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Labrador's Coast may appear rocky and forbidding, but the country's many lakes afford good landing places for seaplanes Invader crossing the Atlantic (...)
Labrador's Coast may appear rocky and forbidding, but the country's many lakes afford good landing places for seaplanes Invader crossing the Atlantic (...)

Labrador's Coast may appear rocky and forbidding, but the country's many lakes afford good landing places for seaplanes Invader crossing the Atlantic (...)

Date8/10/1940
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Original Toronto Star caption: Labrador's Coast may appear rocky and forbidding; but the country's many lakes afford good landing places for seaplanes Invader crossing the Atlantic would attempt to reach the Panama Canada by way of the Lesser Antilles; and the nerve-centre of eastern Canada by way of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Military experts therefore regard these doors to the Americas as vital links in their defence. Islands dotting the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of St. Lawrence are therefore the first line of protection. Canada has already fortified her gulf and set up her air bases on Anticosti Island; while the U.S. is ringing her precious canal with a wall of steel Island; while the U.S. is ringing her precious canal with a wall of steel around the West Indies; even down to Curacao
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0105320F