The 53rd Battalion was authorized on 7 November 1914 and embarked for Great Britain on 29 March 1916.

It provided reinforcements for the Canadian Corps in the field until it was disbanded on 12 October 1917.

[1] The 53rd Battalion recruited in Prince Albert, Saskatoon, the Battlefords and Melfort, Saskatchewan, and was mobilized at Winnipeg, Manitoba.

[2] The perpetuation of the 53rd Battalion was initially assigned in 1922 to 2nd Battalion (53rd Battalion, CEF) The North Saskatchewan Regiment (in Prince Albert), and because of a series of reorganizations and amalgamations it is now perpetuated by The North Saskatchewan Regiment.

Nicholson, CD, Queen's Printer, Ottawa, Ontario, 1962