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NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.
NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.


== Seniority - Regular Force Armoured Regiments ==
=== Seniority - Regular Force Armoured Regiments ===


# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON)
# [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] (Petawawa, ON)
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# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ)
# [[Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada]] (BFC Valcartier, PQ)


== Seniority - Reserve Force Armoured Regiments ==
=== Seniority - Reserve Force Armoured Regiments ===


# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
# [[The Governor General's Horse Guards]] (Toronto, ON)
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# [[The Windsor Regiment]] (Windsor, ON)
# [[The Windsor Regiment]] (Windsor, ON)


== Supplementary - Armoured Corps Regiments ==
=== Supplementary - Armoured Corps Regiments ===


# [[IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards]]
# [[IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards]]

Revision as of 09:12, 18 May 2006

General

Role of Armour

To defeat the enemy through the aggressive use of firepower and battlefield mobility.

Motto of the Armoured Corps

Through the mud and the blood to the green fields beyond.
- General Worthington

Regiments of the Armoured Corps

(From West to East)

  1. The British Columbia Regiment (Vancouver, BC)
  2. The British Columbia Dragoons (Kelowna, BC)
  3. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) (Edmonton, AB) *
  4. King's Own Calgary Regiment (Calgary,AB)
  5. South Alberta Light Horse (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB) (B Sqn)
  6. Saskatchewan Dragoons (Moose Jaw, SK)
  7. The Fort Garry Horse (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
  8. The Windsor Regiment (Windsor, ON)
  9. The 1st Hussars (London and Sarnia, ON)
  10. The Queen's York Rangers (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
  11. The Governor General's Horse Guards (Toronto, ON)
  12. The Ontario Regiment (Oshawa, ON)
  13. The Royal Canadian Dragoons (Petawawa, ON) *
  14. Le Regiment de Hull (Gatineau, PQ)
  15. The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
  16. Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
  17. Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (BFC Valcartier, PQ) *
  18. The Sherbrooke Hussars (Sherbrooke, PQ)
  19. The 8th Canadian Hussars (Moncton and Sussex, NB)
  20. The Prince Edward Island Regiment (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)

NOTE: Regiment's denoted with a * are Regular, the remaining Regiments are Reserve.

Seniority - Regular Force Armoured Regiments

  1. The Royal Canadian Dragoons (Petawawa, ON)
  2. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) (Edmonton, AB)
  3. Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (BFC Valcartier, PQ)

Seniority - Reserve Force Armoured Regiments

  1. The Governor General's Horse Guards (Toronto, ON)
  2. The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) (Moncton, Sackville, and Sussex, NB)
  3. The Ontario Regiment (Oshawa, ON)
  4. The Queen's York Rangers(1st American Regiment) (Toronto and Aurora, ON)
  5. The Sherbrooke Hussars (Sherbrooke, PQ)
  6. Le 12e Regiment Blinde du Canada (Trois-Rivieres, PQ)
  7. The 1st Hussars (London and Sarnia, ON)
  8. The Prince Edward Island Regiment (Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI)
  9. The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal and St. Hubert, PQ)
  10. The British Columbia Regiment Duke of Connaught's Own) (Vancouver, BC)
  11. South Alberta Light Horse (Edmonton and Medicine Hat, AB)
  12. Saskatchewan Dragoons (Moose Jaw, SK)
  13. King's Own Calgary Regiment (Calgary,AB)
  14. The British Columbia Dragoons (Kelowna, BC)
  15. The Fort Garry Horse (McGregor Armoury, Winnipeg Manitoba, R2W 1A8)
  16. Le Regiment de Hull (Gatineau, PQ)
  17. The Windsor Regiment (Windsor, ON)

Supplementary - Armoured Corps Regiments

  1. IV Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
  2. The Halifax Rifles (RCAC)
  3. 12th Manitoba Dragoons
  4. 19th Alberta Dragoons
  5. 14th Canadian Hussars

Note: The Elgin Regiment converted to Engineers in the 1997 Militia reorganization.

Armour Equipment

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