Royal 22nd Regiment Royal 22nd Regiment The Royal 22nd Regiment (R22R), or rather the Royal 22 Régiment in both English and French correct usage, and colloquially in English The Van Doos (representing an anglicized pronunciation of the French for twenty-two, "vingt-deux"), or, in French, le Vingt-deuxième, is an infantry regiment of the Canadian Army. The mostly francophone regiment comprises three Regular Force battalions, two Primary Reserve battalions, and a band, making it the largest regiment in the Canadian Army. The "maison-mère" or home of the regiment is La Citadelle in Quebec City and is where the regimental museum is housed. The regimental headquarters
Valse à deux temps Valse à deux temps Valse à deux temps, waltz "à deux temps" ("waltz in two beats"), also Valse à deux pas ("waltz of two steps") or Valse Russe ("Russian waltz") (Russian name: вальс в "два па") was a waltz of Russian origin introduced in France in the mid-19th century. A French dance manual of the beginning of the 20th century (a copy is digitized by the "American Ballroom Companion" of the United States Library of Congress) contains the following description by a contemporary witness. I know exactly what I am talking about when I speak of the Russian origin of