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This split the nationalĬonsensus over how to assist Britain in meeting the rising German challenge, without becoming entangled in overseas imperial adventures. Wide political support until the dreadnought crisis of 1909 - a key point in the naval arms race between Britain and Germany - which prompted Britain's request for increased naval contributions from Canada and the other Dominions. In 1908, Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier appointed Rear Admiral Charles Kingsmill, a Canadian with Royal Navy experience, to oversee the process. The experience of the Canadian contingents in the South African War of 1899–1902, resulted in calls for militia reform, including proposals to establish a naval militia. Of American whalers into the Arctic, led to the creation of a Fisheries Protection Service, which evolved into a small paramilitary fleet in the 1890s. In the early 1880s, fisheries disputes, including the intrusion With the United States meant that London was not always willing or able to intervene in Ottawa’s more narrow interest. Increasingly, however, Britain’s desire to develop good relations

This was due both to Canada’s semi-colonial status, which leftĮxternal relations to the British government, and to the fact that Britain’s Royal Navy remained the pre-eminent global naval power, ensuring a safeguard for Canada as part of the Empire. No thought was given to establishing a national navy for more than three decades after Confederation in 1867. The navy remains a subordinate command of the unified Armed Forces. “Maritime Command.” The historic name remained popular, however, and was revived by the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper in 2011 to commemorate the centenary The RCN was dissolved with the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces on 1 February 1968, no longer a separate service but, instead, a branch of the Armed Forces known as The anniversary is marked, however, on, the date the Naval Service Act became law and established the Canadian Naval Service. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) was proclaimed as such by King George V on 16 August 1911.