Toronto, ON
Saturday September 20 2025
Registration time: 0900hrs
Marshalling point: Fort York Armoury
Walk start time: 0930hrs
Start point: Fort York Armoury
End point: HMCS York
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Hans Bathija
Hans is an accomplished entrepreneur, businessman, technologist, and community builder with over thirty plus years supporting the Canadian Armed Forces. He is a board director of the NATO Association of Canada, board director with the Crown Society of Canada, board director with the Ontario Historical Society, and former board director of the Royal Canadian Military Institute He is a Foreign Student Liaison with Canadian Forces College, judge with the Warriors’ Day Parade, and member of the City of Toronto Honour Guard. He is the Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society of Canada Toronto Branch Chair, Fellowship Advisor of St John Ambulance Ontario, Honorary Regional Commissioner of St John Ambulance Toronto, Past Master of the Honourable Company of Freemen of the City of London of North America, Past Co-Chair and member of Toronto Police Service 14 Division Community Police Liaison Committee, and Past President of the Rotary Club of Internet & Innovation London Peace Envoys. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Royal British Legion, Naval Association of Canada, Canadian Forces College Armour Heights Officers’ Mess, Royal Canadian Military Institute, and a Founding member of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada 1860 Club. He is a member of the Ontario Local Council for the Duke of Edinburgh Award Canada and a past mentor with the The King’s Trust Canada’s Operation Entrepreneur. In 2025 he was admitted as a Member of the Order of St John, in 2024 he was awarded the King Charles III Coronation Medal, and in 2022 he was given the award of Taisho by the Order of the Scottish Samurai and an Ontario Volunteer Service Award. In 2018, he was given the Outstanding Asian Canadian Award by Canadian Multicultural Council-Asians in Ontario and in 2022, he was given a Community Recognition Award by M.P.P Chris Clover. He is a Fellow of several learned societies and a graduate of Glendon College, York University. An English and Scottish armiger, he was granted Arms by the College of Arms (London, England) in 2018 (registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority in 2019). Outside of his professional, civic society, heraldic, and philanthropic endeavours, he can be found relaxing with his wife and two children in Toronto, Ontario.

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George Chabrol
George is a retired High School Teacher having served forty years with the Toronto District school Board. He is also a retired Army Reserve Officer with the senior rank of Major in the Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers Corps.
He graduated from Willesden Technical College and pursued automotive engineering with the Roots Groups of London, UK. Subsequently, he was posted to Toronto through the Commonwealth Youth Apprenticeship Programme where he pursued his Mechanical Engineering career in the automotive industry in Toronto, practising this profession for several years.
After university studies, he began his teaching career at the High School level in Toronto. He completed Graduate Studies at York University and Niagara University, earning five degrees in Social Science, Education and Psychology along the way. He completed the Ontario High School Principal’s certification programme and was awarded the High School Principal Diploma certification.
After many years as the Head of the Department of Technology, (Technical Director), he retired from full time teaching.
For his demonstrated dedication to his profession, his four decades of vocation to teaching and his devotion to his students, he was awarded the HM Queen Elizabeth 11 Diamond Jubilee Medal.
After serving forty years in education, Mr. Chabrol retired from teaching as the Head of the Department of Technology.
Concomitantly, George Chabrol served in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves. He joined the Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical Mechanical Engineers (RCEME) and served the Corps for thirty years, before retiring at the rank of Major.
Additionally, he served as Special Investigator with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Special Investigation Branch (SI). In this capacity, his role included investigating many major national and local criminal activities across Canada.
Maj Chabrol’s has many social and philanthropic interests and is invested in many Chivalric Orders. ospitel He is a Past President of the Royal Canadian Legion, Fort York Branch 165.
Major Chabrol is currently enjoying his retirement with his family in Scarborough Ontario, as he continues to pursue his philanthropic, charitable, and social interests.