Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Homecoming Parade
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- [195-?]
COTC cadets marching as they pull a gun carriage in downtown Saskatoon. Store sign for Clark's Interior Furnishings at 101-2nd Avenue South in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Homecoming Parade
COTC cadets marching as they pull a gun carriage in downtown Saskatoon. Store sign for Clark's Interior Furnishings at 101-2nd Avenue South in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
COTC officers and cadets in uniform standing in formation; band visible at left. At Saskatoon Armouries with flags and emblems on background walls.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Posed indoor image of four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting in a [gymnasium]. Three women among the group; several cadets mugging for the camera.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Posed indoor image of four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting. Photographs of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip in background.
Bio/Historical Note: "One of the chief prices which Canada paid in the last war for her lack of preparation was the tragic waste of thousands of her best young men killed while fighting in the ranks because they had not been previously trained for a more useful career as officers. It is to prevent such a waste in any possible future war that every Canadian University is now giving facilities to its students to qualify as officers during their undergraduate course. Our own contingent of the C.O.T.C. came to life in January of this year and is already recruited up to a strength of 170." (The Spectrum, 1921) The Canadian Officers' Training Corps was a unit in the Active Militia of Canada. The Corps prepared university students for the examinations for a Lieutenant's or Captain's Commission and the universities granted course credit for COTC work. Senior commissions were held by faculty while all junior commissioned and non-commissioned ranks were open to undergraduates. Interest in the Corps declined in the 1950s and came to an end in 1964.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Elevated view of COTC officers, cadets and brass band standing at attention for inspection at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Posed indoor image of four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting. Names included are Marcel de la Gorgendiere, Bruce McCorkell, Norman Cram, John Joyce, Hugh Edmunds, McCo[y], Murray Scharf, Ken Turner, Al Pettigrew and John Bachynsky. Flags, trophies and photographs of military personnel and Prince Philip on background wall.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets - Marching
COTC cadets marching during winter on campus; College Building visible in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Elevated group photograph of COTC officers and cadets in dress uniforms and standing at attention at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
J.S. Thomson, University President, and Major John Wesley Joyce inspect COTC cadets in front of the College Building in winter.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Award Presentation
Presentation by Brig. Watsford of award to unidentified COTC cadet. Unidentified [officer] looks on; indoor scene.
Bio/Historical Note: "One of the chief prices which Canada paid in the last war for her lack of preparation was the tragic waste of thousands of her best young men killed while fighting in the ranks because they had not been previously trained for a more useful career as officers. It is to prevent such a waste in any possible future war that every Canadian University is now giving facilities to its students to qualify as officers during their undergraduate course. Our own contingent of the C.O.T.C. came to life in January of this year and is already recruited up to a strength of 170." (The Spectrum, 1921). The Canadian Officers' Training Corps was a unit in the Active Militia of Canada. The Corps prepared university students for the examinations for a Lieutenant's or Captain's Commission and the universities granted course credit for COTC work. Senior commissions were held by faculty while all junior commissioned and non-commissioned ranks were open to undergraduates. Interest in the Corps declined in the 1950s and came to an end in 1964.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Indoor posed image of four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting. Names included are Marcel de la Gorgendiere, John Merriman, Hugh Edmunds, John Wesley Joyce, J.W.T. Spinks, University President; Jack Summers, Norman Cram, [Bill?] McCoy, Dale Brownin and Dick Kucey.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo
Posed indoor image of eight COTC officers in uniform without hats. Seven men identified: H.A. Jones, Benson, [W. Hasner], Herman H. Ferns, Joseph H. Thompson (professor of Accounting), Arthur E. Potts (professor of Dairy Science), William A. Carrothers (professor of Economics).
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets in civilian attire holding rifles in front of Saskatoon Armouries.
Bio/Historical Note: "One of the chief prices which Canada paid in the last war for her lack of preparation was the tragic waste of thousands of her best young men killed while fighting in the ranks because they had not been previously trained for a more useful career as officers. It is to prevent such a waste in any possible future war that every Canadian University is now giving facilities to its students to qualify as officers during their undergraduate course. Our own contingent of the C.O.T.C. came to life in January of this year and is already recruited up to a strength of 170." (The Spectrum, 1921) The Canadian Officers' Training Corps was a unit in the Active Militia of Canada. The Corps prepared university students for the examinations for a Lieutenant's or Captain's Commission and the universities granted course credit for COTC work. Senior commissions were held by faculty while all junior commissioned and non-commissioned ranks were open to undergraduates. Interest in the Corps declined in the 1950s and came to an end in 1964.
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
Five COTC cadets at table studying and reading a map; indoor scene.