ROYAL
1961
Annual Report
From L’Echo,
Juin 1961
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At
the close of the Cadet year in the Spring of 1960, Acting Chief Petty Officer
Bruce Hannah and Able Cadet Ross Kemball, the Stores Assistant, received their
appointments as Midshipmen. The two "Middies" and Sub-Lieutenant F. Howard-Rose, CD, attended a
qualifying
course for Divisional Officers at the Leadership School of H.M.C.S. "Cornwallis" early in July and all passed successfully.
Following
the course, Mid. Kemball returned to
Fifteen
of the Corps Cadets attended the fourth two-week camp period at "
With
the resumption of Corps activities in September 1960, the Corps set about
training in earnest and, on October 7th, sent a contingent to
Montreal to participate in the Navy League parade held in conjunction with the
Royal Canadian Navy’s 50th Anniversary Celebrations.
On
Remembrance Sunday, the Corps traveled to
During
the course of the Training year, "Fort Lennox" was visited by the Area
Officer Sea Cadets, LCDR R. J. Mann, RCN, the Secretary of the Quebec Division,
Navy Leaque of Canada, Chas. A. Hutchins, Esq.; and the Supply Officer, H.M.C.S.
"Donnacona", LT. D. Pengelly, RCN.
At
the end of January, 1961, the Commanding Officer, LT Peter Ferguson, RCSC,
tendered his resignation to the Chairman of the Sea Cadet Committee which was
reluctantly received by the Committee. The
Chairman then called upon the Executive Officer, SLT S. May, to assume Command
of the Corps. SLT F. Howard-Rose was
appointed as the new Executive Officer.
We
should also report that the Corps approached Dr. Joseph Senikas at the end of
last year to inquire if he would serve as the Corps Medical Officer.
This "Dr. Joe" readily agreed to do and he received his Appointment
as Surgeon-Lieutenant on
At
the time of writing, the Corps is busy with preparations for its Annual
Inspection. This will take place on
Friday afternoon,
With the Inspection over, "Fort Lennox" will begin training its contingent for this summer's camp at H.M.C.S "Acadia", and, too, will participate in the annual "outing" to its namesake, "Fort Lennox", situated on Ile-aux-Noix.
All in all, this has been an active and a gratifying year and the Corps looks forward to even greater things in the future.
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