In the summer of 2021, the Museum of the Royal Canadian Military Institute acquired a very fine collection of
Topic: British Army
22 articles tagged British Army
REVIEW Ben Townsend, Fashioning Regulation, Regulating Fashion: The Uniforms and Dress of the British Army 1800-1815 (Helion Press) Volume
When regiments of Wellington’s army were sent to Canada in the summer of 1814, their officers’ appearance shocked Lieutenant-General
This article will outline British and Canadian strategy, developed in the decade following the War of 1812, to deter
St. John the Evangelist Church was for many years an important spiritual and military establishment in Toronto. First established
Although the British Army has frequently (and with reason) been described as a collection of sovereign regiments whose quirky
“Success attend us, and conduce / To make our winter gay, / And may our Club the seeds produce
It was late, nearly midnight, on 5 September 1865 when Mr. Attorney General John A. Macdonald stood in the
REVIEW Jonathon Riley, A Matter of Honour: The Life, Campaigns and Generalship of Isaac Brock. London: Frontline Books /
It is a blustery late autumn day at Fort York in 1824; the winds howl and the skies are
It has been often observed that the life of a soldier is characterized by long periods of boredom interrupted
In the Strachan Avenue Military Cemetery at Fort York a weathered gravestone recalls Harriet Isabella Ormsby who died in
In 2005 the Friends’ History & Archaeology Committee, chaired by Andrew Stewart, launched a project to identify and contact
by Carl Benn, PhD, Chief Curator, City of Toronto Museums and Heritage Services Much of our understanding of Fort
REVIEW David Juliussen, A History of the Canadian Fencibles, 1803-1816 In British Army parlance of the 19th century, Fencible
Last year a collector of militaria approached us, seeking our expertise in evaluating a Napoleonic rope-tensioned military side-drum alleged
