The Royal Military College of Canada, commonly abbreviated in English as RMC, is the military college of the Canadian Armed Forces and, since 1959, a degree-granting university training military officers. RMC was established in 1874 and conducted its first classes on June 1, 1876. It is the only federal institution in Canada with degree-granting powers. The Government of Ontario empowered the college to confer degrees in arts, science, and engineering through The Royal Military College of Canada Degrees Act, 1959. Programs are offered at the undergraduate and graduate levels, both on campus as well as through the college's distance learning programme via the Division of Continuing Studies.
Aylesworth Bowen Perry, C.M.G. served as the sixth Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, from August 1, 1900, to March 31, 1923.
Colin William George Gibson, was a Canadian politician, land surveyor and lawyer.
Lieutenant General John Carl Murchie was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army from December 27, 1943, until August 21, 1945.
Major-General Thomas Victor Anderson DSO, CD was a Canadian soldier and Chief of the General Staff, the head of the Canadian Army from 21 November 1938 until 6 July 1940.
Brigadier Dollard Ménard was a senior officer in the Canadian Army. As a lieutenant colonel, he was wounded five times during the Dieppe Raid in 1942 while leading Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal. His story inspired a famous Canadian World War II poster Ce qu’il faut pour vaincre. He was later made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. Since all of the other commanding officers were either killed or captured, he was the only commanding officer who had landed at Dieppe to return to Britain after the raid.
Edward Chester Plow, was a Canadian soldier and the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.
Lieutenant General Sir Charles Macpherson Dobell was a Canadian soldier who served with the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army.
Major General Charles Ramsay Stirling Stein was a Canadian Army officer who commanded the 5th Canadian (Armoured) Division during World War II.
Air Commodore Douglas Bradshaw, DFC, CD, ADC was a Canadian Air Commodore and educator. He was the Commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada from 1954 to 1957. He was the first president of Confederation College of Applied Arts and Technology from March 6, 1967, to 1974.
Captain John Moreau Grant CBE (1895–1986) was the first Commanding Officer of HMCS Royal Roads in Esquimalt, British Columbia. The Grant Building at Royal Roads University was named in his honour.
Colonel Edward Thornton Taylor was a Canadian soldier. He was the first Canadian born Commandant of the RMC. He was the first Commandant who was a graduate of the Royal Military College. He introduced ice hockey to Kingston, Ontario as an RMC student in 1877.
Major-General Charles Francis Constantine was a Canadian General and commandant of the Royal Military College of Canada from 1925 to 1930.
Major General Cameron Bethel Ware, DSO, CD, was a Major General in the Canadian Forces. He joined the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Regiment on graduation from RMC in Kingston, Ontario in 1935.
Major-General Sir Dudley Howard Ridout was a British soldier of the Royal Engineers.
General Sir George Macaulay Kirkpatrick was a Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in South Africa, Canada, India, Australia, and China. He became one of only a handful of Canadians to reach the rank of full General.
General Sir Philip Geoffrey Twining, was a Canadian soldier who served with the British Army in England, Canada, East Africa, India, and China.
Lieutenant Colonel Victor Brereton Rivers was the first Intelligence Staff Officer of the Canadian militia on 6 February 1901. His staff work led shortly after, on 1 April 1903, to the formation of the Corps of Guides, a forerunner of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Branch.
In 2013, the Royal Military College of Canada is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the two small devotional chapels in Yeo Hall, which were installed in 1963. With a view to encourage and enhance their spiritual well-being, the Protestant and Royal Catholic Chaplains, cadets and staff use the Chapels. Gifts to the chapels have been made by successive generations of cadets and ex-cadets.
