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McGill’s Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC) 1912-1968
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McGill’s Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC) 1912-1968
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McGill University led its Canadian counterparts when it organized its version of a college-based Officer Training Corps (OTC) in September 1912. The author points out that the innovation came from the usual source for Canadian military innovations: Great Britain. The COTC would play a significant role in the university, contributing thousands of McGill undergraduates, male and female, to two world wars and to Canada's Cold War defenders. Like other institutions, the author notes, the McGill COTC died – a victim of a federal government's reduced priority for defence, and the sweeping reconsideration of reserve officer provision in the newly-unified Canadian Forces. Despite its role in financing students, in the radical mood of the late 1960s McGill's COTC died virtually unmourned, save by a few who had given it their best years, and others who remembered both comradeship and a patriotic sense of self-sacrifice.
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Canadian Military Journal
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Vol. 10
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no. 3
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37-47
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Summer 2010
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en
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Morton, Desmond. “McGill’s Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC) 1912-1968.” Canadian Military Journal Vol. 10, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 37–47. http://www.journal.forces.gc.ca/vol10/no3/07-morton-eng.asp.
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