Welcome to The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment Association Collection
Funds raised by The Scottish Borderers Foundation fundraising campaign Service Sacrifice Duty allowed the creation of this online collection for public use and research. Special thanks to those organizations shown below who made donations specifically to allow educators and students to have online access to this collection.
The collection, owned by The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment Association, holds a variety of objects, photographs, scrapbooks, documents, and archival material related to The Essex and Kent Scottish. One of Canada's oldest infantry regiments, the Essex and Kent Scottish has a regimental history that dates to 1749 as French militia at Fort Pontchartrain (Detroit) although it has unbroken lineage dating to 12 June 1885. The collection covers the activities of the Regiment in times of peace and conflict, including both domestic and overseas operations.
The collection does not feature every artifact held by the Regiment, however, it is our goal to make all material accessible to the public. We have digitized many artifacts in our collection, but it is a gradual and ongoing process. We will be adding artifact records to the Online Collection regularly as digitization efforts continue.
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Quick Search
Use the Quick Search bar at the top of any page to instantly perform simple searches of the Collection. Quick Search includes titles, descriptions, and catalog numbers so you can, for example, enter either 77mm or Courcellette or T19.592 to find the 77mm field gun captured near Courcellette, France.
Quick Search is an "OR" search — records will be found that match any of the given terms. Entering hat badge will return records matching either "hat" or "badge", or both. Quick Search Searches are not case sensitive.
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