Cap Badge - 227th (Sudbury-Manitoulin-Algoma) Battalion (Men o' the North), CEF The 227th Battalion, CEF was a unit in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. The unit recruited in Military District 2 (Sudbury/Manitoulin/Algoma) and personnel were drawn in part from the 51st Regiment, Soo Rifles. Based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Camp Borden, the unit began recruiting in early 1916 on Manitoulin Island and in Algoma . After sailing to England in April 1917, the battalion was absorbed into the 8th Reserve Battalion on April 22, 1917. The 227th Battalion, CEF had one Officer Commanding: Lieut-Col. Hugh LePailleur Jones. The unit was perpetuated by that regiment, which after the war became The Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury Regiment, which converted to artillery in 1946.1 According to Stewart, the unit's designation was "Men of the North" and the battalion had both a brass and a bugle band..