Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo
- A-1145
- Stuk
- 1939
Two rows of COTC officers in uniforms and hats. Indoor scene with drapes in background and carpet on floor. Officer seated at centre holding plaque.
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Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo
Two rows of COTC officers in uniforms and hats. Indoor scene with drapes in background and carpet on floor. Officer seated at centre holding plaque.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo
Three rows of COTC officers in uniforms and hats; winter scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Parade
COTC parade with soldiers and guests in Rutherford Rink. G.A.H. Trudeau saluting men marching by with J.H. Thompson at his side. Soldiers with rifles with bayonets in foreground.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Parade Float
COTC cadet in battle dress and another as student seated on float. Two Union Jack flags visible as well as draped armaments. Sign on float reads: "Both the pen and the sword."
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - R.C.O.C. School - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC officers and cadets, most wearing shorts and berets, in group photograph. Taken at Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps (R.C.O.C.) School in Montreal, Quebec; buildings [barracks] in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Reunion
COTC reunion banquet. Seated at head table are J.W.T. Spinks, University President; Norman K. Cram, R.W. Cram and Mary Spinks; waiter and waitress visible 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 - Reunion
COTC reunion banquet at Marquis Hall with guests seated at tables.
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 - Reunion
COTC reunion banquet at Marquis Hall; among guests seated at head table are Sid Buckwold (second from left), Mayor of Saskatoon and J.W.T. Spinks (fourth from left), University President.
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 - Reunion
COTC reunion attendees (l to r): Mrs. E. Rennie, A. Rennie, Mrs. M. Hall, Sidney Hubert Bryan, B. Hall and D. Creed.
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 two COTC cadets working with a radio transmitter; an [officer] kneeling at right. At Saskatoon Armouries.
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.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Elevated view of nine COTC officers and cadets standing at attention with two men laying on stretchers during first aid training at Saskatoon Armouries.
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
COTC cadets with packs, helmets and rifles practicing field tactics, some lying on ground behind short barrier [bench] at Rutherford Rink.