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This is a list of notable individuals who have been, or are involved with the Royal Military College of Canada.
Notable graduates
Royal Military College of Canada is prestigious and has had many notable alumni (Shown with college numbers).
# | Name | Grad | Significance |
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6508 | MGen (Ret'd) John L Adams | 1965 | Chief, Communications Security Establishment |
2510 | BGen (Ret'd) Edward ‘Ned’ AC Amy DSO, an OBE, MC, Canadian Decoration, American Bronze Star, Legion d'honneur | 1936 | one of Canada's most decorated soldiers |
7632 | LCol (Ret'd) Gunars G Balodis’ | 1968 | co-founder of (c) Music for Young Children (MYC) with his wife Frances Balodis |
2671 | Lieutenant Duncan Gordon Peter Bell-Irving | 1908 | BC Land Surveyors Roll of Honour [1] |
1472 | Judge Sherburne Tupper Bigelow | 1918 | Canadian Horseracing Hall of Fame, (1991) [2] |
2364 | Air Commodore (ret'd) Leonard Birchall C.M., O.B.E. | 1933 | Second World War hero, "Saviour of Ceylon", Executive Officer at York University |
6219 | Dr. Robin Boadway | 1964 | economist, author, Rhodes Scholar 1964 |
8790 | General Jean Boyle (ret'd) CMM, CD | 1971 | fighter pilot, and businessman. |
1032 | Lieutenant General E. L. M. Burns C.C., DSO, OBE, MC, CD, | 1914 | 1981 recipient of the Pearson Medal of Peace |
6523 | Ambassador Terence Colfer (retired) | 1965 | former Canadian Ambassador to Iran 1999-2003 and to Kuwait 1996-1999 |
851 | Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave DSO | 1912 | Signed Japanese Instrument of Surrender(1945) |
Harry Crerar PC, CH, CB, DSO, KStJ, CD | army officer, Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada) in 1940 | ||
7860 | Lt. Gen. (ret) the Hon. Roméo Dallaire O.C., CMM, G.O.Q., C.S.M. CD, LL.D. | 1969 | Senator, Awarded Vimy Award by the Conference of Defence Associations, June 1995. Awarded the United States Legion of Merit, January 1996; author, academic |
7543 | Senator Joseph A. Day | 1968 | retired from Royal Canadian Air Force; lawyer, Liberal Senator for New Brunswick 2001.10.04 - |
4860 | General John de Chastelain O.C., CMM, CD, C.H. | 1960 | former Chief of the Defence Staff; participant in Northern Ireland peace process; Scouts Canada's National Council and Substance Abuse Task Force. former Canadian Ambassador to the United States. |
221 | Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell | 1890 | Major-General with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army. |
17324 | Sharon Donnelly, CD | 1990 | 2000 & 2004 Olympic teams, triathlon |
2082 | Hon. Brigadier-General (ret) Charles Drury PC, C.B.E., DSO | 1929 | former soldier, businessperson, politician |
19828 | John-James Ford | 1995 | author 'Bonk on the Head' which won 2006 Ottawa, Ontario Book Award |
8276 | Doctor MJ Garneau C.C., CD, Ph.D., F.C.A.S.I. | 1970 | Canadian astronaut aboard space shuttles Challenger and Endeavour, logged nearly 700 hours in space; NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 1997, |
Sir Édouard Girouard, K.C.M.G. | 1886 | National Historic Person of Canada (1938); military engineer, constructed railways in Africa | |
22458 | Captain Nichola Goddard, MSM | 2002 | First female Canadian soldier killed in action, in Afghanistan, Nichola Goddard scholarship in her honour |
1681 | Walter L. Gordon | 1926 | public servant, politician, author |
5105 | Doctor JL Granatstein O.C., Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S.C. | 1961 | Canadian historian |
8816 | Ambassador Marius Grinius | 1971 | Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland |
Lt General Sir Arthur Edward Grassett | 1909 | Royal Engineers, Knighted 1945 | |
13738 | Colonel (Ret'd) Chris Hadfield CD | 1982 | Canadian astronaut |
1976 | Hon George Hees P.C., O.C. | 1927 | former Minister of Veterans Affairs, Ambassador-at-large for the Canadian International Development Agency Food Aid Program |
Major-General Rod Keller CD, C.B.E. | Canadian Army Officer, 3rd Canadian Infantry Division;Kelowna, British Columbia alderman | ||
2585 | Sir Edwin Leather KCMG, KCVO | 1937 | Former Governor of Bermuda, former Chair of the Executive Committee of Canadian Red Cross |
2102 | John Keiller MacKay (RMC 1929) | 1929 | Former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario |
3528 | General (Ret) Paul David Manson O.C., CMM, CD, B.Sc., D.M.S. | 1956 | military leader, business executive and volunteer; former Chief of Defence Staff |
Paul C. Marriner | Director, Fly Fishing Canada; Team Canada member at 10 World Fly Fishing Championships | ||
1921 | Commissioner George McClellan (police) | 1929 | former Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1963-1967 |
1865 | Lieutenant Colonel (Ret'd) Theodore Meighen | 1925 | Lawyer and philanthropist |
2290 | Brigadier General Dollard Ménard | 1932 | Story of bravery at Dieppeinspired a Canadian WWII poster “Ce qu’il faut pour vaincre” |
H1866 | Lieutenant-Colonel (Ret'd) Cecil Merritt | 1925 | Politician, awarded a Victoria Cross |
1800 | Hartland Molson, O.C., OBE, D.C.L. | 1924 | Former brewer, owner of the Montreal Canadiens |
7301 | Earle Morris | 1967 | 3-time Brier representative, coach of the Australian national curling team |
G0053 | LCol (Ret'd) Alex Morrison, MSC, CD | 1980 | awarded 2002 Pearson Medal of Peace |
4393 | Doctor Desmond Morton O.C., Ph.D. , F.R.S.C. | 1959 | Canadian historian, awarded the first RMC degree Rhodes Scholar 1959 |
Leonard Nicholson C.M., MBE | Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police | ||
2592 | Edmund Boyd Osler (1919) | 1937 | Pilot, Squadron Leader, Member of Parliament for Winnipeg, Manitoba South Centre 1968-72 Insurance executive, writer |
13 | Commissioner/Major General Aylesworth Perry | 1876 | Commissioner North-West Mounted Police Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1890-1923 |
2184 | Rear Admiral Desmond Piers DSC, C.M., CD, D.Sc. Mil, KLj, RCN[3] | 1930 | first RMC graduate to join the Royal Canadian Navy |
1309 | Mr Richard Porritt | 1917 | inducted into Canadian Mining Hall of Fame |
126 | Philip Primrose | Former police officer, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta | |
14344 | Captain (ret’d) Bruce Poulin | 1992 | Queen's Jubilee Medal for volunteerism |
E1855 | Maj David N Quick | 2003 | Star of Military Valour, Afghanistan |
2802 | Robert Gordon Rogers | 1940 | Former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia |
Air Commodore (ret'd) Arthur Dwight Ross GC, CD, CBE | Second World War George Cross recipient | ||
Jeffrey Russell | 1920 | inducted into Canadian Football Hall of Fame | |
1596 | General Guy Simonds C.C., C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., CD | 1925 | Former Chief of the General Staff. For a lifetime of military service to Canada. |
Brigadier General James Sutherland Brown | Canadian military officer who drafted a contingency war plan in 1921 to invade and occupy several American border cities. | ||
52 | William Grant Stairs | Explorer | |
Major General Herbert Cyril Thacker (1870–1953) | 1890 | Canada’s first military attaché, sent to the Far East during Russo-Japanese War 1904 [4] | |
RCNSE54 | Rear Admiral Robert Timbrell | 1937 | Awarded Distinguished Service Cross during World War II |
1633 | General Christopher Vokes | 1925 | World War II operational commander |
11027 | BGen Ken Watkin | 1976 | Judge Advocate General |
2357 | Brigadier-Gen Denis Whitaker DSO, C.M., E.D., CD | 1933 | leader in military, sport, business and community service, co-author of 2 Canada's military history books |
96 | James White, Geographer, deceased | Produced 1st edition of Atlas of Canada | |
Brigadier Sir Edward Oliver Wheeler, | 1907 | Military Officer, surveyor, adventurer, 1921 Mount Everest expedition | |
2951 | General Ramsey Muir Withers CMM,
CD, |
1952 | Military Officer |
Commissioner Stuart Taylor Wood | 1912 | former Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police 1938-1951 |
Notable honorary degree recipients
# | Name | Grad | Honourary doctorate in |
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7860 | Lt. Gen. (ret) the Hon. Roméo Dallaire O.C., CMM, G.O.Q., C.S.M. CD, LL.D. | 1969 | Military Sciences (2001) |
4377 | LGen (Ret'd) Richard J Evraire | CMR RMC 1969 | Military Sciences (1997) |
National Chief. L. Phillip Fontaine OM | 2000 | Laws | |
13738 | Colonel (Ret'd) Chris Hadfield CD | 1982 | Engineering (1996) |
14444 | Captain (Ret'd) Dorothy A Hector | 1984 | Laws (2001) |
Notable honorary and special members of the Royal Military College of Canada Club
Shown with college numbers.
Name | # | Significance |
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Myriam Bédard | S120 | Canadian biathlete |
Charles H. Belzile C.M., CMM, CD, | H22547 | distinguished military career; community service: Canadian War Museum Advisory Committee; Conference of Defence Associations; founding member of Canadian Battle of Normandy Foundation. |
Thomas R. Berger O.C., O.B.C., LL.B., LL.D., Q.C. | S153 | former puisne judge of the supreme Court of British Columbia; leader of MacKenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry; advocate of Canadian unity and equality |
Thomas Brzustowski O.C., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.C., P.Eng. | S143 | Canadian engineer, academic, and civil servant. |
Adrienne Clarkson C.C., CMM, C.O.M., CD | H22982 | Twenty-fifth Governor General |
Barney Danson | H | founder of Katimavik, former RMC Chancellor |
Senator Joseph A. Day | H7543 | Canadian Senator |
Hon. Art Eggleton | S128 | Canadian politician |
Mr. L. Phil Fontaine, Order of Manitoba | H | Assembly of First Nations National Chief |
Hon. Bill Graham | S147 | Canadian politician |
Rick Hillier | S148 | Chief of the Defence Staff of the Canadian Forces |
Ray Henault | S146 | former Chief of the Defence Staff |
Ray Hnatyshyn P.C., C.C., CMM, CD, B.A., LL.B., Q.C. | H17416 | Twenty-fourth Governor General |
Gilles Lamontagne, C.P., O.C. C.Q., CD, B.A. | H15200 | military officer, prisoner of war during World War II, businessman and politician, |
Roméo LeBlanc C.P., C.C., CMM, CD | H20123 | Twenty-fifth Governor General |
Hon John Ross Matheson | H17417 | designed Canadian flag, founded the Order of Canada, soldier, judge, politician |
Hon Peter Milliken | S149 | Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons |
Hon Gordon O'Connor | S157 | Canadian politician, National Defence Minister |
Ernest Smith V.C., C.M. O.B.C., CD | S132 | Soldier, politician |
Edward Schreyer P.C., C.C., CMM, O.M., CD, LL.D. | H14513 | Twenty-second Governor General |
Jeanne Sauvé C.P., C.C., CMM, CD, LL.D. | H16929 | Twenty-third Governor General |
Notable non-graduate alumni of the RMC
Name | Left RMC in: | Significance |
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Air Marshal Billy Bishop, V.C. 1894-1956 | 1914 | World War I flying ace designated a National Historic Person of Canada in 1980. |
Major General Sir William Throsby Bridges, KCB, CMG | 1879 | Major General of the Australian Army and first Commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon |
Jacques Duchesneau, C.M. M.A.P. | current | Doctoral candidate, President and Chief Executive Officer Canadian Air Transport Security Authority |
The Honourable Wilfrid Heighington | 1915 | Politician |
Dr. Geoffrey O'Hara, (1882-1967) | 1900 | composer, singer, lecturer, songwriter, army singing instructor, ethnomusicologist, pianist and guild organizer |
Edgar William Richard Steacie | 1921 | Former president of the National Research Council of Canada |
Thomas Vien (1881 - 1972) | 1903 | lawyer, Speaker of the Senate of Canada; Deputy Speaker of House of Commons of Canada |
Notable professors/educators/staff
Shown with college numbers.
Student # | Name | Significance |
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S155 | Willard Boyle | Businessman, invented Charge-coupled device |
Gérard Bessette | Author and educator | |
Associate Professor Walter Dorn | Co-chair of the Department of Security Studies, educator | |
Sir Howard Douglas, 1776–1861, | professor, British general and colonial administrator: Governor of New Brunswick (1823–31)[5] | |
Lieutenant-Colonel (Retd) Roman Jarymowycz OMM, CD, Ph.D. | Educator, decorated Canadian soldier, historian, author | |
G0053 | Alex Morrison | Educator, founding president of Pearson Peacekeeping Centre |
Lieutenant-Colonel George Pearkes | Received the Victoria Cross; staff officer of RMC | |
H8829 | Col. the Hon. George F.G. Stanley | Educator and designer of Canadian flag; Companion of the C.C.C. |
Lieutenant-General Kenneth Stuart | Chief of the General Staff 1941-1943, educator |
Commandants
Shown with college numbers.
# | Name | Year | Significance |
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12192 | Brigadier-General Tom Lawson CD (RMC ‘79) | 2007- | current commandant
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E1607 | Brigadier-General Jocelyn Lacroix (RMC 1999) CD | 2005-2007 |
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6496 | Brigadier-General (Retired) Charles Émond CD ADC | 2005-2006 |
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S133 | Brigadier General Jean Leclerc CD | 2002-05 | Honourary |
8850 | Rear Admiral (Ret'd) David Morse CMM, CD | 2002 |
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9098 | BGen (Ret'd) Ken Hague (RMC 1972) | 1997-2000 | Member, Gifting committee, Royal Military Colleges Club Foundation. |
8790 | Brigadier-General (Ret'd) Jean Boyle CMM, CD | 1991 |
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4459 | Commodore (Ret'd) Edward Murray O.M.M. CD (RMC 1959) | 4459 | |
3543 | BGen (Ret) Walter Niemy CD (RMC 1956) | 1985-7 | |
3572 | BGen (Ret) Frank J. Norman CD (RMC 1956) | 1982-5 |
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3173 | BGen (Ret) John A. Stewart CD (RMC 1953) | 1980-2 |
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4860 | BGen (Ret) John de Chastelain, CD (RMC 1960) | 1977-80 |
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2816 | BGen (Ret) William W. Turner CD (RMC 1940) | 1973-7 |
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2530 | BGen (Ret) William Kirby Lye MBE CD (RMC 36) | 1970-1973 | Lake Lye (near Williams Lake, BC) is named in his honour. |
2576 | Commodore W.P. Hayes CD | 1967 |
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2364 | Air Commodore Leonard Birchall OBE, D.F.C., CD | 1963-7 | Graduate courses were added in 1964. |
2424 | Brigadier G.H. Spencer OBE, CD | 1962-3 | |
2265 | Brigadier W.A.B. Anderson OBE, CD | 1960-2 | |
2184 | Commodore Desmond Piers D.S.C., CD | 1957-60 |
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2140 | Air Commodore D.A.R. Bradshaw, DFC, CD | 1954-7 | |
1137 | Brigadier-General D.R. Agnew C.B.E., CD, LLD | 1947-54 |
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H-2727 | Major General J.F.M. Whiteley, C.B., C.B.E., MC | 1947 | |
2120 | Brigadier J. D. B. Smith, C.B.E., DSO, | 1945-6 | |
816 | Brigadier K. Stuart, DSO, MC | 1944-5 | |
H-2727 | Major General H.F.H. Hertzberg C.M.G., DSO, MC | 1940-4 |
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816 | Brigadier K. Stuart, DSO, MC | 1939-40 | |
749 | Brigadier General Harry Crerar[6] | 1938-9 |
RMC closed as a cadet college during World War II.
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624 | Brigadier W. H. P. Elkins, DSO, | 1930-5 | |
621 | Brigadier C. F. Constantine, DSO, | 1925-30 | Constantine arena at RMC named in his honour |
151 | Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Macdonell K.C.B., C.M.G., DSO, LL.D. | 1919-25 [7] |
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Brigadier H. H. Matthews, C.M.G., DSO, | 1935-8 | ||
Brigadier-General C. N. Perreau, C.M.G. | 1915-19 | ||
Colonel L. R. Carleton, DSO, | 1913-14 | ||
Colonel J.H.V. Crowe | 1909-13 | ||
45 | Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Thornton Taylor | 1905-9 |
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Colonel R.N.R. Reade | 1901-5 | ||
Colonel G.C. Kitson | 1896-1900 |
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Major-General Donald Roderick Cameron, M.G. | 1888-96 |
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Major-General J.R. Oliver | 1886-8 | ||
Lt-Gen. Edward Osborne Hewett [8] | 1875-1886 |
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- The Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada is appointed ex officio as honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Governor General of Canada
First 32 female graduates
Shown with college numbers.
# | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name | # | Name |
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14481 | Linda Newton | 14423 | Liz Dyson | 14484 | Jacquie Pothier | 14390 | Kathy Armstrong | 14397 | Chris Best | 14433 | Debbie Fowler |
14396 | Kathleen Beeman | 14512 | Cheryl de Bellefeuille | 14451 | Theresa Hutchings | 14467 | Joanne MacIsaac | 14478 | Theresa Murphy | 14448 | Becky Horn |
14400 | Sylvie Bonneau | 14504 | Brigitte Vachon | 14412 | Helen Davies | 14491 | Karen Ritchie | 14444 | Dorothy Hector | 14487 | Sue Raby |
14510 | Sue Wigg | 14479 | Sue Nadarozny | 14460 | Lorraine Kuzyk | 14402 | Charmaine Bulger | 14501 | Marie Thomson | 14443 | Kathy Haunts |
14508 | Sheila Walters | 14418 | Marnie Dunsmore | 14477 | Brigitte Muehlgassner | 14411 | Ann David | 14394 | Laura Beare | 14407 | Marie-Pier Cloutier |
14419 | Johanne Durand | 14507 | Julia Walsh |
Books
- Walter S. Avis: "Essays and articles selected from a quarter century of scholarship at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston" (Occasional papers of the Department of English, R.M.C.) 1978
- 2141 Thomas T. L Brock (RMC 1930) “Fight the good fight: Looking in on the recruit class at the Royal Military College of Canada during a week in February 1931” 1964
- 19828 John-James Ford, (RMC 1995) wrote Bonk on the head, a novel that describes a fictional officer-cadet's life at RMC
- G1397 Doctor Andrew A.B. Godefroy "Professional training put to the test: the Royal Military College of Canada and Army Leadership in the South African War 1899-1902" The Army Doctrine and Training Bulletin 2005
- 6647 Major (Ret) Mitchell Kryzanowski (RMC 1965), wrote Currie Hall: Memorial to the Canadian Corps (Kingston: Hewson and White, 1989), a description of the decoration of Currie Hall
- S125 Major (Ret) William WJ Oliver, and S134 Mrs Rolande Oliver, "RMC Hockey History Digest" Eds. Red & White Books, Kingston, 2003
- 4237 Dr. Adrian Preston & Peter Dennis (Edited) "Swords and Covenants" Rowman And Littlefield, London. Croom Helm. 1976.
- H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston "To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College of Canada" 1997 Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1969.
- H16511 Dr. Richard Arthur Preston "Canada's RMC - A History of Royal Military College" Second Edition 1982
- H16511 Dr. Richard Preston "R.M.C. and Kingston: The effect of imperial and military influences on a Canadian community" 1968
- H1877 R. Guy C. Smith (editor) "As You Were! Ex-Cadets Remember". In 2 Volumes. Volume I: 1876-1918. Volume II: 1919-1984. Royal Military College. [Kingston]. The R.M.C. Club of Canada. 1984
- A.G.G. Wurtele "Not In Cooke. - Account of a tour by the first graduating class of the Royal Military College", Kingston, 1880.
- "To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College since the Second World War", Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press, 1991.
- 4669 Toivo Roht, (CMR RMC 1960) "Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, Royal Roads Military College and Royal Military College 1955-2006" 2007
- "RMC Cadet Handbook" Kingston, ON: RMC, 2004
- "Royal Military College of Canada: The Canadian Services Colleges" 1962
- "The Royal Military College of Canada 1876 to 1919"
Other
List of Royal Military College of Canada Memorials
References
- ^ Roll of Honour, British Columbia Land Surveyors
- ^ Hall of Fame - Builder - Judge S. Tupper Bigelow, 1991
- ^ Obituaries
- ^ _____. (1922). Prominent People of the Maritime Provinces, p. 193.
- ^ Douglas, Sir Howard
- ^ [http://www.rmc.ca/other/museum/gallery/college6_e.html Brigadier General Harry Crerar PC, CH, CB, DSO, CD, ADC (RMC 1909) ]
- ^ Bulletin 6, Sir William Orpen, Major-General Sir A.C. Macdonell. 1918
- ^ Lt-Gen. Edward Osborne Hewett, C.G.