48th Highlanders Parade Postcard – Adelaide Street W – c1910

Front of postcard is a colourized photograph of the 48th Highlanders on parade in downtown Toronto heading westwards, photograph taken in front of and near 110 Adelaide Street W. (between York St. and Bay St.), soldiers in full dress uniform with red tunics, kilts, and tall black bonnet feather hats, near the top right printed […]

48th Highlanders Parade Postcard – c1910s

Colourized postcard of 48th Highlanders marching down a street in downtown Toronto, two rail tracks are visible embedded in the street, likely for streetcars, soldiers in full dress uniform with red tunics, kilts, and tall black bonnet feather hats, near the bottom left printed in black is: “48th Highlanders, Toronto, Canada”, and near the bottom […]

Pipe Major Frasers’ Paybook

A 5 inch (12.7 cm) by 7 inch (17.78 cm) paper log book of Pipe Major Fraser who started his service with the Gordon Highlanders on 13 March 1893 and later transferred to the 48th Highlanders

Gordon Tartan Kilt with WO Sporran and hose

The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordon & Camerons) In 1904 the 48th Highlanders became allied to the Gordon Highlanders. This alliance, first in the British Commonwealth was proposed by General the Earl of Dundonald as a means of fostering new ties between Britain and the Colonies. The Gordon Highlanders were an old and renown Regiment raised in […]