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How Canada Was Forced to Build Up Its ‘Tin-Pot’ Navy

How Canada Was Forced to Build Up Its ‘Tin-Pot’ Navy
The Royal Navy's revolutionary HMS Dreadnought, the world’s first all-big-gun battleship, circa 1906. Public Domain
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As the proud possessor of the world’s longest coastlines and home of the world’s sixth-largest merchant navy, one might have thought that the newly independent Canada would have an interest in developing a strong navy. In fact, as a Dominion of the British Empire, it was able to avoid the bother of that by relying on the power of the Royal Navy to protect its shores.

Gerry Bowler
Gerry Bowler
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Gerry Bowler is a Canadian historian and a senior fellow of the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.