Roughly 300 CAF Soldiers Patrolling Northern Territories: DND Report

A Canadian military Griffon helicopter flies along the shoreline of Baffin Island as it moves personnel between Operation Nanook and Iqaluit in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Adrian Wyld

Approximately 300 Armed Forces soldiers along with thousands of Canadian Rangers are patrolling Canada’s territories, an area totalling more than 3 million square kilometres, federal documents say.

A June 20 Department of National Defence briefing note counted 5,640 Canadian Rangers in Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut in addition to the roughly 300 soldiers monitoring the region. It did not count the number of military reservists in the territories.