Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 04.06.2005
 
 

Le Régiment de Saguenay

 
Québec, 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
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  Titles and Lineage
1900.02.01 18th Saguenay Battalion of Infantry
formed with HQ at Roberval, PQ
 
  • No. 1 Company at St. Félicien
  • No. 2 Company at Roberval
  • No. 3 Company at St Jérôme; moved 1 June 1908 to St. Joseph d'Alma; moved 16 Mar. 1914 to St. Jérôme
  • No. 4 Company at Hébertville
  • No. 5 Company at St. Anne
  • No. 6 Company at Chicoutimi, redesignation of No. 6 Coy, 61st Bn
  • No. 7 Company at Chicoutimi; moved 1 June 1908 to Laterrière; moved 16 Mar. 1914 to Jonquière
  • No. 8 Company at Ha-Ha Bay
1900.05.08 18th Saguenay Regiment
1900.06.01 HQ moved to Chicoutimi
1909.10.01 18th Régiment "Franc-tireurs du Saguenay"
1914.01.01 18th Régiment (Franc-tireurs du Saguenay)
1917.06.01 reorganised in four coys
1920.04.01 Les Franc-tireurs du Saguenay
reconstituted in Militia with HQ at Chicoutimi
1921.05.01 reorganised to perpetuate CEF:
 
  • 1st Battalion, perpetuating 57th Battalion CEF
  • 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
1937.05.15

Le Régiment du Saguenay

 
  • A Company at Chicoutimi
  • B Company at Grande Baie
  • C Company at Kenogami
  • D Company at Arvida
1954.09.01 Le Régiment du Saguenay (Mitrailleuses)
1958.04.11 Le Régiment du Saguenay
  History (Links) & War Service Introduction to Regiments
Le Régiment du Saguenay, by Mike Bobbitt (The Unofficial Canadian Army Home Page)
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  Battle Honours Index of Battle Honours
Index of Wars

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  Colours, Standards and Guidons Introduction to Colours
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  Uniforms and Badges
   
Badges: Armorial Description: A shield surmounted by the Crown and supported on each side by a dolphin; on the upper portion of the shield, three fir trees, on the lower portion the representation of the waters of the Saguenay; below, a scroll inscribed DIEU ET PATRIE; the whole resting upon a scroll inscribed LE REGIMENT DU SAGUENAY.
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  Colonel-in-Chief Index of Royal Colonels
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  Honorary Colonels
     
  Traditions
 
Motto: Dieu et patrie
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  Alliances Introduction to Alliances

 

  Bibliography How To Find Books
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