Canada's Highland Regiments

**highland mafia** · 3rd June 10, 03:35 PM

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

kiltedwolfman · 3rd June 10, 03:53 PM

A decade with the Argyll and Sutherland for myself before joining the reg. force with the armoured corps. I can honestly say that I never had a greater time or felt a stronger bond than I did with the Highlanders.

**Macman** · 3rd June 10, 04:11 PM

Perhaps someone with more knowledge can chime in on this, but I understand there is a distinction, albeit in name only, between Highland and Scottish units in the Canadian Forces. While in The Canadian Scottish (Princess Mary's) Regiment, I think I was told that we were not a Highland regiment (even though we were kilted and had a pipe band).

**BoldHighlander** · 7th June 10, 01:28 AM

Originally Posted by Courtmount

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?

**BoldHighlander** · 7th June 10, 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by Ancienne Alliance

Thank You Terry !

I've been wanting this list for a long time !

Now, a real treat (and task !

) would be to have one picture for each Regiment...

Best,

Robert

Ask and you shall receive Robert!

To be honest I'm missing 5 of the regiments. They are:

The Lanark & Renfrew Scottish
The New Brunswick Scottish
The Perth Regiment
The Pictou Highlanders
The Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry Highlanders

I believe the most of these 5 were deactivated some while back, though I know that at least one (& I can't recall which) is now some sort of artillery unit.

I believe I have a WW1 era photo of the New Brunswick Scottish, I'll check my files tomorrow/ later in the day.

If anyone has a photo of a kilted uniformed member of one of the 5 missing units then please feel free to post it here. Thanks.

Robert, I decided on the ones I do have to only post modern (post-1999) photos, rather than one from say the WW1 era & one modern. I had too many Bellingham Games photos to weed through, and thus had to scratch my original idea. Anyhow, in this case I chose to try to stay away from pipers if possible & post dress uniforms (w/ kilt) of the enlisted troops or officers.
I hope you enjoy

Cheers!

**BoldHighlander** · 7th June 10, 01:42 AM

The Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's)

The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) of Canada

The Calgary Highlanders

**BoldHighlander** · 7th June 10, 01:43 AM

The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa

The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada

The Canadian Scottish

The Essex & Kent Scottish

The 48th Highlanders of Canada