The Canadian Coast Guard is a special operating agency responsible for marine search and rescue, navigation aids, marine communications and traffic services, icebreaking, and marine pollution response
CCGS Cap Aupaluk assisting the Royal Canadian Air Force in a training exercise
The Canadian government vessel CGS Stanley escorting two vessels, 1910.
CCGS John A. Macdonald off Burnett Inlet, 1963
View of HMCS Protector facing east, 1943. The naval base later became the first site for the Canadian Coast Guard College.
The Royal Canadian Navy is the naval force of Canada, and one of three environmental commands of the Canadian Armed Forces. The command's official strength includes 8,400 Regular Force sailors, 4,100
Canadian Coast Guard
…organization without naval or law enforcement responsibilities. Naval operations in Canada's maritime environment are exclusively the responsibility of the Royal Canadian Navy. Enforcement of Canada's maritime-related federal statutes may be carried out by peace officers serving with various federal, provincial or even municipal…
An RCN sailor at a gun aboard HMCS Assiniboine, while escorting an HX convoy, 1940
F2H-3 Banshees fly overhead HMCS Bonaventure aircraft carrier, c. 1950s
A CH-124 Sea King helicopter landing on HMCS Assiniboine with a beartrap on its deck, 1964
A CH-124 Sea King of Maritime Command's Maritime Air Group, flies towards HMCS Skeena, 1972. In 1975, control of the Maritime Air Group was transferred to Air Command.