Please don’t misunderstand, I mean no disrespect. If the Royal designation was bestowed by the King why is it the the Canadian Army does not have a Royal in its name?
Because the British Army doesn’t and the Commonwealth Armies follow that tradition.
Since the Civil War, the British Army has accepted Parliament rather than the Crown as its governing body. The King (or currently the Queen) remains the Commander-In-Chief, and individual regiments etc may bear various royal titles, but the Army itself is an Army of the people and Parliament, not of the Crown.
Standing army
That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace unless it be with consent of Parliament is against law.
"Please don’t misunderstand, I mean no disrespect. If the Royal designation was bestowed by the King why is it the the Canadian Army does not have a Royal in its name?Most of the land units do have "Royal" or something similarly historical in their names. Also, each of the the navy's ships is referred to as Her Majesty's Canadian Ship. The names of the land regiments, air squadrons and naval ships did not change.
The historical unit designations did not change.
Examples:
HMCS Vancouver which has just rotated onto station off Libya replacing HMCS Charlottetown.
Royal Canadian Horses Artillery batteries from time to time form part of battle groups.
Tank squadrons from the Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians) also form part of battle groups.
A battle group takes the name of the senior infantry regiment that is its core, including the Royal Canadian Regiment (the RCRs), the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (the Patricias) and le Royal 22e Régiment (the Vandoos)
RAF, RAAF, RNZAF RCAF etc. squadrons had numbers as names, the 400 series being reserved for Canadian squadrons so they never had names like the land units and ships, (except informally).
Traditionally, Canadian (and British) soldiers and sailors hold primary identification to their regimensts or ships rather than their service branch. The British Commonwealth forces never had the US style repple depple which IMO tended to dilute unit identification.
Well, they do have the Princes Patricia Light Infantry Regiment......
It goes back to the Brits and the 17th Century. The British Army isn't Royal either, having its origin in Cromwell's New Model Army. Tradition.