HMCS Fredericton at her berth in the Old Port of Montréal, along Alexandra Pier.

HMCS Fredericton is participating in the 2010 Great Lakes Deployment and will be open to the public in seven cities along the shorelines of the Saint Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. Over 6400 people visited the ship during her first stop in Montréal from August 27th to 31st. She will be continuing on to Kingston, Toronto, Hamilton, Oshawa and Cornwall, in Ontario, and Trois-Rivières, in Quebec. For the full caption…

President of L3-MAS Sylvain Bédard, Minister of National Defence Peter MacKay, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Major Daniel Dionne, test pilot at Canadian Forces Weapons System Management Detachment at Mirabel, walk in front of a CF-18 Hornet prior to the $467 million CF-18 maintenance renewal contract announcement at the L3 facility in Mirabel, Quebec, on September 1, 2010. L-3 Communications MAS was awarded a seven-year contract extension for systems maintenance of the modernized CF-18 Hornet fleet. Three additional options for one-year extensions would bring this contract to the end of the fleet’s estimated service life in the 2020 timeframe, as the Canadian Forces transition to the CF-18's successor, the new F-35 Lightning II. A CF fighter jet capability is vital to the defence of Canadian and North American air space against existing and future security threats.

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Brigadier-General Guy Hamel, Commander of Joint Task Force North (JTFN), and Chief Warrant Officer (CWO) Gilles Laroche, JTFN CWO, serve supper to personnel supper during Operation NANOOK 10. For the full caption…

Captain (Capt) Jean-Pierre Noel, a combat engineer from Army Dive Center in Gagetown, NB, uses Light Weight Surface Supplied (LWSS) gear to conduct a bottom search near an ice flow during Operation NANOOK 10. For the full caption…

The Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence, boards the CC-138 Twin Otter aircraft to travel to Pond Inlet for his tour of Operation NANOOK 10. For the full caption…