Canada's Maritime Position and Responsibilities (Classic Reprint)
Language: English
Published by Forgotten Books, 2022
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Print on Demand. This book offers a historical analysis of the role of British and Canadian maritime power in the protection of British trade routes and the defense of the British Empire. It examines the key factors that have shaped the development of British naval policy, with a focus on the role of Canada and other British colonies in providing resources and support for the Royal Navy. The book also explores the challenges and opportunities facing British maritime power in the late 19th century, as new technologies and geopolitical alliances emerged. Through a rich collection of primary sources and expert analysis, this book provides a valuable resource for understanding the complex relationship between naval power, trade, and empire in the modern world. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book.…
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- Canada's Maritime Position and Responsibilities (Classic Reprint)
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- H. J. Wickham
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- Forgotten Books
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- 2022
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- English
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- Modern Military and War History
The proportion of British and Canadian ships has decreased from 77.8% to 58.1%, and the employment of foreign shipping has increased from 22.2% to 41.9%, or nearly doubled between the five-year periods 1869-73 and 1889-93. Several reasons have been assigned for this decline, and amongst others it is suggested that quite a number of Canadian ships have been transferred to foreign registers to avoid the very stringent regulations of the British Board of Trade. The "Shipping Register" a month ago announced that 21 vessels had been transferred to foreign registers, and it is believed that a good many Canadians are amongst them. It is also said that the increase in the German lines has had a good deal to do with the crowding out of Canadian bottoms. Just a few more figures to give some idea of the magnitude of Canada's over-sea commerce and what she would have exposed to destruction in the event of Great Britain becoming involved in war with one or more naval antagonists, whose commerce destroyers might succeed in eluding, even for a time, the vigilance of the cruisers which Great Britain could spare over the number required as adjuncts to the fighting line of battle for scouting purposes. The amount in value of Canada's ocean-borne commerce, exports and imports during the year 1893, exclusive of her trade with the United States, amounted to over $145,000,000.
In View of the magnitude of the interests involved, and leaving aside for the moment the question of the material benefits to be derived by Canada from the adoption of a more progressive maritime policy, I think I show an excellent reason why Canada should take more than a passive interest in seeing that the means provided for the efficient protection of her shipping in case of war are reasonably adequate to possible requirements. Here it becomes necessary to remark that a large number of Canada's wooden vessels, having been displaced in the Canadian carrying trade by more suitable iron and steam vessels, find employment in port to port traffic in distant parts of the world. Of course no account is kept of this trade in Canadian returns, but the value of these ships have to be added to the sum of Canada's interest at sea.
Canada, by spanning the British North American continent with railways, and by the improvement of her inland navigation, has secured internal communication from east to west: it now remains for her by a vigourous and aggressive maritime policy to persist in extending her communications east and west to feed her railway systems and develop her resources.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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