re the Maissonneuves, neither badge has the buckled annulus, so they date from about the time the Maissoneuves were deployed overseas in 1940. The buckled garter on the 1925 badge was unauthorised. Is it my imagination or is the overlay better struck and silver looking, rather than w.m.?
re the Victoria Rifles, isn't the unvoided badge typical of WW2 and the voided "VRC" type much earlier? I think the voided periods in between should also help to date this.
The RCD badge on the left looks like a pre WWI/WWI-era cap badge. The horns, head and letter spacing are right for that era.
Like Bill said, the Sherbrooke badge looks like a 'broomstick vault'. A guy would put his badge on the end of a rod like a broom handle and give it a good smack with his palm to give it the convex shape. I've got a broomstick vaulted 17th Duke of York R.C. Hussars.
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