Canadian Forces College

The institution was established in 1943 as the Royal Canadian Air Force War Staff College. The site was originally a property named Strathrobyn that was owned by real estate developer Frederick Burton Robins (1866–1948),{{cite web |url=https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/328586/robins-frederick-burton-strathrobyn-wilson-ave-north |title=Strathrobyn |publisher=Toronto Public Library |accessdate=3 August 2023}} and the centrepiece was a large Tudor Revival mansion which was built around 1914 pursuant to a design by the architectural firm of George & Moorhouse.{{cite web |url=https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/1998/agendas/committees/ny/ny981209/it027.htm |title=See listing for No. 215 Yonge Boulevard |work=Proposed Additions to the Inventory of Heritage Properties |publisher=City of Toronto Council |accessdate=12 August 2023}} The estate was renamed as Glenalton after it was purchased in 1926 for $175,000 by businessman Albert Leroy Ellsworth (1876–1950),{{cite web |url=https://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/103/189/ahom-moah-eng.pdf |title=Armour Heights Officers' Mess – Constitution and By-laws |publisher=Canadian Forces College |page=38 |accessdate=12 August 2023}} who had founded the British American Oil Company in 1906. Ellsworth used the property as his residence until about 1942, at which point the Royal Canadian Air Force rented it from him to use as a wartime staff college.{{cite web |url=https://www.acotoronto.ca/building.php |title=Gates of Glenalton |publisher=Architectural Conservancy Ontario |accessdate=11 August 2023}} In the autumn of 1945, the Government of Canada bought the estate from Ellsworth for $103,500.

In 1945, the college was re-designated as the Royal Canadian Air Force Staff College, which became a component of the Air Force College in 1962. The Air Force College also included a Headquarters, a Staff School and an Extension School. Following integration of the Canadian Armed Forces, the college was renamed as the Canadian Forces College (CFC) in 1966. The Tudor Revival mansion containing the Officers' Mess was designated a "Recognized Federal Heritage Building" by the Canadian government in 1991.{{cite web |url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_fhbro_eng.aspx?id=4286 |title=Armour Heights College |work=Directory of Federal Heritage Designations |accessdate=1 November 2016}}

The Canadian Forces Staff School for junior officers, formerly located at 1107 Avenue Road, was determined to be redundant and closed in 1994. That property was later sold to the Metropolitan Separate School Board (now called the Toronto Catholic District School Board), and it re-opened in 1998 as Marshall McLuhan Catholic Secondary School.

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The programmes at the College are designed to “provide high-quality professional military education for selected Canadian and international officers[.]”{{Cite web |title=Vision or Hallucination: A Glidepath to Excellence for the Canadian Forces College |url=https://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/259/290/318/286/benwell.pdf}}{{Cite book |last=Canadian Forces College |title=Transformation Campaign Plan. A Blueprint for the Future, Version 2 |publisher=Canadian Forces College |year=2007}} The curriculum includes military doctrine, exercise and simulation, and the command, control, and administration of allocated personnel and financial resources. Instruction is bilingual and students are permitted to present written deliverables in the language of their choice.{{Cite journal |last=Benwell |first=Lieutenant Colonel N.R. |title=Vision or Hallucination: A Glidepath to Excellence for the Canadian Forces College |url=https://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/259/290/318/286/benwell.pdf |journal=Canadian Forces Defence College |volume=2015 - 2016 |pages=27, 63}} The institution maintains a partnership with the Royal Military College of Canada as well as liaisons with many other national and foreign educational institutions.

• Joint Command and Staff Programme (JCSP)
• National Security Programme (NSP)
• Joint Command and Staff Programme Distance Learning (JCSP DL)
• Joint Staff Operations Programme (JSOP)
• Canadian Security Studies Programme (CSSP)
• Executive Leaders' Programme (ELP)

• Royal Military College Saint-Jean
• Royal Roads Military College
• Royal Military College of Canada
• Canadian government scientific research organizations
• Canadian university scientific research organizations
• Canadian industrial research and development organizations
• The Canadian Crown and the Canadian Forces
• Defence Research and Development Canada
• Khaki University

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120311184716/http://www.rcmi.org/archives/audio-video/2011/SSC%20Craig%20Stone%2020-09-11.WMA Canadian Forces College luncheon talk given at The Royal Canadian Military Institute on 20 Sep. 2011]

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