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Canadian Armada Sailing from Gaspe Bay
3 October 1914
Gaspe, Quebec, Canada


Credits:
Bay Chaleur Military Museum

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Winston Churchill served as the First Lord of the Admiralty during the war. His prophetic remarks on the arrival of the first Canadian contingent in Portsmouth, England was as follows:

"Canada sends her aid at a timely moment. The conflict moves forward to its terrible climax, and fiercer struggles lie before us than any which have yet been fought."