Prior to 2004, Sarty was an important researcher involved with the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. In 2004 Sarty was appointed to a teaching position as a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University. At Wilfrid Laurier University, Sarty has helped numerous undergrad and graduate students achieve success in their academic journeys. In 2005, he was additionally named chairman of the Council for Canadian Security in the 21st Century, an association based in Calgary. In 2007, he also became editor of The Northern Mariner, published by the Canadian Nautical Research Society in association with the North American Society for Oceanic History. In 2002 he was awarded, with Brian Tennyson, the C.P. Stacey Prize for their book Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton and the Atlantic Wars.
Achievements
Canadian Nautical Research Society Keith Matthews Award for Best Book Honourable Mention.
There will be trouble in the north Pacific : the defence of British Columbia, 1906–1922, Papers of the Canadian Historical Association, 1983.
Coast Artillery 1815-1914, Alexandria Bay, N.Y.; Bloomfield, Ont.: Museum Restoration Service, 1988.
Tin-Pots and Pirate Ships: Canadian Naval Forces and German Sea Raiders, 1880–1918, with Michael L. Hadley. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991.
"Entirely in the hands of the friendly neighbour": the Canadian Armed Forces and the defence of the Pacific Coast, 1909–1939, Occasional paper series (Pacific and Maritime Strategic Studies Group.
Guardian of the Gulf : Sydney, Cape Breton, and the Atlantic wars, Brian Tennyson and Roger Sarty. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000
The battle of the Atlantic: the Royal Canadian Navy's greatest campaign, 1939–1945, Ottawa: CEF Books, 2001.
Saint John fortifications, 1630-1956 Roger Sarty and Doug Knight. Fredericton, N.B. : Goose Lane Editions, 2003.
No higher purpose:, W.A.B. Douglas, Roger Sarty, Michael Whitby with Robert H. Caldwell, William Johnston, William G.P. Rawling. Volume Two, Part 1. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Pub., 2002.
A Blue Water Navy: The Official Operational History of the Royal Canadian Navy in the Second World War 1943-1945, W.A.B. Douglas, Roger Sarty, Michael Whitby with Robert H. Caldwell, William Johnston, William G.P. Rawling. Volume Two, Part 2. St. Catharines, Ont.: Vanwell Publishing, 2007.
