Originated in Amherst, Nova Scotia, 6 April 1871 as the Cumberland Provisional Battalion of Infantry.
Redesignated as the 93rd Cumberland Battalion of Infantry, 12 June 1885.
Redesignated as the 93rd Cumberland Regiment, on 8 May 1900.
Redesignated as The Cumberland Regiment, 29 March 1920.
Redesignated as The Cumberland Highlanders, 15 June 1927.
Amalgamated on 1 December 1936 with The Colchester and Hants Regiment (less 'C Company') and C Company of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, CMGC (now The Princess Louise Fusiliers) and redesignated as The North Nova Scotia Highlanders (Machine Gun).
Redesignated as the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, The North Nova Scotia Highlanders (Machine Gun), 7 November 1940.
Redesignated as the 2nd (Reserve) Battalion, The North Nova Scotia Highlanders, 7 March 1941.
Redesignated as The North Nova Scotia Highlanders, 1 May 1946.
Amalgamated on 12 November 1954 with The Pictou Highlanders (Motor) and the 189th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, RCA as the 1st Battalion, The Nova Scotia Highlanders (North).[2]
Originated on 1 April 1910, in Truro, Nova Scotia as the 70th Colchester and Hants Regiment .
Redesignated on 2 May 1910, as the 76th Colchester and Hants Rifles.
Amalgamated on 1 April 1920, with the 81st Hants Regiment and Redesignated as The Colchester and Hants Regiment.
Amalgamated on 1 December 1936, with The Cumberland Highlanders and “C” Company of the 6th Machine Gun Battalion, CMGC to form The North Nova Scotia Highlanders (Machine Gun).[2]
The North Nova Scotia Highlanders were allied to the South Staffordshire Regiment and were kitted with a blue glengarry with diced border, scarlet doublet, white sporran with five black points, scarlet & green hose, green garter flashes with full dress only for pipers and drummers.[4]
During the Second World War, Major GeneralKurt Meyer of the Waffen SS murdered captured soldiers from the regiment.[6]
After the war he was tried and convicted in Canada. Sentenced to death on 28 December 1945, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment on 14 January 1946.[7] After serving nearly nine years in prison, Meyer was released on 7 September 1954.[8]
^"Nova Scotia ex-POW Dudka dies". CBC News. 7 March 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2013. Sgt. Dudka, born in New Glasgow, was captured after the D-Day invasion and was among those who helped convict SS Gen. Kurt Meyer in the execution of Canadian prisoners of war.
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Brode, Patrick. "Casual Slaughters and Accidental Judgments: Canadian War Crimes Prosecutions, 1944-1948." Toronto: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1997.
Campbell, Ian.『Murder at the Abbaye: The Story of Twenty Canadian Soldiers Murdered at the Abbaye d’Ardenne.』 Ottawa: The Golden Dog Press, 1996.
