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- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) abstract "Pacific Command was a formation of the Canadian Army created during the Second World War to strengthen and administer home defence facilities on Canada's Pacific Coast against possible Japanese attack. A second major function was to train reinforcements to be sent to the Canadian divisions in Europe. Pacific Command combined the pre-war Military District No. 11 (British Columbia and the Yukon Territory) with Military District No. 13 (Alberta and the District of Mackenzie of the Northwest Territories). The command headquarters was initially housed in Esquimalt Fortress near Victoria, but on November 30, 1942 it was moved to the Old Vancouver Hotel in downtown Vancouver.After the United States entered the war in December 1941, Canada and the U.S. coordinated their defence of the west coast of North America. Thus Pacific Command operated in close cooperation with Western Defense Command to the south and with Alaska Defense Command to the north.The troops of Pacific Command were concentrated in the three strategic coastal centres: Victoria-Esquimalt, the capital of British Columbia and the location of Canada's Pacific naval base and headquarters Vancouver, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada's largest port on the Pacific, and the Pacific terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway Prince Rupert, the second Pacific terminus of the Canadian National Railway (in addition to Vancouver)By the middle of the war a significant proportion of the troops of Pacific Command were conscripts under the National Resources Mobilization Act (NRMA) adopted in June 1940. This act precluded the use of conscripts in overseas operations. However, a plebiscite held in April 1942 released the Canadian government from this restriction (see the Conscription Crisis of 1944). Even after the plebiscite, the government was reluctant to send conscripts into combat outside of North America. The Terrace Mutiny occurred in November 1944 among troops of Pacific Command when it was learned that the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had decided to start sending conscripts to Europe to reinforce depleted combat units.In August 1943 troops of Pacific Command participated in Operation Cottage, in the finalstages of the Aleutian Islands campaign. However, that campaign ended without a shot being fired when it was discovered that the Japanese occupiers of Kiska had already evacuated the island.Apart from one incident when a Japanese submarine shelled the lighthouse at Estevan Point on June 20, 1942, and the arrival of ineffectual fire balloons launched from Japan between November 1944 and April 1945, the feared military threat from Japan never materialized. The two home defence infantry divisions attached to Pacific Command were thus broken up and their personnel were redistributed to other formations.".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) activeYearsEndYear "1946".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) activeYearsStartYear "1940".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) country Canada.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) militaryBranch Canadian_Army.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) notableCommander George_Pearkes.
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- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Annette_Island.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Atlantic_Command_(Canadian_Army).
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink British_Columbia.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink CFB_Esquimalt.
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- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_National_Railway.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Canadian_Pacific_Railway.
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- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Clive_M._Law.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Conscription_Crisis_of_1944.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Consequences_of_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink District_of_Mackenzie.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Estevan_Point.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink F._F._Worthington.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink File:Canadian_Pacific_Command_formation_patch.png.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Fire_balloon.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Fort_Rodd_Hill_National_Historic_Site.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink George_Pearkes.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Kiska.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Le_Régiment_de_Hull_(RCAC).
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Nanaimo.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink National_Resources_Mobilization_Act.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink North_America.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Northwest_Territories.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Cottage.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Pacific_Command_Water_Transport_Company,_R.C.A.S.C..
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Port_Alberni.
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- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Prince_Rupert,_British_Columbia.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Referendum.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Canadian_Armoured_Corps.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Regiment_of_Canadian_Artillery.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Rifles_of_Canada.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Service_Publications.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Terrace,_British_Columbia.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Terrace_Mutiny.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink The_Royal_Regina_Rifles.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink The_Winnipeg_Grenadiers.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Vancouver.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Vernon,_British_Columbia.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Victoria,_British_Columbia.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Western_Defense_Command.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink William_Lyon_Mackenzie_King.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLink Yukon.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Pacific Command (Canadian Army)".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageWikiLinkText "Pacific Command".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) branch Canadian_Army.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) caption "Formation patch of Pacific Command.".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) country Canada.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) dates "During the Second World War, 1940-1946".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) notableCommanders George_Pearkes.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) unitName "Pacific Command".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_Military_Unit.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) subject Category:Canadian_World_War_II_commands.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) subject Category:Military_history_of_Canada.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) subject Category:Military_units_and_formations_of_Canada_in_World_War_II.
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- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) comment "Pacific Command was a formation of the Canadian Army created during the Second World War to strengthen and administer home defence facilities on Canada's Pacific Coast against possible Japanese attack. A second major function was to train reinforcements to be sent to the Canadian divisions in Europe. Pacific Command combined the pre-war Military District No. 11 (British Columbia and the Yukon Territory) with Military District No.".
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) label "Pacific Command (Canadian Army)".
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- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) depiction Canadian_Pacific_Command_formation_patch.png.
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) isPrimaryTopicOf Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army).
- Pacific_Command_(Canadian_Army) name "Pacific Command".