Emerald Knights

The Emerald Knights drum and bugle corps was formed in the fall 1981, as the Emerald Cadets of Mississauga.

In their inaugural year, the corps performed as a parade unit and entered the field competition the next season as members of the Ontario Drum Corps Association, winning the 1983 Canadian Nationals “Class C” championships, moving up to the “Class B” division and placing 7^th in the 1984 Nationals “Class B” preliminaries. They improved to 3^rd in the 1985 Nationals and won the 1986 “Class B” title under their name, the Emerald Knights. That year saw the corps participate in the DCI Canada “Open Class” prelims, finishing in 23rd place and a 4^th place finish in the 1987 DCI Canada “Class A/60” division along with the Ontario provincial “Class B” title and 2^nd place in the Canadian Nationals “Class B”.

The Knights went inactive the following summer and reactivated as a parade unit, winning the 1989 Canadian Nationals “Parade Class”. They performed in their first DCI championship, with a 16^th place finish in the 1990 preliminaries, a 20^th position in the DCI Canada “Open Class” prelims and regained their Nationals “Class B” title. They repeated the same feat at both the 1991 DCI Canada and Canadian Nationals and made their first appearance in the 1992 Canadian Open “Division III” preliminary round, placing 13^th. They completed the season 21^st in the DCI “Division III” prelims and 3^rd in the Nationals “Class A/60”, repeating their 3^rd place in the Nationals finish the following year.

From 1994 to 2000, the Emerald Knights appeared in the DCI “Division III” preliminaries annually, placing as low as 14^th in 1996 & 1999, the Canadian Open “Division III” prelims from 1994 to 1998, placing between 9^th to 17^th during that span and the Canadian Nationals “Division III”, finishing 2^nd twice (1994 & 1999), 3^rd twice (1998 & 2000) and 4^th (1995-1997). The corps also participated in the 1999 Garden State Open with a 6^th place finish, missing out on a finalist spot by less than a point and the  1996 North American Open regionals, where they finished 13^th in the prelims. After another season of inactivity, the Knights reorganized as a parade corps, winning the Canadian Nationals “Division IV - Parade Class” title, remaining active until 2004.

They disbanded in 2005.

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