Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'afọ 1885, ụlọ ọrụ anọ nke 35 Simcoe Foresters, gụnyere ndị si Barrie, guzobere ụlọ ọrụ anọ site na 12th York Battalion iji mepụta York-Simcoe Battalion. Nke a pụrụ iche zụlitere battalion jere ozi na Western Canada n'oge North-West Nnupụisi, n'okpuru iwu nke Lieutenant-Colonel W.E. O'Brien nke Shanty Bay, Ontario. Maka mbọ ya, Simcoe Foresters natara otito agha mbụ ya "North West Canada 1885". Ụmụ amaala Barrie ga-esochi afọ ofufo maka ọrụ agha n'oge Agha Boer na South Africa 1899<unk>1902. Ọ bụ n'oge esemokwu a na na
Agha Paardeberg ndị bi na Barrie na Simcoe Foresters tara ahụhụ ọnwụ mbụ ha, Private James Halkett Findlay. E gburu onye agha Findlay n'agha na February 18, 1900, mgbe ọ na-eje ozi na C Company nke 2nd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment of Infantry.