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Top Headlines
COVER STORIES: Read commentaries from Jack Granastein, Desmond Morton, Hugh Segal, Sean Maloney and Romeo Dallaire on the state of the war in Afghanistan today. PLUS: Q&A With Principal John Cowan: Being RMC principal is the most fun you can have in a university job in Canada. But it’s long been my view that the…
What’s Happening At RMC
[English] [Français] 23996 OCdt, IV Year – Alex Cushley (aka Cush) has been helping us out with the last few editions of e-Veritas. He has also keenly accepted the challenge of “interviewing” a number of various people around RMC. Following are two of his efforts. Hopefully, we will have similar articles from “Cush” over the…
Ex-Cadets in the News
5562 General Jim Gervais (RRMC RMC ’62) joins Board of Northern Gold Mining Inc. Source __________________________________________________ Former astronaut campaigns to get fit 8276 Marc Garneau (CMR RMC ’70) __________________________________________________ Change of Command at the Air Command Academy 14458 Colonel Harry Kowal (RMC ’84), M0539 Major Conrad Bourgeois (RRMC RMC ’92) to Major Rebecca Evans. __________________________________________________…
Catching Up With the News
12106 Captain (ret’d) Eric EG McKay (CMR RMC ‘80), a performance artist, was recently elected as a featured artist for a promotional programme sponsored by Ottawa’s CHRI radio station involving a CD mailout to approximately 50 radio stations. Eric landed two instrumental recordings in the Canadian Adult Contemporary Top 30 in the mid-1980s…
Where are they now?
4150 LCdr (Ret’d) Nigel H. Frawley (RMC ’58) is Secretary General of the Comite Maritime International (CMI), a non-governmental organization which contributes to the unification of maritime law. As Secretary General, he is responsible for preparations for International Conferences, Seminars and Colloquia convened by the Comité Maritime International, and maintains liaison with other international organizations.…
Extra Innings
What ever happened to…… 6715 Yvan Gagnon entered CMR in 1961 and graduated from RMC in 1965. His best memories from Military College time: “Hockey team with an average of 2.5 + points a game… Good times with Bernie and Suds on a very productive line!” He only spent two years in the military following…
Flashback | Rétrospective
The Royal Military College’s central place in Canadian military circles has made it the setting for novels, plays, films and other cultural works. Sara Jeanette Duncan’s “Cousin Cinderella: A Canadian Girl in London” by Macmillan in New York and Methuen in London (1908) features Graham, a Royal Military College of Canada graduate, and his sister…
Deaths | deces
S107 HOLBROOK, George William, O.C., Ph.D., P. Eng. (Honourary member RMC Club)– December 16, 1917 – July 15, 2008. George William Holbrook was born in Asquith, Sask., December 16, 1917. He leaves his beloved wife of 64 years, Frances Mary Fletcher, and children, Adam (and his wife Mariana) and Jane (and her husband Dr. Ralph…
Trivia | Bagatelle
A) Who am I? Upon graduating from the Royal Military College in 1909, I took a position with the Ontario Hydro-Electric Commission, Toronto. At the outbreak of WWI, I was a Lieutenant in Toronto’s 4th Battery, 2nd Brigade, the Non-Permanent Active Militia. I immediately joined Canada’s First Division, going overseas with the First Contingent. I…
Quotation | Citation
“RMC graduates aren’t just officers they’re nation-builders.” Dr. JOHN SCOTT COWAN – RMC Principal _______________________________________________________ “On a purely selfish side, flying the Sabre is a dream come true,” LCol Steve Will ________________________________________________________ “The major learning piece for me is how the much larger construct of war at sea is orchestrated from the carrier because…
Misc
“under the able, energetic, and genial leadership of Col. Hewitt, and of the instructors, to whom you owe an uncommon debt of gratitude, for their work has been very hard,… a school of arms has arisen which will bear comparison with some of the oldest of similar institutions in other countries.” Source: The Project Gutenberg…