History of the RCA Badge Our collection at the RCA Museum contains countless military badges, patches and plates tucked away into old boxes and envelopes. These badges bear images identifying different ranks and units across the army. These symbols, known as insignias, existed long before the establishment of the Canadian Army and often tell a […]
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4-Inch Iron Cannonballs Artifacts at the RCA Museum come in all shapes and sizes, even 4-inch iron cannonballs. We recently displayed two standard cannonballs at the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair. Both ‘solid shot’ and ‘shell shot’ were standard munitions for the 9-pounder smooth-bore in the 19th century. A solid shot, also called a round shot
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2 SSM (Training) Battery From 1960 to 1968, 2 SSM Battery trained over 700 soldiers for deployment with 1 SSM Battery in West Germany. In the fall of 1960, the RCA formed both batteries, 1 SSM and 2 SSM, at Camp Picton, Ontario, under the command of Major J. N. Robertson. They trained with the
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