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Lord Strathcona's Horse fonds [textual record, graphic material]

Hierarchical level:

Fonds

Date:

1893-1927.

Reference:

R2599-0-5-E, MG30-E166

Type of material:

Textual material, Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

102092

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Lord Strathcona's Horse fonds
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Fonds includes:

17 lower level description(s)
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Date(s):

1893-1927.

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1.303 m of textual records.
68 photographs b&w.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of the following series: Service rolls, photocopy, 1893-1914, 1.3 cm; General correspondence, original, 1899-1910, 80 cm; Subject correspondence, original, 1899-1912, 10 cm; Lt.- Col. Steele's Correspondence, original, 1900-1902, 10 cm; Nominal rolls, original, 1900-1901, 3 cm; Financial records, original, 1900-1902, 2 cm; Regimental diary and unit history, original, 1900-1927, 6 cm; Newspaper and press clippings, original, 1900-1913, 12 cm; Royal Commission on the War in South Africa, original 1902, 6 cm. Fonds also contains photographs, 1917-1918, depicting personnel and activities of the 4th Battalion, Canadian Machine Gun Corps, in France and Belgium.

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Canada. Canadian Army. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
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Canada. Canadian Army. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)

Canada. Armée canadienne. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)

Steele, Samuel B. (Samuel Benfield), 1848-1919
Biography/Administrative history:

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Canada. Canadian Army. Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) : In January 1900, Lord Strathcona and Mount Royal (Donald Alexander Smith) raised a mounted infantry unit, recruited from western Canada, and sent it to South Africa at his own expense. Lieutenant-Colonel Sam Steele of the N.W.M.P. was appointed to command the Strathcona's Horse. The regiment arrived in Cape Town on 10 April 1900. It took part in seven major actions as part of the Earl of Dundonald's 3rd Mounted Brigade and received its baptism by fire on Dominion Day, 1 July, 1900. The regiment embarked at Cape Town on 20 January 1901 and on 14 February arrived in London.

Although the unit itself was disbanded, remnants from it formed "A" Squadron, the Canadian Mounted Rifles on 1 July 1901. This unit, which traced its origins to 1883 and which had ties to the Royal Canadian Dragoons, was renamed The Royal Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1903. Six years later it was decided to revive the title of the Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians). In 1911 this title was amended to Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians).

The regiment was mobilized and arrived at Valcartier on 19 August 1914 under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel A.C. MacDonnell. The unit left Quebec on 30 September 1914 aboard the Bermudian and Monmouth and arrived in England on 16 October. It became part of the Canadian Cavalry Brigade on its formation on 2 February 1915. The regiment returned to Canada in 1919, and demobilized in Winnipeg. On 1 April of that year authority was granted to reorganize the Strathcona's as a unit of the Permanent Force. The task of the regiment was to maintain a Royal School of Cavalry in Calgary and Winnipeg and to supervise the instruction of all non-permanent cavalry units in western Canada.

The regiment was not immediately mobilized at the outbreak of the Second World War, but was concentrated in Winnipeg in January 1940. On July 6, the Strathcona's and The Royal Canadian Dragoons were ordered to form a composite unit called the 1st Canadian Motorcycle Regiment. Late in 1940, the Strathcona's become an armoured regiment. The regiment sailed from Halifax on 12 November 1941 and trained in England for two years. The Strathcona's landed at Naples, Italy, on 1 December 1943 as part of the 5th Armoured Brigade, 5th Armoured Division. In early 1946, the regiment returned to Canada, finding a permanent home in Calgary. On October 16, 1946 the regiment's name changed again to 2nd Armoured Regiment (Lord Strathcona's Horse) (Royal Canadians).

At the outbreak of the Korean War in 1951 the regiment provided armoured support for the Battalions of 25 Canadian Infantry Brigade of 1st Commonwealth Division. The Strathcona's have also participated in Canada's NATO brigade in Europe since its formation in 1953 and beginning in late 1956, soldiers from the Strathcona's have served as peacekeepers in Egypt, Cyprus, Cambodia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Finding aid:

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Textual records (Paper) Finding aid 1488 is a descriptive file list arranged chronologically within each series. This finding aid is presently missing at the reference services. Researchers could find a preliminary folder list. MSS1488 (90: Open)

Photographs: (Other) See "Photographic inventories, indexes, and caption lists arranged by accession number." FA-500

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General note:

Textual records, with the exception of the Service Rolls, were transferred from the Directorate of History, Department of National Defence in 1983. Photographs were acquired from Lord Strathcona's Horse Regimental Museum, CFB Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.

Location of originals note:

Originals of photocopied Service rolls: Regimental Museum, Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) at Sarcee Barracks, Calgary.

Associated material note:

Published materials: The pamphlets "In Memory of our Dead at Madder River (1900)" by Clive Phillips-Wooley and Speech by Nicholas Flood Davin ... on the Occaision of the First Parade of the Strathcona Horse (1900) were transferred to the Public Archives Library., Souvenir Ribbon commemorating the departure of the Strathcona's Horse for South Africa in 1900: Transferred to the Canadian War Museum in 1984.
Subject heading:

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South African War, 1899-1902 Canada

Guerre des Boers, 1899-1902 Canada

World War, 1914-1918 Canada

Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 Canada
Source:

Private

Related control no.:

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1977-043 NPC

Former archival reference no.:

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MG30-E166
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Textual records

[Consultation90 Open]

Graphic (photo)

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Box [LORD STRATHCONA`S HORSE REGIMENTAL MUSEUM 1977-043] INT 020

[Consultation 90 Open]

Box [LORD STRATHCONA'S HORSE REGIMENTAL MUSEUM 1977-043] RV3 214

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Photographs: No donor restrictions. Copyright: expired. Credit: Name of photographer / National Archives of Canada / Copy negative no.

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