This is a list of Royal Military College of Canada memorials and traditions.

Skylarks

Year	Skylark - annual class practical joke or prank
1933	A toy cannon made in the college mechanical engineering lab was fired down the hallway of Fort Lasalle.
1960	Declaration of martial law over the Queen's University model parliament and the taking into "protective custody" of the prime minister.
1961	Liberated Queen's University quarathon football returned via airplane to stadium.
1962	Lost rifles (minus breech blocks) "stored" in Fort Haldimand vault.
1964	Lifted a VW Beetle to Fort LaSalle landing.
1965	Toilet paper shot from cannons.
1974	A cadet's car, an MG, was left in second floor of RMC library.
1976	Cadets painted tank pink.
1979	Cadets used dental floss to ring the Spanish bell hanging in front of the Stone Frigate.
1979	Cadet climbed the Memorial Arch and painted "4 SQN" in the gravel on its surface. A squadron-mate flew over in a Cessna and took a photograph.
1984	Mackenzie Building Tower clock converted into a Mickey Mouse clock.
1993	While a cadet spent spring break in Florida, cadets took shifts to keep the hot air poppers going to fill his room in Fort Haldimand with popcorn.
2003	During grad parade practice, a piper had a fake double of himself (in full regalia) tossed from the bell tower of the MacKenzie building after the piper-solo.
2007	Cadets set off a fireworks display during morning parade.
2008	The "Brucie" statue decked out in traditional Aboriginal dress by students from the Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year (ALOY) "Headless horseman" appeared at a parade. "RMC" was painted on the field of Richardson Stadium by civil engineering students and was visible for the Queen's homecoming football game, which was televised nationally.
2010	The "Brucie" statue was decked-out in Queen's University '10 coveralls featuring a Superman "Q" on the front.
2011	A Victorian era cannon was found in the middle of the Cadet Dining Room.
2012	An air cadet glider measuring 54 ft by 27 ft was found in the middle of the Cadet Dining Room (picture above). Tables in the Cadet Dining Hall were rearranged to say "C Div". Cadets rolled a period 25-pounder cannon into the middle of the parade square, with a 12 squadron banner taped onto it. Spanish Bell unbolted from in front of the Stone Frigate and carried by 6 squadron for the duration of the FYOP Obstacle Course.
2013	1 Squadron Cadets converted the steps of the Currie Building into a ship, HMCS Hudson.[1] 8 Squadron Cadets announced that the commandant's 20+ year old car was for sale for $8.
2015	5 Squadron Cadets placed a torpedo on the parade square before morning parade.
2017	7 Squadron placed a torpedo at the main entrance of the Cadet Dining Hall, becoming a fire hazard and leading the permeant fixture of the torpedo on its pedestal.

Traditions

Tradition	Significance
blanket toss	Blanket toss of senior class members after the last waltz at the Graduation Ball.
cadet diary	Some cadets wrote their diary on their t-square in India ink, while others wrote on their books. The museum retains examples of diaries from the 1890s to the present day.
cake walk	Minstrel show/stage show on St. Patrick's Day is rewarded by a cake.
Casey's Grave	Cadets are expected to recite, on demand from seniors, RMC facts and trivia (no longer practiced, nor required). This inscription is a favourite: "Casey, for 18 years my faithful charger in peace and war. Died on duty April 2nd 1925 age 29 yrs. A.C. Macdonell".
ceremonial mace	Carried into the ceremony and placed on stage to signal the opening of the convocation.
change of command ceremony	The former commandant offers farewell and best wishes to the college and to the new Commandant. The new commandant accepts a first salute as the cadet wing marches past.[2]
Christening bell	Following naval tradition, a ship's bell is used as a baptism font in the college chapel for christenings and the names of the children are later inscribed on the bell. The ship's bell at RMC was used previously at Royal Roads Military College.
Church parade	Officer cadets participate in a full regalia parade from RMC to Kingston City Hall on the last Sunday of the academic year. The intent is to have every available cadet take part. In the past, the church parade was from RMC to St. George's Cathedral (Kingston, Ontario).
Copper Sunday	In a tradition dating to 1882, Officer cadets attend various Kingston churches on the last Sunday of the academic year. While RMC does not to influence cadets toward any particular religion, the goal is to expose the cadets to the typical processes and procedures of religious ceremony, should they need to carry out Assisting Officer duties in the future. The name comes from the custom of cadets gathering their pennies for collection into the offering plate.
College Cheer	The RMC Cheer is used at all significant sporting events between RMC Paladins and other university teams. Call: Gimme a beer! Response: Beer! Esses! Emma! T-D-V! Who can stop old RMC! Shrapnel, cordite, NCT! R-M-C!
College Coin	Every new officer cadet is issued a challenge coin upon completion of First Year Orientation Period. The coin is engraved with the name of the college in French and English surrounding the college crest on the obverse. The Cadet's college number and the Memorial Arch are on the reverse surrounded by the motto in both languages.
college toast	RMC club toast to absent comrades, meaning those who have fallen in action or who have died.
Divisional Christmas mess dinner	The youngest cadet of the division makes a short speech, requesting one holiday wish from the DCdts for the rest of the division; the wishes from the division dinners will make the exam period less stressful for the Cadet Wing (e.g. permission to wear combat uniforms while writing their exams).
Drill Fest	During the weeks immediately following winter-term exams up until graduation, the wing practices for graduation parade multiple times a day seven days a week, often for up to six hours in blocks of three hours.
Feux de Joie	An honour guard perform a rifle salute with field artillery, or more commonly, rifles using blank ammunition.
Freedom of the City	This privilege was bestowed to the RMC in 1976 by City of Kingston on the occasion of its centenary to march through the city "with bayonets fixed, colours flying and drums beating" was granted "until such time as the Cataraqui runs dry."[3]
Freedom of the fort	While in Fort Frederick (Kingston, Ontario), officer cadets are equal independently of their year. They are also allowed to remove their headgear.
"Goodnight Saigon"	This song is played for and sung by first-year cadets at lights-out during the First-Year Orientation Period.
Graduation Congratulations	Peter Mackay, RMC Chancellor and Defence Minister, started a new tradition at RMC in 2008 when he asked graduates to stand and congratulate those near them.[4]
Graduation and Commissioning parade	In honour of graduating cadets: Graduating students are presented with their Officer's Commissions in the Canadian Forces. Officer Cadets display their foot drill and sword movements. Feux de Joie an honour guard performs a rifle salute with field artillery. Graduates march through Memorial Arch for the last time as Officer Cadets.
Jacket exchange	The senior officer (the Commandant or the Director of Cadets) exchanges tunics with the youngest Officer Cadet at the annual RMC Christmas Dinner. The Christmas dinner follows the tradition from the army where senior officers serve the junior members who usually serve them throughout the year.
Just passing By	When a graduate of the RMC pilots an aircraft in the vicinity of Kingston, Ontario he or she conducts an impromptu airshow over the College.[5]
Memorial Arch	New officer-cadets pass through the Commemorative Arch as a class on their first day of university and upon graduation. Other than on Remembrance Day and in the course of other special parades (i.e. Battle of Britain), church parade, officer-cadets do not pass under the arch as a class before their graduation from college.[6]
Memorial Arch architectural sculpture	A helmeted head stands in high-relief from the keystone. The face is extremely expressive and its parted lips seem to shout Rupert Brooke's poem, "The Dead".[6]
Memorial Arch poem	Chiselled into the stone of the Memorial Arch are the opening lines of Rupert Brooke's poem, The Dead: "Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead. There are none of these so lonely and poor of old, but dying has made us rarer gifts than gold." First-year cadets are required to memorize the quote.[6]
Memorial stairway	Sir Archibald Macdonell had the administration-building staircase lined with paintings of ex-cadets who died on military service.
Memorial trees	The ex-cadets who died on military service during World War I are honoured by the birch trees located in the lawn at the west end of the Administration Building.
obstacle course race	Gruelling course for recruits set up by the cadets' immediate predecessors, memorialized by a sculpture
Old 18	First-year cadets are required to memorize the names of the first class in the order of their college numbers.[7]
Old 18	A historical drill team at RMC who perform at the "Sunset Ceremony" (a military tattoo the night before the graduation parade). Eighteen cadets, dressed in formal scarlet uniforms and wielding late 19th-century Enfield rifles fend off an attack by cadets dressed as rebels using similar rifles of smaller caliber.[8]
Old Guard	The founding members of the QCMG. Established by a select group of cadets sometime around 1989, the QCMG existed within the cadet population. Upon graduation, departing QCMG cadets would be responsible for selecting a suitably deserving first year cadet to take their place in guard, ensuring its survivability. However, only the founding members were ever referred to as the "Old Guard".
Old Brigade	Alumni who entered military college 50+ years before wear unique berets and ties, have the Right of the Line on reunion weekend memorial parades, and present the college cap badge to the First Year cadets on the First Year Badging Parade. Each class traditionally marks its 50-year anniversary and entry into the Old Brigade with a gift.
Parade square	Recruits run the square at all times until they have successfully completed their first year. (no longer practiced, nor required)
Road and area names	Sir Archibald Macdonell gave Great War names to all the roads and areas of RMC.
Royal winers	Unofficial Department of Oenology at RMC cofounded by Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk; motto: "Age leaves us fine wines and friends."[9]
shouldering professors	At closing exercises, cadets carried professors around the room.
Sir John A Macdonald	An annual dinner held at RMC Senior Staff Mess, since 2001 featuring toasts and stories celebrating the birth of Canada's first Prime Minister.[10]
Smokers	Social gatherings at RMC that raise money for an event, group, or charity through the collection of "cover" or admission at the door. Smokers can include performances, with shows presenting a collection of sketches and comedy songs.
Snowball fight	Annual RMC snowball fight (all Sqns against #1 Sqn).
Snow sculpture	Annual RMC snow sculpture competition in Confederation Park with Queen's. RMC's entry was modelled after the MacKenzie Building (2008) and the Memorial Arch (2007).
Spider	A spider web based stained glass window, made by Stone Frigate Class of 1983 honours the squadron mascots, as spiders were common in the (pre-modernized) building. The window has a Plexiglas shield to avoid damage during annual snowball fight.
Sunset ceremony	A military tattoo held the night before the graduation parade which demonstrates skills and interests cultivated at RMC. The 2013 performances: the RMC Precision Drill Team performed a silent precision drill routine including the throwing of rifles, rifle salutes and sword drill movements. the Old Eighteen Historic Drill Team demonstrated the military dress, drill and tactics of the period when the Old Eighteen originally enrolled in the first class of Royal Military College, 1876, under the training hands of Sergeant-Major Mortimer and Captain Ridout. the Naval Gun Crew provided artillery support the Sandhurst Military Skills Team, tae kwon do, cheerleading, and fencing teams, the outgoing and incoming Colour Parties, accompanied by the Guard of Honour carrying the provincial flags on parade, performed the exchanging the colours. The Colour Party consists of a party commander, two flag bearers carrying the RMC stand of colours and two rifle escorts. Canadian Forces parachute demonstration team, the SkyHawks from Trenton, Ontario. Aboriginal Leadership Opportunity Year (or ALOY) program students performed the Bear Song, the Sobriety Song and the Migma Honour Song on a large ceremonial drum with vocal accompaniment The Sandhurst Military Skills team rappelled from LaSalle dormitory and performed simulations and obstacle course. The Tae Kwon Do team showed discipline and fortitude in their display of the martial art. RMC's Pipes and Drums, Brass Band, and Highland Dancers, perform Star Wars, Highland Laddie, The Retreat, The Tattoo, O Canada and Amazing Grace During the Sunset Ceremony, the Commandant's Pennant, RMC School Flag, Canadian Forces Flag and Canadian National Flag are lowered Fireworks concluded the tattoo [11]
Sweetheart brooch	officer cadets gave their dates an enamel brooch in lieu of a corsage for formal dances at Christmas, RMC-West Point, and Graduation. The museum retains several examples.
Wake up or Panic song	officer cadets have the duration of a song to get up, shave, make their beds, dress and stand for inspection. Tango Flight (7 Sqn)'s song in 1993 was "Happiness in Slavery", by Nine Inch Nails. Cartier Flight's wake up song was "Dead on Time" and they went to sleep to Corey Hart's "Never Surrender". Other popular songs include "O Fortuna" and "The Bodies Hit The Floor".
War Memorial flag	Flag with Union Flag on background was adorned with 1100 green maple leaves bearing name of RMC cadets who served in war. The red maple leaves in the centre memorialized cadets who were killed in action. The flag hung in St. George's Cathedral until 1934, when the flag began to disintegrate.

Class gifts

Class	Endowment
1955	RMC Museum
1956	1956 Leadership Library Collection
1957	RMC TV Station
1958	Lecture series on emerging 21st-century global issues
1959	RMC Library
1960	College/Principal choice
1961	Birchall Pavilion and maple trees
1962	RMC Library
1963	RMC Wall of Honour commemorating outstanding alumni
1964	RMC Library
1965	RMC Professorship
1966	Gazebo/Leonard Birchall Pavilion

RMC Militaria collectibles

• Royal Military College of Canada Officer Cadet action figure, made for 2006 Great Canadian Action Figure Convention in Kingston, Ont. The male model figure can wear a 1st year scarlet dress uniform jacket with academic achievement badges or a 4th year senior cadet's #4s patrol jacket with academic and sports badges, plus belt with a dress navy trousers with red piping. In addition, the figure wears leather ankle boots with Vibrom soles, leather gaiters, leather belt with metal RMC buckle, and a leather bayonet frog. The arms include a metal C7 rifle and metal bayonet with metal scabbard. The box features RMC landmarks and a description of the College in English and French.^[12]
• Royal Military College of Canada Officer Cadet 54mm pewter Toy Soldiers include: Cadet Squadron Leader with sword and four first year cadets with FNC1 rifle. The female and male cadets are dressed in Scarlet Ceremonial uniforms with white belts, pillbox hats, dark trousers with red piping, gaiters and black boots.^[13]
• Royal Military College of Canada officer cadet 'Gentlemen Cadet' 80 mm metal figure No. 53 c. 1980 by Chas C. Stadden Studios.^[14]

Currie Hall

General Sir Arthur Currie officially opened Currie Hall at Royal Military College on 17 May 1922. General Sir Arthur Currie made the following comments, "I cannot tell you how utterly embarrassed and yet how inexpressibly proud I am to witness this ceremony, and to be present when this hall is officially opened. This hall is to commemorate the deeds of our fellow comrades whom it was my great honour and privilege to command during the latter years of the War."^[15] The Currie Hall is decorated with the crests and battle colours of every unit that fought in France during World War I.

His Excellency John Ralston Saul (February 2004) described the Currie Hall decorations, "This is an astonishing hall in which to speak. If you gaze up at the initials on the ceiling and at the paintings and the painted insignia around the walls, you are reminded that Canada is not a new country."... "Militarily speaking, we have been at it for a long time. This hall is a conceptualisation of our participation in the First World War. All of that grandeur and tragedy is pulled together here in a remarkable way. I'm not sure that we could reproduce a hall of this sort to describe our military experiences of the last half century."^[16]

Memorial arch

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  Memorial Arch plaque unveiling Royal Military College of Canada
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  Royal Military College of Canada plaque great war 1914-1919
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  Memorial Arch
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  Memorial Arch List of Cadets who were killed in action
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  Memorial plaque dedicated to Royal Military College of Canada ex-cadets post World War II

The Memorial Arch, at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, Ontario, built in 1923, is a monument which honours the memory of ex-cadets who have died in combat or while attending the College. The Memorial Arch, designed by John M. Lyle, is an example of the Beaux-Arts architecture. Lyle's design won a competition in which seven Canadian architects were invited to compete. Leigh French singles out the Memorial Arch as "an outstanding example of coherent purpose and well considered form, unlike many of the war memorial projects that emerged immediately after World War I".^[17] The Indiana limestone arch on a base of Quebec granite was built at a cost of $75,000.^[18]

The arch was unveiled by Mrs. Joshua Wright, mother of two cadets who gave their lives in the First World War. #558 Major G.B. Wright, DSO, RCE, was killed in action in France on 21 May 1915. #814 Major J.S. Wright, 50th Bn CEF, was killed in action in France on 18 Nov 1916.^[19]

The memorial includes the following texts:^[20]

• Hark now the drums beat up again for all true Soldiers Gentlemen. from Over the Hills and Far Away (traditional)
• Je me souviens French I remember
• Truth Duty Valour
• Blow out your bugles over the rich dead. There's none of these so lonely and poor of old but dying has made us rarer gifts than gold. by Rupert Brooke
• Pro Deo et Patrio, Latin for God and Country

The RMC Memorial Arch provides a list of officer cadets who were killed in action or died from wounds suffered in action under the following headings:^[20]

• The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887–90,
• West Africa 1892,
• South Africa 1899–1901,
• Great War 1914-1918 battles: Mons, Marne, Aisne, Ypres, Festubert, Loos, Somme, Vimy, Kut el Amara, Gallipoli, Hill 70, Passchendaele, Cambrai, Amiens, Arras, Drocourt-Quéant, Canal du Nord.
• World War II battles: Battle of the Atlantic, Battle of Britain, Burma, Dieppe, Hong Kong, Lombardy Plain, Normandy.
• Active service 1926-1945: India, 1926, North Africa, North West Germany, The Pacific, Pas de Calais, The Rhine, Sicily, Southern Italy.

Two bronze plaques on the flanking plinths of the Arch, which were unveiled by the Governor General on 15 September 1949, commemorates the fallen from World War II. As required, names of those lost in Korea and on peacekeeping and other military operations have been added.

Historical pieces of artillery

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Artillery or ordinance	Description	Location
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder Gun,[21]	weight 57-0-2, (6,386 lbs), Carron, 1806, King George III cypher	Fort Frederick Tower 3 North
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	weight 56-3-0, (6,084 lbs), Carron, 1807, King George III cypher	Fort Frederick Tower 3 East
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	weight 56-0-25, (6,025 lbs), Carron, 1811, King George III cypher	Fort Frederick Tower 3 West
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun,	Walker Co, King George III cypher	Parade Square North East
Millar SBML 32-pounder gun	weight 64-2-10 (7,234 lbs), Walker Co, 1842, King George III cypher	Fort Frederick 2
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	weight 67-0-9 (7,513 lbs), Carron, 1807, King George III cypher	Fort Frederick 3
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	weight 53-0-25 (5,961 lbs), Walker Co, King George III cypher	Fort Frederick 5
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	weight 64-3-0 (7,252 lbs), Walker Co, 1842	Fort Frederick 6
Blomefield Palliser conversion of a SBML to RML 32-pounder gun	RGF, 1870, Queen Victoria cypher	Paint Yard
Blomefield Palliser conversion of a SBML to RML 32-pounder gun	Queen Victoria cypher	Paint Yard
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	Walker Co, King George III cypher	Crerar Gateway West
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	weight 50-1-14 (5,670 lbs), Walker Co, King George III cypher	Crerar Gateway East
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	Carron, 1807, King George III cypher	Fort Haldiman
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	King George III cypher	MacDonald West
Blomefield SBML 32-pounder gun	Walker Co, King George III cypher	MacDonald East
SBML 24-pounder gun	weight 20-0-4 (2,244 lbs, weight of a 6-pounder), 1847, Queen Victoria cypher	Fort Frederick North East 1, mounted on long wooden carriage
SBML 24-pounder gun	weight 20-0-0 (2,240 lbs, weight of a 6-pounder), 1847, Queen Victoria cypher	Fort Frederick 7, mounted on long wooden carriage
SBML 24-pounder brass gun	weight 12-3-7 (1,435 lbs), 1843, CLXXV (175), Queen Victoria cypher, DEMD	Senior Staff Mess North
SBML 9-pounder brass gun	weight 13-2-0 (1,512 lbs), FM Eardly-Wilmot, 1859, Queen Victoria cypher, 4862	Senior Staff Mess South
SBML 9-pounder brass gun	1813, Dolphin handles, DLVIII (558), King George III cypher	flagpole East
SBML 9-pounder brass gun	1812, Dolphin handles, CCCLIV (354), King George III cypher	flagpole West
SBML 32-pounder gun	Carron, weight 17-3-7 (1,995 lbs)	Fort Frederick Tower 2 North West