Much More Than a Red Sweater

“The Red Sweater” It was a great surprise and honour to share the cover of the Fall 2012 issue of Veritas with first-year officer cadets 26680 Damon Thomas and 26852 Alex Gorman. Before I saw the picture I had two e-mails from Class of 57 colleagues who said “What a great picture.”It is a great…

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Not long now until our Class (the Class of ’62) reassembles to celebrate our 50th anniversary of graduating. Truly exciting. Every so often I find myself reflecting on those days – so many of which, for me, were spent up there on the top floor of Yeo Hall in that space where the Chapel is…

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Please remove me from the mailing list. I find this news letter to be totally irrelevant, self serving obsequious crap. 3586 Norman Kelly ________________________________________ Friends of RMC Hockey have confirmed the plan for reunion weekend: September 28th:17h00:18h00 – Open Paladins Practice;  18h00:19h00 – Open Skate September 29th: 14h00-16h00 – Alumni Game – 16h00-17h00 – Post…

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I was overwhelmed by the breadth and thoroughness of the article entitled An Impressive Art Collection at RMCC by Kamille Parkinson PhD in the latest edition of eVeritas. She is able to describe the historical background of the overall collection in such an interesting way as to appeal to all readers whether they have an…

Notices | Avis & We get emails

Ottawa Branch Golf – 13 July – Still Time to Register…   RRMC Memories…The 2012 Guard of Honour at Royal Roads   The CMR Class of 1992 is celebrating its 20 year reunion this September. All graduates of CMR from 1992 or CMR entry dates of 1987 (1988 if BA) are invited to join old…

“Honor Guard”? No, “Guard of Honour”!

A concerned stakeholder has provided the following information. If this could be taken into consideration for parade scripts and articles. “Term “Honor Guard”. This is an American term. In Canada we have Guards of Honour!! The extract below is from the Heritage Canada site, wherein CFAO 61-8, mod 8/84 is quoted as the authority. Other…

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Bill, Re: RMC Pipe Band 1956/57 As I downsize into a condo and retire from the Kalamalka Highlanders Pipe Band, I found this photo. The RMC Band may have it in its archives, but I thought I would send to E-Veritas in case the band did not have it. Of historical interest is that in…

Careers | Carrières

  Bilingual Investment Analyst, Technologies / Analyste investissement, Technologies Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Montreal Junior Process Engineer / Ingénieur(e) junior – Procédé Ultragen, Boucherville Airframe Structural Design Engineer / Ingénieur en conception de structure d’aéronefs Infotech Enterprises Ltd, Mirabel Airframe Structural Analysis / Analyse de structure d’aéronefs Infotech Enterprises Ltd, Mirabel Senior…

Finally Revealed: Why the New 100 Were Never Issued Scarlets…

2944 J.D. Reid – “The New One Hundred and Scarlets” Perhaps the following will be of interest since the subject of the College’s uniform ( the Pillbox April Fools joke) is current. When I entered the College in September of 1948 as one of what was eventually named, “The New One Hundred” (yes, our class…

Do you recognize this photo of an Ex Cadet from the 1930s?

Do you recognize this photo of an Ex Cadet from the 1930s? Your name was given to me by Christine Hamelin, an RMC employee, who I met recently in Mexico while on vacation. I told her the story I am about to tell you and she thought you just might be able to help. I…

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Stratford WINTERFEST Hi, Bill, No. 5472 of the Class of ’62 here … to share some fun I’ve been having this last while: a) For the past three years, since moving from Yarmouth to Stratford, I’ve designed the Stratford WINTERFEST poster. Such involvement came about purely by accident from my winning a logo competition for…

“…younger ex-cadets might find participation in their Branch and Club to be more rewarding …”

My wife and I just came home from viewing the new movie ‘Warhorse’. I heartily recommend it to our members and your readers. My interest came about from my involvement in the London, Ont., Branch of the RMC Ex-cadet Club from 1963 until about 1967.  At the time there was an RCAF station at Centralia,…

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