Photo: (National Archives of Canada)

On November 27, in Port-aux-Basques NL, the Canadian Navy will honour the 90 crew members of HMCS SHAWINIGAN, lost during the Battle of the St. Lawrence. This is the second of five articles leading up to this event.

Photo: Madeleine Côté Collection, Naval Museum of Québec

The Battle of the Saint Lawrence

Condensed from a text written by Caroline Lantagne, André Kirouac and Sylvain Chalifour.

When a messenger carries a message for its intended audience, usually the messenger performs the function of a bearer. The message is carried from a higher authority for delivery. Probably, in the history of mankind there was only one occasion when the messenger was carrying a message where "the messenger was himself the message.