian Servicewomen -- 17 A Canadian Departure: The Evolution of HMCS Royal Roads, 1942-1948
18 HMCS Ottawa III: The Navy's First French-Language Unit, 1968-1973 -- PART FIVE: PERSPECTIVES AND POLICIES FOR A NEW CENTURY -- 19 Strangers in Their Own Seas? A Comparison of the Australian and Canadian Naval Experience, 1910-1982 -- 20 Maritime Command, National Missions, and Naval Identity -- 21 Points of Departure: Towards the Next Forty Years -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Notes Collection of essays emerging from the Second Fleet Historical Conference in Halifax, Nova Scotia, October 8-9, 1993
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-441) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History -- Congresses
SUBJECT Canada. Royal Canadian Navy fast
Subject HISTORY -- Military -- Naval.
HISTORY -- Military -- Canada.
SUBJECT Canada -- History, Naval -- Congresses
Subject Canada
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
Author Hadley, Michael L.
Huebert, Robert N. (Robert Neil), 1960-
Crickard, F. W.
ISBN 9780773566309
0773566309