Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
- A-1220
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- [ca. 1960]
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
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
Four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting. Names included are Marcel de la Gorgendiere, Bruce McCorkell, Norman Cram, John Joyce, Edmunds, McCo[y], Murray Scharf, Ken Turner, Al Pettigrew and John Bachynsky. Indoor scene with flags, trophies and photographs of military personnel and Prince Philip on background wall.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting indoors. Names included are Marcel de la Gorgendiere, John Merriman, Hugh Edmunds, John Wesley Joyce, J.W.T. Spinks, Jack Summers, Norman Cram, [Bill?] McCoy, Dale Brownin and Dick Kucey.
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 - Dinner
COTC personnel and guests in formal attire having a casual conversation.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Commissioned Officers - Group Photo
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 - Cadets - Marching
COTC cadets marching and shouldering rifles outside Rutherford Rink; two [officers] marching at extreme right.
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 - Cadets - Jack Mooney
Portrait of Jack Mooney, COTC cadet, seated and dressed in uniform and hat.
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 - Cadets
Eight COTC cadets pose indoors with a Triumph motorcycle; other motorcycles visible in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets
Outdoor winter scene of an unidentified cadet standing in front of College Building.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets
Major John S.M. Allely and six COTC cadets; indoor scene with poster and picture of Queen Elizabeth II in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadet Inspection
J.S. Thomson, University President, and Major John Wesley Joyce inspecting COTC cadets on campus; winter scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Band - Group Photo
Captain Ross Brown, bandmaster, with COTC band, posing with their instruments at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Band - Group Photo
COTC band members seated with instruments. Two drums in foreground; house and picket fence 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.