Royal Military College of Canada
The Royal Military College of Canada (RMC), located in Kingston, Ontario, is the military academy
of the Canadian Forces.
RMC was established by an act of the Canadian Parliament
in 1874 "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." On June 1, 1876, the Military College of
Canada opened its doors to the first class of eighteen cadets. The names of these "Old Eighteen" are memorized by all cadets
today. In 1878, Queen Victoria,
granted the college the right to use the prefix "Royal." The college motto is "Truth, Duty, Valour".
Following World War II, the Canadian Military Colleges Circle (CMC) was
formed with RMC, Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean (CMR) and the Royal Roads Military College (RRMC). CMC was
established to train officers of the three services of the Canadian
Forces. In 1995, following the end of the Cold War, the Department of National Defence closed CMR and RRMC. CMR is now part of ASU Saint-Jean and the government of
British Columbia rents installations of RRMC from DND to run
Royal Roads University.
The province of Ontario granted a university charter to RMC by passing "The Royal
Military College of Canada Degrees Act" in 1959 enabling RMC to offer degrees in Arts, Science, and Engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Today, courses are offered both on site and by distance learning. There are approximately 1000 undergraduate students
and 250 graduate students on campus. The Division of Continuing Studies serves more than 3,000 additional students around the
World. It offers more than 100 distance learning courses, many of them web-enabled.
RMC is located on Point Frederick, a small peninsula at the point where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario. The
location has been an active military base since 1789 and was an important naval base during
the War of 1812.
The Old Eighteen
- A.G.G. Wurtele
- H.C. Freer
- H.E. Wise
- W.M. Davis
- T.L. Reed
- S.J.A. Denison
- L.H. Irving
- F. Davis
- C.A. DesBrisay
- V.S. Rivers
- J. Spelman
- C.O. Fairbank
- A.B. Perry
- J.B. Cochrane
- F.J. Dixon
- G.E. Perley
- H.W. Keefer
- D. MacPherson
Noted alumni
Shown with student numbers.
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