Official marches of the Canadian Forces
The official marches of the Canadian Forces units, branches and commands.
| Organization | Notes | Marches | Org type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada | "Precision" | Military Colleges | |
| For pipe band: | "Alexander Mackenzie" | ||
| Royal Canadian Navy | "Heart of Oak" | Commands | |
| Canadian Army | "Celer Paratus Callidus" | Commands | |
| Royal Canadian Air Force | "(RCAF) March Past" | Commands | |
| For pipe band: | "RCAF March Past" | ||
| ADM(HR – Mil) | "Century of Progress" | Commands | |
| CF Northern Area | "Canada North" | Commands | |
| Naval Formations | "Heart of Oak" | Commands | |
| Defence Information Services Organization | "Communications" | Formations | |
| Land Force Western Area (LFWA) | "Invercargill" | Formations | |
| Land Force Quebec Area (LFQA) | Formations | ||
| 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group | "Sons of the Brave" | Formations | |
| 5 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group | "Allons-y" | Formations | |
| 33 Canadian Brigade Group | "Killaloe" | Formations | |
| 34 Canadian Brigade Group | "Aida" | Formations | |
| 35 Canadian Brigade Group | "Le Pays" | Formations | |
| 38 Canadian Brigade Group | "March Past of 38 Brigade" | Formations | |
| Air Formations | "RCAF March Past" | Formations | |
| Naval Operations Branch | "Heart of Oak" | Personnel branch | |
| Artillery Branch | Quick March for dismounted parades: | "British Grenadiers" | Personnel branch |
| Slow march for concerts, mess dinners and parades: | "Royal Artillery Slow March" | ||
| Trot Past for mounted parades: | "Keel Row" | ||
| Gallop Past for mounted parades: | "Bonnie Dundee" | ||
| Royal Canadian Horse Artillery (RCHA) | Personnel branch | ||
| Armour Branch | "My Boy Willie" | Personnel branch | |
| Armoured Regiments | Personnel branch | ||
| Artillery Branch less RCHA | Slow march for concerts, mess dinners and parades: | "Royal Artillery Slow March" | Personnel branch |
| Trot Past for mounted parades: | "Keel Row" | ||
| Quick March for dismounted parades: | "British Grenadiers" | ||
| Engineering Branch | "Wings" | Personnel branch | |
| Communications & Electronics Branch | "The Mercury March" | Personnel branch | |
| Joint Signal Regiment | "Corps March of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals" (Begone Dull Care) | Personnel branch | |
| Infantry Branch | "The Canadian Infantryman" | Personnel branch | |
| Infantry Regiments | Personnel branch | ||
| Air Operations Branch | "RCAF March Past" | Personnel branch | |
| Logistics Branch | "March of the Logistics Branch" | Personnel branch | |
| Medical Branch | "The Farmer's Boy" | Personnel branch | |
| Dental Branch | "March Past of the Royal Canadian Dental Corps" | Personnel branch | |
| Slow March: | "Greensleeves" | ||
| Electrical & Mechanical Engineering Branch | "REME Corps March Past" | Personnel branch | |
| Should be played: | "Lillibulero" | ||
| Should be played: | "Auprès de ma Blonde" | ||
| Slow march: | "The Craftsmen" | ||
| Chaplain Branch | "Ode to Joy" | Personnel branch | |
| Military Police Branch | "Thunderbird" | Personnel branch | |
| Legal Branch | "When I Good Friends Was Called to the Bar" | Personnel branch | |
| Band Branch | Provides music to the Canadian Forces | None authorized | Personnel branch |
| Personnel Selection Branch | "Semper Intellegere" (Rondo Sentimentale) | Personnel branch | |
| Training Development Branch | "Salut" | Personnel branch | |
| Public Affairs Branch | "Liberty Bell" | Personnel branch | |
| Intelligence Branch | "E Tenebris Lux" | Personnel branch | |
| Postal Branch | "First Post" | Personnel branch | |
| The Royal Canadian Dragoons | For concerts, mess dinners and mounted parades: | "Monsieur Beaucaire"' | Armour |
| For dismounted parades: | "Light of Foot" | ||
| For pipe band: | "The Meeting of the Waters" | ||
| Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) | "Soldiers of the Queen" | Armour | |
| 12e Régiment blindé du Canada* | "Marianne s'en va-t-au moulin" | Armour | |
| Slow march: | "Quand vous mourrez de nos amours" | ||
| The Governor General's Horse Guards | "Men of Harlech" | Armour | |
| Slow march: | "Quand vous mourrez de nos amours" | ||
| 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) | "The Galloping 8th Hussars" | Armour | |
| Slow march: | "The 8th Hussars" (tune "Road to the Isles") | ||
| The Ontario Regiment (RCAC) | "John Peel" | Armour | |
| The Queen's York Rangers (1st American Regiment)(RCAC) | "Braganza" | Armour | |
| Sherbrooke Hussars | "Regimental March of the Sherbrooke Hussars" | Armour | |
| 12e Régiment blindé du Canada (Milice)* | Armour | ||
| 1st Hussars | "Bonnie Dundee" | Armour | |
| The Prince Edward Island Regiment (RCAC) | "Old Solomon Levi" | Armour | |
| The Royal Canadian Hussars (Montreal) | "Men of Harlech" | Armour | |
| "St. Patrick's Day" | |||
| The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own) (RCAC) | "I'm Ninety-Five" | Armour | |
| The South Alberta Light Horse | Armour | ||
| The South Alberta Light Horse | "A Southerly Wind and a Cloudy Sky" | Armour | |
| The Saskatchewan Dragoons | "Punjaub" | Armour | |
| The King's Own Calgary Regiment (RCAC) | "Colonel Bogey" | Armour | |
| The British Columbia Dragoons | "Fare Ye Well Inniskilling" | Armour | |
| For pipe band: | "Scotland the Brave" | ||
| Le Régiment de Hull (RCAC) | "El Abanico" | Armour | |
| "St. Patrick's Day" | |||
| Slow march: | "Red River Valley" | ||
| "La Marche de la victoire" | |||
| The Windsor Regiment (RCAC) | "My Boy Willie" | Armour | |
| The Royal Canadian Regiment* | "The Royal Canadian Regiment" | Infantry | |
| Also published under the title: | "St. Catharines" | ||
| Slow march: | "Pro Patria" | ||
| Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry | Medley of: | "Has Anyone Seen the Colonel" | Infantry |
| "Tipperary" | |||
| "Mademoiselle from Armentières" | |||
| Slow march: | "Lili Marlene" | ||
| Royal 22e Régiment* | "Vive la Canadienne" | Infantry | |
| Slow March: | "Marche lente du Royal 22e Régiment" | ||
| Also published under the title: | "La prière en famille" | ||
| Governor General's Foot Guards | "Milanollo" | Infantry | |
| Slow march: | "Figaro" | ||
| The Canadian Grenadier Guards | Slow march: Also played in quick time when entering camp or barracks |
"British Grenadiers" | Infantry |
| "Grenadiers Slow March" | |||
| The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada | "The Buffs" | Infantry | |
| "The Maple Leaf Forever"; | |||
| Double Past: | "Money Musk" | ||
| The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment of Canada) | "The Highland Laddie" | Infantry | |
| Slow march: | "The Red Hackle" | ||
| Les Voltigeurs de Québec | "Les Voltigeurs de Québec" | Infantry | |
| The Royal Regiment of Canada | Play first: | "British Grenadiers" | Infantry |
| Followed by: | "Here's to the Maiden" | ||
| The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment) | "The Mountain Rose" | Infantry | |
| The Princess of Wales' Own Regiment | "The Buffs" | Infantry | |
| The Hastings and Prince Edward Regiment | "I'm Ninety-Five" | Infantry | |
| The Lincoln and Welland Regiment | "The Lincolnshire Poacher" | Infantry | |
| 4th Battalion, The Royal Canadian Regiment* | Infantry | ||
| The Royal Highland Fusiliers of Canada | "The Highland Laddie" | Infantry | |
| "Seann Triubhas" | |||
| The Grey and Simcoe Foresters | "The 31st Greys" | Infantry | |
| The Lorne Scots (Peel, Dufferin and Halton Regiment) | "John Peel" | Infantry | |
| "The Campbells are Coming" | |||
| The Brockville Rifles | "Bonnie Dundee" | Infantry | |
| Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders | "Bonnie Dundee" | Infantry | |
| Les Fusiliers du St-Laurent | "Rêves Canadiens" | Infantry | |
| Le Régiment de la Chaudière | "The Longest Day" | Infantry | |
| "Sambre et Meuse" | |||
| 4th Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment (Chateauguay)* | Infantry | ||
| 6th Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment* | Infantry | ||
| Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal | "The Jockey of York" | Infantry | |
| The Princess Louise Fusiliers | "British Grenadiers" | Infantry | |
| The Royal New Brunswick Regiment | Play first: | "A Hundred Pipers" | Infantry |
| Followed by: | "The Old North Shore" | ||
| The West Nova Scotia Regiment | "God Bless the Prince of Wales" | Infantry | |
| Slow march: | "Garb of Old Gaul" | ||
| The Nova Scotia Highlanders | 1st Battalion: | "The Atholl Highlanders" | Infantry |
| "The Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu" | |||
| 2nd Battalion: | "The Highland Laddie" | ||
| "The Sweet Maid of Glendaruel" | |||
| Le Régiment de Maisonneuve | "Sambre et Meuse" | Infantry | |
| The Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa | "The Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu" | Infantry | |
| "March of the Cameron Men" | |||
| The Royal Winnipeg Rifles | Double Past: | "Keel Row" | Infantry |
| "Old Solomon Levi" (Pork, Beans and Hard Tack) | |||
| The Essex and Kent Scottish | "A Hundred Pipers" | Infantry | |
| "The Highland Laddie" | |||
| 48th Highlanders of Canada | "The Highland Laddie" | Infantry | |
| Le Régiment du Saguenay | "Le Régiment du Saguenay" | Infantry | |
| The Algonquin Regiment | "We Lead, Others Follow" | Infantry | |
| The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada (Princess Louise's) | "The Campbells are Coming" | Infantry | |
| The Lake Superior Scottish Regiment | "The Highland Laddie" | Infantry | |
| The North Saskatchewan Regiment | "The Jockey of York" | Infantry | |
| For pipe band: | "The Meeting of the Waters" | ||
| The Royal Regina Rifles | Double Past: | "Keel Row" | Infantry |
| "Lutzow's Wild Hunt" | |||
| The Rocky Mountain Rangers | "The Meeting of the Waters" | Infantry | |
| The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry) | "Bonnie Dundee" | Infantry | |
| The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada | "The Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu" | Infantry | |
| "March of the Cameron Men" | |||
| The Royal Westminster Regiment | "The Maple Leaf Forever" | Infantry | |
| The Calgary Highlanders | "The Highland Laddie" | Infantry | |
| "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" | |||
| Les Fusiliers de Sherbrooke | "Queen City" | Infantry | |
| The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada | "The Piobaireachd of Donald Dhu" | Infantry | |
| The Canadian Scottish Regiment (Princess Mary's) | "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" | Infantry | |
| The Royal Montreal Regiment | "Ça ira" | Infantry | |
| The Irish Regiment of Canada | "Garry Owen" | Infantry | |
| The Toronto Scottish Regiment | "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" | Infantry | |
| The Royal Newfoundland Regiment | "The Banks of Newfoundland" | Infantry | |
| 49th (Sault-Ste-Marie) Field Artillery | For pipe band: | "A Hundred Pipers" | Artillery |
| 1st Air Defence Regiment (Lanark and Renfrew Scottish) | For military band see Artillery Branch | Artillery | |
| For pipe band: | "Highland Laddie" | ||
| Academic Staff of Canadian Military Colleges | "March of the Peers from Iolanthe" | Miscellaneous | |
| Combat Service Support Units | "Duty Above All" | Miscellaneous | |
| Canadian Forces Base Montreal | "Servir" | Miscellaneous | |
| 25 Canadian Forces Supply Depot | "March 25 CFSD" | Miscellaneous | |
| Canadian Parachute Centre | "The Longest Day" | Miscellaneous | |
| 3 Canadian Support Group | "Face à l'adversité" | Miscellaneous | |
| Cadet Instructor Cadre Officers | "La feuille d'érable" | Miscellaneous | |
| Royal Canadian Army Cadets | "Cadet" | Miscellaneous | |
| Royal Canadian Air Cadets | "RCAF March Past" | Miscellaneous |
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