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RCRM Speakers Series - Season 4

3 episodes

Recorded during The RCR's 140th anniversary year, the three episodes of season 4 highlight the Regiment in international and national military operations spanning from 1964 to 1995. An excellent opportunity to hear about how 1RCR trained for arctic conditions as part of ACE Mobile Force, or find out how "N" Company, 3RCR and "G" Company 2RCR answered to international commitments in Former Yugoslavia. We will also discuss the response to the call from civil powers in Ontario and Quebec, spring-summer 1990.

RCRM Speakers Series - Season 4

The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum

Recorded during The RCR's 140th anniversary year, the three episodes of season 4 highlight the Regiment in international and national military operations spanning from 1964 to 1995. An excellent opportunity to hear about how 1RCR trained for arctic conditions as part of ACE Mobile Force, or find out how "N" Company, 3RCR and "G" Company 2RCR answered to international commitments in Former Yugoslavia. We will also discuss the response to the call from civil powers in Ontario and Quebec, spring-summer 1990.

History

  • 07 Nov 2023

    1990: In Aid of Civil Powers. Op Akwesasne and Op Salon

    Season 4, Episode 3

    Two major domestic operations were held in 1990: Operation Akwesasne in response to the Solicitor-General of Canada request for "Provision of Armed Assistance" in Brockville-Cornwall area, and Operation Salon in response to the Government of Quebec request for "Aid to Civil Power" in Oka crisis. 1RCR and 2RCR were part of these operation and our panel will bring forward the specifics of these two domestic operations.

    Panellists: Colonel (retired) Norris Pettis and Lieutenant-Colonel (retired) Rusty Bassarab
    Facilitator: Dr. Georgiana Stanciu
    Sound director: Mark Vogelsang

  • 16 May 2023

    Canada and the Cold War: ACE Mobile Force (1960 – 2000)

    Season 4, Episode 2

    In 1960, NATO established the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force (Land) (ACE Mobile Force Land or AMF(L)), a multi-national brigade designed for rapid response along the northern and the southern flanks of the Alliance. Beginning in 1964, Canada deployed one battalion to AMF(L), on a rotational basis between each of the infantry regiments in the regular force to receive winter warfare which training.

    Panellists: Major-General (retired) Walter Holmes and Colonel (retired) Sandy McQuarrie
    Facilitator: Dr. Georgiana Stanciu
    Sound director: Mark Vogelsang

  • 30 Mar 2023

    Canada's UN Commitments in the 1990s: The RCR in the Balkans

    Season 4, Episode 1

    This panel will focus on the deployment of "N" Coy, 3RCR under UNPROFOR and "G" Coy, 2RCR under IFOR. UNPROFOR was the multinational peacekeeping force established in 1992 to address the humanitarian crisis ensued in the Balkans after the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. IFOR or Implementation Force was a NATO-led multinational peace enforcement in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

    Panellists: Lieutenant-General (retired) Peter Devlin and Major-General (retired) Denis Thompson
    Facilitator: Dr. Georgiana Stanciu
    Sound director: Mark Vogelsang