McGill’s Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC) 1912-1968

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Title
McGill’s Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps (COTC) 1912-1968
Abstract
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.
Publication
Canadian Military Journal
Volume
Vol. 10
Issue
no. 3
Pages
37-47
Date
Summer 2010
Language
en
URL
Citation
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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