Through A Canadian Periscope
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Through A Canadian Periscope
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Author : Julie H. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-03-10
Through A Canadian Periscope written by Julie H. Ferguson and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-10 with History categories.
A comprehensive history of Canada’s submarine service and the people who have served in it. Through a Canadian Periscope’s second edition celebrates the story of the Canadian submarine service on the occasion of its centenary in 2014. Created in 1914, at the beginning of World War I, Canada’s submarine force has overcome repeated attempts to sink it since then. Surprise, controversy, political expediency, and naval manipulation flow through its one hundred-year history. Heroes and eccentrics, and ordinary people populate its remarkable story, epitomizing the true essence of the service. Fully updated and with new and restored images, Through a Canadian Periscope offers a colourful and thoroughly researched account of the Canadian submarine service, from its unexpected inauguration in British Columbia on the first day of the World War I, through its uncertain future in the 1990s, to the present day. This vivid account celebrates the individuals who dedicated themselves to the Canadian submarine service and in some instances lost their lives in submarines.
Through A Canadian Periscope
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Author : Julie H. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2014-03-10
Through A Canadian Periscope written by Julie H. Ferguson and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-10 with History categories.
A colourful and well-researched account of Canada's submarine service, from its beginnings on the first day of the First World War to its uncertain future today. Ferguson details the careers of the Canadians who served in British submarines in all theatres of the Second World War then goes on to examine the modern era.
Deeply Canadian 2nd Edition
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Author : Julie H. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-15
Deeply Canadian 2nd Edition written by Julie H. Ferguson and has been published by Beacon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-15 with Submarines (Ships) categories.
A part-sequel to Through a Canadian Periscope (Dundurn 1995 and 2014), the second edition of Deeply Canadian explains why the RCN needs submarines and tells the story of how Canada nearly lost her submarine service in the 1990s after decades of dedicated duty. The book ends with the process to acquire four Victoria class submarines in the 1990s and their service to 2014, the year of the Canadian submarine service's centenary. Available as an e-book only and is best read on a tablet to enjoy the new and restored images.
James Douglas
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Author : Julie H. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2009-10-05
James Douglas written by Julie H. Ferguson and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
James Douglas's story is one of high adventure in pre-Confederation Canada. It weaves through the heart of Canadian and Pacific Northwest history when British Columbia was a wild land, Vancouver didn't exist, and Victoria was a muddy village. Part black and illegitimate, Douglas was born in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1803 to a Scottish plantation owner and a mixed-race woman. After schooling in Scotland, the fifteen-year-old Douglas sailed to Canada in 1819 to join the fur trade. With roads non-existent, he travelled thousands of miles each year, using the rivers and lakes as his highways. He paddled canoes, drove dogsleds, and snowshoed to his destinations. Douglas became a hard-nosed fur trader, married a part-Cree wife, and nearly provoked a war between Britain and the United States over the San Juan Islands on the West Coast. When he was in his prime, he established Victoria and secrured the western region of British North America from the Russian Empire and the expansionist Americans. Eventually, Douglas became the controversial governor of the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia and oversaw the frenzied Fraser and Cariboo gold rushes.
The Halifax Explosion And The Royal Canadian Navy
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Author : John Griffith Armstrong
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
The Halifax Explosion And The Royal Canadian Navy written by John Griffith Armstrong and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
The Halifax Explosion of 1917 is a defining event in the Canadian consciousness, yet it has never been the subject of a sustained analytical history. Astonishingly, until now no one has consulted the large federal government archives that contain first-hand accounts of the disaster and the response of national authorities. Canada's recently established navy was at the epicentre of the crisis. Armstrong reveals the navy's compelling, and little-known, story by carefully retracing the events preceding the disaster and the role of the military in its aftermath. He catches the pulse of disaster response in official Ottawa and provides a compelling analysis of the legal manoeuvres, rhetoric, blunders, public controversy, and crisis management that ensued. His disturbing conclusion is that federal officials knew of potential dangers in the harbour before the explosion, took no corrective action, and kept the information from the public.
Canada S Navy
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Author : Marc Milner
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Canada S Navy written by Marc Milner and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with History categories.
A wide-ranging look at the history of the Canadian Navy, from its beginnings in 18th-century exploration and trade, to its astonishing expansion during the Second World War, through to its current roles in operations with United Nations and NATO forces.
Canada S Navy 2nd Edition
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Author : Marc Milner
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
Canada S Navy 2nd Edition written by Marc Milner and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-01 with History categories.
A wide-ranging look at the history of the Canadian Navy, from its beginnings in 18th-century exploration and trade, to its astonishing expansion during the Second World War, through to its current roles in operations with United Nations and NATO forces.
Canada S Bastions Of Empire
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Author : Bryan Elson
language : en
Publisher: Formac Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-10-10
Canada S Bastions Of Empire written by Bryan Elson and has been published by Formac Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-10 with History categories.
This book offers a fresh perspective on North American history, and the key role played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that Canada emerged as an independent country in the 20th century. Brian Elson focuses on the significance of the bases for the all-powerful British navy at Halifax and Victoria through the 19th century and the First World War. As he explains, Halifax gave the Royal Navy the land base they needed to project British power along the whole east Atlantic coast of North America. Victorias Esquimault did the same thing for the Pacific coast. During the 1800s the United States grew dramatically, adding huge swaths of lands west, south and north that had belonged to France, Spain, Mexico, and Russia while pushing aside native peoples. More than once the American government came into conflict with Britain over British territory in North America. There were threats of war and annexation, and American popular support for absorbing Canada was strong. In this book Bryan Elson shows how the British presence in Halifax, and later in Victoria, stood in the way of US designs on Canada. American leaders knew that the British Navy, with its bases on both coasts, had the power to cut them off from the rest of the world with a naval blockade. The American threat to Canada was effectively countered by the British presence in these two cities. The two bastions played their most important role in the early years of the First World War. As Bryan Elson explains, in 1914 the United States stood aside while the British Empire, including Canada, took on Germany. In this situation, the British navy including the Canadian navys first east coast warship mounted a show of force by stopping all incoming and outgoing traffic from the port of New York. This lasted until the US finally opted into the war, on the side of Britain, in 1917. Meanwhile, on the west coast the Equimault naval base was buttressed by the extraordinary action of the B.C. provincial government which at the start of the war bought two new submarines from a shipyard in Seattle for the fledgling Canadian navy.
Crafting Irresistible Query Letters That Get You Published
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Author : Julie H. Ferguson
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Publishing
Release Date : 2010-02-15
Crafting Irresistible Query Letters That Get You Published written by Julie H. Ferguson and has been published by Beacon Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Crafting Irresistible Query Letters is a book for every writer who wants to captivate magazines, acquisition editors or agents with their ideas and to improve their manuscript acceptance rate by at least 25%. Everyone can master the art of writing effective query letters given the tools. Designed for writers of magazine articles and books, this guide provides all the facts and no-nonsense assistance you need to ensure your queries generate excitement and result in an editor's or agent's invitation to submit more material. Using a unique questionnaire, exercises, and a variety of annotated examples, Crafting Irresistible Query Letters delivers the tools every writer needs to get published. Learn how to: - develop all the essential ingredients of an irresistible article or book query - discover and capitalize on the "marketing slants" for all your works-in-progress - grab and hold an editor's attention - add value to your articles - format and manage traditional and e-queries - avoid common mistakes - follow-up without being a pest. Praise for Crafting Irresistible Query Letters that Result in Publication: "… fantastically informative” "Highly detailed, well targeted sales methods” “Excellent techniques." "Very valuable stuff! I would pay double…!"
From The West Coast To The Western Front
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Author : Mark Forsythe
language : en
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-27
From The West Coast To The Western Front written by Mark Forsythe and has been published by Harbour Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-27 with History categories.
It has often been observed that the First World War jolted Canada into nationhood, and as Mark Forsythe and Greg Dickson show in this compelling book, no province participated more eagerly in that transformation or felt the aftershock more harshly than British Columbia. In From the West Coast to the Western Front, Forsythe, host of CBC Radio’s mid-day show BC Almanac, marks the 100th anniversary of World War I by teaming with historian Greg Dickson and the ever resourceful BC Almanac audience to compile a sweeping portrayal of that crucial chapter of BC history. Of the 611,000 Canadians who fought for King and Country, 55,570 were from British Columbia—the highest per capita rate of enlistment in the country. Of that contingent, 6,225 died in battle, a critical loss to a fledgling province of barely 400,000. Compiling stories, artifacts and photos sent in by BC Almanac listeners from across the province, this volume tells of submarine smuggling, bagpipes lost on the battlefield and of the ongoing struggles by soldiers who made it home. It tells of battles that set records for mass death amid conditions of unequalled squalor, but also of the heroism of front-line nurses and soldiers like George Maclean, a First Nations man from the Okanagan, who won the Distinguished Conduct Medal. By turns devastating, harrowing, insightful and miraculous, these stories reveal much about the spirit and resilience of a people who survived one of history’s greatest disasters to build the province we have today.