August 1939
August 1939 - Summer Training Camp and Looming War The 1939 summer training camp was the third such camp since the Ontario Regiment made the conversion to a tank regiment…
Battle of Ridgeway Clarified
If you have not read the new Regimental history (and why haven’t you?), then you may be under the impression that one of the original independent companies in Ontario County…
D-Day Dodgers
June 6, 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France. You won’t see the Ontario Regiment mentioned anywhere in the news articles because they were amongst…
116th Battalion Sergeants-Major #1 – William Hole
The 116th Battalion had five Battalion Sergeants-Major in its existence. William Raynor Hole, the 116th Battalion’s first Sergeant-Major, was born on November 11, 1872 (some documents in his service record…
100th Anniversary of the Return of the 116th Battalion
It was a period of waiting in the weeks following the cessation of hostilities on 11 November 1918. To fill the time there were sports, ceremonial events and an education…