Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Canadian Coast Guard, Equipment of the Canadian Coast Guard, West Coast Trail (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Canadian Coast Guard, Equipment of the Canadian Coast Guard, West Coast Trail, Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area, List of Canadian Coast Guard Bases and Stations, Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre Victoria, Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre Halifax, Canadian Coast Guard College, Canadian Hydrographic Service, Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary, Mossom Creek Hatchery, List of Canadian Coast Guard MCTS Centres, Continuous marine broadcast, International Search and Rescue Competition. Excerpt: The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) (French: - GCC) is the coast guard of Canada. It is a federal agency responsible for providing maritime search and rescue (SAR), aids to navigation, marine pollution response, marine radio, and icebreaking. Unlike some other coast guards, such as the United States Coast Guard, the CCG is a civilian organisation with no military or law enforcement responsibilities. The Canadian Coast Guard is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario and is a Special Operating Agency within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. CCG's responsibility encompasses Canada's 202,080-kilometre (109,110 nmi; 125,570 mi) long coastline, the longest of any nation in the world. It operates over an area of ocean and inland waters covering approximately 2.3 million square nautical miles (8 million km). Bowjack of the Canadian Coast Guard.Originally a variety of federal departments and even the navy performed the work which CCG does today. Following Confederation in 1867, the federal government placed many of the responsibilities for maintaining aids to navigation (primarily lighthouses at the time), marine safety, and search and rescue under the Marine Service of the Department of Marine and Fisheries, with some responsibility for waterways resting with the Canal Branch of the Department of Railways and Canals. Lifeboat station...