Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
- A-1259
- Item
- 1939
Elevated view of two COTC cadets working with a radio transmitter; an [officer] kneeling at right. At Saskatoon Armouries.
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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
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.
Elevated view of COTC non-commissioned officers practicing first aid at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training.
Elevated view of COTC officers and cadets watching a demonstration of the use of a machine gun at Saskatoon Armouries. Unique heater in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Elevated view of COTC officers and non-commissioned officers training with field artillery at Saskatoon Armouries.
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
COTC officers and cadets at attention while the operation of an artillery piece is being demonstrated at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
A corporal in the COTC climbing over [wall] during obstacle course.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Five COTC cadets at table studying and reading a map; indoor scene.
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 - Cadets - Marching
COTC cadets marching and shouldering rifles outside Rutherford Rink; two [officers] marching at extreme right.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Group of nine COTC cadets standing casually in outdoor winter scene.
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 - Training
COTC cadets receiving small arms instruction at 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.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Training
Elevated view of six COTC cadets standing at ease dressed with packs, helmets and holding rifles; at Rutherford Rink.