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Reservists separated by Level One organization:

  • 71% Army
  • 12% Navy
  • 7% Air
  • 9% Other

Total Strength of Primary Reserve:

  • 26,780

Age of Reservists:

  • 28% over 40 years old
  • 72% under 40 years old

Gender of Reservists:

  • 83% male
  • 17% female

Reservists’ % of years of service: 

  • 38% 0-4
  • 42% 5-14
  • 13% 15-24
  • 7% 25+

Reservist Attrition:

  • 35% of CAF personnel release before their 5th year of service
  • This percentage increases to 56% in the Naval Reserve

Reservist Time in rank:

  • 71% 0-4 years
  • 29% 5+ years

Reservists’ participation in operations:

  • 13,038 have deployed on expeditionary operations since 1994
  • 8,087 have deployed on domestic operations since 1994

Reservists with expired medicals

  • 26% have an expired medical
  • Half of them are over the age of 40

Reserve Units’ distance to care:

  • 18% of Reservists work over 100 kilometres away from a CAF medical clinic
  • 27% of Reservists work over 100 kilometres away from a Reserve field ambulance
  • 13% of Reservists work over 100 kilometres away from both

Reservists’ family physicians:

  • 62% of Reservists have a family physician
  • 37% of Reservists do not have a family physician
     

Primary Reservists by Organization

CA NCM 16,508
  OFF 2,604
RCAF NCM 1,537
  OFF 394
RCN NCM 2,557
  OFF 719
Others NCM 1,792

 

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Percentage of Primary Reservists' Years of Service by Age Group

  0-45-1415-2425+Grand Total
CA Under 40 93% 86% 49% 1% 79%
  Over 40 7% 14% 51% 99% 21%
RCAF Under 40 20% 15% 18%   16%
  Over 40 80% 85% 82% 100% 84%
RCN Under 40 94% 87% 47%   76%
  Over 40 6% 13% 53% 100% 24%
Others Under 40 74% 64% 40%   58%
 AB Over 40 26% 36% 60% 100% 42%
Grand Total   100% 100% 100% 100% 100%

 

Location of Primary Reservists Across Canada: All Organizations

ProvinceLocation# of Reservists
AB Calgary 729
AB Cold Lake 50
AB Drumheller 1
AB Edmonton 835
AB Jasper 1
AB Lethbridge 64
AB Medicine Hat 38
AB Red Deer 61
AB Suffield 1
AB Wainwright 109
BC Aldergrove 31
BC Chilliwack 115
BC Comox 157
BC Cranbrook 1
BC Esquimalt 346
BC Fernie 2
BC Kamloops 49
BC Kelowna 110
BC Nanaimo 134
BC New Westminster 161
BC Prince George 35
BC Richmond 101
BC Rossland 1
BC Trail 45
BC Ucluelet 1
BC Vancouver 935
BC Victoria 485
MB Brandon  68
MB MacGregor  1
MB Shilo  1
MB Winnipeg  945
NB Bathurst  36
NB Campbellton  12
NB Edmunston  38
NB Fredericton  160
NB Gagetown  179
NB Grafton  1
NB Grand Sault  22
NB Miramichi  20
NB Moncton  125
NB Saint John  332
NB  Sussex  29
NB  Woodstock  33
NL  Corner Brook  39
NL   Gander  98
NL  Goose Bay  11
NL   Grand-Falls Windsor  22
NL   St John's  588
NL   Stephenville  20
NS  Amherst  7
 NS  Glace Bay  27
 NS  Greenwood  211
 NS  Halifax  1,117
 NS  Kentville  79
 NS  Middleton  24
 NS  Newport  1
 NS  Pictou  67
 NS  Shearwater  240
 NS  Springhill  21
 NS  Sydney  284
 NS  Truro  87
 NS  Waterville  1
 NS  Yarmouth  51
 NS  Bridgewater  49
 NT  Yellowknife  80
 ON  Aurora  90
 ON  Barrie  95
 ON  Belleville  58
 ON  Borden  240
 ON  Brampton  107
 ON  Brantford  101
 ON  Brockville  80
 ON  Burlington  43
 ON  Cambridge  64
 ON  Chatham  36
 ON  Cobourg  36
 ON  Cornwall  36
 ON  Espanola  1
 ON  Georgetown  59
 ON  Guelph  50
 ON  Hamilton  665
 ON  Kenora  41
 ON  Kingston  383
 ON  Kitchener  60
 ON  London  651
 ON  Mississauga  46
 ON  North Bay  208
 ON  Oshawa  157
 ON  Ottawa  2,273
 ON  Owen Sound  55
 ON  Pembroke  82
ON Petawawa  61
 ON  Peterborough  58
 ON  Sarnia  2
 ON  Sault Ste Marie  120
 ON  Scarborough  62
 ON  Schreiber  1
 ON  St Catharines  113
 ON  St Thomas  52
 ON  Stratford  36
 ON  Sudbury  88
 ON  Thunder Bay  284
 ON  Timmins  19
 ON  Toronto  2,251
 ON  Trenton 189 
 ON  Waterloo  50
 ON  Welland  32
 ON  Windsor  394
 ON  Oakville  24
 ON  Simcoe  18
 PE  Charlottetown  208
 PE  Summerside  14
 QC  Bagotville 304 
 QC  Beauceville  58
 QC  Chicoutimi  109
 QC  Drummondville  45
 QC  Gatineau  138
 QC  Grande-Rivière  1
 QC  Laval  158
 QC  Lévis  120
 QC  Matane  31
 QC  Montreal  2,632
 QC  Québec 1,269 
 QC  Rimouski  133
 QC  Rivière-du-Loup  48
 QC  Rouyn-Noranda  62
 QC  Saint-Jean  25
 QC  Sept-Iles  35
 QC  Shawinigan  172
 QC  Sherbrooke  517
 QC  St-Hyancinthe  115
 QC  Trois-Rivières  230
 QC  Val-Bélair  52
 QC  Valcartier  79
 QC  Montmagny  67
 SK  Moose Jaw  92
 SK  Prince Albert  45
 SK  Regina  357
 SK  Saskatoon  304
   Total  26, 777

 

Air Reserve - Top 10 Cities

CITYNCMOFFTOTAL
Winnipeg 149 77 226
Greenwood 191 16 207
Trenton 136 44 180
Bagotville 128 13 141
Comox 108 25 133
Borden 102 29 131
Montreal 94 28 122
Shearwater 85 15 100
Valcartier 57 11 68
Gander 59 5 64

 Army Reserve - Top 10 Cities 

CITYNCMOFFTOTAL
Montreal 1875 334 2209
Toronto 1640 237 1877
Ottawa 1089 326 1415
Quebec 755 108 863
Vancouver 587 102 689
Halifax 483 121 604
Calgary 473 82 555
Edmonton 466 69 535
Winnipeg 431 62 493
Hamilton 402 52 454

 Naval Reserve - Top 10 Cities

CITYNCMOFFTOTAL
Victoria 276 72 348
Halifax 253 73 326
Quebec 225 68 293
Ottawa 201 88 289
Victoria* 195 43 238
Toronto 147 42 189
Montreal 125 29 154
Vancouver 102 38 140
Hamilton 116 20 136
Windsor 108 23 131

*Victoria is listed twice as some Reservists were identified as working at CFB Esquimalt and others in Victoria.

 

 

Primary Reservists' Distance to CAF Medical Care

Cities where access to medial care exceeds 100 kilometers:

  • Medicine Hat, AB
  • Lethbridge, AB
  • Vernon, BC
  • Kelowna, BC
  • Kamloops, BC
  • Kenora, ON
  • Sudbury, ON
  • Cornwall ON
  • Windsor, ON
  • Peterborough, ON
  • Charlottetown, PE
  • Rimouski, QC
  • Sept-Isles, QC
  • Trois Rivières, QC
  • Prince Albert, SK

Cities where access to medical care is within 100 kilometers

  • Calgary, AB
  • Cold Lake, AB
  • Edmonton, AB
  • Comox, BC
  • New Westminster, BC
  • Richmond, BC
  • Vancouver, BC
  • Victoria, BC
  • Winnipeg, MB
  • Brandon, MB
  • Gagetown, NB
  • Saint John, NB
  • St John's, NL
  • Gander, NL
  • Goose Bay, NL
  • Greenwood, NS
  • Halifax, NS
  • Yellowknife, NT
  • Thunder Bay, ON
  • Belleville, ON
  • Borden, ON
  • Kingston, ON
  • London, ON
  • North Bay, ON
  • Ottawa, ON
  • Pembroke, ON
  • Petawawa, ON
  • Sault Ste Marie, ON
  • Toronto, ON
  • Trenton, ON
  • Barrie, ON
  • St Thomas, ON
  • Brampton, ON
  • Montreal, ON
  • Cobourg, ON
  • Oshawa, ON
  • Hamilton, ON
  • Brockville, ON
  • Cambridge, ON
  • Guelph, ON
  • Simcoe, ON
  • Brantford, ON
  • Kitchener, ON
  • St Catharines, ON
  • Bagotville, QC
  • Quebec, QC
  • Valcartier, QC
  • Chicoutimi, QC
  • St Hubert,QC
  • Moose Jaw, SK
  • Saskatoon, SK
  • Regina, SK
     

Location of Primay Reservists with Expired Medicals 

ProvinceStatusNumber
Alberta Expired 591
Not Expired 1,292
British Columbia Expired 675
Not Expired 2,026
Manitoba Expired 276
Not Expired 734
New Brunswick Expired 177
Not Expired 808
Newfoundland Expired 200
Not Expired 577
Nova Scotia Expired 500
Not Expired 1,787
Northwest Territories Expired 21
Not Expired 59
Ontario Expired 2,853
Not Expired 6,731
Prince Edward Island Expired 34
Not Expired 187
Quebec Expired 1,350
Not Expired 5,025
Saskatchewan Expired 206
Not Expired 591

 Percentage of Primary Reservists with a Family Physician 

British Columbia, North West Territories 62%
Alberta 54%
Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Saskatchewan 57%
Southern Ontario 77%
Central Ontario 85%
Eastern Ontario 69%
Western Quebec 38%
Eastern Quebec 50%
New Brunswick, Newfoundland 77%
Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island 64%

 

 

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