Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Royal Canadian Legion badge Royal Canadian Legion Cadet Medal of Excellence. The Royal Canadian Legion is a non-profit Canadian veterans' organization founded in 1925. [1] Members include people who served in the military, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, provincial or municipal police, Royal Canadian Air, Army and Sea Cadets and direct relatives.
The practice of members of the Canadian Royal Family giving their patronage to Canadian organizations stems from that which started in the United Kingdom in pre-industrial times, when all development of the sciences and arts were under the direct control of the monarch and exercised by the foundation of colleges that today form the basis of modern universities.
After the War of 1812, sailors from the Royal Navy who remained in Canada joined with the Army Veterans and the name was changed to the Army and Navy Veterans in Canada. During the Second World War, the organization welcomed members of the newly formed air force. The name was again changed by an amendment to the Act of Incorporation, by ...
Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC; French: Anciens Combattants Canada) is the department within the Government of Canada with responsibility for pensions, benefits and services for war veterans, retired and still-serving members of the Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), their families, as well as some civilians.
Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (479 P) R. Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2 C, 5 P, 1 F) ... Royal Canadian Legion; Royal Canadian Logistics Service;
Rejected veterans, in particular the Royal Canadian Legion, appealed to the federal government, and on May 23, 1940, Minister of National Defence Norman McLeod Rogers declared "it had been decided to establish a force to be known as the Veteran’s Home Guard for the adequate protection of military property on the home front." Members would ...
Lieutenant General Charles Henri Belzile CM, CMM, CD (March 12, 1933 – December 5, 2016) was a Canadian army officer who served as head of the Canadian Army. He is an honorary member of the Royal Military College of Canada student #H22547.
At a 1952 convention of the Royal Canadian Legion, the guards were branded as "an affront and disgrace". Julian Ferguson , a Member of the House of Commons for Simcoe North as well as a World War I recipient of the Military Cross , attacked the Guards as having "never fought and never defeated".