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	Military History: Interwar Years: Canada
		Canada would, however, remain freely associated with the mother country as a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
		Indeed, Canada was ultimately instrumental in scuttling efforts by the League of Nations to use sanctions to cut off Mussolini's supply of oil, coal, iron, and steel.
		Canada would go to war if Germany were the aggressor, but King assured Quebec that in the event of war he would not bring in conscription.
	www.lermuseum.org /ler/mh/interwar/canada.html (1141 words)

	Military history of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The result was that by the 1750s, when the ongoing economic, political, and Military rivalries came to a head in the climactic struggle of the Seven Years War, the population of the thirteen English colonies was 1,500,000, where as that of their rivals to the North was only about 60,000.
		Canada is a signatory to the original 1953 armistice, which means Canada could be required to defend South Korea in the future if needed.
		Canada was one of the First nations to agree to condemn Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and it quickly agreed to join the U.S. lead coalition.
	military-history-of-canada.iqnaut.net (4788 words)

	Military history of Canada during the Second World War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canada was the primary location of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, still the largest air force training program in history; over 167,000 Commonwealth air force personnel, including more than 50,000 pilots, trained at airbases in Canada from 1940 to 1945.
		Canada also sent 5,300 troops of the 13th Canadian Brigade to participate in military operations in the Aleutians in 1943.
		Canada's military deaths in the Second World War (which included deaths from wounds to the end of 1947) are recorded as 42,042.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_history_of_Canada_during_World_War_II (3443 words)

	Military history of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The soldiers settled in the St. Lawrence valley and, in the late 17th century, formed the core of the Compagnies Franches de la Marine, the local militia.
		Canada was also the main allied combatant in the first but less intense battle of Panjwaii.
		Military history of: Antigua and Barbuda • Bahamas • Barbados • Belize •
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Military_history_of_Canada (8274 words)

	Canadian Genealogy and History Links - Military
		Black Watch of Canada The oldest Royal Highland Regiment in the Dominion and was the first of the Dominion battalions to become allied with their Parent regiment in Scotland.
		Directorate of History and Heritage Our mission is to safeguard and propagate Canadian military history and heritage, managing the Canadian Forces-wide program to meet departmental needs, reinforce Canadian Forces identity, and provide meritorious service recognition.
		History and Heritage of Canada's Air Force The history of Canada's Air Force traces it beginnings to the very early days of World War I when the Canadian Aviation Corps was formed on September 16, 1914 and consisted of two officers and one mechanic.
	www.islandnet.com /~jveinot/cghl/military.html (2992 words)

	Amazon.com: A Military History of Canada: Books: Desmond Morton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He tells it like it is and for the most part the history of Canada's military can be summed up by saying good men and women but a long standing history of lower grade equipment and underfunding.
		A Military History Of Canada: From Champlain To Kosovo clearly debunks the myth that Canada is the peaceable kingdom of an unmilitary peoples.
		In fact, Canada and Canadians have been "shaped, divided, and transformed" by war, that war has been one of the great and primal influences in Canadian history from its native peoples before the coming of the Europeans down to the present day.
	www.amazon.com /Military-History-Canada-Desmond-Morton/dp/0771065140 (1079 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Canada's Military
		He said the announcement was the first step in a larger plan to revamp Canada's military, a force that has been criticized by the U.S. and other NATO allies as underfunded.
		The officer in charge of Canada Command, Lt.-Gen. Marc Dumais, is be the second most powerful uniformed officer in the Canadian Forces - reporting directly to the chief of defence staff.
		Second World War: At the end of the war, Canada had the third-largest fleet in the world, after the U.S. and the U.K. 23 Canadian ships were sunk by German U-Boats in the Battle of St. Lawrence alone.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/cdnmilitary (818 words)

	Troops and Traditions - Canadian Military History: An Overview - From Colony to Country - Library and Archives Canada
		A strong tradition of official history in Canada has greatly influenced the writing of histories of individual armed services.
		For this reason, the chief official histories of each of the services are listed here, even though individual volumes record only one period or part of a single period in the history of each service.
		To understand the organizational makeup of a service -- the relationship of the ships of the navy, the regiments of the land forces and the squadrons of the air forces -- a number of useful general guides exist and are listed at the end of the section on the specific service.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /military/025002-1030-e.html (186 words)

	History Textbook Tells [of Canada's] Buried Military Past
		Dr. Granatstein said he stopped writing history books because his texts on the soldiers and battles that shaped Canada's past were edited to a ''bland, offense-free'' version of events.
		For example, Canada is blamed for isolationist attitudes that led to the failure of the League of Nations, the multinational organization that preceded the United Nations, in the period between the First World War and the Second World War.
		If only military people know military history, then the military becomes the experts on itself and civilians have to take their word,'' he said.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/909983/posts (1299 words)

	Roch Legault - Staff - Department of History of the Royal Military College of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His particular area of interest is the interaction of war, the military and society.
		He is a graduate of the Université de Montréal and teaches military history in Canada from its roots to modern times, French Canadian military heritage, and the history of New France and British rule in Quebec / Lower Canada.
		This book responds to this question and shines light on the efforts of this elite to continue their military careers after 1760, much of which was for naught since few were able to continue in their profession.
	www.rmc.ca /academic/history/personnel/legault_e.htm (213 words)

	Undergraduate Calendar of the Royal Military College of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A survey of the military history of Canada from the rise of New France to the present.
		Key themes will include the diversity of the Canadian experience, Canada's place in the North Atlantic World, the development of the Canadian economy, and the evolution of the state as a force in the economic and social life of colonial and post-colonial Canada.
		This course is an introduction to military history and thought from the Napoleonic era to the present.
	www.rmc.ca /academic/registrar/programme/courses/history/his1-2_e.html (720 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Military History
		Despite its martial-sounding name, military organization, and rank structure - all reflecting its 'war' on social evils and faithlessness - the SA does not advocate taking up arms against fellow human beings.
		Canadian military history at a glance with 55 introductory articles to Canada's military history from 1000 to 1946.
		Learn how Canada was shaped by war, from early encounters between Europeans and First Peoples, to British North America, the First World War and right up to the end of the Second World War.
	www.civilization.ca /cwm/militaryhistory_e.html (698 words)

	BOOKS : A Military History of Canada - World War Two Books
		This is a book to make Canadians proud, angry and informed of their military history.
		From the shrewd tactics of Canada's First Nations to uncertainties of post-Cold War, A Military History of Canada gives us all a new way of looking at ourselves.
		Canada's Glory, Arthur Bishop, Canadian military action from the Plain of Abraham in 1759 to Kapyong in 1953 tells the story of Canada's military participation, triumphs and tragedies.
	www.valourandhorror.com /BOOKS/morton1.php (225 words)

	TheHistoryNet \| Military History \| Invasion of Canada During the American Revolutionary War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By that time, the rebelling American colonists had surrounded Boston--a situation unchanged by the successful but costly British assault on Breed's Hill on June 17--and the Continental Congress was looking for the knockout blow that would make their revolt against the British crown a brief one.
		Most American leaders, political and military, believed the Canadians, who had only been under British rule since 1760, would readily flock to the cause of independence.
		Schuyler was suffering from rheumatic gout at the time, and the troops he needed for the operation were just beginning to trickle into the fort.
	historynet.com /mh/bl14colony (1280 words)

	WWW-VL History Index - Canada
		History is Where You Stand: A History of the Peace Region
		The History of Lumby: from Grassroots to Treetops
		History as Monument: The Sculptures on the Vimy Memorial
	vlib.iue.it /history/CANADA/canada3.html (1600 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Military History - Canada's War Art
		Much of the familiar landscape art of Canada's celebrated Group of Seven, for example, owes its genesis to sights seen and recorded in the mud and trenches of the Western Front in France and Belgium.
		Born in Canada in 1879, he made a fortune as a businessman in the country's early years of expansion.
		After May 1945, the artists returned to Canada where the military provided studio space to complete a number of canvasses based on their earlier work.
	www.warmuseum.ca /cwm/disp/dis010_e.html (2265 words)

	DND/CF : Feature Story : Archive : The Canadian Military History Gateway
		The goal of the CMHG is to provide the public with free access to the collective military history resources of Canadian museums, libraries, archives and other heritage organizations through a single gateway.
		The Gateway provides Canada’s military history dating back to 1000 A.D. It offers access to over 4000 online links to military history, with resources such as digitized books, music, art, photos and video, narratives, interactive games and scholarly research.
		In drawing the sources of Canada’s military heritage together, the Gateway provides an opportunity for all Canadians to learn about their heritage and the people who have shaped their country.
	www.forces.gc.ca /site/Feature_Story/2004/jun04/29_f_e.asp (361 words)

	Free Dominion :: View topic - Canada's Military History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It is the Queenand#8217;s birthday, when regiments of the Canadian Militia hold their annual muster, and the soldiers of the Victoria Rifles of Canada are arriving at their downtown Montréal armoury when orders are received to despatch a company to St-Jean-sur-Richelieu for deployment along the borderand#8212;the Fenians are coming.
		They have been told that their invasion of Canada will be supported by the French farmers of the Eastern Townships, who will give them horses, and the Irish working men of Montréal, who will provide weapons.
		During its three years in Canada, the Régiment Carignan-Salières never actually manages to beat the Mohawk in battle, but by building forts and patrolling the bush—even in winter, on snowshoes—they stabilize the colony’s western frontier and help the settlers and their native allies take control of the Richelieu and St. Lawrence rivers.
	www.freedominion.ca /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=313361 (3877 words)

	CFB Esquimalt Naval & Military Museum Home Page
		CFB Esquimalt Naval and Military Museum is located at Naden on Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, in the city of Victoria, which is situated on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, province of British Columbia, Canada.
		The museum's goal is to collect, preserve, interpret and display the history and heritage of the naval presence on Canada’s West Coast and of the military on Southern Vancouver Island.
		October 20, 1871 - Militia General Order Number 24 authorizes the formation of two batteries of garrison artillery to provide for the ‘care, protection and maintenance of forts, magazines, armaments and warlike stores recently or about to be handed over [by Great Britain] to the Canadian Government in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec’.
	www.navalandmilitarymuseum.org (264 words)

	The Canadian Military Heritage Project. Find your military ancestors and learn their history in our free databases and ...
		Find your military ancestors and learn their history in our free databases and information pages.
		Our goal is to preserve the records and memories of Canadians who served their country, and to ensure that their sacrifices are not forgotten.
		These pages will be of interest to educators, students, genealogists, military historians and those who are interested in the stories of the participants themselves.
	www.rootsweb.com /~canmil/index.html (522 words)

	Jensen's Web Sources for Wars & World Military History
		The Mexican war: a history of its origin, and a detailed account of the victories which terminated in the surrender of the capital; with the official despatches of the generals.
		The war in Egypt and the Soudan; an episode in the history of the British Empire by Thomas Archer 1880s 4 vol.
		Nicolay and Hay on Tennessee and Kentucky, 1861 (1888)
	tigger.uic.edu /~rjensen/military.html (6124 words)

	McClelland.com \| Books \| A Military History of Canada by Desmond Morton
		A Military History of Canada by Desmond Morton
		Desmond Morton says no. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war – there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.
		Desmond Morton is the author of thirty-one books on Canada and is a frequent contributor to the CBC, Radio-Canada, the Toronto Star, the Montreal Gazette, and the Ottawa Citizen.
	www.mcclelland.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771065149 (169 words)

	A Military History of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Is Canada really "a peaceable kingdom" with "an unmilitary people"?
		Desmond Morton says no. This is a country that has been shaped, divided, and transformed by war - there is no greater influence in Canadian history, recent or remote.
		Through the Cold War, the Gulf War, and after, Canadians had to make difficult decisions about defence and foreign policy, and these events have shaped the country, developing our industries, changing the role of women, realigning our political factions, and changing Canada's status in the world.
	www.indiaplaza.com /books/pd.aspx?sku=0771065140 (117 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - Canadian War Museum, Canada's national museum of military history
		WarMuseum.ca - Canadian War Museum, Canada's national museum of military history
		Learn about the uniforms of some of the regiments of the Seven Years' War and paint your own toy soldier.
		The opera depicts the dramatic journey of nine-year-old Naomi from her home in Vancouver to a Japanese internment camp in the interior of B.C. Subscribe to our newsletter
	www.warmuseum.ca /cwm/cwme.asp (105 words)

	ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA, KINGSTON ONTARIO CANADA ANNUAL MILITARY HISTORY SYMPOSIUM 17-18 MARCH 2005
		The History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston Ontario will host its annual Military History Symposium on 17-18 March 2005.
		The Symposium will provide a convivial forum for the community of military historians to discuss and debate new perspectives and emerging trends in four broad areas: pre-1914, the First World War, the Second World War, and the Cold War, including peacekeeping and peacemaking operations.
		The RMC History department extends a special invitation to graduate students and new scholars to present their innovative research.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /announce/show.cgi?ID=142425 (328 words)

	But I Digress » Blog Archive » Military History of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It starts in the 17th century, and goes all of the way up to modern day.
		It’s an interesting read, especially for those that assumed that Canadian Military was an oxymoron.
		This entry was posted on Thursday, November 24th, 2005 at 3:07 pm and is filed under General.
	www.digitaltorque.ca /2005/11/24/military-history-of-canada (144 words)

	WarMuseum.ca - A Chronology of Canadian Military History - 1776-1812
		The creation of the United States profoundly affected Canadian society and constituted a serious military threat.
		Their presence added a significant English-speaking element to Canada’s population and led to the creation of New Brunswick in 1784 and the division of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) in 1791.
		If war came, Canada’s survival would depend upon the cooperation of the militia, First Peoples, and a small garrison of British regulars.
	www.museedelaguerre.ca /cwm/chrono/1774british_north_e.html (134 words)

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