To Serve Canada: A History of the Royal Military College of Canada (NONE)

During the four decades following the Second World War, the Royal Military College of Canada has adapted to the need to produce professional career officers by evolving into an academic centre of excellence and one of the country's leading universities. Along the way, it has responded to the challenges of service integration and unification, bilingualism, the emergence of Collège militaire royal and Royal Roads Military College, the employment of women in non-traditional roles, Canada's changing cultural make-up, and the rapid pace of technological change. In a society in which the precepts of military service are increasingly remote, the continued competition for entrance into RMC speaks of its resilience as a centre of learning and leadership. Introduction: Tradition And Change In Military Education -- Ch. 1. The Old Rmc And The New Canadian Services Colleges -- Ch. 2. Winds Of Change: The Regular Officer Training Plan And College Militaire Royal -- Ch. 3. A Two-year Military Training Course Or A Degree? -- Ch. 4. Under The Director Of The Regular Officer Training Plan -- Ch. 5. Manpower And Integration Problems -- Ch. 6. Unification, The Officer Development Board, And Professionalism -- Ch. 7. The Canadian Defence Educational Establishments And Canadian Military Professionalism In Rmc -- Ch. 8. The Directorate Of Professional Education And Development And The Rationalization Of The Canadian Military Colleges -- Ch. 9. Serving Personnel At Rmc -- Ch. 10. Francophone Representation And Bilingualism -- Ch. 11. Institutional Bilingualism -- Ch. 12. Lady Cadets -- Ch. 13. University For The Canadian Forces -- App. A: An Act Respecting National Defence, 1950 -- App. B: An Act Respecting The Royal Military College Of Canada, 1959 -- App. C: Presidents And Chancellors Of The Royal Military College Of Canada -- App. D: Commandants -- App. E: Principals (directors Of Studies) -- App. F: Registrars -- App. G: Staff Adjutants -- App. H: Directors Of Cadets -- App. I: Administrative Officers -- App. J: Directors Of Administration -- App. K: Chairmen/deans Of Rmc Academic Divisions -- App. L: Cadet Wing-commanders (cwcs) And Sword Of Honour -- App. M: Rmc Ex-cadets Who Served In Korea -- App. N: High School Averages Of Students Entering Ontario Universities -- App. O: Rmc's Rhodes Scholars (to 1987) -- App. P: Masters Degrees Granted By Rmc (to 1987) -- App. Q: Presidents Of The Rmc Club Of Canada Since 1945 -- App. R: Secretary-treasurers And Executive Directors Of The Rmc Club Of Canada Since 1940. Richard A. Preston ; With A Foreword By A.j.g.d. De Chastelain. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207-226) And Indexes. "In To Serve Canada, [Preston] takes up the story of RMC (Royal Military College) as one of Canada's three military colleges and examines its development through the uncertain years of the Cold War, through the vagaries of public indifference towards defence, through the evolution of degree-granting status and the moves towards institutional bilingualism, and through the frequent Ottawa-directed re-evaluations of their roles. By chronicling the development of RMC and its sister colleges from the post-Korea period to the present, Dr Preston has provided a valuable and entertaining addition to the historical literature of this country"--Foreword, page vii-viii During the four decades following the Second World War, the Royal Military College (RMC) of Canada has adapted to the need to produce professional career officers by evolving into an academic centre of excellence and one of the country's leading universities. This title highlights RMC's resilience as a centre of learning and leadership.