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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,…
We get emails
Praise is due for the new look of e-Veritas. Gone is the uninspiring photo of a building at RMC seemingly erected as temporary, war-time accommodation (Panet House), replaced by an attractive vista of Canada’s three national military colleges (as they then were). That the picture of Royal Roads Military College occupies a right-of-line position is…
Catching Up With the News / We get emails
VI (27 Dec) & Halifax (28 Dec) Meet & Greets Goal: Fresh Look To Determine the Needs & Satisfaction of Ex Cadets _____________________________________ Teaching Excellence Award Public Lecture The Principal and the members of the Class of 1965 would like to invite all members of the RMC community to the Class of 1965 Teaching…
We get emails & Take It On the Chin
Veritas has become merely a advertising vehicle for real estate agents. Please remove me from the mailing list. 4586 Richard (Robin) Carter _________________________________ Bill, if I wanted to subscribe to a real estate journal I would do so. The multiple plugs for realtors, EVEN IF THEY ARE SUPPORTING THE CLUB, make the E-Veritas into something…
Letter to the Editor – The RMC Commandant’s Frozen Salary
Dear Sir: The appointment of a new commanding officer or, in the case of the Royal Military College of Canada a new Commandant, is cause for reviewing the position’s terms of reference. As such, I would be remiss in not drawing to the Commandant’s attention (through the medium of e-Veritas) the regrettable state of his…