Since January 2006, the NATO International Security Assistance Force undertook combat duties from Operation Enduring Freedom in southern Afghanistan, the NATO force chiefly made up of British, Canadian and Dutch forces ( and some smaller contributions from Denmark, Romania and Estonia and air support from Norway as well as air and artillery support from the U. S .) ( see the article Coalition combat operations in Afghanistan in 2006 ).

Bennett tried to combat the depression by increasing trade within the British Empire and imposing tariffs for imports from outside the Empire, promising that his measures would blast Canadian exports into world markets.

During World War I, there were persistent rumors that German soldiers had crucified a Canadian soldier on a tree or barn door with bayonets or combat knives.

The Second British Army seized Antwerp on 4 of September 1944, and the First Canadian Army began conducting combat operations around the port that same month.

The record for the longest combat kill by a sniper was temporarily set during Operation Anaconda by Canadian sniper Cpl Rob Furlong, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry ( PPCLI ).

He volunteered for the Canadian Army Pacific Force ( CAPF ), granted a final " embarkation leave ", and found himself no closer to combat employment by the time the Japanese surrendered in September 1945.

This was the first time since the fighting on Cyprus in 1974 that Canadian forces participated directly in combat operations.

A White Paper proposed boosting the CF's combat capability, which had, according to Canadian Defence Quarterly, declined so badly that Canada would have been unable to send a brigade to the Gulf War had it desired to.

In 1938, Banting's interest in aviation medicine resulted in his participation with the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) in research concerning the physiological problems encountered by pilots operating high-altitude combat aircraft.

Tactically, the Canadian battalion forms the core of the infantry battle group, which also includes various supporting elements such as armour, artillery, combat engineers and combat service support.

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In 1974, Garneau began his career in the Royal Canadian Navy as a Navy combat systems engineer on HMCS Algonquin.

As part of the 5th Canadian Brigade, the Regiment's 1st Battalion landed in Normandy in July 1944 and participated in major combat actions afterwards including the fight for the Channel Ports, the Battle of the Scheldt, Operation Market Garden, the Rhineland, and the final battles of the war east of the Rhine River.

In Canadian practice, armed combat is a strictly regulated environment and legal officers are a crucial part of the planning that goes into operational decisions.

The January 11, 2007 front page of the Post Black established the Post to provide a voice for Canadian conservatives and to combat what he and many Canadian conservatives considered to be a liberal bias in Canadian newspapers.

A contemporary ( 1944-45 ) Canadian Army survey questioned 161 army officers, who had recently left combat, about the effectiveness of 31 different infantry weapons, in that survey the PIAT was ranked the number one most “ outstandlingly effective ” weapon, followed by the Bren gun in second place.

Sicily would be the first divisional-scale combat operation in World War II for the Canadian Army.

* Sapper is a term that is used for soldiers in the American, British, Indian, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand armies who have specialized combat engineer training.

** In the British, Canadian and Australian armies, an assault pioneer is an infantry soldier with some limited combat engineer training in clearing obstacles during assaults and light engineering duties.

In 2006 the Canadian members of the 1st Special Service Forces ( F. S. S. F ) received the Combat Infantryman Badge for participation in front line combat.

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

* 1908 – Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian engineer and designer ( d. 1988 )

* 1827 – Sir Sandford Fleming, Canadian engineer ; introduced Universal Standard Time ( d. 1915 )

A French map produced in 1712 ( currently in the Canadian Museum of Civilization ), created by military engineer Jean-Baptiste de Couagne, identified Lake Ontario as " Lac Frontenac ".

* 1990 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer ( b. 1928 )

* 1899 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer ( d. 1971 )

* 1967 – David Whissell, Canadian politician and engineer

* 1942 – François Tavenas, Canadian engineer and academic ( d. 2004 )

The Canadian engineer Reginald Fessenden, while working for the Submarine Signal Company in Boston, built an experimental system beginning in 1912, a system later tested in Boston Harbor, and finally in 1914 from the U. S. Revenue ( now Coast Guard ) Cutter Miami on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland Canada.

* March 8 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer ( d. 1990 )

* December 12 – Edward Gawler Prior, Canadian mining engineer and politician ( b. 1854 )

* January 5 – Douglas Shearer, Canadian film sound engineer ( b. 1899 )

** James Gosling, Canadian software engineer

He grew up in the Canadian capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.

The Whirlpool Aero Car, built in 1916 from a design by Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, is a cable car which takes passengers over the Niagara Whirlpool on the Canadian side.

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, a distinguished Polish engineer and ancestor of the popular Canadian broadcaster, Peter Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario.

Consequently, the British 5th Infantry Division and supplementary artillery, engineer and labour units reinforced the four Canadian divisions.

The idea was originally developed by Kelly James, a Canadian engineer, at the University of Alberta.

An external pacemaker was designed and built by the Canadian electrical engineer John Hopps in 1950 based upon observations by cardio-thoracic surgeon Wilfred Gordon Bigelow at Toronto General Hospital.

In 1976, teamed with Chris Harrison's Ecurie Canada and factory March race engineer Ray Wardell, he dominated the season by winning all but one of the races and taking the US and Canadian titles.

* John Kennedy ( engineer ) ( 1838 – 1921 ), Canadian

Gerald Vincent Bull ( March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990 ) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery.

In 1980, a Canadian company, Viewstar, Inc., was formed by engineer Paul Hrivnak and started producing a cable TV converter with an infrared remote control.

It takes its name from the Ontario Model Colony development established in 1882 by the Canadian engineer George Chaffey and his brothers William Chaffey and Charles Chaffey.