Transfer To Canada
Whilst under repair the Canadian government negotiated with Britain to obtain Uganda for the Royal Canadian Navy.
The official transfer took place on Trafalgar Day, 21 October 1944 and she was renamed HMCS Uganda.
As the flagship for the RCN, Uganda served in the Pacific War with the British Pacific Fleet and the United States Third Fleet. She received battle honours for operations during the Battle of Okinawa and was involved in attacking Truk, Formosa and Sakishima Gunto. Controversially, her RCN crew were polled by the Canadian government on 7 May 1945 to determine whether they would volunteer for further duties in the Pacific War. Widespread discontent had grown amongst the crew, due to poor living conditions and the lack of a Canadian identity for the ship and the result saw 605 of her crew of 907 refuse to volunteer. Uganda withdrew to Esquimalt, arriving back in the Canadian port on 10 August 1945, the date of Japanese surrender.
On 1 August 1947, Uganda was paid off (decommissioned) into the RCN reserve.
She was reactivated on 14 January 1952 as a result of the Korean War and was recommissioned as HMCS Quebec, serving two tours in the Korean War theatre, as well as taking part in the RCN task force attending the review of the fleet at Spithead for the coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She was paid off in June 1956 and scrapped in Japan in 1961.
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