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Domestic Operations

  • Icebergs make visit to Grise Fiord a challenge
    For many on board Canadian patrol frigate HMCS Montréal, it was one of those days when the recruiting centre promises of excitement, adventure and travel really rang true. On August 20, 2010 the ship took a break from its at-sea commitments to Operation NANOOK 10 in the high Arctic and paid a day-long visit to the hamlet of Grise Fiord, Nunavut.

  • Operation Nanook 09
    A CH 124 Sea King helicopter hoists down Commander A.C. Grant, commanding officer of HMCS Toronto, onto the flight deck. HMCS Toronto was taking part in vital sovereignty patrols near Frobisher Bay off the coast of Baffin Island as a participant in Operation NANOOK 09.

  • Operation Nanook wraps up in the Eastern Arctic
    Operation Nanook, the Canadian Forces’ largest annual Arctic sovereignty operation, wrapped up on Aug. 26, 2008. The exercise, which took place in the Eastern Arctic for eight days, included many of the Canadian Forces’ civil and law enforcement partners in the North.


  • Operation NANOOK 07
    Approximately 600 Canadian Forces members, Canadian Coast Guard personnel and RCMP members recently participated in Operation NANOOK 07.

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Background Summaries

Recent operations overview

Recent exercises overview

Summary: Operation ALTAIR (Oct. 2003-present)

International Operations

Operation HESTIA 2010

HMCS Halifax returns from Haiti

HMCS Fredericton prevents pirate attack in Gulf of Aden

International Exercises

HMCS Winnipeg fires five missiles in new drill

Canadian commodore takes top sea job at multinational exercise

Navy makes history in Far East

Domestic Operations

Icebergs make visit to Grise Fiord a challenge

Operation Nanook 09

Operation Nanook wraps up in the Eastern Arctic

Domestic Exercises

Prince Rupert DIVEX: testing the waters

Underwater DIVEX Leaves Reservists Smiling

Fredericton and Halifax go head-to-head

NATO Exercises

Russian Sailors Prepare to Join Canadians and NATO

New SNMG1 Flagship Completes its First Port Visit

HMCS HALIFAX sails to join NATO in Belgium