Also visible in the photograph, just right of centre: the tubular shape of the pulse jet engine of the Fieseler Fi 103R Reichenberg, a piloted version of the V-1 flying bomb. It was another one of the team's prized acquisitions.
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The sub was part of the massive collection of German weapons and equipment assembled by the team, most of which was aboard. Two other Canadians and nine civilians also made the voyage, along with German chemical weapons, Canadian army equipment destined for postwar use, and tulip bulbs.
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This event is the latest in an ongoing series of webinars organized by the embassies of Canada in Reykjavík and Iceland in Ottawa. The webinar will also include remarks by Canada’s Ambassador to Iceland, Jenny Hill and Iceland’s Ambassador to Canada, Hlynur Guðjónsson.
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Key insights will be shared from the ongoing PhD research of Canadian and Icelandic scholars Madison Herget-Schmidt, University of Manitoba, and Karen Lilja Loftsdóttir, Queen’s University, respectively.
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Possibly, at some point! Snider certainly got up to some interesting adventures.

The map is part of the unit's report on the operation, which is attached to its war diary starting here: heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.... (2/2)

There's a wonderful hand-drawn map of this evacuation route in the war diary for the 20th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers, showing the area. It's available on digitized microfilm: heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.... (1/2)

You’re welcome! There might be some mention of it in Eric Gault Finley’s “RCN Beach Commando W,” which is available online: archive.org/details/RcnB...

Would any of the Combined Operations pamphlets qualify? No. 2, for instance was “beach organisation and maintenance”. An IWM catalogue entry for the 1944 edition includes the note that “This pamphlet when issued to naval holders will be known as B.R. 640 (2)”: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Seen today at the Naval Museum of Halifax: this thank-you plaque from the survivors of the crew of the Duchess of York to the officers and ship’s company of HMCS Iroquois.

I’ll vote for the Squid. This one’s at the Canadian War Museum.

11/11: For more on photographer Donald I. Grant, who took these pictures: canadianfilmandphotounit.ca/2015/01/07/d...

10/11: The original photograph captions have also been digitized by Library and Archives Canada, and are available on page 37 of this document: data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf002/2...

9/11: Colville may have been talking about this painting in 1980: "What happened here—this is one of our armoured cars which was called a Staghound. And it hit a mine and a bulldozer went to help it out and the bulldozer hit a mine, too--so, write off two vehicles." www.warmuseum.ca/collections/...

8/11: Destroyed Vehicles Near Xanten, Germany (painted 10 March 1945), CWM 19710261-2056: www.warmuseum.ca/collections/...

7/11: Shattered Landscape, Cleve (painted 19 February 1945), CWM 19710261-2116: www.warmuseum.ca/collections/...