They manage the personnel, the equipment and the facilities, but not the operations. The Environmental branches (called Commands) are mainly administrative structures. The CF is divided in seven main branches, which are called commands. Every unit accepts male and female soldiers, if they qualify for the position. The Canadian Forces is composed of 67,000 personnel (soldiers, sailors, and airmen/airwomen). The CDS answers to a politician, the Minister of National Defence, who is currently Anita Anand of the Liberal Party. The Chief of the Defence Staff (or CDS), the senior professional member of the service, is General Thomas J. Under the National Defence Act, "The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces." The Commander in Chief of the Canadian Forces is the Head of State of Canada, Queen Elizabeth II, represented by the Governor General of Canada, Mary May Simon. ISBN 978-0-8020-9604-3.The Canadian Forces ( CF) ( French: Forces canadiennes FC), is the army, air force, and navy of Canada, commanded by a single structure, unlike the United States. Canada's Navy: The First Century (Second ed.). The Seabound Coast: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Navy, 1867–1939.
Archived from the original on 13 June 2011. ^ "Royal Canadian Navy - CFB Halifax".Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. ^ "Royal Canadian Navy - Infrastructure and Environment".Archived from the original on 17 July 2012. ^ "HMCS Victoria Conducts Diving Operations off the Coast of Vancouver Island".Her Majesty the Queen in right of Canada. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Monarchy of Canada and the Canadian Armed Forces.List of current ships of the Royal Canadian Navy.Shore maintenance and mooring facilities bear the name His Majesty's Canadian Dockyard (HMC Dockyard) (in French Arsenal canadien de Sa Majesté or Arsenal CSM). Many RCN shore facilities also bear the designation, such as HMCS Trinity, HMCS Chippawa, HMCS Discovery, HMCS Stone Frigate, and all Royal Canadian Sea Cadets summer training centres, such as HMCS Quadra. HMCS Haida became the first Canadian ship commissioned under a Queen during March 1952.
HMCS Rainbow was the first ship with the HMCS designation after being transferred from the British Royal Navy to Canada, commissioned on 4 August 1910. It was initially the only concession the British Admiralty made following the formation of the Canadian naval service. HMCS York is one of several naval shore facilities that bears the designation HMCS.Īfter the formation of Naval Service of Canada in 1910, warships were given the prefix HMCS with the "C" representing Canadian as a way to differentiate Canadian from British warships.
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