HMCS Donnacona
| Name: | Donnacona |
| Namesake: | Chief Donnacona |
| Commissioned: | 1923 |
| Recommissioned: | 1943 |
| Motto: | Hand On and Main dans la main |
| Fate: | Active in service |
| Badge: |  |
| General characteristics | |
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| Class and type: | Naval Reserve Division |
| Type: | Stone frigate |
| Complement: | 200 |
Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Donnacona is a reserve unit of the Royal Canadian Navy based in Montreal, Quebec. As with all Naval Reserve divisions, its approximately 200 sailors supplement the Royal Canadian Navy on board ship and at shore establishments on a part-time or contractual basis.
HMCS Donnacona's personnel provide on-going augmentation to Royal Canadian Navy operations and exercises on ships and at shore establishments on a full- and part-time basis.
Domestically, HMCS Donnacona contributes assets in the form of personnel and equipment to aid to the civil power operations. In the past, these have included the 1990 Oka Crisis, the 1995 G7 summit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1997 Red River Flood, the 1998 Ice Storm, the 1998 crash of Swissair Flight 111, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the 2011 floods on the Richelieu River in Quebec and throughout .
Throughout the Cold War, HMCS Donnacona provided hundreds of trained augmentees in support of naval and joint operations, as well as to the Korean War and the First Gulf War. The unit also provided personnel to the Afghanistan war and subsequent training mission, and to numerous United Nations peacekeeping missions and NATO operations.
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