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APPENDIX A: MAPS

 

MAP 1: World War II Royal Canadian Navy Warship Losses – Eastern Canada

This map illustrates the locations of eight (8) WWII sunken Canadian warships: the ‘Chedabucto’ minesweeper, the ‘Raccoon’ armed yacht and the ‘Charlottetown’ corvette in the St Lawrence river; the ‘Bras d’or’ auxiliary in the gulf of St. Lawrence (approximate location); the ’Clayoquot’ and ‘Esquimalt’ minesweepers, and the ‘Otter’ armed yacht near Halifax, Nova Scotia as well as the ‘Shawinigan’ corvette near Chanel Port au Basque Newfoundland.

 

MAP 2: World War II Royal Canadian Navy Warship Losses – North Atlantic

This map illustrates the locations of eight (8) WWII sunken Canadian warships: the ‘Valleyfield’ Frigate, the ‘Windflower’ corvette, and the ‘Ottawa’ destroyer off the south east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador; the ‘Levis’ corvette south east of Greenland; the ‘Skeena’ destroyer (approximate location) south of Iceland as well as the ‘St. Croix’ and ‘Margaree’ destroyers and the ‘Spikenard’ in the mid-North Atlantic.

 

MAP 3: World War II Royal Canadian Navy Warship Losses – Europe

This map illustrates the locations of thirteen (13) WWII sunken Canadian warships: The ‘Guysborough’ minesweeper west of France; the ‘Regina’ corvette north of Cornwall, UK; the ‘Trentonian’ and ‘Alberni’ corvettes and two motor torpedo boats (approximate locations) in the English Channel between Le Havre, France and the south of Cornwall, United Kingdom; five (5) motor torpedo boats (approximate locations) sunk in the harbour of Ostend, Belgium; the ‘Athabaskan’ destroyer at the north west tip of France as well as the ‘Fraser’ destroyer in the Atlantic, west of France.

 

MAP 4: World War II Royal Canadian Navy Warship Losses – Mediterranean

This map illustrates the location of two (2) WWII sunken Canadian corvette warships: the ‘Weyburn’ immediately west of the entrance to the strait of Gibraltar and the ‘Louisburg’ on the north coast of Algeria.

Maps prepared by the Library of Parliament, Ottawa, 2018, using data from W.A.B. Douglas et al., “Appendix II, RCN Warship Losses, 1939-1945,” in A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second Word War, 1943-1945, Volume II, Part 2, Vanwell Publishing Limited, St. Catherines, Ontario, 2007, pp. 566-567; Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), “Boundary Polygons,” in Atlas of Canada National Scale Data 1:5,000,000 Series, NRCan, Ottawa, 2013; and Natural Earth, 1:10m, 1:50m and 1:110m Cultural Vectors, version 4.0.0. The following software was used: Esri, ArcGIS, version 10.4. Contains information licensed under Open Government Licence – Canada.
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