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LSSR-105 Years of Service-June 2005
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The Beginning 1885

Though there were moves a foot before 1885 to raise a Volunteer Corps in Northern Ontario, it was the Northwest Rebellion, whcih gave the government the needed motivation to authorize the formation of an Independent Company at Port Arthur. It is this date, 24 April 1885, when an Independent Company of Rifles, the Port Arthur Rifle Company was authorized under Captain Samuel Wellington Ray, that the LSSR traditionally traces its history. This date is appropriately referred to as the "Regimental Birthday."
David Ratz

 

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