Canada
In Canada, fleet reviews may take place on either the Atlantic or Pacific coasts, typically in Halifax Harbour for the former and Victoria Harbour for the latter.
- July 1958, to mark the 100th anniversary of British Columbia's entry into Canadian Confederation. Royal Canadian Navy review by Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon.
- June 1959, to mark the opening of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Held at Montreal and attended by ships from the Royal Canadian Navy and United States Navy. Royal Canadian Navy review by Queen Elizabeth II.
- July 1959, held at Halifax Harbour. Royal Canadian Navy review by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 12 June 2010, to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy. Held at Esquimalt Harbour and attended by ships from the Canadian Navy, Royal Australian Navy, Marine nationale, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Royal New Zealand Navy, and United States Navy. Reviewed by Governor General Michaëlle Jean.
- 29 June 2010, to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Canadian Navy. Held at the Bedford Basin and attended by ships of the Canadian Navy, Brazilian Navy, Royal Danish Navy, French Navy, German Navy, Royal Netherlands Navy, Royal Navy and United States Navy. Reviewed by Queen Elizabeth II.
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“In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least several gentlemen or “squires,” there is but one to a seigniory.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante’s scheme, Limbo is to Hell.”
—Irving Layton (b. 1912)
“I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)