Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction 3
6. Soundings
7. The Historiography of the Canadian Navy: The State of the Art 23
8. The Popular Image of the Canadian Navy 35
9. Strategy, the Fleet-in-Being, and the Strategic Culture of the Officer Corps 57
10. The Navy as an Instrument of National Policy
11. The RCN: Royal Colonial or Royal Canadian Navy? 71
12. The Roots of the Royal Canadian Navy: Sovereignty versus Nationalism, 1812-1910 91
13. The Rise of Proto-nationalism: Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the Founding of the Naval Service of Canada, 1902-1910 102
14. Sailors and Soldiers: The Royal Navy, the Canadian Forces, and the Defence of Atlantic Canada, 1890-1918 112
15. Fleet Replacement and the Crisis of Identity 131
16. The Navy as a Fighting Service
17. A Minute Bletchley Park: Building a Canadian Naval Operational Intelligence Centre, 1939-1943 157
18. Muddling Through: Canadian Anti-submarine Doctrine and Practice, 1942-1945 173
19. MIF Or MNF? The Dilemma of the "Lesser" Navies in the Gulf War Coalition 190
20. "A Good, Workable Little Fleet": Canadian Naval Policy, 1945-1950 205
21. Sailors, Admirals, and Politicians: The Search for Identity after the War 1 221
22. The Navy and Canadian Society
23. A Nursery of Fighting Seamen? The Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve, 1901-1920 239
24. The Social Background of the Wartime Navy: Some Statistical Data 256
25. The Wrens of the Second World War: Their Place in the History of Canadian Servicewomen 280
26. A Canadian Departure: The Evolution of HMCS Royal Roads, 1942-1948 297
27. HMCS Ottawa III: The Navy's First French-Language Unit, 1968-1973 310
28. Perspectives and Policies for a New Century
29. Strangers in Their Own Seas? A Comparison of the Australian and Canadian Naval Experience, 1910-1982 325
30. Maritime Command, National Missions, and Naval Identity 339
31. Points of Departure: Towards the Next Forty Years 351
32. Notes 359
33. Bibliography 425
34. Notes on Contributors 443
35. Index 449