First edition chosen for "Books for Everyone," Christmas 1995. Canada, naval history, submarines Author, Julie H. Ferguson has been studying and writing about the Canadian Submarine Service for thirty-four years. Her interest in it began when, as a naval reserve officer, she visited HMCS/M Okanagan and her crew. Julie's articles have appeared in Legion magazine, Sea Power, Sentinel, Vanguard, USNI
Proceedings, and Resolution, and her second submarine book, Deeply Canadian was released on 2 December 2000 to coincide with the commissioning of HMCS Victoria to which she was invited. Not only is Julie a successful author, she is an accomplished professional speaker, a freelance travel writer and photographer, and runs Beacon Literary Services for writers seeking publication. For more details, please visit www.beaconlit.com. She is married to James, a former commanding officer of HMCS/M Okanagan. They share two children and three grand-children, and live in Port Moody, near Vancouver, BC. The Canadian Submarine Service has overcome repeated attempts to sink it since 1914. Surprise, controversy, political expediency, and naval manipulation overflow its one hundred year history. Heroes, eccentrics and ordinary people populate this extraordinary story, epitomizing the true essence of the service. Fully updated and with new and restored images, Through a Canadian Periscope offers a colourful and thoroughly researched account of Canada's silent service from its unexpected inauguration by British Columbia on the first day of the Great War to the present day. (My second book, Deeply Canadian details the Victoria-class acquisition.) After describing the activities of the submarine service during and after World War I, the book details the careers of the Canadians who served with distinction in British submarines in all theatres of World War II, as well as the British submarines lent to the RCN to train their crews and es**rt groups. It goes on to examine the modern era, from the RN basing the Sixth Squadron in Halifax in return for 200 Canadians and the true rebirth of the service in the 1960s. Periscope also provides little-known information about the controversial Conservative initiative for nuclear-powered boats in 1987. Above all, this vivid account celebrates the individuals who dedicated themselves to the Canadian Submarine Service and in some instances lost their lives in submarines. www.CanadianPeriscope.ca
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