The Canadian Naval Encyclopedia

2025

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By The Naval Association of Canada (with content authors: Ann Griffiths, Adam Lajeunesse, and Corah Lynn Hodgson)

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A Canadian Maritime Security Network-sponsored Naval Association of Canada product, the Canadian Naval Encylopedia offers a one-stop overview of everything to do with the Royal Canadian Navy.

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A sneak peak from the Introduction:

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"Across the bottom of the Canadian coat of arms, unfurled at the feet of the lion and the unicorn, lies a banner reading “A Mari usque ad Mare.” Latin for “From Sea to Sea,” this official motto had its origins in Confederation as an expression of the young Dominion’s aspirations, to stretch from the Atlantic and Central Canada across the grasslands of the West to the colony of British Columbia. Today, the official motto could unofficially be expanded to “A Mari usque ad Mare ad Mare,” in recognition of the third ocean that frames the nation, the Arctic Ocean. Now, the motto is less aspirational and more a reflection of the country’s reality, bounded by three oceans, as a maritime nation."