Notable Members
- Capt Sir Frederick Grant Banting, Discoverer of insulin, Nobel Laureate for Medicine, voted 4th Greatest Canadian in history
- Hon Col Bill Graham, Minister of Defence then interim Leader of the Opposition in Canada's federal Parliament
- Hon Col HNR Jackman, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- Maj Hampden Zane Churchill Cockburn, Victoria Cross (Boer War, with Royal Canadian Dragoons)
- Sgt TW Holmes, Victoria Cross (WWI, with 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles)
- Lt Col George Taylor Denison III, Led the regiment against the Fenian Raids and the North West Rebellion
- Lt Col Frederick Charles Denison, Commanded the Canadian Voyageurs on the 1884 Nile expedition
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