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	Armed Forces
		The Royal Canadian Air Force was formed on 1 April 1924, and lost its distinct identity with the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1968.
		Canadians were involved from the start, but the first Canadian unit was 405 Squadron, which was operational in mid-1941 and was part of the elite Pathfinder group.
		The first to serve was Air Marshal C.R. Canadian air defence in the post-1945 period relied heavily upon foreign-produced aircraft, a policy underlined by the cancellation of the AVRO ARROW in 1959.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1SEC816230 (1418 words)

	Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life [Book Review]
		Vickers was born in 1926 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, the sixth in a family of eight children.
		Vickers impressed the faculty by his concentration, one teacher later recalling that he was like a “piece of blotting paper,” soaking up everything in its path.
		Even some of Vickers’ supporters were skeptical, one suggesting that the most charitable interpretation was that, upon studying the role, the tenor must have been unable to connect with it in the way necessary for his best performances.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft0012/reviews/linton.html (2580 words)

	Vickers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vickers was formed in Sheffield as a steel foundry by the miller Edward Vickers and his father-in-law George Naylor in 1828.
		Vickers produced their first armour plate in 1888 and their first artillery piece in 1890.
		Vickers remained independent until 1999 when the then Vickers plc was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc who sold the defense arm to Alvis plc, which became Alvis Vickers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers (914 words)

	The Expanding Definition of Canadian Maritime Law
		Canadian maritime law as it was immediately before June 1, 1971 continues subject to such changes therein as may be made by this Act or any other Act of Parliament.
		Canadian Vickers Limited, [1978] 2 F.C. 675, was decided by the Federal Court, Trial Division shortly after the decisions in Quebec North Shore Paper Co. and McNamara Construction (Western) Ltd. The case involved a claim by a shipowner against a ship builder for breach of a ship building contract.
		His comment that Canadian maritime law was not to be considered as frozen by the Admiralty Act of 1934 and that its ambit was limited only by the constitutional division of powers paved the way for a much greater expansion of the scope and content of Canadian maritime law.
	www.admiraltylaw.com /papers/Dalspeech.htm (11708 words)

	Canadair Ltd
		The company had its origins in the aircraft division of Canadian Vickers Ltd, formed in 1923.
		It was purchased by Canadians in 1927 and during WWII produced the Canso, a long-range flying boat used for maritime patrol.
		The company was reorganized in 1944 by the Canadian government under the name Canadair, and sold to Electric Boat Co of the US in 1946.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0001249 (208 words)

	Jon Vickers: A Hero's Life [Book Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Vickers was born in 1926 in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, the sixth in a family of eight children.
		Vickers impressed the faculty by his concentration, one teacher later recalling that he was like a “piece of blotting paper,” soaking up everything in its path.
		Even some of Vickers’ supporters were skeptical, one suggesting that the most charitable interpretation was that, upon studying the role, the tenor must have been unable to connect with it in the way necessary for his best performances.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0012/reviews/linton.html (2580 words)

	RCAF.com : Aircraft
		The Canadian Vickers Vancouver was another twin engine flying boat designed to a RCAF specification for an aircraft to replace the Varuna and capable of transporting men and equipment to forest fire locations.
		The Canadian Vickers Vigil was a single-seat patrol aircraft based on an RCAF specification for a forest fire patrol aircraft.
		The Vickers Viking was a single engine flying boat purchased in 1923 to meet a CAF tender for an aircraft suitable to replace the wartime-vintage Curtiss HS-2L flying boats.
	www.rcaf.com /data/index.php?p=getcat&db_id=2&cat_id=5 (406 words)

	H.M.C.S. Hallowell Comfort Packages
		For the present not very much can be told of the frigate, except that she is a sort of halfway mark between the destroyer and the corvette: much faster than the corvette, bigger, carrying more guns as well as other secret devices for detecting and destroying submarines.
		He paid heartfelt tribute to all Vickers' workers and, on their behalf, to the two men whose wives were chosen to act as sponsors at this double launching, which marked the first launchings on the St. Lawrence this season.
		John "Paddy" Poole, wife of the popular foreman burner at Vickers and one of their old employees, having served his apprenticeship at Vickers and was a "passer boy" at the yards in the last war.
	www.aandc.org /research/hmcs_hallowell_comforts1.html (2205 words)

	Winged Sentries / Sentinelles de L'Air
		A Curtiss H 16 was used briefly by the Canadian Air Force in Manitoba on forestry patrol and photography in 1923 but was a very unpopular aircraft as the open cockpit exposed the aircrew to the elements during their long patrols of 7 to 8 hours.
		Built by Canadian Vickers, Montreal, it was used for photography, and for detection and suppression of forest fires.
		A small single-seater biplane, the Vickers "Vigil", was specially designed for forestry patrol to replace the Avros on operations in the Rocky Mountain area where flying conditions were exceptionally severe due to the "bumpy" air, Designed as a land- plane, it was adaptable to skis or floats.
	www.geocities.com /adrien_michaud/GHpage1.htm (15589 words)

	Canada, selling canadian militaria, badges, medals and insignia. WW1, WW2. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		53rd Vickers Scout Troop was a large group sponsored by Hochelaga's Canadian Vickers company, the most important naval shipbuilding yard in Canada during WW1.
		CANADIAN VICKERS PLANT used to build boats for the english navy.
		The Battalion was raised in the Peel and York regions of Ontario in 1915 and mobilized at Camp Niagara.
	www.antiquesandmilitaria.com /Canada.html (1200 words)

	Korean War - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		Canadian Vickers machine gunner overlooking typically hilly Korean terrain.
		Canadian rifleman, Private Morris J Piche of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, is helped to an aid station behind the Korean front lines by Lance Corporal W J Chrysler during the 27th Brigade advance in early 1951.
		Canadian forces were directly engaged during this Chinese offensive, notably the 2nd Battalion, PPCLI at Kapyong.
	www.canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Korean_War (5583 words)

	\| TIME
		Canadian Vickers Ltd. built the [Montreal] factory for the Government to manufacture Catalina aircraft during the war.
		Canadian Vickers Ltd. discontinued its aircraft operations on Nov. u, 1944, and has had nothing to do with the operation of the factory since that time.
		Canadian Vickers Ltd. has not had any interest in Canadair Ltd., which has operated the factory since November 1944.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,801796-3,00.html (600 words)

	Fokker, A living history - Fokker Super Universal
		This was not an entirely surprising move as the chairman of WCA was also a director of Canadian Vickers.
		The Canadian prototype flew in the spring of 1929.
		Canadian Vickers also had to contend with production delays and this led to Canadian sales lagging far behind those of the U.S. Added to this, the economic depression following upon the stock exchange crisis in 1929, had an unfavorable effect on sales figures.
	library.thinkquest.org /C002752/fokker.cgi?page=db/suniversal (1317 words)

	CanConRox - Tony Mystery & The Masquerades
		In Canadian music's infancy, all mid-Western cities shared one thing in common in the mid to late 50's.
		The band carried on until the middle of the decade, where individiual interests caused the band's demise, with the core of the band breaking off one by one.
		Shaw meanwhile would find a new group of proteges, in The Stampeders, showing again his uncanny ability to nurture a basic raw talent, and why he'll be remembered as the pinnacle to Alberta's contribution to the formation of Canadian rock.
	www.canadianbands.com /Masquerades.html (616 words)

	Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Canadian Vickers ventured into aircraft manufacturing in 1923 when it won a contract to supply Vickers Viking flying boats to the recently formed Canadian Air Force.
		Between 1923 and 1944, Canadian Vickers produced over 400 aircraft, some of which were original Vickers' designs while the remainder were other manufacturers' designs built under licence.
		In July 1941, the Canadian government awarded Canadian Vickers a contract to produce PBY-5A Canso amphibians (a version of the Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina flying boat) for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
	home.ca.inter.net /~rapickler/intro.html (361 words)

	Chapter 1 World War II
		Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal a subsidiary of the British Vickers armament group.
		The Canadian subsidiary was commencing to produce the Finch, a stick and string primary trainer for the RCAF.
		Although the Canadian Government had formed Trans Canada Airlines in 1937 by merging a group of fledgling local carriers, nevertheless, it was generally believed that anyone using this mode of travel was a candidate for an asylum or the Victoria Cross.
	www3.sympatico.ca /randy.smye/avro/chapter1/ch1_ww2.htm (6098 words)

	NLS - Vickers Viking
		The Vickers Viking IV biplane was the first amphibian aircraft to be used in Canada.
		Although designed in Britain by the British Vicker's Aircraft Co, most of those used in Canada were constructed by the Canadian Vickers Company in 1923.
		The scenes in which the aircraft replica was used were filmed in the Canadian Arctic and involved a young Inuit boy who became fascinated by aircraft and became a bomb-aimer on Lancasters during the Second World War.
	www.lancastermuseum.ca /vickers.html (551 words)

	Last Delta Air Classics - Find Articles
		This aircraft was built in Canada in 1937 by Canadian Vickers (c/n CV183) of Montreal and operated by the Royal Canadian Air Force as 673.
		The plane was also modified to utilize Vickers Type 75 floats or Vickers Type F skis for snow operation.
		Vickers would go on to build a total of 20 Deltas and the first example was delivered to the RCAF on 1 September 1936.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3901/is_200108/ai_n8970529 (533 words)

	Chronology of Canadian NCLT Coins (1990-1994)
		A Royal proclamation specifies that the design of the $100 gold coin commemorate the 100th anniversary of the launch of the first Canadian Pacific Steamship, and that the design of the $1 silver coin commemorate the 175th anniversary of the launch of the first steamboat to operate on Lake Ontario.
		The Royal Canadian Mint announces that it will raise the fineness of $1 silver collector coins to 0.925 starting with the 1992 issue, and will issue a set of silver Proof editions of the 1992 25c coins.
		The Royal Canadian Mint announces it is preparing for the launch of a non-circulating legal tender $2 coin, probably in the fall of 1993.
	www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/cannclt/nclt1990.htm (1990 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1937, the Canadian Colonial Airways inaugurated a DC3 express service for passengers from St-Hubert to New York.
		During that time also, at the expense of great sacrifices, the Canadian Airforce pilots were battling the war in Corea.
		In 1944, the aeronautical section of Canadian Vickers becomes Canadair.
	www.aerovision.org /ang/aviationm.htm (504 words)

	Civilization.ca - Scholars - Canada and Submarine Warfare, 1909-1950 - 1914-1918
		The reaction of the Canadian government, Canadian naval authorities and senior British officers in the western Atlantic was something close to panic.
		The small Canadian vessels formed a screen around the merchantmen as they emerged single file from port and lumbered into formation during the first hours of passage:it was at this time that the merchant vessels were especially vulnerable to submarine attack.
		The commander-in-chief and the Canadians were incensed, but salvaged an agreement under which the US Navy patrolled around the southern tip of Nova Scotia, and provided six small but useful 'submarine chasers' for escort duty under RCN control.
	www.civilisations.ca /academ/articles/sart1_3e.html (2197 words)

	Jon Vickers on his 75th birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1949 a cast member of the operetta in which Vickers was singing the lead role convinced him to take up singing seriously and train his voice professionally.
		Vickers, with his characteristic decisiveness, quit his job and went to Toronto, where he studied at the Royal Conservatory of Music for three years.
		In 1951, a local performance of Bruckner's "Te Deum", in which Vickers sang the tenor solo, was tape-recorded and found its way into the hands of the conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/151001.htm (732 words)

	HMCS (?)Earl Grey
		The story continues that very shortly thereafter Canadian Vickers got involved in the assembly of submarines for Britain and later Russia (without Ottawa knowing anything about the deal) which consumed the facilities and workforce and the new icebreaker delivery slipped into 1916.
		We are informed by the official history of the Naval Service of Canada that she was a Canadian Government ice-breaker and a naval crew took her to Russia.
		In fact, she was the Canadian official representative at the Quebec Tercentenial sitting alongside the RN's representative battleships.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/earlgrey.htm (2193 words)

	The Canadian-built British H-boats
		Vickers was offering to have the first two boats completed by the 1915 opening of navigation on the St. Lawrence River for a price of $572,000 each.
		However, Canadian Vickers was owned by the British parent company and there was nothing Ottawa could do about it without compromising the war effort.
		Three Canadian officers joined the second group of boats and one Able Seaman was borrowed by the RN to help steam the H-boats to England.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/cdnhboat.htm (2734 words)

	Vickers, James: V at Canadian Content
		Additional Information: James Vickers (*1984) is an independent film producer and actor, perhaps not very well known to wide audiences.
		Royal author Hugo Vickers says this would be a remarkable discovery as such a building would pre-date all those which we
		Canadian Content Forums - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Arts/People/V/Vickers,_James (461 words)

	Descriptive records - National Archives of Canada
		Canadian Vickers 'Vedette' VI flying boat G-CYWI of the R.C.A.F. 15 Sept. 1930
		Canadian Vickers HS-3L flying boat G-CANZ of Canadian Airways Ltd., Seven Islands, P.Q. c.
		Canadian Vickers 'Varuna' flying boat G-CYZQ of the R.C.A.F. at Cormorant Lake, Man., 1929.
	www.msacomputer.com /FlyingBoats-old/canada/FlyingBoat-National-Archives-of-Canada.htm (1081 words)

	Chronology of Canadian Coins (1993-1995)
		The Royal Canadian Mint conducts an opinion poll on public preference and acceptance of a possible $2 coin.
		The Royal Canadian Mint unveils the 1995 commemorative $1 silver coin at the Basel International Coin Convention in Switzerland.
		Environomics Research Group begins conducting a Canadian national survey on behalf of the Royal Canadian Mint to canvass public opinion on the design theme for a circulating $2 coin.
	www.islandnet.com /~kpolsson/cancoin/can1993.htm (1839 words)

	Technology Partnerships Canada Investments in Pratt and Whitney Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Canadian Vickers ventured into aircraft construction in 1923 when it won a contract to supply flying boats to the Canadian Air Force.
		It was a vivid example of the creativity and determination of the Canadian spirit — Julie's contribution reminds us that in many fields of endeavour Canadians are world class.
		Canadian aerospace companies enjoy a hard-earned reputation for quality products and services, and they are globally successful.
	www.innovationstrategy.gc.ca /cmb/welcomeic.nsf/ICPagesEPrint/85256779007B79EE85256799004BB55E (972 words)

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