Canada in the Great Power Game 1914-2014 (54 page)

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“I’ve been in a permanent state of exhilaration since March 8.… I don’t know where it’s going to land me, but it’s damned good while it lasts.” Frank Pickersgill, January 1943. (
photo insert 14
)

Survivors of the HMCS
Clayoquot
, torpedoed Christmas Eve 1944. (
photo insert 15
)

Carriers in soft, flooded ground, Breskens Pocket: “So it was a slow, painful, bloody, muddy battle, and it wasn’t helped by the fact we were short of reinforcements.” Major-General Dan Spry, October 1944. (
photo insert 16
)

HMCS
Summerside
in heavy seas. (
photo insert 17
)

Sherman tanks of Lord Strathcona’s Horse make their way north from the Pintail Bridge over the Imjin River, Korea. (
photo insert 18
)

CF-101 Starfighter in 1977 with Hohenzollern Castle in the background. In July 1959 the government announced that the RCAF in Europe would be re-equipped with CF-104 Starfighters, whose sole mission would be nuclear strikes into Eastern Europe. (
photo insert 19
)

President Dwight Eisenhower meets Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Minister of Foreign Affairs Howard Green, 1960. (
photo insert 20
)

By the end of 1962 the Bomarcs were all fully operational in their Canadian launching sites—except, of course, for the nuclear warheads without which they were about as useful as the tail fins on a ’62 Chevy. (
photo insert 21
)

Canadian soldiers on
NATO
manoeuvres, 1984: at least 90 percent of Canada’s soldiers and an even higher proportion of its military spending were always devoted to the purposes of its Cold War alliances,
NATO
and
NORAD
. (
photo insert 22
)

PHOTO PERMISSIONS

1
Wounded Canadians after Paardeberg

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Reinhold Thiele/C-006097

2
Soldiers leave for War, 1915

Source:
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 727

3
B Company, Newfoundland Regiment, in front line, Suvla Bay, 1915

Source:
The Rooms Archives, St. John’s

4
The enthusiasm of the early days was long gone.…

Source:
City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 1244, Item 816

5
Talbot M. Papineau, April 1916.

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Talbot Mercer Papineau fonds/C-013222

6
Sir Robert Borden chats with a wounded man …

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Department of National Defence fonds/PA-000880

7
How did people in the West feel about conscription?

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/ The Toronto world [microform] – June 6, 1917– AMICUS 8693733 – page 6.

8
Lester B. Pearson, spring 1918

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Duncan Cameron fonds/PA-110824

9
Members of 5
th
Canadian Mounted Rifles …

Source:
CWM 19930012-528; George Metcalf Archival Collection © Canadian War Museum

10
Mackenzie King was a dumpy, fussy bachelor …

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Laurier House collection/C-080345

11
Sutherland Brown, Special Reconnaissance

Source:
Department of National Defence, PMR 85 151

12
Mackenzie King inspecting guard of honour …

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Capt. Laurie A. Audrain/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-152440

13
The Malton aircraft factory in Toronto

Source:
Avro Lancaster 11736-6 McDonnell Douglas Canada, Neg MDCAN 11736-6

14
“I’ve been in a permanent state of exhilaration since March 8 …”

Source:
Public Archives: C 130882

15
Survivors of the H.M.C.S.
Clayoquot

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Ernest Campbell/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-141316

16
Carriers in soft, flooded ground, Breskens Pocket

Source:
Lt. Grant/DND, Public Archives Canada PA 131252

17
HMCS
Summerside
in heavy seas

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Gilbert Alexander Milne/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-115481

18
Sherman tanks of Lord Strathcona’s Horse …

Source:
Library and Archives Canada/Credit: Paul E. Tomelin/Dept. of National Defence fonds/PA-115496

19
CF-101 Starfighter in 1977 …

Source:
Public Archives of Canada PCN77-510, photographer M/Cpl Knox

20
President Dwight Eisenhower meets Prime Minister Diefenbaker and Minister of Foreign Affairs Howard Green, 1960.

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