Ceremonial Guard (Canada)

Ceremonial Guard
Garde de cérémonie (French)
A sentry with the CG at the National War Memorial.
Active	1959-present
Country	Canada
Branch	Canadian Armed Forces
Type	ad hoc Primary Reserve unit
Role	Public Duties
Size	300
Part of	4th Canadian Division
Garrison/HQ	Ottawa, Ontario
Rifle	Colt Canada C7 (unloaded)

The Ceremonial Guard (CG; French: Garde de cérémonie) is an ad hoc military unit in the Canadian Armed Forces that performs the Changing the Guard ceremony on Parliament Hill and posts sentries at Rideau Hall, with the National War Memorial being sentried by the National Sentry Program (NSP), which is carried out by different regiments and other units in order of precedence throughout the summer until mid-November.

The Ceremonial Guard used to draw principally from the two Primary Reserve (militia) regiments of Foot Guards: the Governor General's Foot Guards (GGFG) from Ottawa (of which the Ceremonial Guard is a sub-unit) and the Canadian Grenadier Guards (CGG) from Montreal, who assumed the duties of The Canadian Guards upon their disbandment. However, since 2007 the Ceremonial Guard has been staffed with a pan–Canadian Forces approach, drawing members from the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army, and the Royal Canadian Air Force.