The end of the big ship navy: the Trudeau government, the defence policy review and the decommissioning of the HMCS Bonaventure

The end of the big ship navy: the Trudeau government, the defence policy review and the decommissioning of the HMCS Bonaventure

As part of a major defence review meant to streamline and re-prioritize the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), in 1969, the Trudeau government decommissioned Canada’s last aircraft carrier, HMCS Bonaventure. The carrier represented a major part of Maritime Command’s NATO oriented anti-submarine warfare (A...

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Main Author: Gordon, Hugh Avi
Other Authors: Zimmerman, D. K.
Language:English
en
Published: 2008
Subjects:
Canada
military policy
Bonaventure
navy
UVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::History::Canada > History
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1031

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http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1031

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