Operation Nanook
[1] Operation Nanook 2007 was the 2007 joint exercise of Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic.
Two Canadian warships and two air force planes, a CC-138 Twin Otter and a CP-140 Aurora, took part in the exercises in Canada's Arctic.
James–Assiniboia and Parliamentary Secretary for Health, flew to Iqaluit, Nunavut, to officially launch the exercise on 19 August 2008 and observe the process.
Operation Nanook 2009 was the 2009 joint exercise of Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic.
[5][6] In addition to CCGS Pierre Radisson the operations had the participation of elements of the Canadian Rangers, Primary Reserve soldiers from across Canada, a force of reservists composed of local residents of Nunavut, the frigate HMCS Toronto and the submarine HMCS Corner Brook, and Canadian Forces aircraft.
[7] On 23 August 2009, Natynczyk met in Iqaluit with Admiral Tim Sloth Jørgensen, Chief of Denmark's Defence staff.
Operation Nanook 2010 was the 2010 annual joint exercise of Maritime Command and the Canadian Coast Guard to train for disaster and sovereignty patrols in the Arctic.
USCGC Alder is a United States Coast Guard buoy tender homeported in Duluth, Minnesota, on the Great Lakes.
The training involved several scenarios, including sending boarding parties to an uncooperative vessel, and the simulation of rescuing the complement of a grounded cruise ship.
[20][21][22][23][24][25][26] Most previous iterations of Operation Nanook took place mainly in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, while this one's events were set farther west, around Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, and Whitehorse, Yukon.
Coppes pointed out that the cruise ship Crystal Serenity was transitting the Northwest Passage with a thousand tourists, asserting this sign of global warming should put a greater priority on the exercises.
The Nunavut exercise focused on sealift disaster preparation and simulated the destruction of a barge carrying supplies to the Rankin Inlet community.
The beginning of the Labrador operation was delayed a couple of days due to inclement weather and a damaged helicopter.
[28] The Royal Canadian Navy deployed the Halifax-class frigate Montréal and the Kingston-class coastal defence vessels Kingston and Goose Bay.
The training was split into two groups, with ground operations moved from the High Arctic/Nunavut to near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in March and a second phase to take place in the late spring/early summer months.
[32] For Operation Nanook 2022, the Royal Canadian Navy deployed three ships to the Arctic, HMCS Harry DeWolf, Goose Bay and Margaret Brooke.
Members of the United States special operations forces were embarked on HMCS Harry DeWolf along with their Canadian counterparts.
[38][39] The commander of Joint Task Force North, BGen Dan Rivière, stated that he was trying to find ways to make Operation Nanook even more multinational than it already was.
[40] During the exercise, participating forces were deployed to Cambridge Bay, Chesterfield Inlet and the Northwest Passage in Nunavut, completing tasks such as survival training, underwater dive searches, austere live fire ranges, as well as boarding, gunnery, passing, maritime interdiction and shiprider exchange.
