Canadian Armed Forces and the United Nations: 1949-2001

Over the course of 50 years, units of the Canadian army, Royal Canadian Navy, and Royal Canadian Air Force (Canadian Armed Forces after 1968) have served with several United Nations (UN) missions. Their duties have included operations under both Chapter 6 (peacekeeping) and Chapter 7 (confronting aggression and threats to peace) of the UN Charter. These missions ranged from full combat duties (Korea, Somalia, the Gulf War, and the Balkans), observing and supervising the status of a ceasefire through the deployment of military observers (the Middle East and Pakistan), physically enforcing a ceasefire with peacekeeping forces (the Middle East, Cyprus, and the Balkans) and many other duties such as mine warfare education and mine clearing (Afghanistan and the Balkans).