1936-1940 Mechanized Units
1936 Mechanized Cavalry Formations, Non-Permanent Active Militia (NPAM):
Canadian Tank Battalions:
- Argyll Light Infantry (Tank)
- New Brunswick Regiment (Tank)
- Essex Regiment (Tank)
- The Ontario Regiment (Tank)
- Three Rivers Regiment (Tank)
- The Calgary Regiment (Tank)
Canadian Armoured Car Regiments:
-6th Duke of Connaught Royal Canadian Hussars
-2nd Armoured Car Regiment
-The King's Canadian Hussars
-The British Columbia Hussars
Canadian Cavalry Regiments (Mechanized):
-8th Princess Louise's New Brunswick Hussars
-7/11 Hussars
-19th Alberta Dragoons
1939 Additional Mechanized Units (from "Horsed" Cavalry)
-1st Hussars
-The Fort Garry Horse
-Royal Canadian Dragoons
-The Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
By 1940, all the other Horsed Cavalry units were mechanized and some units, along with some units of "Armoured Cars" were converted to other roles and removed from the CAC Order of Battle.
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