HMCS Strathroy was a modified Flower-class corvette that served in the Royal Canadian Navy during the Second World War.

[2][3][4] The "corvette" designation was created by the French as a class of small warships; the Royal Navy borrowed the term for a period but discontinued its use in 1877.

[5] During the hurried preparations for war in the late 1930s, Winston Churchill reactivated the corvette class, needing a name for smaller ships used in an escort capacity, in this case based on a whaling ship design.

[11] After arriving at Halifax in December, Strathroy was initially assigned as a local escort.

In April 1945 she rejoined Halifax Force as a local escort after workups in Bermuda.