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Always remember summer Cub camps in Lahr in the early 70s when the units would take turns sending their field kitchens to feed us all. Great food too, except for the year the Van Doos served liver. When I was in university and working for Scouts Canada at the 83 World Jamboree in Kananaskis...

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At the risk of going off topic, how does this square with the St. Laurents and the follow on classes up to the 280s? Weren't they all, at least until the 280s, primarily ASW assets? And how does your definition of a destroyer mesh with the classic definition of a cruiser, which when it comes to...

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Well played sir, well played.

HSR will never happen, at least not in my lifetime. Not that it shouldn't. Certainly in the corridor it could make a lot of sense, especially from an environmental point of view (it will always need a government subsidy...I think that's true even with the most successful HSR projects). The...

"Caretaker" mode exists in Ontario during elections, ostensibly to protect the civil service from being dragged into political gamesmanship. Although, as we're seeing right now, it's not entirely clear what limits actually apply to the sitting government. I don't believe the concept exists...

And didn't the RN maintain a submarine squadron out of Halifax post war until we acquired Grilse?

My mistake, Rainbow was purchased.

Not counting the two the government of BC bought at the start of the First World War there were HMC Submarines Rainbow and Grilse, both on loan from the USN during the 60s and into the 70s.

As I recall, for a while after the move south 4CMBG wasn't even called a brigade group but a battle group.

Politics was certainly a big part of it, but I think we would struggle to find anything in the way of a coherent or consistent approach in the decades since Trudeau's cuts to the Army. Picton closed out with the reduction to nil strength of the Canadian Guards but all the other garrisons...

It's interesting though that the 50's basing model was inconsistent depending on where you were in the country. In the West, you had the Patricias in Winnipeg and Edmonton, and the Queen's Own Rifles in Calgary (with the Strathconas) and Victoria (well Esquimalt). In the East you also had one...

All the Commonwealth forces slated to take part in the invasion of the Japanese home islands were to be equipped with US material. In the case of the Canadian division at least, it was being organized on the US model, although Hoffmeister insisted on using unit names from 1 Div.