This is a list of Infantry weapons used by the Canadian Military throughout its history and military arms used by militaries in pre-Confederation conflicts in Canada.
| Model | Type | Service period | Origin | Details |
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| | 1914-1918 | | 2 ton commercial Autocar truck chassis covered with armour plate and armed with 2 Vickers machine guns. 20 purchased (8 machine gun carrier, 5 ammunition and supply carrier, 4 Officer Transport, 1 gasoline carrier, 1 repair vehicle, 1 ambulance) |
| | 1918 | | Used by the Canadian Tank Corps in 1918. Never used in combat. |
| Carden-Loyd tankette/MG Carrier | Tank | 1937, 1931 | | |
| Vickers Light Dragon Mk III | | 1937 | | |
| GM armoured car | experimental light armoured car | 1935 | | Built on General Motors of Canada Maple Leaf truck chassis |
| Ford armoured car | experimental light armoured car | 1935 | | Built on Ford Motor Company of Canada BB truck chassis |
| dispatch motorcycle | 1914-?? | | | |
| Model | Type | Service period | Origin | Details |
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| | 1941-1970s | | |
| | 1940-1945 | | |
| Artillery tractor | 1940-1945 | | |
| Diamond T 4-Ton lorry | 4 ton truck | WWII | | |
| Ford F-8 | 1/2 ton truck | WWII | | Built by Ford Motor Company of Canada. Canadian Military Pattern truck |
| Ford F-15 | 3/4 ton truck | WWII | | Built by Ford Motor Company of Canada. |
| Ford F-30 | 1.5 ton truck | WWII | | Built by Ford Motor Company of Canada. |
| Ford F-60S, F-60L, F-60H, F-60T | 3 ton truck | WWII | | Built by Ford Motor Company of Canada. |
| Artillery tractor | WWII | | Built by Ford Motor Company of Canada. |
| Chevrolet C-8, C-8A | 1/2 ton truck | WWII | | Built by General Motors Canada |
| Chevrolet C-15, C-15A | 3/4 ton truck | WWII | | Built by General Motors Canada |
| Armoured truck | WWII | | Built by General Motors Canada |
| Chevrolet C-30, C-60S, C-60L, C-60X | 1.5/3 ton truck | WWII | | Built by General Motors Canada |
| Artillery tractor | 1940-???? | | Built by General Motors Canada |
| militarize motorcycle | 1941-1956 | | Sometimes used with sidecars |
| militarize motorcycle | 1940-?? | | |
| Triumph Motorcycles TRW | motorcycle | 1940s-?? | | |
| motorcycle | 1940s | | |
| Welbike lightweight motorcycle | lightweight motorcycle | 1942-1945? | | | |
| Model | Type | Service period | Origin | Details |
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| | 1941-1945 | | |
| Churchill MkI-IV | | 1941-1945 | | |
| | 1941-1970 | | Sherman I (M4), III (M4A2 w/75 mm gun) and V (M4A4 w/75 mm gun) used. |
| Medium Tank | 1941-1945 | / | M4 with a 17 pounder gun |
| Medium tank | 1944-1945 | / | M4A4 with a 17 pounder gun |
| Medium tank | 1941-1945 | | Canadian built and modified M4A1 |
| Medium Tank | 1944-1945 | | M4A4 with Duplex Drive system and flotation screen for amphibious landings |
| Close Support Tank | | | M4 with a 105 mm howitzer |
| Close Support Tank | 1944-1944 | | In service for less than a month with the 1st Canadian Centaur Battery (formed Aug 6, 1944 - disbanded Aug 29, 1944), RCA, after landing in Normandy. Tanks returned to the Royal Marines. |
| Flame tank | 1941-1944 | | |
| Churchill Oke | | | | |
| Flame tank | | | |
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| Model | Type | Service period | Origin | Details |
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| | | | M3 Half-track equipped with the M1A1 75 mm gun |
| Self-propelled artillery | 1943-1956 | | Open box superstructure on a Ram tank hull. Armed with a 25pdr gun |
| | 1944-???? | | Open box superstructure on a Sherman tank hull. Armed with a 105mm howitzer. |
| | | | Twin .50 mount on an M3 half-track |
| | WW2 | | Modified Sherman hull with an open turret and 3in. gun |
| Tank destroyer | WW2 | / | M10 equipped with a 17pdr gun |
| Tank destroyer | 1944-Suez Crisis | | Built on a Valentine tank hull |
| Self-propelled anti-aircraft | 1944-???? | | Mk.I armed with a Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft gun, Mk.III armed with twin Oerlikon 20mm guns |
| Self-propelled anti-aircraft | 1944 | | Enclosed turret on a Grizzly tank hull. Armed with 4 Polsten guns. Introduced late in the war and only saw use as an anti-infantry weapon. |
| Self-propelled anti-aircraft | 1944-1945 | | Morris Commercial four-wheel drive lorry armed with a Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun. | |
| Model | Type | Service period | Origin | Details |
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| | 1974-1984 | | 935 purchased and retired in the 1980s[5] |
| 3/4 ton cargo truck | 1951-1976 | | 4500 built by Chrysler/Dodge in Windsor 1951-1955[6] |
| M38/M38A1 Jeep | Light utility vehicle | 1950-1980s | | Built 1950-1952 and replaced by M151[7] for regular forces by 1974 and retired in the Reserves in 1980s |
| M135 GMC Deuce and a Half | 2 1⁄2-ton 6x6 truck | 1950-1980s | | Cargo truck and numerous variants replaced by MLVW |
| 5 ton heavy truck | 1950-1980s | | Cargo truck and numerous variants replaced by HLVW |
| M43 Ambulance | utility vehicle | 1950s-? | | Variant of M37 built by Chrysler/Dodge in Windsor 1951-1955[8] |
| utility truck | 1964-? | | Radio Command unit - 1038 produced by Chrysler in Windsor[9] |
| Light utility vehicle | 1952-1984 | | Built by Ford of Canada |
| Light utility vehicle | 1967-1984 | | Built by Ford of Canada |
| Light utility vehicle | 1970-1984 | | Built by Ford of Canada |
| Commercial utility Cargo vehicle | 1976-2004 | / | 2,848 1-1/4 ton replaced the M37 in 1976. More CUCV's were later ordered in the 1980s from GM Defense. Replaced by LSVW in regular army units then they were mostly used by the Army Reserve until replaced by the Milverado in 2004. |
| Light utility vehicle | 1980's | / | 195 military CJ-7 versions put into service between the retirement of the M38A1 and the introduction of the Iltis |
| Light utility vehicle | 1984-2003 | / | Licensed produced version of the Volkswagen Iltis |
| Light utility vehicle | 1996–present | | | |
| Light Support Vehicle Wheeled | 1993–present | | | |
| Medium Logistic Vehicle Wheeled (MLVW) | Medium utility vehicle | 1982–2019 | | | |
| Heavy utility vehicle | 1992–present | | | |
| All terrain utility vehicle | 1983–present | | | |
| Humvee M1113 and M1117 | Light Utility Vehicle | ~ 2010 | | used by Canadian Special Operations Regiment and Joint Task Force 2 and since replaced by Jackal MWMIK |
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| Model | Type | Service period | Origin | Details |
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| | 1946-1956 | | 90 purchased in 1946 and sold on to Portugal in 1956, three of which served with distinction in Angola from 1967 to 1972. |
| | 1946-1958 | | 32 were purchased in 1946 for armoured reconnaissance and retired in April 1958. |
| | 1946-1970 | | Kept in the reserves until 1970. |
| Medium tank | 1951-1954 | | Acquired from US stocks for use during the Korean War. |
| | 1952-1979 | | Acquired to replace the Shermans with 84mm main gun. |
| Main Battle Tank with 105mm gun | 1952-1979 | | Canada Initially ordered 274 Mk 3 Tanks, plus 9 Armoured Recovery Vehicles and 4 Bridge-layers and additional orders followed. The Mk 5 (upgunned to 105 mm) were used later. From 1969 to 1970 the Canadian Army lists 77 tanks based in Germany (mostly Mk 5 and Mk 11's) and the remainder in Canada (60 at CFB Wainwright AB, 59 at CFSD Longpointe PQ, 46 at CFB Gagetown NB, 30 at CFB Borden, 29 at CFB Meaford ON, 27 at CFB Calgary AB, 12 at CFB Petawawa ON, 6 at RCEME School Kingston ON and 1 at the LETE Test Establishment Orleans, CFB Ottawa ON) for a total of 347 Tanks (including 120 Mk 5's, 3 Mk 5 Recovery tanks and some Mk 11's with IR and ranging guns fitted). Replaced by Leopard C1. Many of the tanks were sold to Israel which converted them to diesel. Some are still in use as variants. |
| Main Battle Tank | 1952-1979 | | with 105mm, IR and ranging gun |
| Main Battle Tank | 1978-2000 | | 127 Acquired to replace the Centurions. 114 of these 'Canadianized' Leopard 1A3 were used in active service. |
| Main Battle Tank | 2000–2017 | | 66 Leopard C1 upgraded and refitted with Leopard 1A5 turret. Retired in 2017 with 11 sent to museums and 45 designated as range targets. 3 were destroyed during service in Afghanistan and 15 damaged, 7 beyond repair and thus written off. |
| Main Battle Tank | 2007–Present | | 20 leopard 2s were loaned from Germany. Then Canada acquired 80 tanks from the Netherlands. |
| Command and Reconnaissance Vehicle | 1968-1993 | | |
| M109A4+ | | 1964-2005 | | Replaced with towed M777 guns in 2007. |
| AVGP Cougar | Wheeled light armoured vehicle | 1976–present | | 6x6 vehicle based on the MOWAG Piranha with a Scorpion tank turret. |
| AVGP Grizzly | | 1976–present | | 6x6 vehicle based on the MOWAG Piranha with a Cadillac-Gage 1 metre turret, designed to carry a section of infantry. |
| AVGP Husky | | 1976–present | | 6x6 vehicle based on the MOWAG Piranha. |
| Wheeled reconnaissance vehicle | 1954-1981 | | |
| | ???? - 2012[10] | | APC retired by 2012 |
| | mid 1960s - present | | Current in service variants: M113A3 Personnel carrier with Remote Weapon System (RWS), M113A3 Personnel carrier with One Metre Turret, M113A3 Mobile Repair Team, M577A3 Command Post, MTVL Basic Personnel Carrier / Light Re-supply, MTVC Heavy Re-supply, MTVE Engineer Vehicle, MTVF Fitter (Repair) Vehicle, MTVR Recovery Vehicle, TUA (TOW Under Armour) |
| Tracked reconnaissance vehicle | 1968 - 1993 | | |
| Wheeled reconnaissance vehicle | 1996–present | | |
| | 1990–present | | Converted to supporting variants. |
| | 1999–present | | can also be used as an Armoured personnel carrier |
| | 2006–present | | 111 units delivered for use in Afghanistan[11] |
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