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35 Combat Engineer Regiment

Canadian Armed Forces Reserve combat engineer regiment

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ2816315
Source-derived summary

35 Combat Engineer Regiment (35CER) (French: 35e Régiment du génie de combat) is a reserve unit of the Canadian Military Engineers in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It is part of the 35 Canadian Brigade Group, 2nd Canadian Division.

The unit was involved in training Ukrainian soldiers in mine disposal during the Russo-Ukrainian War.

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“35 Combat Engineer Regiment” enters the record as canadian Armed Forces Reserve combat engineer regiment. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Combat, Engineer and Regiment can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current 53-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2006-11-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Combat, Engineer and Regiment.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2816315. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from 35 Combat Engineer Regiment” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.