Royal Military College of Canada

• Aeronautical Engineering ^[5]
• Chemistry & Chemical Engineering ^[6]
• Civil Engineering ^[7]
• Electrical Engineering ^[8] and Computer Engineering ^[9]
• Mechanical Engineering ^[10]

• Humanities (English^[11], History^[12], or French)^[13]
• Social Science (Politics and Economics) ^[14]
• Military and Strategic Studies ^[15]
• Business Administration ^[16]

• Mathematics ^[17]and Computer Science ^[18]
• Physics ^[19]
• Chemistry ^[20]
• Space Science ^[21]

• Continuing Studies Division - RMC Saint-Jean
• Graduate Studies and Research ^[22]

• Founded in 1958, the mission of the Language Schools at the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, Ottawa, Ontario and Borden, Ontario is to provide language training for military personnel. ^[24]^

• Founded in September 1999, the Leadership Institute on the grounds of the Royal Military College of Canada mission is to be the source from which radiates the philosophy of leadership and command that drives the Canadian Officer Corps. The Institute play a role in the overall development of all CF officers and Non Commissioned Members. ^[25]

• Established in 1975, the mission is to conduct research in matters of national and international security and other aspects of international relations. The Centre has strong links with the RMC.^[26].

• The mission is to create an environment to promote active space research programs and thereby provide support for Space Science and other space-related degree programs and activities. ^[27]

• The mission is to advance the knowledge base for addressing the key technology challenges to the commercialisation of fuel cell applications. ^[28]

• The mission is to support and promote research and education in the field of advanced materials and manufacturing at Queen's University and at RMC^[29]

• The mission is to advance the knowledge base for addressing the key technology challenges to the commercialisation of fuel cell applications. ^[30].

• Founded in 2001, the GeoEngineering Centre at Queens and the RMC mission is to innovate and advance knowledge in geotechnical, geohydrological, geochemical, geomechanical and geosynthetics engineering. The Centre has been housed on the first floor of Ellis Hall at Queen's University since July 2004.^[31]

• Led by Queen's University, the HPCVL mission is to provide supercomputer power to a number of universities in Eastern Ontario: Queen's University, RMC, the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. ^[32] Researchers are provided with the computational power needed to solve increasingly complex problems. ^[33]

• The mission is to make available the most recent and relevant research results from the study of defence economics to Canadian defence policy analysis and decision-making. ^[34]

• The mission is to become the principal provider of expertise related to environmental issues within the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces (DND/CF). The Institute provides Environmental training through short courses, distance education, or as part of undergraduate or graduate programs. ^[35]

• Sports Centre

• Served as College Blacksmith's Shop then gymnasium until it was demolished in 1912

• Former home of the Equestrian Program, now home to the War Studies Department

• Triumphal arch monument, funded by the RMC Club

• The oldest portion is the surgeon's house, not the wood-framed 1812 naval hospital, as is commonly believed
• Commandant's house was built from stone after 1812,

• Sports Centre

• Annex to the Mackenzie Building housing Currie Hall, the Language Centre
• Contains administrative offices and Otter Squadron - University Training Plan Non Commissioned Members (UTNCM).

• The dockyard bell, which was in front of the Stone Frigate, is now in the RMC Museum.
• Originally mounted on a pole beside the dockyard gate, was used to ring out navy time.
• In use up until the final shutdown of the navy yard in the 1850s.
• The bell went to St Mark's Church in Barriefield and it came back down (to RMC) in 1976.

• Dormitory, houses 9 Squadron (Verches) and Otter (UTPNCM) Squadron.

• Dormitory, houses 10 Squadron (Montcalm). Formerly housed 5 (Brock), 6 (Brant) and 7 (Wolfe) Squadron, then 8 (Mackenzie), 9 (Verches), 10 (Montcalm), 11 (Otter), and 12 squadron

• Site of 1673 French fort, captured by British 1758; Fort Cataraqui.

• A fortification consisting mostly of earthworks (engineering)
• with a North wall of stone masonry.
• Contains one of the Martello Towers, which houses the RMC museum

• Dormitory, built between 1949-50, currently closed for renovations until newly re-opened in 2007, now houses 11 and 12 squadron.
• Originally contained sports stores, swimming pool, admin offices, locker rooms, medical facilities and dormitories

• Dormitory housing 2 (LaSalle), 3 (Pontiac), 4 (Frontenac) and 13 Squadrons.
• Originally called Fort Frederick Dormitory.
• The 'new wing' was built in 1925 and the 'coronation wing' was built in 1937.

• Dormitory by Shoalts and Zaback Architects consisting of 4 storeys and 200 beds
• housing 5 (Brock), 6 (Brant), 7 (Wolfe) and 8 (Mackenzie) Squadrons.

• Academic building housing staff and classes in the bilingual program

• Commandant's house (site of Hewett House)

• Sits adjacent to the Memorial Arch,
• tells the history of the Arch, and the College,
• located on the ‘Hero’s Trail’ along the waterfront

• Designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1989.
• Comprises: Fort Henry, Fort Frederick / Martello Tower, Murney Tower, Shoal Tower, Cathcart Tower

• Designated in 1928 as a National Historic Site of Canada

• Centrepiece building of the college overlooking the parade square,
• features a mansard roof, and central tower flanked by projecting end towers.
• Designed by architect Robert Gage in a Second Empire style: elaborate and monumental.

• Academic building. Houses offices, classrooms, and library.
• Since 2006, Science, Engineering & Art libraries combined to create more classrooms in Sawyer.

• The old gym is connected to the Stone Frigate by a covered walkway.
• Current salle d'armes and home of the RMC fencing team.
• Summer headquarters for HMCS Ontario (C53) Cadet Summer Training Centre.
• The basement was as an indoor firing range until very recently.
• National Defence is converting firing range space into a book storage facility in 2006/2007.
• The project will include abatement of lead dust and asbestos.

• Administrative building.

• Houses the RMC Club, and RMC Club gift shop.

Panet family members who attended RMC:

• 179 BGen A.E. Panet, CB, CMG, DSO;
• 255 MGen H.A. Panet, CB, CMG, DSO;
• 499 MGen Edouard de Bellefeuille Panet, CMG, DSO, ED, LLD, D.Sc. Mil;
• 985 Brigader Henri de Lotbiniere Panet, CBE; and
• 1474 LCol de Lotbiniere Harwood Macdonald Panet.

• Lt Col. Charles-Eugène Panet (1829-98), Senator (1875), Deputy Minister of Militia (1875-98).

• early 20th century row housing (2 terraces each with 8 4 roomed cottages, built as servants quarters, later private married staff housing, built for $107,152)
• 100th anniversary celebrated on May 30th
• In 2003, renovated 2 row houses into office space for the Canadian Defence Academy.
• RMC honoured by Frontenac Heritage Foundation in 2005 for the restoration.

• Academic buildings containing offices, classrooms, and science and engineering labs.

• Athletic centre

• designed by architect Archibald Fraser as Royal Dockyard naval supply storehouse
• Currently Dormitory-housing 1 Squadron, located to East of Parade Square.

• A multifunctional mess and recreation building built from 1934-36
• Houses the Cadet Dining Hall and the Cadet Mess.
• RMC barber and Canadian Forces Exchange System (CANEX) are located in the basement.

• Brigadier Charles N. Perreau, RMC Commandant 1915-19, indicated that he wanted to establish a museum at RMC. RMC started to collect artefacts in a piecemeal way.
• In 1918, Col. Charles N. Perreau requested a propeller on behalf of the RMC to the Commission on War Records and Trophies. “as a memoria of the many cadets we have sent to the RAF.” ^[74]

• 151 Major-General Sir Archibald Macdonell, RMC commandant 1919-25 gathered trophies he had addressed to RMC from the battlefields, and a few items from different sources.
• Maj.-Gen. Macdonell requested various War Trophies captured by the Canadian Corps be dispatched to RMC for disposal about the grounds and buildings in recognition of the record of the ex-cadets.

• A special army board met at RMC to look at the possibility of creating a museum in Fort Frederick, on RMC grounds. The conclusion was positive.

• Quartermaster General wrote to 621 Brigadier C. F. Constantine, DSO, RMC Commandant 1925-30 “It is the desire of National Defence Headquarters to make the museum at the Royal Military College the principal storehouse for military relics of all natures...”
• Although the army opened many museums from 1946 to 1964, the RMC Museum did not materialize.

• An inventory of RMC’s holdings, 12 pages of items, many of the 1914-1918 vintage, had been captured from the Germans.

• Walter Douglas (RMC 1890) donated the 430-piece collection of arms of the late General Profirio Diaz, former President of Mexico to RMC.
• Most of these firearms, had little to do with RMC’s history.

• The packing cases left by Douglas had not yet been opened.

• RMC authorities decided to close the RMC museum.
• Today we would classify the first version of the RMC Museum as a mere historical collection. *Many artifacts contained in Fort Henry, a 19th Century citadel overlooking the RMC grounds were given to other military museums.

• The army published the Military Museums order which presented the parameters within which corps or unit army museums could be created, and described when and how these museums could access equipment or war trophies.
• Many army museums started to be officially recognized.

• The idea of reopening the RMC museum resurfaced.
• Douglas’s cases were finally opened, along with others containing the material that had been set aside in 1946.

• The new RMC Museum opened at its present location in the Martello Tower at Fort Frederick.

• Military College of Canada was established by an Act of the Canadian Parliament "for the purpose of providing a complete education in all branches of military tactics, fortification, engineering, and general scientific knowledge in subjects connected with and necessary to thorough knowledge of the military profession" in one of the Garrison Towns of Canada^[76]

• Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario opened its doors to the first class of eighteen officer cadets. The names of these "Old Eighteen" are memorized by all cadets today.

• Her Majesty Queen Victoria, granted the college the right to use the prefix "Royal."

• The first Commandant, Major Edward Osborne Hewett, chose the college motto, "Truth, Duty, Valour". The full dress uniform of an officer cadet has remained essentially the same; however, the Pillbox hat has replaced the shako. The pith helmet remains in use for Parade (military) only.^[77]

• Private schools were established to prepare boys for entrance to RMC, including the Rothesay Netherwood School and the Hillfield Strathallan College.

• The first recorded First Aid class taught in Ontario was held at the RMC.

• The RMC alumni association (RMC Club) was inaugurated

• The first annual RMC alumni dinner was held in Ottawa

• Leo the Royal Cadet is an opera composed by Oscar Telgmann and George Cameron

• The RMC Club Proceedings, the predecessor of The Review, the Log of HMS Stone Frigate, the Club Newsletter, and current Veritas was published

• Can You Tell Me The Reason Why?, a song about life at the Royal Military College of Canada, was written by #282 A.H.N. Kennedy (1888) & #287 B.H.O. Armstrong (1889)^[78]

• The RMC Club was incorporated under the Statutes of Ontario

• The tradition of the Roll Call, which continues today in the Old Brigade, began

• The RMC club decided to erect “a suitable memorial gateway” in memory of those ex cadets who have laid down their lives….”

• The RMC March (music), Precision (march) was composed by Madame Denise Chabot,^[79] the wife of an RMC staff member, Major C.A. Chabot. She was inspired by the sound of the cadets marching past married quarters. The march starts, “We are the gentlemen cadets of RMC. We have sworn to love and serve Her Majesty…” ^[80] The College March for bagpipe is Alexander Mackenzie^[81]

• The last class at RMC for the duration of hostilities graduated, a final parade was held and the college colours were laid up in Saint George's Cathedral in Kingston, Ontario. For the remainder of the war the College served as a wartime training area, offering courses such as the Company Commanders Course, Military Intelligence Course, and the War Staff Course.

• RMC reopened with the "New One Hundred" cadets. Since World War II, RMC has broadened to cover a wide range of disciplines however RMC was originally oriented very heavily towards science and engineering.
• In the Post-War re-organisation of the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Military Colleges Circle (CMC) was formed with RMC, Royal Roads Military College (RRMC) and Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean(CMR)

• The RMC Club commemorated the fallen from the Second World War on two bronze plaques located on the flanking plinths of the Arch. Names of cadets lost in Korea, through peacekeeping and other operations were added as required.

• The Old Brigade, alumni celebrating 50 + years since they entered one of the military colleges, are inducted.

• CMR was established in order to conduct tri-service cadet training within the Canadian Forces.

• The RMC Band was founded. It includes the pipes and drums section, the brass and reed section, the choir, and a Scottish highland dance troupe.

• The province of Ontario granted a university charter to RMC by passing "The Royal Military College of Canada Degrees Act" enabling RMC to offer degrees in Arts, Science, and Engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

• The Canadian historian, #4393 Doctor Desmond Morton O.C., was the first graduate to receive his RMC degree.^[82]

• The RMC Flag inspired Dr. George F.G. Stanley, in his design for the new Canadian flag which was adopted in 1965.^[83]

• ^[84] - a registered Canadian charity - was founded as an alumni charitable organization to perform fundraising in support of RMC.

• RMC celebrates its' centennial celebrations

• Commemorative Centennial Canada Post stamps depict a Wing Parade in front of the Mackenzie Building and a Colour Party with the Memorial Arch in the background^[85]
• 490 Brigadier F. H. Maynard, (RMC 1901) unveiled the RMC Club’s centennial gift, the statue now known as ‘Brucie.’ Maynard had served in France, Mesopotamia and India.

• Military colleges open their doors to women.

• In September, the first 32 female cadets are accepted into first year at RMC

• following the end of the Cold War and massive government cutbacks on defence spending, the Department of National Defence closed Royal Roads Military College (RRMC) and Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean (CMR).
• CMR now operates as part of ASU Saint-Jean as Campus St-Jean where preparatory year ("Prep year") cadets acquire the necessary academic standard needed to attend RMC.
• RRMC Royal Roads Military College is no longer a military institution, and is now maintained by the Government of British Columbia as Royal Roads University.
• The loss of CMR and RRMC along with their many traditions and history as military colleges still remains a bitter event for many cadets and alumni.^[86]

• Canadian Defence Academy (CDA), which oversees RMC, was established

• To commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of RMC, the RMC Foundation refurbished the Memorial Arch and the Royal Canadian Mint issued a 5-cent coin.

• The RMC celebrated the 125 year history of the college with a National Film Board of Canada Documentary, The Royal Military College of Canada - A History^[87]

• For every 2.5 undergraduate degrees, RMC now produces one graduate degree. The average civilian faculty member at RMC currently attracts over $121,000 annually in extramural research funding.

• The RMC launches the Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year (ALOY)

• "Thousands of young officers have marched off its [RMC's] parade square and gone on to great achievements in politics, business and most importantly, on the battlefield"

• "A well-aged dankness in the Stone Frigate, the oldest dormitory at Kingston's Royal Military College, is reputed to be ideally suited to the cultivation of spiders, the common cold and a strong character. Residents of the 180-year-old former naval warehouse, which is separated from the other dorms by Parade Square, have long seen the ability to endure their barracks' inhospitable clime as a mark of fortitude."^[88]

• [RMC is] "one of the best of its class in the world . . . And the Americans themselves, I understand, say better than at West Point.” In 1893 Clarke commented that RMC graduates were better than those from the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.^[89]

• "You will be called upon to take your place in modern Canada and in the modern world.... You will also be called upon to lead...and a leader must stand for something. You must not only be aware of who you are. You must also be defined by what you do."

• "The role of the officer in modern war can only be properly discharged if they have education and standing in the community comparable to that of any of the other professions as well as high qualities of character and physique.” In 1947, Claxton reopened RMC as a 3-service cadet college offering a 4-year academic degree.

• "[T]his is an exercise in Nation Building: In the way that water transforms into ice by building around a single crystal, perhaps the new Canada could do worse than to build around the experiences and values of the new RMC."..."We educate those who pass through this place Royal Military College of Canada exactly so that they will fully understand and be a part of the culture they are called upon to defend."^[90]

• "I am confident that The RMC Battalion of Gentlemen Cadets, which will be re-born after this war is over will typify in the future all the best College tradition we have known in the past"

• the "spirit" of the Royal Military College of Canada's graduates, "no less than their military attainments, exercised a potent influence in fashioning a force which, in fighting efficiency, has never been excelled."

• Suggested, in 1816, the establishment of a Canadian military college in Trois Rivieres, Ontario to unify the population, "to begin to work upon young minds of different... parties and persuasions" so "old prejudices would vanish not only among the students, but even among their relations, and a common interest would ensue"

• suggested, in a 1874 report to Governor-General Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, the establishment of 3 permanent officer training schools (Halifax, Nova Scotia Quebec, Quebec Saint John, New Brunswick) to serve all arms "the great contribution West Point had made could be duplicated in Canada by a similar institution in which officers of all arms would be trained together".

• "A degree from the Royal Military College is a living testament to the value of service and dedication."

• “RMC has a proud history of excellence and is fundamental in training future leaders of the Canadian Forces,”

• "Overall, the training that I was involved in since graduating from RMC prepared me very well for my tour in Afghanistan. I found myself constantly relying on the basic principles of leadership. Leading by example was by far the most important aspect."

• "...the Royal Military College where the Veterans of the future are being schooled in our military history and are being prepared to make history themselves." Oct. 17, 2005 ^[92]

• "The professionalism of the Canadian Forces is, in large part, founded on learning and knowledge. The Canadian Defence Academy, the Military and Staff Colleges and the Royal Military College of Canada, all play a critical role in creating and ensuring knowledge in the defence community."^[93]

• "[At] the Royal Military College where a bulk of our new officers start their career, start their education, we have 200 spots open for August [2007]. We have 1,500 people who have applied and completed the application process to go to those 200 spots. That is a 7½ to one ratio and we get the opportunity to select the very best from it. As a result, our quality of applicants and the quality of the recruits, the level of fitness and the imagination and the success in completing the courses has skyrocketed in a way that we couldn't even dream about before." 2007 Speech at the National Managers' Forum^[94]

• "…RMC never taught me how to lead a platoon attack or conduct a Shurah with local Afghan elders, but it has taught me three vital ideas that all officers should adhere to. Truth means leading soldiers from the front and being honest to them at all times. Duty means being there at the front when the bullets start flying because the private soldier that I have just told to assault an enemy position needs to know that I am committed to achieving the mission with him. Valour means taking the difficult orders and making them my own, in spite of the fear of the unknown or the chances that we are taking." Veritas article July 2007, p38^[95]

• Wrote Governor-General Dufferin, in 1878 "This belief led me to propose the establishment of a Military College modelled on existing similar institutions in England and the United States, with the expectation that when the first batch of Graduates were leaving the College. Means would be found to employ the Graduates in the Canadian Military Service"

• "I have always remembered with pride that I was a graduate of the RMC. What I learned there carried me through many dangers and difficulties and I wish to record here my gratitude to all who taught me and with whom I served at the RMC, Canada."

• "The Royal Military College is a higher education institution that plays an essential role for the Canadian Forces and for our country...Throughout the ranks, the leadership of the Canadian Forces is smart, flexible and adaptive. And a good deal of the credit for this should go to the Royal Military College... This is a vital national institution. Here, today, much of tomorrow’s military leadership is being forged... RMC will continue to provide the professional development that the CF needs to successfully face the challenges that surely lay ahead."^[96]

• "RMC, which is only nine years younger than Confederation, has been a powerful factor in the growth and security of the country"

• “there are very few institutions of a similar character equal to it [Royal Military College of Canada at Kingston] in Europe and none that are better.”

• The motto of the Royal Military College is (as you well know), "Truth, Duty, Valour". Your admission to the ranks of this institution, whether it occurred this year or two decades ago, as cadets or as staff, presupposes that you are already possessed of these qualities. That having been said, there is always room for improvement, and the College's role in this regard is to inculcate in its cadets a sense of integrity, responsibility, self-discipline, teamwork, and leadership.^[98]

• "We have a lot to be proud of and the graduates are making a tremendous contribution to Canadian society. We need to tell this story again and again. We need to make sure the graduates who have reached levels of prestige are recognized."

• "RMC is one of the best military colleges in the world, and it takes motivation and discipline to succeed here."

• "I’m very proud of these young men and women. They put in months of rigorous training on top of an already demanding schedule, and today, their dedication, fitness and teamwork paid off"

• "The supreme test of a military college is the success of its graduates in war...There were some who believed that the stronger academic program must inevitably have weakened the old military spirit and efficiency. But the success of the graduates who went directly to Korea quickly disabused them."

• 1872 petition recommended the military college for Kingston "remarkable healthfulness...not without historical fame in the annals of the country which would render it the more proper site for a military college"

• "Like its counterparts Sandhurst in the U.K, West Point in the U.S. and l'École militaire in France, Canada's Royal Military College is the school of choice for many of this country's future military leaders."

• "I regard the Canadian Military College as one of the best of its class in the world. The training and results are in every way of a high order, and the Americans themselves, I understand, say better than at West Point."

• "...The College must also promote a common vision of the profession of arms, the common military ethos underpinning leadership in the CF and the increasingly joint nature of all foreseeable operations."

• By 1900, hardly a Canadian "bridge, road, or railway line was built without the assistance of an engineering graduate of RMC."^[99]