This section brings together the approximately 700 objects and photographs used in Canada's Naval History. Use this section to directly access objects and photographs grouped by type, as shown below, or use the search function above to search through them by title.

Red Army Guards aboard HMCS Thiepval

Two Soviet soldiers on the deck of HMCS Thiepval, the first Canadian warship to visit the Soviet Union.

Despite the Canadian government's diplomatic efforts, Thiepval was greeted with suspicion by Soviet officials in Kamchatka, and the local governor insisted on two soldiers sailing with the ship to Petropavlovsk. Only five years before, Canada's military had been part of an international military intervention against the Bolshevik Revolution, a war that ultimately created the Soviet Union.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19710050-001_38