Reunions / Réunions
REUNION WEEKEND 2009 FIN DE SEMAINE DE RÉUNION 2009 Click HERE to keep up to date on Reunion Weekend 2009 Cliquez ICI pour plus d’info à propos de la Fin de Semaine de Réunion 2009 (Site en construction: non-disponible) ______________________________________________________________________________________ Royal Roads Class Reunions 2009 Royal Roads Homecoming 2009 will be held on the weekend…
Retirements
9139 Dr. Richard Frank Marsden (CMR RMC 1972) recently retired after 35 years of service with the Federal Government. Rick entered CMR in 1967 and graduated from RMC with a BSc in Honours Mathematics and Physics. At the college he was a member of the varsity soccer and high box display teams. Upon graduation he…
Perspective de carrière, une conférence mémorable
Perspective de carrière, une conférence mémorable Career Perspective: A Conference to Remember Article by/par 25329 Michael Hoyt (I Year, Richelieu Squadron) and/et 25533 Véronique Trépanier (Année préparatoire, Escadron Iberville) L’Institut de la conférence des associations de la défense (ICAD) a tenu son séminaire annuel les 26 et 27 février dernier au Château Laurier à Ottawa.…
In This Issue 11
From Boot Camp to Battle Field Discovery Channel Goes to COMBAT SCHOOL With Canada’s Armed Forces, March 10 COMBAT SCHOOL follows – for the first time ever – Canadian infantry soldiers as they undergo the most technologically-advanced, intense and realistic combat training in military history. Premiering Tuesday, March 10 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Discovery…
What’s Happening At RMC
New College Dress of the Day standard (No. 5s) No. 5 Dress (L-R): Male Summer Dress, Male Summer Dress (w/ windbreaker), Female Winter Dress, Female Winter Dress (w/ gabardine and astrakhan) The No. 5s were retired from College Dress in AY 2006/2007 and replaced by the DEUs / CF uniform: the move away from College…
Be part of the varsity recruiting team…
2010 & beyond recruiting of varsity athletes is underway… e-Veritas readers can help… All the RMC coaches are looking for potential university athletes for the 2010 / 2011 school year and beyond. These same young athletes should also have the leadership potential to become officers in the Canadian Forces. The ROTP / RETP application process…
RMC Fencers “Movin’ On Up”
RMC Fencers Making a Mark at the International Level Day III of the CISM France Training Camp at the Salle d’escrime Saint Cyr de Cöetquidan. The Canadian epee team is mixed with the French fencers for an afternoon exhibition team tournament. Canadian fencers are: from the left -4th fencer Cpl Jean Lelion -Montreal, 5th fencer…
Ex-Cadets in the News
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,…
Where are they now?
10268 Major (ret`d) John W McKay (RRMC RMC 1974) is Regional Director Southern Alberta for AD Williams Engineering in Calgary. He is also president of Cantigua Energy Group Ltd. in Chilliwack BC, which provides commercial sector energy planning support by conducting audits, portfolio assessment, implementation planning, grant applications, tracking and monitoring software and data services.…
CMC Athletic Dep’t – Faces & Voices from the past
“Since I was an officer, and the Director of PE, the Cadets usually called me `Sir`. Basketball days they’d call me “Coach” which was also fine, cadets would occasionally get flustered when speaking to me and call me “Sir-Coach”, “Coach-Sir” or “Sir-Coach-Sir”.” Hank Tatarchuk Waldmar Eli (Hank) Tatarchuk has served basketball in Canada for over…
Royal Roads Ex-Cadet Heritage Initiatives: 16598 Scott Stevenson
16598 Mr. J. Scott Stevenson (RRMC 1984-88) “There was a search that started almost immediately once it was noticed that they hadn’t come back. One of my classmates, Laurie Gibbon (16545) was the flight leader in the Cadet Wing and she found that they weren’t there so a search was launched and it got to…
Oral interview of Military Colleges alumni
x e-veritas has been given permission to publish excerpts of 5105 Doctor J. L. Granatstein’s (CMR RMC 1961) interviews (1991-1993) for “The Generals: the Canadian Army’s Senior Commanders in the Second World War”. 5105 Doctor J.L. Granatstein fonds are at the National Defence HQ Directorate of History and Heritage. x x __________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2211 Brigadier-General (Ret’d)…