Canada's Highland Regiments

[Good Egg]

The Toronto Scottish
Tartan: London Scottish
Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario
Raised: 1915[/COLOR]

Pedant hat on: The Tartan is 'Elcho' which is a styalised version of Hodden Grey in colour and which is the same as the tartan used by the London Scottish. Pedant Hat off.

Thanks very much for this interesting info. Do you know how many of them are still serving? How do the Canadians manage when the British Army only has three active Scottish Line Infantry Regiments. The 5 Regular and 2 Territorial Battalions of the The Royal Regiment of Scotland, the London Scottish at company strength and the Liverpool Scottish as platoon strength (although they supply a lot of the soldiers for the non-LS Platoons in the Company).

[Lallans]

The Highlander is quite a good North American magazine, in fact about the best one going in my opinion. I've been hoping that despite the non-glossy format they have lots of readers and will keep getting more. Selfish reasons: I want them to stay on the market. My local mag store was somewhat reluctant to stock them, I believe because of the non-glossy covers, but now they report they sell out early.

[highland mafia]

I spent 7 years in The Highland Fusiliers of Canada out of Cambridge Ont. Great unit and great memories!!

[BoldHighlander]

Thanks very much for this interesting info. Do you know how many of them are still serving? How do the Canadians manage when the British Army only has three active Scottish Line Infantry Regiments. The 5 Regular and 2 Territorial Battalions of the The Royal Regiment of Scotland, the London Scottish at company strength and the Liverpool Scottish as platoon strength (although they supply a lot of the soldiers for the non-LS Platoons in the Company).

Since I am not Canadian, nor served in the Canadian armed forces (yet I have a very strong interest in Canadian Highland/Scottish regiments & a great respect for their fighting men & women), I can only repeat what I recently read somewhere, and if incorrect I hope one of our friends to the north will correct me.

I believe the answer to your question is because the majority of these units are Reserve units, and are at company strength at the most part.

This is what I remember running across this past Thursday or Friday, and while I suspected the reservist role of most of these units, I was surprised that they were only company strength.

To our Canadian friends: is this information correct?