The re-creation of the 78th was a project of the Stewart Museum (then known as the Montreal Military & Maritime Museum) in 1965.

The Museum had already re-created La Compagnie Franche de la Marine and wanted a British counterpart in time for Expo 67 to show Canada’s two founding traditions. The 78th was chosen, in part, because of size (largest on the Plains of Abraham), battle record (Louisbourg, Quebec, St Foy, Montreal and St John’s Newfoundland), relationship with the local French Canadian population, disbandment while in Quebec, and the number of soldiers who remained in Quebec on land grants or those who returned to Scotland and then came back to America and for their deeds and exploits throughout the continent. In our opinion the members of no other Regiment had the same long term and notable effect on Montreal, Quebec, Canada and North America.