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Le français suivra The C&E Branch Office is closed today to break bread with friends and relations. Please email +C&E Branch@ADM(IM) C&E Branch@Kingston mailto:[email protected] Or leave a message with Home Station Staff Officer, Captain Grant at 1 613-541-8546 who will call you promptly. To learn more about the origins of Thanksgiving visit: Thanksgiving holiday in Canada 2023 (statutoryholidays.com) To see Canada’s Public Holiday’s visit: https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/public-holidays.html Le bureau de l’agence C&E est fermé aujourd’hui pour rompre le pain avec les amis et les relations. Veuillez envoyer un courriel à +C&E Branch@ADM(IM) C&E Branch@Kingston mailto:[email protected] Ou laissez un message à l’officier d’état-major de la station d’attache, le capitaine Grant, au 1 613-541-8546, qui vous rappellera rapidement. Pour en savoir plus sur les origines de Thanksgiving, consultez le site: Thanksgiving holiday in Canada 2023 (statutoryholidays.com) Pour connaître les jours fériés au Canada, visitez : https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/public-holidays.html

Le français suivra Veterans in the Kingston area come join other veterans for a monthly coffee care package at the C&E Museum! We want to enhance communication and electrify social bonds at the Communications and Electronics Museum! Brought to you by: ADGA – Made in Canada, for Canada. Les anciens combattants de la région de Kingston sont invités à se joindre à d’autres anciens combattants pour un café mensuel au Musée des communications et de l’électronique. Nous voulons améliorer la communication et renforcer les liens sociaux au musée des communications et de l’électronique ! Présenté par: ADGA – Made in Canada, for Canada

C&E Week is the capstone event traditionally scheduled around the anniversary of the Signal Corps on the 24th October, 1903. C&E Week includes: The Subalterns’ & Sergeants’ Indoctrination Programme; Exercise NOBLE SKYWAVE; Major Carruthers Gravesite Ceremony; Environmental Conferences: CA G6 Conference; RCAF A6 CAPCON; and Reserve G6 Conference. Working Groups; Symposiums; The Branch Update; The Officers’ Mess Dinner; and The NCMs’ Mess Dinner. EVENTS Subalterns’ & Sergeants’ Indoctrination Course. This PD session offers NCOs and junior officers an opportunity to learn from the experience of senior[1]ranking authorities while being immersed in Branch / Corps history. Students are nominated by their C-of-C based on their reputation as respected emerging leaders. It is traditionally hosted at the VOM. The course was historically split into two (2) separate courses, but recently the idea of having a combined course was approved as it aimed to prepare junior officers and NCOs as future Command Teams at the Troop and Squadron levels. The curriculum covers a series of items, including: Branch / Corps history, protocol, and customs; Mess Etiquette and tradition; Command Team principals; Leadership experiences in deployed, training, and garrison environments; Discipline and administration; Roles and responsibilities of the Branch Leadership; and Briefings from the[...]

Velox Versutus Vigilans Le français suivra Today marks the anniversary of the RCCS Founding Member, Major Bruce Carruthers, which traditionally inaugurates the beginning of C&E Week. Major Wallace Bruce Matthews Carruthers (13 February 1863 – 21 October 1910) was a Canadian soldier and the founder of the Canadian Signalling Corps. Major Carruthers served with the Canadian Mounted Rifles in the South African War, where he won a Mention in Despatches, and Queen’s South Africa Medal with five clasps before he returned home to Kingston in 1902. Upon his repatriation, he leveraged his battlefield experience and lobbied for a separate and distinct corps of signallers within the Canadian Army. He achieved this, and on 24 October 1903, the Canadian Signalling Corps (CSC) was created; the first independent signal service within the British Empire. Major Carruthers died at the age of 47 on 21 October 1910, from tuberculosis contracted during his service in South Africa. He was given a funeral with full military honours at Chalmers Presbyterian Church and was buried in the Cataraqui Cemetery. On the occasion of the Corps Diamond Jubilee in 1963, two lakes were named in honour of Canadian Signallers. ‘Carruthers Lake’ at 62°32′00″N | 100°16′00″W honours Major[...]