Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Royal Navy's Legacy to the Royal Canadian Navy in the Pacific, 1880-1914 -- 2 L.P. Brodeur and the Origins of the Royal Canadian Navy -- 3 Commander E.A.E. Nixon and the Royal Naval College of Canada, 1910-22 -- 4 The Road to Washington: Canada and Empire Naval Defence, 1918-21 -- 5 The Royal Canadian Navy between the Wars, 1922-39 -- 6 "Big Ship Time": The Formative Years of RCN Officers Serving in RN Capital Ships -- 7 An Engineer's Outline of RCN History: Part I -- 8 Princes Three: Canada's Use of Armed Merchant Cruisers during World War II -- 9 The Royal Canadian Navy's Quest for Autonomy in the North West Atlantic -- 10 Royal Canadian Navy Participation in the Battle of the Atlantic Crisis of 1943 -- 11 Operational Intelligence and the Battle of the Atlantic: The Role of the Royal Navy's Submarine Tracking Room -- 12 "The Most Thankless Task" Revisited: Convoys, Escorts, and Radio Intelligence in the Western Atlantic, 1941-43 -- 13 The Lower Deck and the Mainguy Report of 1949 -- 14 The Destroyers' War in Korea, 1952-53 -- 15 Canadian Naval Aviation, 1915-69 -- 16 HMCS Labrador and the Canadian Arctic -- 17 The Impact of Public Policy on a Naval Reserve Division -- 18 An Engineer's Outline of RCN History: Part II -- 19 The Royal Canadian Navy and the Unification Crisis -- Appendix: The Principal Vessels in the Marine and Fisheries Fleet in 1906 -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors.