The group also made several recordings on a variety labels and appeared on numerous radio broadcasts in both Canada and the United States.

[1] The Canadian Grenadier Guards Band (CGGB) was founded in Montreal on 26 April 1913 through the financial support and initiative of Frank Stephen Meighen.

The ensemble played an unusually varied repertoire for a band of its time period, playing both new music and works by major composers like Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Jules Massenet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Camille Saint-Saëns, and Richard Wagner.

Composer Claude Champagne was an original member of the band and he wrote Ballade des lutins for the grenadiers in 1914.

During World War II the band was stationed the 2nd Battalion of The Royal Canadian Regiment.