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A-10884
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[ca. 1990]

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Frank Silversides, Professor Emeritus, and students of the College of Commerce's Health Care Administration Certificate Program for First Nations.

College of Arts and Science - Men's Track and Field Team

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Posed indoor image of Cairns Cup winners. Names: H. Sharp, Clarence Edmund Maguire, Alfred Lazaresco, H.A. Sutherland, Walter Whittaker, Alfred Leroy Paine, [Edward or Edwin Hubert Mapleton] Knowles, John Douglas Beavis, W. Johnson, Stafford Zimmerman Bennett, Drayton Ernest Walker, Harold Lockhart Winter, Robert Mowatt Muirhead (mgr); Joe Griffiths (coach) standing with the Cairns Cup on a pedestal.

Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadet Inspection

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

J.S. Thomson, University President, and Major John Wesley Joyce inspecting COTC cadets on campus; winter scene.

196th Western Universities Battalion - No. 5 Platoon - Group Photo

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Five rows of soldiers of No. 5 Platoon in uniform and holding rifles; at Camp Hughes, Manitoba.

Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Major General Brown inspecting COTC cadets in field uniforms and holding rifles at Saskatoon Armouries.

Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Band - Group Photo

A-1157
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[194-?]

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Captain Ross Brown, bandmaster, with COTC band, posing with their instruments at Saskatoon Armouries.

Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Band

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

COTC band members standing in rows with their instruments. Indoor view with other cadets visible at upper left and a unique wood burning stove in background at right. Taken at Saskatoon Armouries..

Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets - Marching

A-6372
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[ca. 1920]

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Winter scene of COTC cadets marching out of [Engineering Building.] Lead soldier saluting a group of officers and Walter Murray, University President, as others follow marching and shouldering rifles.

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 - Commissioned Officers - Group Photo

A-1133
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[ca. 1926]

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

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 - Non-Commissioned Officers - Group Photo

A-1150
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[1930 or 1931]

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Four rows of COTC non-commissioned officers in uniforms and hats. Taken outside Saskatoon Armouries in winter.

Lt. Col. J.H. Thompson - Portrait

A-1161
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[ca. 1952]

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

Head and shoulders image of Lt. Col. J.H. Thompson in COTC uniform.

Bio/Historical Note: Born in Nottingham, England, Joseph H. Thompson received his early education in Saskatoon. Enlisting for service in the Great War, he joined the RAF overseas. Badly injured in a crash he lost the sight of one eye and the other was seriously impaired. He later became an accountant with his own practice in Saskatoon until 1938 when he became an accounting instructor at the university. Thompson became dean of the School of Accounting in May 1940 and also took over command of the COTC that same month. He continued as dean of the newly named College of Commerce from 1944-1951. Thompson’s command came to an end 21 March 1947 having served with the COTC since 1921 (with the exception of Active Service in Regina from 1939 to 1940). In addition to being Dean of Commerce he was chairman of the Board of Governors of Emmanuel College. He had retained his military affiliations as aide-de-camp to lieutenant governors J. M. Ulrich and William J. Patterson and was also Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the COTC. Thompson died suddenly on 9 March 1952 at 55 years of age.

Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo

A-1188
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[ca. 1937]

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

COTC officers standing and sitting informally for indoor group photo; flags and emblems visible on back wall at Saskatoon Armouries.

Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadets - Marching

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

COTC "A" Company marching in front of Engineering Building.

Women's Emergency Training

Parte de University of Saskatchewan Photograph Collection

War emergency medical training undertaken by women on campus for three hours per week during World War II. Two women watch a third woman work on a fourth woman as a 'patient.' [In a classroom setting].