19 May 1855 (1855-May-19)[1] (169 years, 38 days ago)[note 1][5]
Country
Canada[note 2]
Type
Army
Role
Land warfare
Size
44,000 (22,500 active personnel, 21,500 reserve personnel, and 5,300 Canadian Rangers)[6]
Part of
Canadian Armed Forces
Headquarters
National Defence Headquarters, Ottawa, Ontario
Motto(s)
Vigilamus pro te (Latin for 'We stand on guard for thee')[7]
Colours
Rifle green and gold
March
"The Great Little Army"
Mascot(s)
Juno the Bear[8]
Engagements
Fenian raids
Red River Rebellion
North-West Rebellion
Second Boer War
First World War
Second World War
Korean War
Medak Pocket
War in Afghanistan
Website
www.canada.ca/en/army.html
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief
Charles III, King of Canada
Commander of the Canadian Army
Lieutenant-General Jocelyn Paul
Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army
Major-General Peter Scott
Canadian Army Sergeant Major
Chief Warrant Officer James Smith
Insignia
Flag
Military unit
The Canadian Army (French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the conventional ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces. It maintains regular forces units at bases across Canada, and is also responsible for the Army Reserve, the largest component of the Primary Reserve. The Army is headed by the Commander of the Canadian Army and Chief of the Army Staff, who is subordinate to the Chief of the Defence Staff. The Army is also supported by 3,000 civilian employees from the public service.
Formed in 1855, as the Active Militia, in response to the threat of the United States to the Province of Canada after the British garrison left for the Crimean War. This Militia was later subdivided into the Permanent Active Militia and the Non-Permanent Active Militia. Finally, in 1940, an order in council changed the name of the Active Militia to the Canadian Army.
On 1 April 1966, prior to the unification of the Canadian Armed Forces, the land forces were placed under a new command called Mobile Command (French: Commandement des forces mobiles).[9] For two years following, the Army existed as a distinct legal entity before its amalgamation with the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Canadian Air Force to form the Canadian Armed Forces. In the 1990s, the command was renamed Land Force Command (French: Commandement des Forces terrestres), until it reverted to its original name in August 2011.[10]
During its history, the Canadian Army has fought in a variety of conflicts, including in the North-West Rebellion, the Second Boer War, the First and Second World Wars, Korean War, and more recently with the Gulf War, and in the War in Afghanistan.
^An Act to regulate the militia of this province and to repeal the acts now in force for that purpose [microform]: assented to 19th of May, 1855. S. Derbyshire and G. Desbarats. ISBN 9780665504136. Retrieved 26 March 2020 – via Archive.org.
^"War Of 1812 Battle Honours". www.forces.gc.ca. Ministry of National Defence. 14 September 2012. Archived from the original on 20 September 2020. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
^Morton, Desmond (2009). A Military History of Canada. McClelland & Stewart. p. 91. ISBN 978-1-5519-9140-5.
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^"Canadian Army collection" (PDF). University of Victoria Special Collections: Introduction. 1899–1984. Retrieved 24 March 2020. The Canadian Army was established in 1855 when the government passed the Militia Act, which provided for a paid, regular army consisting of active volunteer militia. Its forerunner was the militia dating back to 1651.
^"About the Canadian Armed Forces". www.forces.gc.ca. Government of Canada. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
^"Canadian Army". Ottawa: Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. 2013. Archived from the original on 2 May 2017. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
^"Juno the Canadian Army Mascot". www.canada.ca. Government of Canada. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
^"Navy and air force to be royal once again". CBC News. 16 August 2011. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
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