Chebucto Grays
File:ChebuctoGreys Full Dress Uniform.png
Chebucto Grays was a volunteer rifle company that was raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In the wake of the Crimean War (1853–1856), there developed a Volunteer Force in Britain. As part of this movement, in Nova Scotia, thirty-two Volunteer companies were raised in Nova Scotia, with a total strength of 2,341.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/cihm_02889#page/n7/mode/2up|title=History of the Halifax Volunteer Battalion and volunteer companies, 1859-1887 [microform]|publisher=}} In Halifax there were eleven companies with a total strength of 868 men. The Chebucto Grays was the most distinguished company, many of the members belonging to The Halifax Club. The Chebucto Grays were one of eight units to serve in the Halifax Volunteer Battalion.
Notable members
- George Lang
- Brenton Halliburton
- William Blowers Bliss
- Enos Collins
- James William Johnston
- Mather Byles Almon
- John Fitzwilliam Stairs
- Samuel Leonard Shannon
- James Forman (merchant){{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/forman_james_10E.html|title=Biography – FORMAN, JAMES – Volume X (1871-1880) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography|publisher=}}
- William Young (Nova Scotia politician)
- Philip Carteret Hill
- John William Ritchie
Gallery
File:LT.-Colonel William Chearnley - Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society (1880) (14778342514) (cropped).jpg|Lt. Col William Chearnley - commander of the Chebucto Grays and "Father of the Halifax Volunteer Battalion"
Inauguration of the Welsford-Parker Monument, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 17 July 1860 - restored.jpg|The Welsford-Parker Monument Inauguration - George Lang of Chebucto Grays standing far left in front pair
Chebucto Grays Full Dress.png|Capt. George Piers, Chebucto Grays (1868)
Clifford Kinnear, Chebucto Greys, Halifax, Nova Scotia.png|Clifford Kinnear - won the British National Rifle Association Medal (1861)
GhebuctoGreysFigurinesNovaScotia.png|Chebucto Greys Figurines