Butlers Rangers, 1777 - 1784

Captain Scott Paterson and Zig Misiak, Lieutenant Native liaison to the Six Nations, are shown in this photo with two distinct ranger uniforms. The well known green coated unit featuring red facings is the oldest Canadian Butlers Rangers re-enactment group endorsed by the Butler family and other ranger descendants as well as many high profile historians.

Butlers Rangers, McDonell’s Co., works very closely with a Native re-enactment group called British Native Allies. There is also a contemporary strong and healthy relationship with the Six Nations along the Grand River Territory.

The Canadian ranger unit was gifted two stands of colours, one of which is in the photos background, by John Butler’s direct descendant and honourary colonel to McDonell’s Co., Lorne Butler. The originals were believed destroyed at Butlers homestead in Niagara on the Lake in 1813.

We are privileged to be associated with sister Butlers Rangers re-enactment groups in the United States with which we have had a long good relationship.

We are members of both the Northern Brigade in Canada and the British Brigade in the United States.