Land Force Command (Canada)

Canadian Army
Armée canadienne
Badge of the Canadian Army
Active	19th century – present
Country	Canada
Type	Army
Size	49,500 (23,000 regular force, 17, 000 reserve forces, 5000 rangers, 4,500 civilians)
Part of	Canadian Armed Forces
Headquarters	National Defence Headquarters
Motto(s)	Vigilamus pro te (in Latin) (English: We stand on guard for thee)
March	"The Great Little Army"
Mascot(s)	Juno the Bear
Engagements	Fenian raids Red River Rebellion Wolseley Expedition North-West Rebellion Second Boer War First World War Russian Civil War Second World War Korean War October Crisis Oka Crisis Operation Deliverance Operation Medak Pocket War in Afghanistan 2004 Haitian coup d'état Operation Impact Nineveh Plains offensive
Website	www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca
Commanders
Commander-in-chief	Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, represented by Governor General, David Johnston
Commander of the Canadian Army	Lieutenant-General Paul Wynnyk, CMM, MSM, CD
Deputy Commander of the Canadian Army	Major-General J.C.G. Juneau, OMM, MSM, CD
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The Canadian Army (French: Armée canadienne) is the command responsible for the operational readiness of the ground forces of the Canadian Armed Forces. As of September 2013^[update] the Army has 21,600 regular soldiers, about 24,000 reserve soldiers, and 5,000 rangers, for a total of 50,600 soldiers. The Army is supported by 5,600 civilian employees. It maintains regular forces units at bases across Canada, and is also responsible for the Army Reserve, the largest component of the Primary Reserve. The Commander of the Canadian Army and Chief of the Army Staff is Lieutenant-General Paul Wynnyk.

The name "Canadian Army" came into official use beginning only in 1940; from before Confederation until the Second World War the official designation was "Canadian Militia". On 1 April 1966, as a precursor to the unification of Canada's armed services, all land forces were placed under a new entity called Mobile Command. In 1968 the "Canadian Army" ceased to exist as a legal entity as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Canadian Army (CA), and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) were merged to form a single service called the Canadian Armed Forces. Mobile Command was renamed Land Force Command in the 1993 reorganization of the Canadian Armed Forces. In August 2011, Land Force Command reverted to the pre-1968 title of the Canadian Army.

Prior to Confederation in 1867, the British Army, which included both "Fencible" Regiments of the British Army - recruited within British North America exclusively for service in North America - and Canadian militia units, was responsible for the defence of Canada. Some current regiments of the Canadian Army trace their origins to these pre-Confederation militia and Fencible units. After 1867, a Permanent Active Militia was formed, and in later decades several regular bodies of troops were created, their descendants becoming the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, the Royal Canadian Dragoons, and the Royal Canadian Regiment. Regular Canadian troops participated in the North West Rebellion in 1885, the South African War (Second Boer War) in 1899, and, in much larger numbers, constituted the Canadian Expeditionary Force in First World War.