Guardians of the North - Dundurn

Guardians of the North

Canadian Warships and Naval Aircraft, 1910–2025

Available Oct 21st 2025

Hardcover
$ 60.00

Description

A comprehensive, fully illustrated survey of Canada’s warship and maritime aircraft acquisitions from 1910 to the present day.

Combining the talents of two of Canada’s foremost naval historians, this book fills an important void in the story of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) and associated Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Maritime Aviation. A never-before-attempted chronological examination of when and why Canada has procured its some 50 classes of warships and a dozen aircraft types over the past 120 years, and how it has employed and disposed of them, it does more than collect statistics on the specifications and characteristics of those vessels and aircraft — it reveals fresh insights to many overlooked themes and connections.

Karl Gagnon’s marvellous profile drawings and many rarely seen images complement this engaging narrative history of the RCN and Maritime Aviation.

Contributors

Richard H. Gimblett

Richard H. Gimblett is command historian of the Canadian Navy and past president of the Canadian Nautical Research Society. A former serving officer, he is a contributor to volume 1 of the official history of the Royal Canadian Navy (1867-1939), and edited and contributed to The Naval Service of Canada, 1910-2010: The Centennial Story. He lives in Ottawa.

Karl Gagnon

Karl Gagnon joined the Navy in 1983, serving mostly in the Reserves on a full-time basis before transferring to the regular force in 2014. Self-taught in graphic art and heraldry, his drawings have graced many publications such as the Navy’s commemorative centennial volumes. A native of Ville de Saguenay, Quebec, he now resides in Ottawa.

Book Details

Hardcover
October 2025
12x9.75 in
352 pp
9781459755550
ePub
October 2025
-
352 pp
9781459755567
ePub
October 2025
-
352 pp
9781459755574