Canadian Officers' Training Corps - At Attention
- A-1193
- Item
- [1938 or 1939]
COTC cadets with rifles at attention awaiting inspection.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - At Attention
COTC cadets with rifles at attention awaiting inspection.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets at table studying map; indoor scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training.
Elevated view of COTC non-commissioned officers practicing first aid at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
COTC cadets receiving small arms instruction at Rutherford Rink.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
A sergeant with rifle and bayonet during training at Rutherford Rink.
Bio/Historical Note: Built on a site previously used for an open outdoor rink, construction of “The Rink”, later known informally as the “Dog House”, was due to student initiative. A campaign to have a closed rink facility began in 1920; by 1928, the Students Representative Council appointed a committee to look into the feasibility of the student body assuming responsibility for construction. The Board of Governors loaned SRC the funds; which the student council hoped to pay back by instituting a $3 student fee. Although opened for use in December 1929 the rink, “already the most popular place on campus,” had its official opening on 23 January 1930, with an inter-varsity hockey game against the University of Manitoba (Saskatchewan won, 5-1). 650 attended the opening; and between 18,000-20,000 people used the rink during its first year of operation. The original design included “waiting rooms” on the west and east side, primarily for use by men and women respectively. The rink was used for general skating, “scrub,” faculty, senior men’s and girls’ varsity team hockey practices, the “fancy skating club,” children’s skating, and band practice, and winter carnival activities. Speed skates were allowed, but the rink was “not responsible for injury resulting therefrom.” During general skating, “playing tag,” “cutting in,” “cracking the whip,” and “reckless disregard and abandon in speed skating” were not tolerated. The building was renamed in honour of William J. Rutherford, the University’s first Dean of Agriculture, after his sudden and unexpected death on 1 June 1930. Minor renovations occurred over the next 88 years. Merlis Belsher Place, a multi-use ice facility, opened in 2018, mercifully replacing the ancient Rutherford Rink. The new arena is located on the south side of College Drive near the Field House.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
A corporal in the COTC climbing over [wall] during obstacle course.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Cadet Inspection
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
Five rows of soldiers of No. 5 Platoon in uniform and holding rifles; at Camp Hughes, Manitoba.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Major General Brown inspecting COTC cadets in field uniforms and holding rifles at Saskatoon Armouries.
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
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 - 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 - Non-Commissioned Officers - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC non-commissioned officers in uniforms and hats. Taken outside Saskatoon Armouries in winter.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo
COTC officers standing and sitting informally for indoor group photo; flags and emblems visible on back wall at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Seven rows of COTC officers and cadets seated in front of Chemistry Building.