The following is taken from a letter signed “x. X.” which appears in the last issue of the Canadian Military Gazette:---“It was a pleasure to see the fine swinging step and uniform time of the bands, both brass and bugle, of the Toronto brigade at the parade of 3rd November [1895]; the marching of those regiments resembles that of the Imperial troops, and an absence of that short mincing step of the battalions of the Province of Quebec, showing that both metronome and pace stick were in use. The regulation in the book is plain, quick march being a pace of 30 inches in length and 120 paces to the minute (beat of the standard metronome). Therefore it should be promulgated in militia general orders that cadence and length of step in marching would form part of the annual inspection, and the inspection of officers to see that those regulations are strictly carried out, otherwise there never will be uniformity in the marching of the Canadian Militia” – The Mail and Empire, 7 December 1895
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