It is also the headquarters of 1 Canadian Air Division and the Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ) Region.

17 Wing also acts as a deployed operating base for CF-18 Hornet fighter-bombers assigned to the Canadian NORAD Region.

While Canadian defence minister Bill Graham said McKenna was simply misunderstood ( as the NORAD agreement and missile defence are separate ), this initial contradiction was interpreted by others as evidence of characteristic indecision by the Martin government and was seen to somewhat hamper McKenna's credibility.

This gallery covers the period from the immediate onset of the Cold War following the end of the Second World War to the present, detailing Canadian defence efforts at home and abroad, including those in NATO, NORAD, and the United Nations ; wars in Korea, the Persian Gulf, Kosovo, and Afghanistan ; espionage, domestic security, civil liberties, and popular culture ; and Canadian involvement in wars since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

* An independent Canadian foreign policy based on peace and disarmament, ending involvement in Afghanistan and Libya and withdrawing from NATO and NORAD.

" Canadian leaders believed Canada was a middle power because it was a junior partner in larger alliances ( e. g. NATO, NORAD ), was actively involved in resolving disputes outside its own region ( e. g. Suez Crisis ), was not a former colonial power and therefore neutral in anti-colonial struggles, worked actively in the United Nations to represent the interests of smaller nations and to prevent the dominance of the superpowers ( often being elected to the United Nations Security Council for such reasons ), and because it was involved in humanitarian and peacekeeping efforts around the world.

As the Canadian geographical component of NORAD, CANR provides airspace surveillance and control, and directs all air sovereignty activities for the Canadian NORAD Region.

The base is subordinate to 1 Canadian Air Division, Winnipeg, Manitoba, and is the centre for North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ) operations in Canada, under the Canadian NORAD Region Headquarters, also in Winnipeg.

The base's sole purpose in this period was the ground-based surveillance and air defence of Canadian skies as part of NORAD.

By virtue of Canada's frontline position, the Canadian air defence command and control centre would be the most important piece of the NORAD ' pie ' -- its early warning of and reaction to a Soviet air attack, and survival in nuclear war were paramount for the survival of the U. S .- Canadian portion of the North American continent.

In particular to Canada, the 22nd NORAD Region was replaced by the Canadian NORAD Region ( CANR ), and the Underground Complex's area of responsibility expanded to standing watch over the skies of the entire country, an area equal to all of Europe.

The Canadian NORAD Region still exists.

In October 2006, Canadian NORAD Region air defence operations moved out of the Underground Complex into a new state-of-the-art installation built on the Earth's surface, named the Sgt David L. Pitcher Building after a Canadian NORAD serviceman who was killed in the crash of a United States Air Force AWACS patrol plane, in 1995.

Their homeland – the Inuvialuit Settlement Region – covers the Arctic Ocean coastline area from the Alaskan border east to Amundsen Gulf and includes the western Canadian Arctic Islands.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

* Moor Island, one of the uninhabited Canadian Arctic Archipelago islands in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut

In terms of floristic provinces, it is represented by part of the Canadian Province of the Circumboreal Region.

In terms of floristic provinces, it is represented by the North American Atlantic Region and part of the Canadian Province of the Circumboreal Region.

Ellesmere Island ( Inuit: Umingmak Nuna, meaning " land of Muskox ") is part of the Qikiqtaaluk Region of the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

One of the larger members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Banks Island is situated in the Inuvik Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada.

As part of the Canadian National Capital Region, it contains offices for twenty thousand fonctionnaires or civil servants.

The Grand Trunk Western Railroad ( reporting mark GTW ) is an important subsidiary of the Canadian National Railway ( CN ), constituting the majority of CN's Chicago Division ( itself part of CN's Southern Region ).

In 1970 the Canadian military was transferred to bases in the Black Forest Region ( Baden-Baden and Lahr ) and most of the former Canadian holdings, including Married Quarters in Hemer, were taken over by British military.

After 1970, following the transfer of Canadian troops to the Black Forest Region, these barracks in Iserlohn and Deilinghofen, as well as the barracks located in Werl and Soest, were either transferred to British, back to the Bundeswehr, or converted to civilian use.

A Simon Fraser University study of Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) activity in the Baffin Region states that Grise Fiord had the lowest rate of criminal offences of all communities looked at in 1992, and cites a 1994 Statistics Canada survey that gives the highest perception of personal safety.

Niagara-on-the-Lake ( Cayuga: Tganawai: ˀ ) ( 2011 population 15, 400 ) is a Canadian town located in Southern Ontario where the Niagara River meets Lake Ontario in the Niagara Region of the southern part of the province of Ontario.

The five metropolitan areas with the largest Chinese Canadian populations are the Greater Toronto Area ( 537, 060 ), Metro Vancouver ( 402, 000 ), Greater Montreal ( 120, 000 ), Calgary Region ( 75, 410 ), and the Edmonton Capital Region ( 53, 670 ).< ref >

Sainte-Foy, Quebec: Canadian Wildlife Service, Quebec Region, 2007.

He is well known to Canadian readers for his series of Benny Cooperman detective novels, set in the Niagara Region in and around the city of Grantham, Ontario ( which strongly resembles the real city of St. Catharines, Ontario, where Engel was born ).

* In 2005, Peel Region approved without tender a $ 557 million waste management contract commitment lasting 20 years that can potentially allow it to dump garbage in Ontario landfill sites if Michigan bans Canadian trash.

In 2008, Rogers announced a takeover offer for Aurora Cable, a cable service provider in York Region, Ontario ( pending approval by Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC )).

With the Rogers takeover of Aurora Cable Internet, Aurora, Ontario, along with most areas in York Region will also be added in the Canadian cable territories area.

* The Combined Force Air Component Commander ( CFACC ), based at the CFB Winnipeg air base in Manitoba, is responsible for the air support elements placed under the command through the Regional Air Component Elements ( RACE ) and for the assignment of assets to the Canadian NORAD Region ( CANR ) through the Royal Canadian Air Force's 1 Canadian Air Division.

Hadfield flew as the first Canadian to operate the Canadarm in orbit, and the only Canadian ever to board Mir.

Doohan trained as a pilot ( graduating from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with 11 other Canadian artillery officers ), and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 ( AOP ) Squadron, RCAF, as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Canadian Artillery.

The Canadian government flew the Dutch tricolour flag on parliament's Peace Tower while its carillon rang out with Dutch music at the news of Princess Margriet's birth.

Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Cochran flew a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force at an average speed of 652. 337 mph, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.

Its first usage in the Canadian game was when the Toronto Argonauts flew to Winnipeg for an exhibition game.

Although the Royal Canadian Air force did not have a combat role in Korea, twenty-two RCAF fighter pilots flew on exchange duty with the USAF in Korea.

He also flew a craft built by a Canadian engineer, Frederick W. Baldwin, that flew three feet off the ground for about 100 feet.

All of the installations flew both Canadian and United States flags until they were inactivated as DEW sites, and jurisdiction was transferred to the Canadian Government as part of the North Warning System in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Alongside the Royal Air Force and various British civil aviation companies, the United States Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ), the Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ), the Royal New Zealand Air Force ( RNZAF ) and the South African Air Force all flew supplies into RAF Gatow during the Airlift.

To celebrate the Centennial of the Canadian Navy, during the 2010 air show season, Vintage Wings of Canada flew at events across Canada in a Corsair bearing the markings of the plane Gray was likely flying that fateful day.

Mynarski was 27 years old and flew with 419 " Moose " Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War when he gave his life attempting to help rescue a trapped crew member.

The Soviet bombers ( predominately the " Bear ") flew the circumpolar route from the Soviet Union to Cuba and enjoyed entering Canadian Airspace over Newfoundland to time the reaction of NORAD.

The Blue Devils or the 410 ( F ) Squadron Aerobatic Team was a Royal Canadian Air Force ( RCAF ) aerobatic team that flew the de Havilland Vampire jet aircraft from 1949 to 1951.

Their small collection of Second World War-era aircraft flew at such events as the Canadian National Exhibition Air Show in Toronto and the Hamilton International Air Show.

He was a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II in which he flew the de Havilland Mosquito.

Peace Air was a Canadian regional airline that flew to destinations within the Canadian province of Alberta and to two destinations in eastern British Columbia.

* In 2005 and 2006 the Canadian Forces Snowbirds flew 3 Airshows around the airport and over Oshawa's lake view park during the Canadian Aviation Expo.