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in Ottawa, so the unit as a whole had never trained together, but only at the individual company level. By the mid-1890s however, local interest in the unit was waning and the ranks dwindling so much the unit had all but disintegrated. Finally on 22 August 1896, the battalion was disbanded from the
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authorizing him to form the new unit which read: "I am disposed to authorize full company for the time the disturbance will last. They would have to procure their own equipment and arms as we could not supply them until navigation opens." An
Independent Company of Rifles designated as
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line on their way out west to suppress the uprising. This created a patriotic stir in the small port community and as a result local banker, Samuel
Wellington Ray, proposed the formation of a local militia company of riflemen.
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Militia just short of its 10th anniversary in service with a General Order dated on 28 August 1896, stating: "This Battalion having become non-effective, is struck off the strength of the Militia 22nd August, 1896."
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