Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An tura Brigade na Tank na 1 zuwa Burtaniya a lokacin rani na 1941; ma'aikata sun isa Clyde a ranar 30 ga Yuni kuma an tura su zuwa Salisbury Plain inda aka ba su isassun tankunan Churchill don horo. Rundunar Calgary ta shiga cikin bala'in Dieppe a shekarar 1942. An ba da sabon tankunan M4 "Sherman", an tura dukkan brigade zuwa Bahar Rum, tare da The Three Rivers Regiment da ke shiga cikin tashin hankali a Pachino. Sauran brigade ya sauka tare da bin bin diddigin 13 ga Yuli kuma ya yi aiki tare da Three Rivers Regiment don makonni na ƙarshe na ɗan gajeren yakin a Sicily.
Ka yi haƙuri. Matsayin Brigade na Tank na 1 a cikin ayyukan na baya-bayan nan ya kasance mafi yawa daga cikin goyon bayan wuta, yanayin da ba shi da iyaka yana iyakance rawar da aka yi wa makamai. Yaƙin Sicily ya ƙare tare da tanki na 1 a cikin ajiya. Shirye-shiryen Operation Baytown, da saukowa a kan babban yankin Italiya, an sake sanya shi a matsayin 1st Canadian Armored Brigade a watan Agusta 1943. Ko da yake an sake tsara shi a matsayin brigade mai sulke, babu rundunar bindigogi da ke aiki a karkashin umurnin. Bayan da aka kafa suna don ƙarfin zuciya da basira, manyan kwamandojin Birtaniya sun bukaci manyan jiragen ruwa na Kanada.