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CURRENT EVENTS
20 Feb 99
Officers Mess - Dinner
12-21 Mar 99
Exercise Southern Drive 99 - Fort Knox, Kentucky USA- one section with
Company Headquarters to attend LFCA exercise.
Exercise Frozen Kilt - Churchill Falls, Labrador NF - small unit with CO
to conduct adventure trainging.
Other:
The Unit is running a QL4 Communications course and is getting
prepared to conduct a QL2/3 recruit training course for infantry.
Plans are to have the QL2/3 course run in the local area.
The unit hockey team is practicing every Thursday night for the up
comming Bde hockey tournament to be held in Brockville in April.
S D & G Status of Events: Spring 1998
PAST EVENTS
Glengarrian News Letter, April 29, 1998
25 April:
Change of Command parade that was postponed due to the Ice Storm is on
The Regimental Dinner for all ranks will be that night.
30 May:
Participate in the Childrens Aid Society Bikeathon.
6-7 June:
1st Bn Reunion in Peterbourgh, Ont.
S D & G Status of Events: Fall / Winter 1997 / 98
November 11, the Remembrance day parade will take place at the
Cenopath. The parade is sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion. After
the Remembrance Day Parade there will be a change in Regimental
Sergeant Major. CWO D.G. Goddaard will be taking over from CWO V.G.
Colgan. CWO Goddard just came to Cornwall this year with his job.
November 19-23 the Festival of Trees will once again use the Armories
to display their Trees and other Xmas goodies.
The Officers Mess will be holding their Annual St. Andrews Ball on
Saturday 29 November 1997. The Guest of Honour will be LCol R.J.
Brooks,CD; Past Commanding Officer of the Regiment.
Friday 12 December will be the Annual Men's Christmas Dinner with the
Officers and Sr NCO's serving the dinner.
The Sgts Mess will once again hold a New Years Party 31 Dec 97.
The Officers and Sr NCO's will receive guests into their Regimental
home during the Levee on New Years Day. Associate Members and guest
will be welcomed after 3pm.
S D & G Status of Events: Spring 1997
The 1st Bn hold their annual reunion on a city rotational basis.
This year was the 50th reunion held in Cornwall. Next year is
Peterborough, then Kingston, then Brockville and returns to Cornwall.
All the Veterans are now over 70 yrs of age.
This year being the 50th in Cornwall some special events took place.
The SD&G Highrs Regimental Museum was opened after renivations
(increased to four times its size) the Lt William Tulloch Memorial Library
was opened and the Kit Shop was officially opened.
The Regt Museum recently orgainized a display of which there were reinactors
dressed in first and second world war uniforms, and there was a working
Bren Gun carrier there for the vets to take a ride in.
The Military in Ontario as of April 1997, have been broken down into Brigades instead of districts. The SD&G Highlanders are now part of 33 Brigade.
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33 Canadian Brigade Group (CBG) Badge Out with the Old, In with the New: Restructuring Canada's Army On VE Day - 8 May 1945 - the Canadian Army had more than half a million soldiers under arms. By 1 April 1946, the standing Army had 158,195 soldiers and the Militia was 56,523 strong. At first, the peacetime Army's two components (Active and Militia) were part of a single entity: a cadre for the formation of six divisions, with units distributed across Canada in communities able to man them. In 1950, the Active force had only 20,652 soldiers and the Militia had 43,047; to form 25 Brigade to fight in Korea, it had to conduct a mini-mobilization. Within a year, Active force strength stood at 34,986. In 1952, as the Cold War deepened, 27 Brigade was raised from Militia contingents for active NATO service in Europe, and Active force strength rose to 49,278. The Army's contribution to the Canadian commitment to NATO eventually developed into 4 Canadian Infantry Brigade Group, established in northern Germany. To maintain enough units to rotate in and out of Europe, and to maintain the level of readiness required of Cold War armies, the full-time component (now called the Regular force) and the reserve component (still called the Militia) were split in 1954. From that point, they developed separately. During the Cold War - that is, from 1948 until 1989 - both the Regular force and the Militia were repeatedly restructured and assigned a wide variety of roles. Militia restructures tended to arise from specific government initiatives. The Kennedy Report, which appeared in the early 1950s, resulted in the conversion of the Militia to a civil defence force. This restructure was a response to the popular belief that the next war was most likely to last minutes rather than years, and involve massive public damage. Civil defence was, therefore, vital, and the most useful thing the Militia could do in a 20- minute war. In the short term, this change was traumatic for the Militia. Many veteran officers and NCOs resigned, believing that the removal of the Militia from the field force constituted a denial of their demonstrated military value. However, in less than a decade, the Militia had recovered; members were taking part in the NATO exercises in Europe and serving in United Nations peacekeeping operations, and the Militia was again part of the Army in Canada (by that time called Mobile Command). The Regular force strength changed more gradually; it peaked at 51,855 in 1962 and then declined, slowly but steadily, until 1974. It grew again slightly during the 1980s, but the cuts resumed and then increased after 1990 - the Cold War was over and the federal government was making its first major budget cuts. Because of financial pressure and accelerating United Nations and NATO commitments, the Army is now being restructured yet again, this time in an integrated plan incorporating both Militia and Regular force. Restructure is a familiar task that we have done before - successfully. It is merely the Army revitalizing and adapting to new defence requirements, shedding its old Cold War skin, if you like. With its Regular and Militia components reintegrated, the Army can move forward stronger, more capable and better prepared for whatever surprises the new century has in store for us. 33 Canadian Brigade Group Headquarters Ottawa's militia headquarters originated with the Ottawa Provisional Brigade formed in 1866 to defend the city from Fenian invasion. Since then, headquarters have gone through changes that reflect the varying needs of both the Permanent or Regular Force and the Militia through several limited conflicts, two world wars and many reorganizations. The organization that is now 33 Canadian Brigade Group (CBG) has usually been commanded by a Militia officer, although a Regular officer has commanded at least twice.
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With the establishment of 33 CBG on 1 April 1997, the headquarters is responsible for 18 units and an area extending more than 1000 kilometres from east to west and 700 kikmetres from north to south. In recognition of the Brigade Group's function as a force generator, a producer of soldiers for operational units, its number is taken from the Second World War training brigade established in eastern Ontario. Concept of the 33 Brigade Badge On a Rifle-green background, the head of a timber wolf howling at the hunter's moon. The Timber wolf, canis lupus lycaon, is native to most of the brigade area. cunning and tough enough on it own, in a pack it is the fiercest foe in the forest. 33CBG is the most dispersed in Central Canada. To achieve their full potential, its units must work together like wolves in a pack. NOTE: The wolf's head badge of 33CBG is presented as proposed; it has not yet received official approval. Wolf Badge Concept: Ontario Regiment, royal Canadian Armoured Corps. Badge Design Concept: 49th (Sault Ste. Marie) Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery.
Excerpt from "Across the Start Line"; published under the authority of Colonel S.J. Jamieson, Commander 33CBG.
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