Canada's Three Korean Wars

About the Book

Canada’s Three Korean Wars is a capsule account of Canada’s army, navy, air force, and merchant marine during the Korean War, June 1950 to July ’53 and beyond, to cover the so-called peacekeeping postwar period to September 1955, when the last unit of the RCN departed the theatre and returned to Canada. Each of the three military forces and the merchant marine contributed greatly in stopping the spread of communism in the Far East and proving that capitalism in the form of democracy far exceeds the evil of communism. The success of South Korea today (2015) is proof of that statement.

About the Author

Royal Canadian Navy, [RCN] 1950–75; reporter/photographer/editor of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, community newspaper 1975–79; ministerial assistant, BC government cabinet minister, 1979-1986; self-employed, co-founder of an international marketing firm, 1986–89; North American distributor of an Australian-based restaurant industry product, 1986–1988; self-employed at various undertakings, 1989–93; private ESL tutor, 1993–2005 retiring mid-2005. In 1989, Bob was appointed national public information officer for the Korea War Veterans of Canada Inc., a position he held for three years. During those three years and subsequently, Bob researched Canada’s participation in the Korean War and spoke and wrote about the war on several occasions. Since June 2005, Bob and his wife, Shirley, have travelled to many lands and in 2015, celebrating their sixty-first wedding anniversary.