Editing Dragoon (section)

=== Canada ===
[[File:Memorial Stained Glass window, 2770 LCol KL Jefferson, Royal Military College of Canada.jpg|thumb|left|upright=0.7|Memorial stained glass window at [[Royal Military College of Canada]] of 2770 LCol KL Jefferson, a member of the [[12th Manitoba Dragoons]], an [[armoured regiment]] of the [[Canadian Army]] and [[Canadian Forces]]]]
There are three dragoon regiments in the [[Canadian Army]]: [[The Royal Canadian Dragoons]] and two [[military reserve|reserve]] regiments, the [[British Columbia Dragoons]] and the [[Saskatchewan Dragoons]].

The Royal Canadian Dragoons is the senior [[Armoured warfare|Armoured]] regiment in the [[Canadian Army]]. The regiment was authorized in 1883 as the Cavalry School Corps, being redesignated as Canadian Dragoons in 1892, adding the Royal designation the next year. The RCD has a history of fighting dismounted, serving in the Second Boer War in South Africa as mounted infantry, fighting as infantry with the 1st Canadian Division in Flanders in 1915–1916 and spending the majority of the regiment's service in the Italian Campaign 1944–1945 fighting dismounted. In 1994 when the regiment deployed to Bosnia as part of the United Nations Protection Force, B Squadron was employed as a mechanized infantry company. The current role of The Royal Canadian Dragoons is to provide Armour Reconnaissance support to 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (2 CMBG) as well as C Squadron RCD in Gagetown which is a part of 2 CMBG and the RCD Regiment with Leopard 2A4 and 2A6 tanks.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=28 December 2020 |url= https://www.dragoonsarchives.ca/home/a-short-history-of-the-royal-canadian-dragoons/ |title=A Short History of The Royal Canadian Dragoons }}</ref>

The [[Royal Canadian Mounted Police]] were accorded the formal status of a regiment of dragoons in 1921.<ref>{{cite web |access-date=1 February 2014 |url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-canada/cav/RCMP.htm#colours |title=Royal Canadian Mounted Police |archive-date=18 January 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080118041642/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-canada/cav/RCMP.htm#colours}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.geocities.com/ottawa_heraldry/heraldist1.html|archive-date=1 August 2001|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010801174646/http://www.geocities.com/ottawa_heraldry/heraldist1.html|url-status=dead|title=Ottawa Valley Branch of the Heraldry Society of Canada}}</ref> The modern RCMP does not retain any military status however.