ROYAL CANADIAN ARMY CADET CORPS FORT LENNOX

Year 1: 01 October 1964 - 30 June 1965 

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Commanding Officer:   Captain A.M. Burridge 

Instructors:     Lieutenant G. Lortie

                    Lieutenant G. Maybee

                    Staff Sergeant M. Desjardins 

Cadet Commanding Officer:  

Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major:   

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01 October 1964 

A Corps of Army Cadets, under the sponsorship of “A” Squadron, Royal Canadian Hussars, St. Jean, QC, was formed and housed in a boarding school, Institut Feller College located Grande Ligne, QC, a few miles from St. Jean.  As was its Sea Cadet Corps predecessor, it was named "FORT LENNOX" after Fort Lennox National Historic Site of Canada located on Ile-aux-Noix, QC in the Richelieu River just north of the United States border. 

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Year 2: 01 September 1965 - 30 June 1966 

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Commanding Officer:  Captain A.M. Burridge 

Instructors:  

Cadet Commanding Officer:  Major Wayne Foley  

Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major:  Douglas Payne

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Year 3: 01 September 1966 - 30 June 1967

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Commanding Officer:  Captain Lloyd Meldrum

Instructors:

Cadet Commanding Officer:  Major Douglas Payne

Cadet Regimental Sergeant Major:  Mike Desjardins

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May 1967

Continuing a tradition first introduced by the Sea Cadet Corps RCSCC FORT LENNOX, in May 1959, the entire Corps paraded in full dress uniform at its namesake "Fort Lennox" on Ile-aux-Nois, QC. 

30 June 1967

With the closing of Institut Feller, RCACC FORT LENNOX was decommissioned. 

If anyone can provide any additional information, it would be welcomed and greatly appreciated. Please forward to Andy McCullough rcscc_fort_lennox@hotmail.com.

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