The War of Unification (1935) was a textbook implementation of War Plan Red, which involved focusing on Canada’s Maritime Provinces in order to deny the British Empire’s forces ports capable of taking troop ships. The Canadians similarly recognised that the key to their survival was keeping the Americans at bay long enough for an eighth of a million reinforcements from the rest of the British Empire to arrive in Canada, estimated to take less than thirty days. Once the Canadians detected the troops beginning to amass along their borders, they resurrected the defunct Defence Scheme No. 1 to be implemented as a delaying tactic, and its author, Colonel Brown, was recalled from his post in British Columbia despite strained relations with the national military command and the federal government