During the mid to late 1990s certain officials in Emergency Preparedness Canada (EPC) became concerned that the history of Canadian emergency planning in its many configurations was not being recorded for future generations to consider. To mark the 50th anniversary of such planning efforts David McConnell of Heritage Research Associates Inc. Ottawa, ON, was engaged to review relevant documents and to compile such a history. This document appears never to have been formally published as a paper document but it is available in electronic form which is reproduced in the section of this website entitled “Plan for tomorrow …TODAY! The Story of Emergency Preparedness Canada 1948-1998”. There is a single paper copy of the document in the archives of the Diefenbunker Museum.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Prologue – Civil Defence in the Second World War: The Air Raid Precautions Organization
- Chapter 1 – Civil Defence in Canada: 1948-1957
- Chapter 2 – The Rise and Fall of the Emergency Measures Organization: 1957-1968
- Chapter 3 – The Fall and Rise of Civil Emergency Measures: 1968-1981
- Chapter 4 – The Reform of Civil Emergency Measures: 1981-1988
- Chapter 5 – Toward the Millennium — Emergency Preparedness Planning in the 1990s
- Chapter 6 – Summary and Conclusion
- Bibliography
- List of Appendices
