Varsity's Soldiers: The University of Toronto Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps, 1914−1968
The role of Canadian universities in selecting and training officers for the armed forces is an important yet overlooked chapter in the history of higher education in Canada. For more than fifty years, the University of Toronto supported the largest and most active contingent of the Canadian Officer...
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| Summary: | The role of Canadian universities in selecting and training officers for the armed forces is an important yet overlooked chapter in the history of higher education in Canada. For more than fifty years, the University of Toronto supported the largest and most active contingent of the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC), which sent thousands of officer candidates into the regular and reserve forces. Based on the rich fund of documents housed in the university archives, Varsity’s Soldiers offers the first full-length history of military training in Toronto. Beginning with the formation of a student rifle company in 1861, and focussing on the story of the COTC from 1914 to 1968, author Eric McGeer seeks to enlarge appreciation of the university’s remarkable contribution to the defence of Canada, the place of military education in an academic setting, and the experience of the students who embodied the ideal of service to alma mater and to country |
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| ISBN: | 9781487518103 |
| DOI: | 10.3138/9781487518103 |
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| spelling | McGeer, Eric 1955- Verfasser (DE-588)133229610 aut Varsity's Soldiers The University of Toronto Contingent of the Canadian Officers’ Training Corps, 1914−1968 Eric McGeer Toronto University of Toronto Press [2019] © 2019 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier The Canadian Experience of War Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019) The role of Canadian universities in selecting and training officers for the armed forces is an important yet overlooked chapter in the history of higher education in Canada. For more than fifty years, the University of Toronto supported the largest and most active contingent of the Canadian Officers Training Corps (COTC), which sent thousands of officer candidates into the regular and reserve forces. Based on the rich fund of documents housed in the university archives, Varsity’s Soldiers offers the first full-length history of military training in Toronto. Beginning with the formation of a student rifle company in 1861, and focussing on the story of the COTC from 1914 to 1968, author Eric McGeer seeks to enlarge appreciation of the university’s remarkable contribution to the defence of Canada, the place of military education in an academic setting, and the experience of the students who embodied the ideal of service to alma mater and to country In English Canada University of Toronto academic environment leadership military officer selection and training service before self student life and attitudes training university at war HISTORY / Military / Canada bisacsh Education, Higher Ontario Toronto History 20th century Military education Ontario Toronto History 20th century https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487518103 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
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