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Canadian peacekeeping

Peacekeeping missions of Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Canada has served in over 50 peacekeeping missions, including every United Nations peacekeeping effort from its inception until 1989. More than 125,000 Canadians have served in international peacekeeping operations, with approximately 130 Canadians having died during these operations. Canada's support for multilateralism and internationalism has been closely related to its peacekeeping efforts. Canada actively promotes its domestically shared values such as democracy, human rights, diversity, and the rule of law, through its foreign affairs engagements.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Canadian peacekeeping” is peacekeeping missions of Canada. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Canadian, peacekeeping and Peacekeeping, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1989—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Canadian, peacekeeping and Peacekeeping is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “peacekeeping missions of Canada” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Canadian peacekeeping” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.