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Documents: 13
| 3444 | GIESLER, Patricia. Valour at Sea: Canada's Merchant Navy. 33p., illus. Ottawa: Veterans Affairs Canada, 1998. ISBN: 0662267656.
An affectionate tribute. |
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| 3445 | HALFORD, Robert G. The Unknown Navy: Canada's World War II Merchant Navy. 272p., bibliog., illus., index. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell; Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1995. ISBN: 1551250403.
A reasonable history along with a personal memoir and some oral history accounts of life at sea. |
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| 3446 | HEAL, Syd C. Across Far Distant Horizons: The Life and Times of a Canadian Master Mariner. 311p., illus. Vancouver, B.C.: Cordillera, 1995. ISBN: 1895590132,
Drawn from the unpublished memoirs of Trevor Whitla Bridges. Born in 1881, he became a Merchant Officer and retired between the wars. Recalled in 1940 to the Naval Control Service, he soon fell out with authority. After a political fight he was reinstated as Captain of the first of the Canadian-built North Sands Class in 1943 and sailed her round the Pacific for the rest of the war. |
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| 3447 | HEAL, Syd C. Conceived in War, Born in Peace: Canada's Deep Sea Merchant Marine. 234p., illus., index. Vancouver, B.C.: Cordillera, 1992. ISBN: 1895590019.
Covers both world wars and the huge industrial contribution made by the Fourth Service. Really a series of short essays rather than a coherent narrative. |
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| 3449 | HUTCHERSON, W. Sparks in the Parks: The Experiences of a Canadian Radio Officer while Serving on the Wartime-Built Deep-Sea Freighters of Canada's Fourth Service, the Canadian Merchant Navy. ii, 258p. illus. Richmond, B.C.: Old Hutch, 2000. ISBN: 096866640X.
A personal memoir. |
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| 3450 | LEBLANC, Patricia E. Gallagher. From Tropical White to Battleship Grey. 259p., bibliog., illus. Ottawa: Alone Publishing, 1998. ISBN: 0969581408.
The biography of Edward Leblanc, a Canadian Merchant Marine captain, by his daughter-in-law. A very small section covers his war service, much of it on the West Indies run, but also further afield, often as convoy commodore. He died within a week of war's end. |
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| 3451 | McKEE, Fraser M. 'Sink All Shipping There': The Wartime Loss of Canada's Merchant Ships and Fishing Schooners. 336p., bibliog., illus., index. St Catharines: Vanwell, 2004. ISBN: 1551250551.
Sixty accounts of Canadian registered ship losses grouped by company. Little tales of tragedy and heroism combine to form a moving testament. |
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| 3452 | PARKER, Mike. Running the Gauntlet: An Oral History of Canadian Merchant Seamen in World War II. xi, 344p., bibliog., illus., index. Halifax, N.S.: Nimbus, 1994. ISBN: 1551090686.
Some 50 accounts of the hardships of the merchant seaman's war from a cross-section of Canadian veterans. |
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| 3453 | REID, Max. The Arming of Canadian Merchant Ships in the Second World War: Two Navies – the Same Ship. viii, 156p., bibliog., illus, index. Quyon, QC: Royal Canadian Naval Association/ Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships Branch, 2003. ISBN: 0969358091.
A somewhat dry but fascinating reference work which describes the ships, the weapons and the crews. |
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| 3454 | REID, Max. DEMS at War! D.E.M.S. and the Battle of the Atlantic 1939–1945. 100p., bibliog., illus. Ottawa: Commoners' Publishing Society, 1990. ISBN: 0889700796.
Records the work of 2,000 Canadian reservists who served with Defensively Equipped Merchant Ships. A curious mixture of reminiscence and handbook to DEMS operations and structure. |
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| 4429 | MACLEOD, M. K. The Prince Ships 1940-1945 (CFHQ Reports, No. 5). 200, [36] p., Ottawa: Combined Forces Headquarters, 1965. A detailed official account of their RCN roles, including an evaluation of their effectiveness. Available online at http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/rep-rap/doc/cfhq/cfhq005.pdf . |
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| 3443 | EVANS, George H. Through the Corridors of Hell. 99p., illus. Antigonish, N.S.: Formac, 1980. ISBN: 0887800092. A Newfoundlander in the Merchant Marine, including service in the Arctic. His ship was torpedoed in 1941 and he spent nine days in an open lifeboat and was hospitalized at Westmann Island, Iceland |
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| 3448 | HEAL, Syd C. A Great Fleet of Ships: the Canadian Forts and Parks. 312p. bibliog., illus., tipped in plan, index. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell, 1999; Annapolis: NIP, 2000. ISBN: 1551250233. Over 400 of these ships were built. This is a nostalgic but definitive memorial to them with details of their building, operations, and fate. Also contains many anecdotes. |
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