Lineage
The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) originated in Whitby, Ontario on 14 September 1866 as the 34th "Ontario Battalion of Infantry". It was redesignated the 34th Ontario Regiment on 8 May 1900, The Ontario Regiment following the Great War on 1 May 1920, The Ontario Regiment (Tank) on 15 December 1936 and the 2nd Regiment, The Ontario Regiment (Tank) on 13 August 1940. It was converted to armour and redesignated the 11th (Reserve) Army Tank Battalion, (The Ontario Regiment (Tank)) on 1 April 1941, the 11th (Reserve) Army Tank Regiment (Ontario Regiment (Tank)) on 15 August 1942, the 11th Armoured Regiment (Ontario Regiment), RCAC on 1 April 1946, The Ontario Regiment (11th Armoured Regiment) on 4 February 1949 and finally The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) on 19 May 1958.
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Famous quotes containing the word lineage:
“I declare
Two lineages electrify the air,
That will like pennons from a mast
Fly over sleep and life and death
Till sun is powerless to decoy
A single seed above the earth:
Lineage of sorrow: lineage of joy....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)