Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1885, e wha nga kamupene o te 35 Simcoe Foresters, tae atu ki era mai i Barrie, i hangaia me nga kamupene e wha mai i te 12 o York Battalion ki te hanga i te York-Simcoe Battalion. I mahi tenei ope i te Hauauru o Kanata i te wa o te North-West Rebellion, i raro i te whakahau a Lieutenant-Colonel W.E. O'Brien o Shanty Bay, Ontario. Mo ana mahi, i whakawhiwhia ki te Simcoe Foresters tana honore whawhai tuatahi "North West Canada 1885". Ko nga taangata o Barrie ka whai ake ki te mahi hoia i te Pakanga Boer i Awherika ki te Tonga 1899<unk>1902. I te wā o tēnei pakanga i te
I te Pakanga o Paardeberg i mate tuatahi ai nga tangata o Barrie me nga Simcoe Foresters, ko te tangata tuuturu a James Halkett Findlay. I mate a Private Findlay i te mahi i te Hui-tanguru 18, 1900, i a ia e mahi ana me te Kamupene C o te 2 Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry.