Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets
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Eight COTC cadets pose indoors with a Triumph motorcycle; other motorcycles visible in background.
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Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets
Eight COTC cadets pose indoors with a Triumph motorcycle; other motorcycles visible in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - [Engineers] - Group Photo
Cadets and officers stand on and in front of podium with a Royal Canadian Engineer emblem on it. Outdoor scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets standing at attention in two rows while wearing gas masks. Flags and emblems on wall in background at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
A sergeant with rifle and bayonet during training at Rutherford Rink.
Bio/Historical Note: Built on a site previously used for an open outdoor rink, construction of “The Rink”, later known informally as the “Dog House”, was due to student initiative. A campaign to have a closed rink facility began in 1920; by 1928, the Students Representative Council appointed a committee to look into the feasibility of the student body assuming responsibility for construction. The Board of Governors loaned SRC the funds; which the student council hoped to pay back by instituting a $3 student fee. Although opened for use in December 1929 the rink, “already the most popular place on campus,” had its official opening on 23 January 1930, with an inter-varsity hockey game against the University of Manitoba (Saskatchewan won, 5-1). 650 attended the opening; and between 18,000-20,000 people used the rink during its first year of operation. The original design included “waiting rooms” on the west and east side, primarily for use by men and women respectively. The rink was used for general skating, “scrub,” faculty, senior men’s and girls’ varsity team hockey practices, the “fancy skating club,” children’s skating, and band practice, and winter carnival activities. Speed skates were allowed, but the rink was “not responsible for injury resulting therefrom.” During general skating, “playing tag,” “cutting in,” “cracking the whip,” and “reckless disregard and abandon in speed skating” were not tolerated. The building was renamed in honour of William J. Rutherford, the University’s first Dean of Agriculture, after his sudden and unexpected death on 1 June 1930. Minor renovations occurred over the next 88 years. Merlis Belsher Place, a multi-use ice facility, opened in 2018, mercifully replacing the ancient Rutherford Rink. The new arena is located on the south side of College Drive near the Field House.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets during weapons training; an officer stands at the side watching. Outdoor scene at Dundurn Camp; buildings and rifles in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Elevated view of six COTC cadets standing at ease dressed with packs, helmets and holding rifles; at Rutherford Rink.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets with packs, helmets and rifles practicing field tactics, some lying on ground behind short barrier [bench] at Rutherford Rink.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets receiving small arms instruction at Rutherford Rink.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets - Marching
Cadets marching during winter on the University of Saskatchewan campus. College Building visible in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Group of nine COTC cadets standing casually in outdoor winter scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets - Marching
COTC cadets marching and shouldering rifles outside Rutherford Rink; two [officers] marching at extreme right.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets receiving small arms instruction from a corporal. Officers in background are G.A.H. Trudeau and H.H. Ferns; in Rutherford Rink.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Five COTC cadets at table studying and reading a map; indoor scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
A corporal in the COTC climbing over [wall] during obstacle course.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC officers and cadets at attention while the operation of an artillery piece is being demonstrated at Saskatoon Armouries.