Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
- A-1132
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- 1926-1927
Officers and cadets of the Canadian Officer Training Corps standing in rows and holding rifles. A cannon, automobile, and [Saskatoon Armouries] in background. Winter scene.
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Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Officers and cadets of the Canadian Officer Training Corps standing in rows and holding rifles. A cannon, automobile, and [Saskatoon Armouries] in background. Winter scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Three rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting. Men identified are O/C Keeler, O/C Pancratz, Jack Summers, Major John S.M. Allely, Oxley, George Rea, ? and Wright. Indoor scene with flags, trophies and photographs of military personnel; photographs of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on background wall.
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
Seven rows of COTC officers and cadets sitting and standing; musical instruments held by some. Outdoor scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC cadets and officers standing and sitting indoors with flags; 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 - 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 Hugh Edmunds, R. Hart, Major John S.M. Allely, R. Weekes, John Wesley Joyce and S. Smith. Indoor scene with flags, trophies and photographs of military personnel, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip on the background wall.
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 - Group Photo
Four rows of officers and cadets sitting and standing outdoors; campus buildings in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC officers and cadets sitting and standing; outdoor scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Five rows of COTC officers and cadets sitting and standing; musical instruments held by some. Outdoor scene.
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 - Demonstration Platoon
Demonstration platoon of COTC cadets and officers in uniform with helmets and holding rifles; machine guns in foreground.
Taken in front of Saskatoon Armouries portion of the Clinkskill house that was used for an officers' mess and offices (visible at right).
Bio/Historical Note: James Clinkskill owned a large white frame house with a large, two-story veranda overlooking the South Saskatchewan River from 1904 to 1911. The house was located at 152 Spadina Crescent East. In 1911, the Armouries were constructed and a Sergeant’s Mess was built in 1912. The Clinkskill house was used as the Officers’ Mess and as the home of the Armouries caretaker. The United Services Institute, whose members were former members of the Canadian Armed Forces, was located in the former Clinkskill house and hosted many social events. In 1922 a barn was moved into Saskatoon and used as a drill hall. When the Hugh Cairns VC Armouries were built in 1960, the Saskatoon Armouries were sold to Harry Landa for $2000 and removed. The former Clinkskill house was demolished in 1960.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Course
COTC officers and cadets seated and standing. J.S.Thomson, University President, and eight members of the faculty are seated in the first two rows. Photo taken at the Empress Hotel, Victoria, B.C.