Toronto, ON

Saturday September 20 2025

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Hans Bathija

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.