History
41 Combat Engineer Regiment was stood up on 6 September 2008 at a parade at the Military Museums in Calgary. The parade officially disbanded and amalgamated 8 Field Engineer Regiment and 33 Field Engineer Squadron. Amalgamation means the joining of two or more units into one, a kind of "marriage", with the resulting unit being entitled to the combined honours and history of the constituent units. This was authorized by Gordon O'Connor, then Minister of National Defence under Ministerial Organization Order 2006041 on 23 November 2006.
8 Field Engineer Regiment was the senior unit that was amalgamated and was created in 1947 as a result of a post-war reorganization of the militia engineers. At its peak the regiment controlled five sub-units:
- 13th Field Squadron in Calgary;
- 17th Field Squadron in Kimberley, British Columbia;
- 24th Field Squadron in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories;
- 25th Field Squadron in Edmonton; and
- 33rd Field Park Squadron in Lethbridge.
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