Canadian Military Heritage Museum of Brant County

Afghanistan Mission

2001 – 2014

Did you know?

• It was Canada’s longest war!
• More than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members served in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014.
• 159 Canadians died while on the mission.
• The Kandahar Airfield was the most cosmopolitan NATO base ever assembled inside a combat zone.
• The Tim Hortons outlet in Kandahar Airfield served coffee and baked goods to 2.5 million customers from more than 37 different nationalities.
• Afghanistan is the world’s largest producer of opium.
• Harsh climate complete with scorching heat, freezing nights and an unstoppable dust that gets inside everything.
• Cost of the war was at least $18 billion.
• Total Canadian Awards: 20 Stars of Military Valour, 89 Medals of Military Valour and 308 Mention in Dispatches.
• 27 members of Brantford’s 54 Battery, 56^th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA volunteered and served in Afghanistan.
• Two local men from Brantford, Trooper Larry Rudd of the Royal Canadian Dragoons and Captain Steve Leary of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry gave their lives in the war.