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USQUE AD MARE
A History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services
by Thomas E. Appleton
The Long Perspective
The Old Provinces
- The Old Provinces
- The Provincial Marine
- The Fisheries
- Merchant Shipping and the St. Lawrence Channel
- Canals
- Ships under Contract
Confederation
The Years of Growth
- Ottawa
- British Columbia
- Prince Edward Island
- The Arctic and Hudson Bay
- Bernier
- The Naval Service
- Hydrography
- Tidal and Current Survey
- The Wireless Telegraph Service
- Meteorology
- A Constitutional Milestone
The Years of Consolidation
- Canadian Shipping between the Wars
- The New Department
- The Second War
- Wartime Shipping
- Post War Development
Aids to Navigation
- Early Lights
- Gas Lighting
- The Dominion Lighthouse Depot
- The Lighthouse Board
- Lightships
- The Offshore Tower
- Modern Lights
Search and Rescue
- The Task
- Sable Island
- Dorothea Dix
- The Messenger Pigeon Service
- Shore Based Lifeboats
- Offshore Rescue
- Voluntary Assistance
Ships and Shipbuilding
- The Napier Ships
- The Druid
- The Sir James Douglas
- The Alert
- The Paisley Period
- The Lady Laurier
- The Last Phase of Wooden Shipbuilding
- Development of the Canadian Icebreaker
- The Weather Ships
- The Departmental Shipyard
Marine Regulations
- The Canada Shipping Act
- Steamboat Inspection
- Deck Loads and Grain Cargoes
- Freeboard, Loadlines and Subdivision
- Fire
- Modern Marine Legislation
Peoples and Policies
- The Civil Service
- The Case of Captain Cooper
- The Waiting Years
- The Staff Afloat
- The Loss of the Simcoe
- Light Keepers
- Bob Bartlett
- Reform and Modernization
