Monthly Guest Speaker at Fort Frontenac

LGen (ret’d) Stuart Beare CMM, MSC, MSM, CD | Colonel Commandant of the Intelligence Branch

In 2014 LGen Beare transitioned from 36 years of full-time service to the Canadian Armed Forces, the Canadian Army, and the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.  He performed in command at every level – E Battery (Para), 2nd Regiment Royal Canadian Horse Artillery, 1 Canadian Mechanized Group, Land Force Western Area, Land Force Doctrine and Training System, Canadian Expeditionary Forces Command, and lastly as Commander Canadian Joint Operations Command. 

General Stu led Canadian, multi-national and multi-agency troops and forces in major domestic operations here at home (Manitoba floods, Ontario and Quebec Ice Storm, Y2K, G8/G20), and overseas during Canada’s last rotation in Cyprus (93), twice in Bosnia including a year as Commander Multi-National Brigade NW (03-04), and in Afghanistan and Deputy Commander NATO Training Mission (Police).

Since his transition in 2014, General Stu has been a member of the Canadian Red Cross Government Relations Advisory Committee, a Fellow with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute, and Honorary LCol to the 2^nd Fd Regt RCA in Montreal.  He remains chair of the Board for Soldiers Helping Soldiers and Patron for the Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate. In 2024 he joined the Board of Directors for Commissionaires Ottawa. He is in his 10^th year serving as a Strategic Advisor for Defence to Accenture, here in Canada and as part of Accenture’s Global Defence Council.

After 20 moves as a son of a soldier and as a military family – Stu and France call Ottawa home. There they are loving this phase of life with their family of 3 Children and 8 grandchildren, and rounding out their 5 Fs with friends, faith, fitness and fun!