Today Canada remembers and honours those who braved the bleak and angry seas of the treacherous North Atlantic, those who guided the convoys across the Atlantic with a mighty enemy lurking beneath the waves, those who sacrificed their youth and the many so gave their lives so that we may have liberty.
Those Canadian men of the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Merchant Navy who battled not only the absolutely atrocious and howling gales from the St. Lawrence to Londonderry and Liverpool, but also the freezing temperatures of the North Sea and the Arctic with convoy runs to far North of the Arctic Circle.
The brotherhood of devotion and love that these men displayed for Canada deserves our unfading remembrance today and always.
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