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Elson, Bryan.
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Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History.
Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History -- World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, Canadian.
Navy-yards and naval stations -- Canada -- History.
Canada -- History, Naval.
Halifax (N.S.) -- History, Naval.
Victoria (B.C.) -- History, Naval.
Canada -- History, Naval.
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Elson, Bryan.
Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History.
Canada. Royal Canadian Navy -- History -- World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations, Canadian.
Navy-yards and naval stations -- Canada -- History.
Canada -- History, Naval.
Halifax (N.S.) -- History, Naval.
Victoria (B.C.) -- History, Naval.
Canada -- History, Naval.
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Canada
's bastions of empire : Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy, 1749-1918 / Bryan Elson.
by
Elson, Bryan.
Formac Publishing, 2014.
Call #:
359.00971 E49c
Subjects
Canada
. Royal Canadian Navy
--
History
.
Canada
. Royal Canadian Navy
--
History
--
World War, 1914-1918.
World War, 1914-1918
--
Naval
operations, Canadian.
Navy-yards
and
naval
stations
--
Canada
--
History
.
Canada
--
History
,
Naval
.
Halifax (N.S.)
--
History
,
Naval
.
Victoria (B.C.)
--
History
,
Naval
.
Canada
--
History
,
Naval
.
ISBN:
9781459503267 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Bastions of empire : Halifax, Victoria and the Royal Navy, 1749-1918
Description:
277 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"The key roles played by Halifax and Victoria in ensuring that
Canada
emerged as an independent country in the 20th century, and the significance of these military bases for the all-powerful British navy at Halifax and Victoria through the 19th century and the First World War. Halifax gave the Royal Navy the land base they needed to project British power along the whole east Atlantic coast of North America. Victoria's 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. 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. 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. 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 Navy’s 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"--Provided by publisher.
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