At the end of the Second World War, Canada had one of the largest militaries amongst the Allied nations. However, given the quantity of weapons possessed by the Canadian Military after the Second World War, it begs the question, what happened to all of Canada’s “surplus” weapon kits? Recently declassified Privy Council and Department of External Affairs documents reveal that Canada was consciously exporting surplus weapons to countries around the world, particularly to China and South-East Asia in the early Cold War period from approximately 1946 through 1958. These documents also reveal that Canada was exporting arms to both Communist and anti-Communist factions; sometimes to both factions in the same countries! This thesis argues that through its arms exports practices to China and South East Asia during the late 1940s and 1950s, Canada was actively agitating proxy wars in the region with little regard if such exports violated UN, NATO, American or British policies regarding aggression by Communist states or Communist factions. My thesis will focus on arms exports from Canada to: China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Indo-China, Thailand, India and Pakistan.