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tomahawk6

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I ran across the Canadian version of trooping the color on Parliament Hill. Somewhat like the British version still the professionalism was there. I will include it below in case anyone here hasn't seen it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDjFgFcYWtQ
 
I don't know who put the title on the video, T6, but it looks to me to be the daily Ceremonial Changing of the Guard ceremony. It's held every week day during the summer by the Governor General's Foot Guard, a Militia (your Army Reserve) regiment, a task it shares with the other Canadian Household regiment, the Canadian Grenadier Guards, another Militia unit based in Montreal.

Trooping of the Colours ceremony would look different, be more extensive and would, at least in Canada, likely include a lot more than just the Household regiments. It would also be reviewed by the Governor General herself.

I don't want to sound pedant when I throw all these very British sounding terms at you above, but, while the Canadian Armed Forces operate with a mix of British, American and our very own methods and practices, our ceremonial practices in the Canadian Army and Royal Canadian Navy are still very much on the British model (we are a Monarchy, after all  ;D). The Royal Canadian Air Force also, but to a lesser extent than the other two environments.
 
Oldgateboatdriver said:
I don't know who put the title on the video, T6, but it looks to me to be the daily Ceremonial Changing of the Guard ceremony.
Definitely not your everyday Changing of the Guard ceremony.  The trooping starts at about 26:08 but the editing doesn't show it very well
 
tomahawk6 said:
I ran across the Canadian version of trooping the color on Parliament Hill. Somewhat like the British version still the professionalism was there. I will include it below in case anyone here hasn't seen it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDjFgFcYWtQ

I know an Officer from the British Army who was sent to Canada to study the Canadian model of maintaining a cost effective, professional, ceremonial guard presence in the nation's capital - to keep attracting the tourists to spend money. He was very impressed, and recommended that the UK adopt the Canadian model.

Of course, the UK's Guards Division mafia shot it down in flames for him  ::)
 
Haggis said:
Definitely not your everyday Changing of the Guard ceremony.  The trooping starts at about 26:08 but the editing doesn't show it very well

I would have to agree while it was more involved than a regular changing of the guard, I watched it 3 times and didn't see what I expected for a Trooping of the Colours, I expected to see the Colours marched through the the ranks in front of each Guardmens

Jon
 
Haggis said:
Definitely not your everyday Changing of the Guard ceremony.  The trooping starts at about 26:08 but the editing doesn't show it very well

Thanks
 
Old EO Tech said:
I would have to agree while it was more involved than a regular changing of the guard, I watched it 3 times and didn't see what I expected for a Trooping of the Colours, I expected to see the Colours marched through the the ranks in front of each Guardmens

Jon 
 

I agree but I enjoy seeing ceremonies that I hadn't seen before. Until I found this video I didn't know Canada performed the ceremony.
It was well done.
 
T6


Thanks, and if you care to watch it again, note how an infantry battalion manoeuvred on the battlefield in the black powder days.
 
The Royal Visit of 1939 film shows many regiments at the time trooping their colours to King George VI. At the end of this film is the King presenting his colour to the Royal Canadian Navy at Beacon Hill Park in Victoria. I would love to see if there is archival film of the entire ceremony.

It was very moving to see the King and Queen visit veterans from WWI who were wheeled out of their hospitals.
The King also dedicated the National War Memorial on this visit.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/royal_visit/

The PM, William Lyon Mackenzie King always seemed to be hanging around which is expected but his encounter with the Royals at the Banff Springs Hotel displays how much of a social hand grenade he must have been.
 
I found this video about the Royal Visit of 1939.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=+Royal+Visit+of+1939+to+canada+youtube&&view=detail&mid=8BB5ABF06235EB2634468BB5ABF06235EB263446&rvsmid=A7ACA1CBC279D8A7472BA7ACA1CBC279D8A7472B&FORM=VDQVAP
 
Old EO Tech said:
I would have to agree while it was more involved than a regular changing of the guard, I watched it 3 times and didn't see what I expected for a Trooping of the Colours, I expected to see the Colours marched through the the ranks in front of each Guardmens

Jon

Definitely not a change of the guard ceremony but a trooping of the colours. At around the 36:00 mark you can see the escort to the colours and the colours start off their routine to do the trooping through the ranks but at that point there is an edit and it jumps forward to the battalion forming into line abreast for the march past.

:cheers:

 
FJAG said:
Definitely not a change of the guard ceremony but a trooping of the colours. At around the 36:00 mark you can see the escort to the colours and the colours start off their routine to do the trooping through the ranks but at that point there is an edit and it jumps forward to the battalion forming into line abreast for the march past.

:cheers:

Ya Guess so, just odd to show a video on youtube about Trooping of the Colours and then edit out the actual Trooping :-/

Cheers
 
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