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HMCS Chaudière - 1962 Fisheries Patrol

David Landry's painting depicts the Canadian destroyer HMCS Chaudière (foreground) and a Soviet trawler (background) during a 1962 fisheries patrol.

Landry, a self-taught artist who served in the Royal Canadian Navy, shows a Canadian warship engaging in one of the central functions of a navy - the assertion of national sovereignty. While the Canadian navy's central role during the Cold War was anti-submarine operations as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its ships also helped assert Canadian sovereignty by enforcing Canadian laws and regulations within the country's territorial waters.

HMCS Chaudiere - 1962 Fisheries Patrol
Painted by David Landry
Beaverbrook Collection of War Art
CWM 19860128-001