Ex-Cadets in the News
Boeing’s top gun on display 15463 Ricardo Traven (CMR RMC 1986) By Andrew Doyle How did you become interested in aviation? I was born in Canada and my father was a private pilot. He owned a Cessna 185 so I was introduced to flying. I learned of the Royal Canadian Air Cadets organisation and joined…
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11510 Mr Barry GJ Kennedy (RRMC 1977) is a member of the cast of ‘Out in the Cold’ on the Discovery Channel. He graduated from Royal Roads Military College, Victoria, with a degree in physics and physical oceanography. He was a fighter pilot for the Canadian Air Force till 1983, flying mainly out of Comox,…
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New CF Ombudsman: 9485 Pierre Daigle OTTAWA – The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, is pleased to announce the appointment of 9485 MGen (Ret’d) Pierre Daigle (CMR 1973) as the new Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Forces (CF). Mr. Daigle…
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Canadian troops in Afghanistan get new commander There has been a change in command in the top echelons of Canada’s military personnel in Afghanistan After nine months as the head of Task Force Afghanistan, 14378 Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson (CMR RMC 1984) handed over the job on Thursday to 15696 Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance (RRMC 1986). Click…
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5576 Mr Leonard G Lee (RRMC RMC 1962) founded Lee Valley Tools, a small mail-order business selling gardening and woodworking tools across Canada in 1978 . He developed the family-fun enterprise into a multimillion-dollar enterprise that now has more than 900 employees and 11 retail outlets from Halifax to Vancouver. In 1985, he founded Veritas…
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Before a large crowd of spectators and invited guests, the last graduating class of “Air Navigators”, comprised of three members each from the Canadian and Portuguese Air Forces received their navigator’s wings from 11330 MGen Angus W Watt (CMR ’77), Chief of the Air Staff. With rapid technological advancements and the introduction into the Air…
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7855 Paul Hession (left in picture) accepted the prestigious silver distinction award from CATA (http://www.cata.ca/) President John Reid at the 16th annual GTEC (http://www.gtec.ca/) gala held at the Great Hall of the Museum of Civilization in Gatineau Quebec. The National Award recognizes Paul’s role as the executive leader of the team which successfully piloted a…
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7771 Mr James (Jim) W Leech (RRMC RMC 1968) is President and CEO, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Toronto. He was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, Leech has a B.Sc. in mathematics (Royal Military College of Canada) and an MBA (Queen’s University). He is married with three children. Leech is 61. He controls $108.5 billion in…
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B0171 Major (ret’d) Gilles Brière (RMC ’90) is a remarkable engineer from Quebec with extraordinary stamina, a talent for logistics and an unshakable desire to serve mankind. On May 24, 2003, the Canadian Council of Profession Engineers honoured Gilles Brière, ing., with the Meritorious Service Award for Community Service for his selfless contributions to world…
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5337 Mr Bob A Carr (CMR RMC ’63) is president of the Hamilton branch of the Royal Military Colleges Club of Canada. Art Gallery of Hamilton director Louise Dompierre presented Hamilton residents Bob and Maggie Carr with the Ontario Association of Art Galleries OAAG’s 2008 Partner Award recognizing their lead gift of $500,000 to the…
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The best of the best in CF sports and fitness will gather in Ottawa November 22 for the annual CF Sports Awards Ceremony. Among the incredible athletes who have made it to the finals as nominees for CF Male Athlete of the Year:11338 Major Bruce B Barteaux (RMC 1978), the Vice Chief of the Defence…
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Click HERE to go to the The Poppy Campaign website. Cliquez ICI pour accéder au site de la campagne du coquelicot. _________________________________________________________ Colonel was proud to be known as an ‘Army Girl’ ‘Force of nature’ could fix things and believed people could achieve anything with support – 14491 Karen Ritchie _________________________________________________________ Top 40 Under 40:…