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With the formation of the First Canadian Army in Europe on 6 April 1942 and II Canadian Corps on 14 January 1943, additional Intelligence staff were required and in due course added to the Canadian military establishment. Intelligence staff duties at CMHQ also continued to expand, as it became the clearinghouse for all security-clearance cases ...
By 1943, for the first time in Canadian history, Canadian personnel filled all intelligence appointments within Canada's Army formations and units. In 1948, the Canadian Militia was authorized six intelligence training companies: No. 1 in Montreal, No. 2 in Toronto, No. 3 in Halifax, No. 4 in Vancouver, No. 5 in Winnipeg, and No. 6 in Edmonton.
The First Canadian Army in North-West Europe during the final phases of the war comprised the largest field army ever under the control of a Canadian general. Ration strength of the army ranged from approximately 105,000 to 175,000 Canadian soldiers to anywhere from 200,000 to over 450,000 when including the soldiers from other nations.
Colonel Peter Wright was a Canadian Army Officer who served during the Second World War. He served as the Senior Intelligence Officer with the First Canadian Army in Europe. . After the war he returned to work as a lawyer, eventually sitting on the Ontario High Court of Justi
The fledgling intelligence services in Canada grew in the 1900s and its network of officers expanded. W. C. Hopkinson, a representative of the British Home Office, the India Office and the Canadian government between 1909 and 1914 through the Immigration Department and the DP, gave special attention to the Sikh and Hindu nationalists.
The Corps of Guides was an administrative corps of the Non-Permanent Active Militia in Canada. [1] [2] [3] It was responsible for both intelligence staff duties as well as the collection of military intelligence for the defence of Canada through its mounted detachments (later cyclist companies) dispersed throughout the military districts of Canada. [4]
Charles Hamilton Mitchell, CB, CMG, DSO (1872-1941) was a Civil Engineer and an Intelligence Officer of the Canadian Armed Forces in World War I, with the rank of Brigadier-General. He served in France, Italy, and England during the war as an Intelligence Officer, winning several honours, becoming the most decorated Intelligence Officer in ...
Note: each regular force regiment retains a parachute company. The Royal Canadian Regiment. 1st Battalion (mechanized infantry)2nd Battalion (mechanized infantry)