Canada and the First World War

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HMCS Rainbow
Rainbow enters Esquimalt Harbour on 7 November 1910. One of two old British cruisers obtained by the government in 1910 for the new Canadian navy, Rainbow was assigned to the west coast, where it spent most of the war as a training ship.

George Metcalf Archival Collection
CWM 19790602-053