Western Local Escort Force referred to the organization of anti-submarine escorts for World War II trade convoys from North American port cities to the Western Ocean Meeting Point near Newfoundland wh
HMCS Sackville, preserved at Halifax Harbour, is the only survivor of the Flower-class corvettes providing the backbone of the WLEF.
The Battle of the St. Lawrence involved marine and anti-submarine actions throughout the lower St. Lawrence River and the entire Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Strait of Belle Isle, Anticosti Island and Cabo
German submarine U-190 arrives in St. John's, Newfoundland in June 1945 after surrendering