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*Please note that some changes have been made regarding locations of most music courses. Also, General Training is now only 1 week instead of 2. Any questions, please ask your Jervis Bay staff*
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HMCS Quadra - Comox, British Columbia
HMCS Quadra Cadet Training Centre provides cadets with a safe, successful, and enjoyable educational experience which is focused on citizenship, leadership, and fitness. The training is offered to reinforce and supplement cadet training received at the local corps/squadron.
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HMCS Ontario Cadet Training Centre - Kingston, Ontario
HMCS ONTARIO began life as Cadet Camp Frontenac sailing camp on 4 July 1977, and for four years offered sail training to cadets from around Ontario. On 13 July 1981, the centre was officially re-designated as HMCS ONTARIO Cadet Summer Training Establishment thus allowing ONTARIO to expand and to offer a wider range of training opportunities to sea cadets from across Ontario, and eventually Canada.
Today, the training centre offers training in disciplines such as music, sail, seamanship, drill and ceremonial and the two week general training course. In addition to the main skills, all courses include sports, instructional technique, and leadership training. The course durations of two, three and six weeks represent ascending levels of experience and greater challenge; providing a definitive learning experience for cadets, designed to augment and enhance training from their hometown corps. In the summer months ONTARIO's small cadre of full time staff are supplemented by 110 officers, non-commissioned members and civilian instructors of the Cadet Organizations Administration and Training Services (COATS) and 114 of the top sea cadets in the region who are offered advanced leadership training through employment as staff cadets. Over the course of each summer, ONTARIO delivers training to over 800 cadets, young men and women aged 12 to 16. Since 1982 HMCS ONTARIO's main headquarters has been located at CFB Kingston, and each summer the main training centre is hosted on campus by the Royal Military College of Canada. Every year, the cadets of HMCS ONTARIO Cadet Summer Training Centre perform a traditional military Tattoo and Retreat - the Ceremony of the Flags - showcasing the individual and combined talents of a Cadet Honour Guard and the Military Band. Course Offered:
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Joining Instructions.
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Cold Lake Cadet Training Centre - Cold Lake, Alberta
Cold Lake CTC provides safe and challenging summer training programs: general training, basic survival, fitness and sport, survival instruction, and basic aviation.
The Senior Leaders Course (SLC) moved to Cold Lake in 1973. From 1973 to 1987, SLC was the only course offered at Cold Lake until the Survival School (which hosts two courses: Survival Instructor and Introduction to Survival) relocated in 1988. At that time the two schools existed separately with two separate Commanding Officers. By 1989, the two united under one Commanding Officer and became Cold Lake Air Cadet Camp (CLACC). In 1993, the camp was proud to add a third school to its name, the Cadet Service Band, which ran for one year as both a Band and SLC but later become solely a band program. These three schools made up CLACSTC until 2011, when the service band moved to Penhold and the SLC course was replaced by the Drill and Ceremonial Course, also held at Penhold. Today, Cold Lake Air Cadet Summer Training Centre is home to the Fitness and Sports School as well as the Survival School, with each school hosting both three-week basic and six-week instructors courses each summer. Summer 2015 with the closure of Penhold the General Training and Basic Aviation courses migrated to Cold Lake. The summer camps across Canada were also re-branded as Cadet Training Centres (CTCs) as they have cadets from all three elements eligible to attend certain courses. The training centre is home to over 400 course cadets, and has a staff of approximately 205 staff cadet, officer, civilian instructor, regular force, and civilian contract personnel, from all regions of Canada. Courses Offered:
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Rocky Mountain Cadet Training Centre - Ghost River, Alberta
Rocky Mountain National Army Cadet Summer Training Centre (RMNACSTC) was completed in the summer of 1999 with the intent purpose of replacing Banff NACSTC, which had been operated by the Cadet Program since 1948. Located 48 km northwest of Cochrane, Alberta, Rocky Mountain NACSTC is the site of the former Ghost Ranger Station run by the Alberta Forest Services until the fall of 1996. It is now home to almost 200 cadets from across Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Fifty highly-skilled civilian adventure-training specialists and approximately 100 members of the Canadian Armed Forces support the training at the centre. The attending cadets range in age from 14 to 18, and come from across Canada to take advantage of the unique challenges offered by Alberta's pristine mountain setting. The Training Centre also offers intensive Pipes and Drums course selections for cadet musicians from the Northwest region. The Rocky Mountain Cadet Training Centre is a cadet training facility located just off the Highway 40 Forestry Trunk Road at Ghost Ranger Station, Alberta. Cadets from all over come to this remote camp every summer to practice what they've learned throughout the year. They also play host to a group of Army Cadets from the United Kingdom, during an unique exchange program. Activities include alpine treks, white-water kayaking and canoeing, survival skills, rock climbing, mountaineering, mountain biking, music and more. The Cadet Program also emphasizes community, citizenship, teamwork, and leadership. Courses Offered:
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Joining Instructions.
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Vernon Cadet Training Centre - Vernon, British Columbia
Located on the southern outskirts of the City of Vernon, Vernon Cadet Training Centre (CTC) is perhaps one of the most picturesque training centres in all of Canada.
Vernon opened as an army cadet camp in July 1949, just two years after the camp had been stood down as a World War Two Canadian Army Basic Infantry Training Centre and support camp for the Coldstream Ranch Battle Drill School. That summer, some 1000 army cadets from British Columbia and Alberta arrived by passenger rail and trained for ten days, a further 240 stayed behind to take six weeks of trades training. Since 1949 some 75,000 cadets from across Canada have trained at this famous camp. In the 1940s and 50s, training focused on Infantry Basic Training, Driver Mechanic and Signals, over the years training changed with the times and today the emphasis is on leadership, adventure training, and fitness all with a military flavour. The camp's name has changed over the years, "Alberta - British Columbia Western Command Trades Training Camp" 1949-52, "Western Command Trades Training Camp" 1950s, "Vernon Cadet Trades Training Camp" 1956-61, "Vernon Army Cadet Camp" 1962-1996, but it very much still reflects its early days with most of it's WWII constructed H-Huts barracks and mess halls still standing and used every summer albeit updated. HM Queen Elizabeth II visited the camp in 1959 during her cross-country tour. In the 1967 celebrating Canada's centennial, Band Company and the Guard toured the province after camp for a two week Tattoo tour of BC. In 1977, USMC Jr ROTC Cadets from Washington State began a 13 year exchange program with the camp. In 1994 the camp hosted the first ever reunion for an army cadet camp, some 1800 former cadets and staff returned for the four day reunion. In 1999 the camp celebrated it's 50th anniversary with another successful reunion and museum exhibit. In 2009 the third Vernon reunion is being planned coinciding with the camp's 60th anniversary. It is now the oldest continuous serving cadet training centre in Canada having surpassed Banff in 1999 and Ipperwash in 1994. Ipperwash was also a WWII era H-Hut camp. Today only a few 1941-45 constructed H-Huts remain elsewhere in Canada, most have been demolished or forgotten. Camp Vernon has the largest and best conditioned examples of these once ubiquitous buildings. Those attending Vernon take peculiar pride in bragging and/or complaining about the heat, daily summer temperatures are usually 28-32 degrees Celsius, it's not uncommon for the thermometer to hit the mid 30s and on some instances have touched 40 degrees. The saving grace is the low humidity and a remarkable lack of insects and mosquitoes. Course Offered:
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What Our Cadets Are SayingWhen I joined cadets, I had no confidence in myself or my abilities whatsoever. Through the leadership training, learning experiences, and instructing of younger cadets, I have uncovered my strengths and built upon my weaknesses. I can now say that I am confident in myself and my abilities because of this program and all it has provided for me. The life-long friendships I have made through the program have made me smile everyday because I know that I have people in my life who understand and care for me. The connections of the cadets in the program is magical, it's like we have all been friends forever, but the truth is when you meet another cadet, even if they are a complete stranger, they still feel like family" - Petty Officer First Class Katherine Larsen |
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