Winnipeg’s Royal Canadian Navy reserve division is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary with a parade Saturday afternoon.
The HMCS Chippawa is Winnipeg’s land-based naval facility for part-time sailors. It’s the furthest inland unit in Canada and serves as an area recruitment centre for the Royal Canadian Navy.
The unit was first fashioned in February 1923 because the Winnipeg Firm Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve after which renamed in 1941 as HMCS Chippawa.
On Saturday, members of the HMCS Chippawa are celebrating a centennial’s value of service to Winnipeg with a particular parade by the Alternate District.
The division can be exercising its proper of “freedom of town.”
Lt.-Cmdr. Colin Stewart stated it is a particular honour originating within the center ages given to navy models which have earned the general public’s belief and demonstrated longstanding service.
“Nicely it demonstrates recognition,” stated Stewart, former commanding officer of the Chippawa. “Everybody within the unit just about comes from Winnipeg. They dwell right here, they work right here.”
“Lots of our ship’s firm are college students. Plenty of different ones have civilian employment right here within the metropolis,” Stewart defined. “All of us are likely to have a civilian job, and we’re a part of the neighborhood and have been concerned with this metropolis and serving to residents for 100 years.”
Near 100 members of the ship’s firm will take part within the parade. It should start round 1:50 p.m. exterior the RRC Polytech Alternate District Campus on Princess Road. The parade will flip down King Road, then proceed into the Metropolis Corridor courtyard for a brief ceremony.
“Following that, the ship’s firm can be marching on to Predominant Road to do a march-past of Metropolis Corridor, the place the mayor will obtain the salute,” Mentioned Stewart.
The parade is one among 23 being held throughout Canada Saturday in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of Canada’s naval reserve.
