- January 25, 1978: First rehearsal for Petawawa Legion Community Band and Band School (Dr. James McDonald "Doc" Gayfer is first music director)
- June 28, 1978: First concert (Petawawa Legion Hall)
- November 11, 1978: First Remembrance Day Parade (Petawawa)
- September 1979: First concert outside the Petawawa Legion (CFB Petawawa Leisure Show)
- November 7, 1979: First public appearance in uniform (Legion Week concert, Petawawa Legion Hall)
- Remembrance Day Parade, Eganville, 1979: First parade away from Petawawa
- June 1980: First "Civic Centre Days" concert (and last concert with Doc Gayfer)
- 1980 summer: First summer season, and first open-air concert (Military Engineers reunion, CFB Petawawa); also performed at CFB Petawawa's 75th anniversary pageant, and the annual Petawawa Steam Show
- September 1980: Art Van Winckle (Champlain High School music teacher) becomes new director of PLCB
- September 1980: First election of PLCB Executive, and adoption of PLCB Constitution & Bylaws
- September 1981: First "Civic Centre Days" parade (Petawawa)
- January 1982: Kaz Samujlo (Fellowes High School music teacher) becomes new director of PLCB
- Spring 1982: First performance of band's signature march, "Petawawa Legion Five-Seventeen" (Civic Centre Days concert, Petawawa, under Doc Gayfer as guest conductor)
- Fall 1982: Band plays at opening of new Petawawa Union Library expansion
- July 1983: Band plays for 2nd Service Battalion Change of Command Parade (CFB Petawawa)
- July 1984: First "road trip" (to Picton, Ontario for the Ontario Bi-Centennial celebrations)
- Over next decade:
- parades of all flavours (dedications, Korean Veterans’, Santa Claus, Civic Centre Days,
- Remembrance Day – incl. Chalk River, Barry’s Bay),
- strawberry socials (incl. Wakefield, P.Q.),
- annual inspections (St. John Ambulance, Army Cadets, OPP Auxiliary),
- 702 Communications’ Squadron Mess Dinner
- January 1988: Tenth Anniversary
- February 1988: First Kiwanis Music Festival (Pembroke)
- June 1988: PLCB marches in Legion Dominion Command Parade, Ottawa (along Wellington St. past Parliament bldgs., to national war monument on Elgin St.)
- August 1988: First performance at CFB Petawawa's "Warrior’s Day", alongside the RCR Band
- Labour Day 1990: Exchange trip with Mitchell Band (visited us 2 years later)
- 1991: Anne Dickson (music teacher, Mackenzie High School) becomes new director of PLCB
- 1994: First use of maroon windbreakers for winter uniform
- 1995: First "Civic Centre Days" concert in Kin Hut at the Civic Centre (Petawawa)
- 1997: First summer outdoor concert series
- January 1998: Twentieth Anniversary
- September 1998: Fred Leadston (former Guards Band musician under Doc Gayfer) becomes PLCB music director
- September 2000: Eric Tanguay (music teacher, l'Équinoxe school) becomes PLCB music director
- January 2003: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary
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