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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 01.12.2004
 

The Lake Superior
Scottish Regiment

Regimental Crest
© DND
Ontario, Canada  
  Titles & Lineage
  History & War Service
  Battle Honours
  Colours, Standards and Guidons

  Badges and Uniforms

  Colonel-in-Chief
  Honorary Colonels
 Traditions
 Alliances
 Bibliography

Note: This is a battalion history of the part-time Reserves, which are normally liable for full-time active service only in an emergency
How to find information about individuals who served in this corps
 
  Titles and Lineage
  1886.12.10 Provisional Battalion of Rifles
four companies formed with HQ at Port Arthur, Ont.
 
  • No. 1 Company at Port Arthur
  • No. 2 Company at Fort William
  • No. 3 Company at Rat Portage; moved later to Kenora
  • No. 4 Company at Gore Bay and Bruce Mines; consolidated 29 Apr. 1887 at Gore Bay; disbanded 18 Jan. 1896
  • No. 5 Company at Bruce Mines, raised 29 Apr. 1887; moved 18 Sep. 1887 to Little Current; moved 21 Oct. 1887 to Manitowaning; moved 31 May 1887 to Thessalon; disbanded 18 Jan. 1896
  • No. 6 Company at Sault Ste. Marie, raised 31 May 1889; independent 1892; transferred 1 July 1900 as No. 1 Coy, 97th Regiment
  1887.04.29 96th "District of Algoma" Battalion of Rifles
  1896.08.22 disbanded
 
1905.07.03 96th "The Lake Superior Regiment"
six companies re-formed:
 
  • No. 1 Company at Port Arthur
  • No. 2 Company at Port Arthur
  • No. 3 Company at Fort William
  • No. 4 Company at Fort William
  • No. 5 Company at Fort Francis
  • No. 6 Company at Kenora
1905.12.01 HQ formed at Port Arthur, Ont.
1908.04.01 consolidated as a city corps (No. 5 Coy and No. 6 Coy transferred to form 98th Regiment):
 
  • A Company at Port Arthur
  • B Company at Port Arthur
  • C Company at Fort William
  • D Company at Fort William
  • E Company at Port Arthur, raised 1 Apr. 1908
  • F Company at Fort William, raised 1 Apr. 1908
  • G Company at Port Arthur, raised 1 Apr. 1910
  • H Company at Port Arthur, raised 1 Apr. 1910
1914 96th Lake Superior Regiment
1915.10.01 reorganised on four-company establishment
1920.03.15 The Lake Superior Regiment
1921.07.15 reorganised to perpetuate CEF with HQ at Port Arthur:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 52nd Battalion CEF
    • A Company at Port Arthur
    • B Company at Port Arthur
    • C Company at Fort William
    • D Company at Fort William
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, perpetuating 141st Battalion CEF
1946.04.01 The Lake Superior Regiment (Motor)
1949.06.29 The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Motor)
1958.04.11 The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment 
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Army site)
The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (Regimental site)
The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
Deployment and Service:
 
Colour Key: War service Overseas service Home service
       
     
       
       
Biography and Gallantry Awards:
[no external sites have been found]
Associations, Forums and Re-Enactors:
The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment Association by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
Museums, Monuments, Memorials and Chapels:
The Thunder Bay Military Museum by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

The Great War:

The Second World War: Falaise, Falaise Road, The Laison, Chambois, The Scheldt, The Lower Maas, The Rhineland, The Hochwald, Veen, Twente Canal, Friesoythe, Küste Canal, Bad Zwischenahn, North-West Europe 1944-45

  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
Record of Colours:
  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: 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.
Uniform:
   
   
     
   
  Colonel-in-Chief
  Honorary Colonels
Col. P.R. "Jerry" Cook, OStJ, CD
2004.10 J.DeP. Wright
  Traditions
 
Motto: Inter pericula intrepidi
Nicknames:
Anniversaries:
Freedoms:
Marches: The Highland Laddie
Musicians:
Mascot:
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

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  Bibliography How To Find Books
Regimental Journal:
Full Histories:
 
Short Histories: