3069 W.A. McColl’s – III Year – 1951: “Where else do you get up with the sun, shave and fall in before you are awake?”
Long time e-Veritas readers will be pleased to see that we are picking up with the diary entries of 3069 Bill McColl. Lots of cool things happened in his III Year. Click here to read previous diary entries (I & II Years) from 3069 W.A. McColl 14 Sept 51 This year there was quite a…
RMCC Remembers 9 – 11
Americans on Exchange Will Remember 9-11 2013 By: Cadet First Class Nolan A Bader, Cadet First Class Joey J F Humphrey, Midshipman First Class Nathalie E Pauwels Everybody knows exactly what they were doing when they heard about the attacks on the morning of September 11th, 2001. We, as Americans here on exchange for the…
Ottawa Branch & Class Notes
The Ottawa Branch of the RMC Club welcomed nine new members of the Old Brigade at a luncheon held on Wed 10 Sep 2013. 5276 Digger MacDougall, Branch President, 3429 Gordon Smith, Branch Adjudant and 4377 Richard Evraire presented OB ties to those entering the Old Brigade this year. General Evraire was also warmly congratulated…
Former DCdt LGen Marquis Hainse In Conversation With Victoria Edwards
E3161 Victoria Edwards (RMC 2003) interviewed 12966 LGen Joseph Marcel Marquis Hainse, CMM, MSC, CD (CMR 1980), who served as DCadets at RMC in 1994-5. As of 18 July, 2013 he serves as Canadian Army Commander. He is currently the senior serving General in the Royal 22e Régiment. e-veritas: You are one of the most…
Ex-Cadets in the News
Article – Op ATTENTION Pushes Forward By 14596 MGen Dean Milner News Article – Colombian Military visits 8 Wing “We’re delighted to be a host for the Colombian military’s visit to Canada,” said acting 8 wing commander 20503 LCol Ryan Eyre. “Their visit fosters a spirit of cooperation, understanding and mutual respect between our forces.”…
What are these 24 up to these days…
Program Engineer, Environmental Risk Management Strategies Chief of Party at DAI Afghanistan President, Rockridge Consulting Inc. Project Manager at Defence Research and Development Canada Wine Maker and bottle manager Operations Officer at 1 Combat Engineer Regiment VP, Softgoods & Footwear, Giant Tiger Conseillère / Consultant at HATLEY Conseillers en stratégie – MA, War Studies Executive…
Book Launching Update: History of Physics at RMC
PHYSICS AT RMC By Dr. David C. Baird Professor Emeritus, RMC Commissioned by the Canadian Association of Physicist Supported by the RMC Club of Canada (Toronto Branch) Dr. David Baird’s book project is coming to fruition despite a few ongoing hiccups with the publishers who are experiencing a few technical challenges. It now appears that…
60th Anniversary of the RMC Band & Calling all Ex Cadet Band Members
E3161 Victoria Edwards interviewed 4610 Major (Ret’d) Gus Nelson (RRMC RMC 1959) member of the early band at the Royal Military College. e-veritas: What instrument(s) did you play? Gus Nelson: The snare drum. e-veritas: Your first introduction to a drum was with the Royal Roads Drum and Bugle Corps? Gus Nelson: This started on my…
FYOP… Long Days & Nights; Plus – The Way It Was…Back in 1986
“The First Year Orientation Period (FYOP) at RMC is one of the irreplaceable opportunities offered by RMC. At no other time at the college does a cadet experience the intensity, pressure, adversity, and triumph that are present throughout the month of September. We the staff discovered soon after FYOP began that the demands and responsibility…
Training for the “M”
Personal Military Training (PMT) Swings Into High Gear Contributions from: 26202 (IV) McKayla Couch; 26448 (III) Josh Behnish; 26667 (II) Matthias Bowles Edited by: 26497 NCdt (III) Matthew Noonan – Cadet Wing Internal Information Officer While the college’s first year class was engaged in a lengthened morning of wholesome FYOP activities, Wednesday saw the second years, out on…
Sports & Recreation
As a community outreach initiative, the Athletics Department asked both staff and students to donate any gently used shoes. This year 22 pairs of shoes were donated which will be turned over to the running room who will give them to the local Boys and Girls club of Canada. __________________________ EX-CADET WEEKEND FUN RUN Anyone…
Quatre géants intronisés au Temple de la Renommée du CMR St-Jean
Photo : C’est le samedi 7 septembre dernier que le Collège militaire royal de St-Jean a inauguré son Temple de la Renommée en intronisant quatre géants qui ont contribué énormément au CMR St-Jean ou des Forces armées canadiennes en général. De gauche à droite, Lgén (ret) Richard Evraire, professeur Jacques Castonguay, Général (ret) Walt Natynczyk…