Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo
- A-1140
- Item
- [1932 or 1933]
Three rows of COTC officers in uniforms and hats; winter scene.
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Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Officers - Group Photo
Three rows of COTC officers in uniforms and hats; winter scene.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Non-Commissioned Officers - Group Photo
Four rows of COTC Warrant Officers and Non-Commissioned Officers in uniforms and hats; outdoor scene with bare trees and building in background.
Lord Tweedsmuir meeting Veterans
Part of Fort San fonds
Image of Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir visiting veterans at Fort San.
Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League
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 non-commissioned officers practicing first aid at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
COTC officers and cadets in uniform standing in formation; band visible at left. At Saskatoon Armouries with flags and emblems on background walls.
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 - At Attention
COTC cadets with rifles at attention awaiting inspection.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Inspection of COTC cadets at Dundurn Camp with J.S. Thomson, University President, (in suit) at centre. Camp buildings with flags in background.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - March
COTC officers salute and cadets shoulder rifles as they march through the Memorial Gates on campus in review before J.S. Thomson, University President.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Elevated group photo of officers and cadets at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Inspection
Elevated view of COTC officers, cadets and brass band standing at attention for inspection at Saskatoon Armouries.
Canadian Officers' Training Corps - Group Photo
Seven rows of COTC officers and cadets seated in front of Chemistry Building.
Major General Arthur E. Potts - Portrait
Head and shoulders image of Major-General Arthur E. Potts, professor of Dairy Science, College of Agriculture, 1919-1948.
Bio/Historical Note: Arthur Edward Potts was born 24 October 1890 in Northumberland, England. Potts was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh, Scotland, and subsequently studied at the University of Edinburgh (BSc) and Cornell University (MA in agriculture). He worked as an instructor at Ames College in Iowa. He came to Canada in 1914 to enlist as a private soldier in the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in World War I. He was wounded twice while overseas. After the war Potts was appointed professor of Dairy Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He held this position until 1939 when he went overseas again as Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the Saskatoon Light Infantry. He became Brigadier-General in 1940 to command the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade. In 1942 Potts was promoted to Major General, commanding the 6th Canadian Infantry Division. After the war Potts joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in Kingston, Ontario, to become the Department's district administrator. Potts died in September 1983 in Kingston at age 92.
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.