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The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment
Armorial Description
A maple leaf charged with a beaver, encircled by an annulus, inscribed THE LAKE
SUPERIOR SCOTTISH REGIMENT and surmounted by the Crown; below a scroll
inscribed INTER PERICULA INTREPIDI; on each side of the annulus, six maple
leaves.
Official Abbreviation: Lake Sup Scot R
Motto: Inter Pericula Intrepidi (Fearless in the face of danger)
Battle Honours (34)
First World War
YPRES, 1915
YPRES, 1917
PASSCHENDAELE
Fustubert, 1915
AMIENS
MOUNT SORREL
Scarpe, 1918
SOMME, 1916
Drocourt-Queant
Flers-Courcelette
HINDENBURG LINE
Ancre Heights
Canal du Nord
Arras, 1917
Arras, 1918
CAMBRAI, 1918
VIMY, 1917
VALENCIENNES
HILL 70
France and Flanders, 1915-1918
Second World War
FALAISE
THE HOCHWALD
Falaise Road
Veen
The Laison
TWENTE CANAL
Chambois
FRIESOYTHE
THE SCHELDT
KUSTEN CANAL
THE LOWER MAAS
Bad Zwischenahn
THE RHINELAND
NORTH-WEST EUROPE, 1944-1945
Tartan: MacGillivary
Authorized March: The Highland Laddie
Regimental Headquarters:
The Armoury
317 Park Ave.
Thunder Bay, Ontario
P7B 1C7
Honourary Colonel: Colonel P.R. "Jerry" Cook,OStJ,CD
Honourary Lieutenant-Colonel: Lieutenant-Colonel Catherine Paterson,DStJ,DStL
Commanding Officer: Major Donald P.M. Strang,CD
Regimental Sergeant-Major: Master Warrant Officer David J. Coffey,CD
The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment perpetuates the following Regiments:
The Provisional Battalion of Rifles
96th District of Algoma Battalion of Rifles
96th Algoma Rifles
96th The Lake Superior Regiment
52nd, 94th and 141st Battaions, CEF
The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor)
Brief History
The Regiment was raised 30 Apr 1885 and designated
The Provisional Battalion of Rifles at Port Arthur, Ontario. It was
redesignated the 96th District of Algoma Battalion of Rifles 29 Apr 1887.
On 3 Jul 1904 is was renamed the 96th Lake Superior Regiment and
redesignated The Lake Superior Regiment 15 Mar 1920. 26 Jan 1943 it became
The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor) and on 29 Jun 1949 it was granted
approval to become "Scottish", being called The Lake Superior Scottish
Regiment (Motor), and 11 Apr 1958 it adopted its present title, The Lake
Superior Scottish Regiment. During World War I it sent drafts of over 400
soldiers each to the 8th and 28th Battalions, CEF, raised the 52nd, 94th,
and 141st Battalions, the latter two being reinforcement Battalions for
"The Fighting 52nd".
The LSSR's Colours
 
Order of Precedence: 33
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