Notes
"The significance of swagger sticks relates to that of staffs, batons, and riding crops denoting gentlemen of the upper class but also as a means to deliver immediate punishment to subordinates. Not limited solely to officers as a ‘stick’ was ordered to be carried by Other Ranks when ‘walking out’. Although the military stick was a common uniform accoutrement in an era when a gentleman’s canes was still in fashion, it has, since unification of the Canadian Forces in 1968, fallen out of use." (Source: The Regimental Rogue.)