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The history of CFB Edmonton begins at an airfield called Blatchford Field, [7] a few kilometres south from where CFB Edmonton would eventually be established. The airfield was established in 1927 as a private and commercial interest by bush pilots, with support from the Mayor of Edmonton, airfield namesake Kenny Blatchford, opening a few months after he ended his term as mayor with his ...
In 1995, the Regular Force garrison – including Strathcona's, 1 PPCLI, 1 Service Battalion, 1 Military Police Platoon, and the headquarters of Land Force Western Area as well as 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group – all moved to Edmonton, leaving a skeleton staff of regular personnel in Calgary to administer the local Militia units.
41 Combat Engineer Regiment (41 CER, French: 41 e Régiment du génie de combat) is an Army Reserve (militia) unit of the Canadian Military Engineers/Royal Canadian Engineers (RCE) in Alberta, Canada. The unit consists of: Regimental Headquarters (RHQ), 25 Engineer Squadron (25 Engr Sqn) in Edmonton, 33 Engineer Squadron (33 Engr Sqn) in ...
A soldier of the regiment is interviewed in Max Brooks's zombie novel World War Z. The character Major Patrick Gordon/Patrick Crawley in Season 2 of Downton Abbey was a member of PPCLI. The Canadian infantry soldiers in the Afghanistan War-based movie Hyena Road are members of the PPCLI. [32]
Immediately they set out for Edmonton, leaving only a single note tacked to the door of their humble shed. It read: "War is Hell, but what is homesteading?" He was 29 years old, and a private in the 49th (Edmonton) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.
The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps (RCOC) can trace its roots back to the Canadian Stores Department. Formed in 1871, the Canadian Stores Department was a civil department of the Canadian Government. This civil service was charged with control of forts, ammunition, stores, buildings and an ordnance depot left by the departing British Military.
Headquarters, 3rd Canadian Division, at CFB Edmonton [41] [42] 6 Intelligence Company, at Brigadier James Curry Jefferson Armoury, Edmonton [43] 3rd Canadian Division Training Centre, at CFB Wainwright [44] 1st Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, at CFNA HQ Yellowknife [45] 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, at CFB Albert Head; 1 Canadian Mechanized ...
In 2004, subsequent to the reorganization of all Canadian Forces medical and dental units into the Canadian Forces Health Services Group, the militia medical companies were re-designated and organized as Reserve field ambulances and the unit became 15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance with its detachment 15 (Edmonton) Field Ambulance Detachment Calgary.