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1880.06.04 |
85th Battalion
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formed with HQ at Montréal, PQ |
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- No. 1 Company at St. Jérôme;
moved 1 July 1898 to Maisonneuve
- No. 2 Company at St. Jean Baptiste
- No. 3 Company at Laprairie, redesignation
of No. 5 Coy, 21st Battalion; moved
20 July 1893 to Longueuil; moved 1 July 1898 to St. Henri de
Montréal
- No. 4 Company at Laprairie; moved
12 Oct. 1896 to St. Henri
- No. 5 Company at Côté
de St. Paul
- No. 6 Company at Longueuil; moved
later to St. Cunégonde
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1900.05.08 |
85th Regiment |
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1902.07.01 |
No.
7 Company formed at Ville St. Louis,
No. 8 Company formed at DeLorimier |
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1920.04.01 |
Le Régiment
de Maisonneuve |
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1921.03.15 |
reorganised
to perpetuate CEF: |
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- 1st Battalion, perpetuating 206th
Battalion CEF
- 2nd (Reserve) Battalion
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The Great War:
The Second World War1:
Crête de Bourguébus,
Faubourg de Vaucelles, Maltot, Crête de Verrières-Tilly
la Campagne, Falaise, Route de la Falaise, Forêt
de le Londe, Dunkerque 1944, Anvers-Canal de Turnhout,
L'Escaut, Woensdrecht, South Beveland, Chaussée de Walcheren,
La Rhénanie, Le Reichswald, Le Hochwald, Xanten, Groningen,
Oldenburg, Nord-Ouest de l'Europe 1944-1945
1. awarded 1957 and translated to French in 1958.
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Armorial
Description: Within a wreath of maple leaves tied at the bottom
with a bow and surmounted by the Crown, a fleur-de-lis. On the fleur-de-lis,
the arms of Paul Chomedy de Maisonneuve (argent, three torches,
gules) surrounded by a Garter inscribed LE REGIMENT DE MAISONNEUVE.
Across the bottom of the wreath a scroll inscribed with the motto
BON COEUR ET BON BRAS. |
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Bon coeur et
bon bras (adopted 1880) |
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