Looking back through the 1973 Review…
Looking back through the 1973 Review… We continue the process whereby we will be digitizing old photos which will eventually find a place in the Alumni website – Narrowpoint. Our aim is to match up names with the photos that are already in The Review of a particular year with as many of our oldie…
Looking back through the 1971 Review…
Looking back through the 1971 Review… We continue the process whereby we will be digitizing old photos which will eventually find a place in the Alumni website – Narrowpoint. Our aim is to match up names with the photos that are already in The Review of a particular year with as many of our oldie…
Looking back through the 1970 Review…
Looking back through the 1970 Review… We continue the process whereby we will be digitizing old photos which will eventually find a place in the Alumni website – Narrowpoint. Our aim is to match up names with the photos that are already in The Review of a particular year with as many of our oldie…
Looking back through the 1966 Review…
We continue the process whereby we will be digitizing old photos which will eventually find a place in the Alumni website – Narrowpoint. Our aim is to match up names with the photos that are already in The Review of a particular year with as many of our oldie photos with NO names that are…
Looking back through the 1964 Review…
We have started a process whereby we will be digitizing old photos which will eventually find a place in the Alumni website – Narrowpoint. Our aim is to match up names with the photos, as many of our oldie photos do not have the names included. This is a work in progress. For starters we…
Remembering 2184 Rear Admiral Desmond William Piers
Caption: Photo was taken71 years ago, 21 April 1944. It shows LCdr Piers aboard the HMCS Algonquin, he had joined the newly-commissioned ship two months’ earlier and was her first Captain. Following is an interesting biography of RAdm Desmond Piers which Mike Kennedy came across. This November will mark the 10th anniversary of his death.…
Mainguy, Mutinies and Mainstream Society: 1949 and the social turning point in Canada’s Navy
Mainguy, Mutinies and Mainstream Society: 1949 and the social turning point in Canada’s Navy By: 16142 JJ Smith 2014 marks the 65th anniversary of mutinies in the Royal Canadian Navy that had far-reaching effects, ones which continue to influence leadership and terms of service in our navy today. The “incidents” as they would later be…
Hockey players past & present remember…The Major
I entered RMC in 1967 and graduated in 1971. During those four years, I had the pleasure and challenge of playing senior varsity hockey for the “Maj,” Danny McLeod. He approached me during the warm-up skate at the first practice in the fall of 1967 and asked me where I had come from and where…
An Engineering Memoir: A Bridge in the Yukon 1971
A Bridge in the Yukon 1971 A memoir by a Kingstonian, 3667 Major-General (ret) Don Gray, RMC’56 Queen’s ’57 over 42 years after the fact. “There are strange things done in the land of the midnight sun but the strangest I ever did see was a long truss bridge, heading north, yet still very far…
A Bunker on the Golan Heights & The Missing Plaque
A Bunker on the Golan Heights (1985) Israel I wrote this little vignette, for fun, a few years ago with my tongue firmly in my cheek. It is quite true nonetheless as best that I can recall. I caution the reader that this little yarn is not meant to place the writer in the ledger…
Scarlet Underground Reunite Back-to-Back Years
Ex-Cadet Weekend 2012 & 2013 – The Scarlet Underground Reunite Scarlet Underground – A name conceived on a train during a vacation in Europe in August 1986 by 15248 Roger Boulet and 15662 Chris McLaughlin. The concept was to form a rock band to represent the college. Chris knew a lead singer from Royal Roads…