The corps name was chosen to commemorate the first HMCS Calgary, a Flower-class corvette commissioned 16 December 1941, and paid off 15 June 1945.

The corps is affiliated with the current HMCS Calgary (FFH 335) (II), a Halifax-class frigate commissioned into the Canadian Forces on 12 May 1995.

In 1995, RCSCC Calgary travelled to CFB Esquimalt where they were the first Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps to hold an annual inspection on board a Halifax-class frigate.

Designed by Surgeon Commander W. McLean RCNR, the badge's heraldic description is: Or, a bend wavy azure charged with a like bendlet argent.

In front across the centre of a bow stringed fess-wise, and arrow point upwards in pale, both sable.