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  • Canada Post Launches Commemorative Envelope for RMR

    Westmount, QC – 16 September 2014:  In a dignified ceremony held in the Officers’ Mess of The Royal Montreal Regiment, Mr. Guy Morrissette, Manager of Retail Business for Canada Post, formally presented…

  • Retired Colour Sashes On Display

    Westmount, QC – 18 September 2014:  The colour sashes of The Royal Montreal Regiment were replaced a few years back by the generous donation by then Honorary Colonel Henry F. Hall, CD,…

  • RMR VC Winner Featured in Postmedia article

    Westmount, 15 July 2014 – The RMR’s second Victoria Cross recipient George Burdon McKean, a native of Edmonton, Alberta, was featured in an article written as part of their ongoing series on The…

  • OLYMPIC SUMMER

    Written by Buzz Bourdon (late the RMR 1975-82) The summer of 1976 was a good one for the soldiers of the RMR. The Olympic games were being held in Montreal and if you wanted…

  • RMR Nijmegan Team Celebrates 100th Anniversary of Camp Valcartier

    Quebec City, 15 June 2014 – A nine man team from The Royal Montreal Regiment marched from CFB Valcartier to the Port of Quebec in celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Camp Valcartier’s…

  • The Intercom – Blast From the Past: 1990

    28 May 2014, Montreal – As part of our Centennial Project to collect as many past editions of the Intercom that we can find, Corporal Frank Laciak, a keen collector of RMR…

  • Air Canada Publishes RMR’s Steacie story

    Montreal, 01 May 14 – The RMR was featured in Air Canada’s Horizons magazine, telling the story of how Captain Richard Steacie’s grave marker was brought to Montreal to reside in the…

  • RMR Museum Acquires “Original History” of the Regiment

    The museum has recently received an astonishing new addition: the original history of the Regiment, which was written by the Adjutant (Major Plow) while the RMR was still serving “Somewhere in France”…