Press Release Department: Federal - Canadian Coast Guard

Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Jonathan Wilkinson (North Vancouver, B.C.), Transport Minister Marc Garneau (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount, Que.) and Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna (Ottawa-Centre, Ont.) participated in search and rescue and environmental response simulations to commemorate the second anniversary of the Oceans Protection Plan. The full release is available online. Call 613-992-3474. … Read more

Transport Minister Marc Garneau (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Westmount, Que.) announced the Canadian Coast Guard will receive 184 four-season lighted navigation buoys to be deployed in the St. Lawrence River shipping channel, between Québec and Montréal. In July 2018, the Government of Canada awarded a contract of $12,351,790 (including taxes) to Canam-Ponts from Québec, Quebec, for the procurement of 184 four-season … Read more

During her first official visit to Newfoundland and Labrador, Governor General Julie Payette attended a ceremony at the Coast Guard’s Atlantic regional headquarters in St. John’s, where she was invested as Honorary Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Coast Guard. The full release is available online. Call 613-992-3474.

The Canadian Coast Guard is nearing the mid-way point of its 2018 Arctic operational season, which runs into November. All seven scheduled vessels have been deployed to the Arctic, the last being the CCGS Terry Fox, which departed Montreal on August 27 to conduct icebreaking assistance in the Northwest Passage. The CCGS Amundsen is another … Read more

Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Jonathan Wilkinson (North Vancouver, B.C.) announced that a new Canadian Coast Guard search and rescue station will be built in Tahsis, B.C. to allow for an enhanced response to marine emergencies on the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. The full release is available online. Call 613-992-3474.

Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Terry Beech (Burnaby North–Seymour, B.C.) was in Victoria, B.C.  to open a new Canadian Coast Guard search and rescue station. The Canadian Coast Guard is opening four new search and rescue stations in British Columbia as part of the Government of Canada’s $1.5-billion … Read more

Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Dominic LeBlanc (Beauséjour, N.B.) announced close to $1 million in funding for four Arctic Indigenous communities to buy search and rescue capable boats and related equipment. This will strengthen their participation in marine emergency response in local waters as members of the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary. Communities receiving … Read more

The Canadian Coast Guard announced the opening of its St. Lawrence River’s search and rescue stations in Bainsville (Ontario), Pointe-aux-Anglais (Oka), Beaconsfield, Longueuil, Sorel and Trois-Rivières. The full release is available online. Call 418-648-5474.

On May 12, 2018, the 46 students who will work at stations in the Coast Guard’s Central and Arctic Region graduated from an intensive two-week training program, held at Canadian Forces Base Trenton. This group included the eight crew members who will staff the Coast Guard’s first Inshore Rescue Boat station in the Arctic. The … Read more

Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan (St. John’s South–Mount Pearl, Nfld.), joined by Liberal MP Nick Whalen (St. John’s East, Nfld.), announced the official re-opening of the Canadian Coast Guard’s Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre St. John’s. The Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre St. John’s will be coordinating responses to incidents in the waters off Newfoundland and Labrador, while strengthening the marine safety … Read more