Author: S.C. Heal. Published by Cordillera Publishing Company, Vancouver, BC., 1992, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada by Friesens, Altona, MN. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light handling wear, and the 1st owner name plate inside. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 9 x 6 inch, 234 pages including index.
Fifty and seventy-five years have elapsed since Canada and Canadians twice in this century turned to, with a huge will and sense of national purpose, and built a great fleet of ships to meet the challenges of war.
Ships which proclaimed their origins with pride as they went about their business, sailing singly or in convoy, sometimes never to arrive at their next port of call, and wearing names which said all that needed to be said about their place of birth, or subsequent origins. Such names as Outremont Park, Fort Edmonton, Canadian Winner, City of Vancouver, Yarmouth County and Ottawa Pandora. The casualties to the ships were frequently accompanied with heavy loss of life, often but not always Canadian for these ships were built as part of our national contribution to an international war effort in times of great peril.
