Canadian Officers' Training Corps

The Canadian Officers' Training Corps (COTC) 1912 - c. 1968, was Canada's first officer training program fashioned after the equivalent program in the United Kingdom.[1]

In World War Two the Canadian Army was able to produce high quality officers due to the high standards of the COTC.

Notable members
  • Harry Crerar (1888 – 1965), General of the Canadian Army and field commander in World War II
  • W. G. Hardy (1895 – 1979), Professor, author, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation[2]

References
  1. http://natoassociation.ca/the-canadian-officers-training-corps-an-imperial-history/
  2. "Personnel Records of the First World War". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 2019-12-18.


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