Editing Guard mounting (section)

===Canada===
[[File:Changing of the Guard (21586923326).jpg|thumb|Changing of the Guard ceremony held at [[Parliament Hill]], 2015]]
[[Public duties]] in [[Ottawa]], Canada's national capital, is formally the responsibility of two regiments of [[foot guards]], the [[Canadian Grenadier Guards]], and the [[Governor General's Foot Guards]]; with one of their main tasks being the provision of sentries for guard mountings for official state functions in support of the Government of Canada in Ottawa.<ref name=cggoff>{{cite web|url=http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/cdn-grenadier-guard/index.page|title=Canadian Grenadier Guards|publisher=Government of Canada|website=army-armee.forces.gc.ca|date=11 March 2019|access-date=6 September 2019|archive-date=17 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217101751/http://army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/cdn-grenadier-guard/index.page|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=ggfgoff>{{cite web|url=http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/ggfg/index.page|title=Governor General's Foot Guards|publisher=Government of Canada|website=army-armee.forces.gc.ca|date=11 March 2019|access-date=6 September 2019|archive-date=20 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520121834/http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/ggfg/index.page|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

The Canadian Army also operates a summer public duties detachment known as the [[Ceremonial Guard (Canada)|Ceremonial Guard]], which assumes public duties in Ottawa from late-June to late-August.<ref name=CGbac>{{cite web|url=http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/news-publications/national-news-details-no-menu.page?doc=the-ceremonial-guard-backgrounder/jwmfywcz|title=The Ceremonial Guard - Backgrounder|date=June 2019|access-date=6 September 2019|publisher=Government of Canada|website=army-armee.forces.gc.ca}}</ref> The Ceremonial Guard is made up of [[Regular Force|regulars]] or [[Primary Reserve|reservists]] of the Canadian Army, although its membership is also augmented by regulars and reservists of the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]], and the [[Royal Canadian Navy]].<ref name=cgoff>{{cite web|url=http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/ceremonial-guard/index.page|title=Ceremonial Guard of the Canadian Armed Forces|publisher=Government of Canada|website=army-armee.forces.gc.ca|date=4 July 2019|access-date=6 September 2019|archive-date=25 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200725182753/http://www.army-armee.forces.gc.ca/en/ceremonial-guard/index.page|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Ceremonial Guard mount the guard at the [[National War Memorial (Canada)|National War Memorial]], Rideau Hall, and Parliament Hill.<ref name=CGbac/> Members of the Ceremonial Guard wear the uniforms of the Canadian foot guards, as they have historically staffed the summer public duties detachment, before membership in the Ceremonial Guard was opened to the entire Canadian Armed Forces.<ref name=cgoff/> The Ceremonial Guard are considered an ''ad hoc'' detachment, as its members are drawn from various units of the armed forces, and does not constitute a permanent unit in the Canadian Forces' [[order of battle]].

The Canadian Armed Forces also maintains a National Sentry Program, where its members perform guard mountings for its sentries at the National War Memorial from early-April to 10 November, the day before [[Remembrance Day]].<ref name=nspoff>{{cite web|url=http://www.forces.gc.ca/en/news/article.page?doc=standing-on-guard-the-national-sentry-program-officially-launched-for-2015-in-ottawa/ib2ct6im|title=Standing on guard:National Sentry Program official launched in 2015 in Ottawa|publisher=Government of Canada|website=army-armee.forces.gc.ca|date=18 June 2015|access-date=6 September 2019|last=Coulter|first=Alycia}}</ref> The program formally falls under the command structure of the Ceremonial Guard, although its volunteers may wear the full dress uniform of their respective units/service.
[[File:Changement de sentinelles - 03.jpg|thumb|left|A sentry of the [[Royal 22nd Regiment]] in the process of being relieved by his replacement, at the [[Citadelle of Quebec]]]]
Guard mountings are also carried out at the [[Citadelle of Quebec]] in [[Quebec City]], a military installation, and secondary residence of the Monarch and Governor General.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/1449772/6-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-van-doos/|title=6 things you may not know about the Van Doos|publisher=Corus Entertainment Inc.|date=14 July 2014|access-date=6 September 2019|first=Amanda|last=Kelly|work=Global News}}</ref> The [[Royal 22nd Regiment]] mounts the guard at the Citadelle from late-June to [[Labour Day]] (the first Monday of September).<ref name=r22roff>{{cite web|url=http://www.lacitadelle.qc.ca/en/activities/changing-of-the-guard.html|title=Quebec's only Changing of the Guard ceremony|publisher=Musée Royal 22e Régiment|year=2017|access-date=6 September 2019|website=lacitadelle.qc.ca}}</ref> The regiment has carried out guard mountings at the Citadelle since 1928, excluding a brief hiatus from 1939 to 1945, due to the [[Second World War]].<ref name=r22roff/> Guard mountings have also been performed in other Canadian cities outside Ottawa and Quebec City, with guard mountings having been performed at various provincial capitals, typically at the legislature, or the official residences of the [[Lieutenant governor (Canada)|lieutenant governors]].  However, public duties in Ottawa and Quebec are the only regularly scheduled guard mountings in the country.

Several non-military organizations also perform reenactments of past and historical guard mountings ceremonies in [[New Brunswick]], and at [[Citadel Hill (Fort George)|Citadel Hill]] in [[Halifax, Nova Scotia|Halifax]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wanderingeducators.com/best/traveling/explore-new-brunswick-frederictons-changing-guard.html|title = Explore New Brunswick: Fredericton's Changing of the Guard|date = 27 June 2017}}</ref>