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History Post-confederation (1867-)

Canada's Flowers

by (author) Thomas Lynch

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Jan 1981
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920852156
    Publish Date
    Jan 1981
    List Price
    $17.95

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For the British and Allied navies, the corvette, however useful, was a stop-gap, a "hostilities only" expedient used to fill out the escort forces worn desperately thin by the wartime attrition of the traditional destroyer flotillas. But for Canada, the corvette assumed infinitely greater significance. It was the first warship the country had ever built in large numbers; with the corvette, Canadian shipbuilding established itself, so that at war's end, a complex of shipyards had been founded on each coast, and a reservoir of skill and expertise had been established, expertise which would become the basis for the Canadian naval industry.

About the author

Thomas Lynch is senior lecturer in philosophy of religion at the University of Chichester. He is the author of Apocalyptic Political Theology: Hegel, Taubes and Malabou (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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