CANDRUMMER Posted October 12, 2010 Share Posted October 12, 2010 Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Trumpet Band Toronto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrewvyG2 Posted October 13, 2010 Author Share Posted October 13, 2010 Sorry. I think they are all labeled now. Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Trumpet Band Toronto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal-air canada Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Trumpet Band Toronto Is that the one that was also know as "The Jesters" when out of military uniform and wore clown suits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royal-air canada Posted October 13, 2010 Share Posted October 13, 2010 Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Trumpet Band Toronto At first I thought this one looked like the R.H.L.I. or Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Bugle Band. But then again that's right they didn't wear the pith helmets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindap Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Trumpet Band at Dufferin Racetrack Toronto Dufferin was on the west side, Woodbine racetrack was on the east side south of Queen, between Coxwell and Woodbine which didn't have houses across the street. The Scarborough boundary was round and about Kingston Avenue a bit east from there. Woodbine racetrack moved to somewhere else in T.O. and the old Woodbine was named Greenwood which is a main street just west of Woodbine. Thanks for the memories of my neighbourhood. Sometimes I recognize the place, try to place the point in time and later on place the drum corps. I think you might be right :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANDRUMMER Posted October 14, 2010 Share Posted October 14, 2010 At first I thought this one looked like the R.H.L.I. or Royal Hamilton Light Infantry Bugle Band. But then again that's right they didn't wear the pith helmets. YES we did wear pith helmets. We used to alternate between the helmet and peaked cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrewvyG2 Posted October 15, 2010 Author Share Posted October 15, 2010 3 more photos courtesy of Rick. The Hamilton Viscounts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander71 Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Is this the Toronto 2nd Signals? Apparently not...a few pages back all of these photos are labelled and have been sent in by Rick Allen of Hamilton, Ontario. Rick has been collecting photos for many years of these military reserve outfits. Every regiment had a band of some sort BITD, some of them had two bands. In the RHLI we had the bugle band and a brass/wind band. This is the Niagara Militaires in the mid 1950's I believe. They are now operating as an alumni corps with a few of the original members still participating. Rick is sort of an unofficial authority on the history of the Canadian military bugle and trumpet bands who spawned so many great senior corps in the late 1950's. He has been thinking of working on a book so that this history doesn't disappear. Check back a few pages and you will get the correct ID on all of the photos. Great old photos... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANDRUMMER Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 Is that the one that was also know as "The Jesters" when out of military uniform and wore clown suits? Yes it is.They later went to a more military looking uniform blue satin shirt and peaked cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CANDRUMMER Posted October 15, 2010 Share Posted October 15, 2010 (edited) Is this the Toronto 2nd Signals? Niagara Memorial Militaires from Niagara Falls Ontario. A civilian Trumpet Band that was active from 1949-1964.They did compete as a Sr.MM Corps from 58-63 wearing a variety of different uniforms over that time span.DCHOF member R. Doug Reynolds was their Drum Inst for many years. Edited October 17, 2010 by CANDRUMMER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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