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Gentlemen:

Res Army Cadet Week
April 9th te 16th is to be Army Cadet Week in British Columbia.
The purpose is to publicize the Royal Canadian Army Cadets, to make
better known the aim of the movement and what it has to offer to
youth and the community end to ask the public for funds to assist in
achieving the ain. , 7

The ain of the Royal Canadian Amy Cadets is to offer to a sector
of Canadian youth a programne of personal and social development based
on military training and contributing to the qualities of good citizen-
ship, leedership, physical fitness and service to the community and
nation, and to stimulate their interest in the maritime, land and air
elements of the Canadian Forces and the roles of the military in Canadian
society. . .
The training is offered to boys and girls between the a es.of
13 and 19 years, and includes drill, shooting, field craft, map use,
first aid, citizenship, adventure training and other subjects.

Each Cadet is a member of a Cadet Corps, of which there are 44 ia

British Columbia, He or she parades at least one evening each week through

the school year, and in the sumer holiday period has the’ opportunity to
attend camp for more advanced training.

As a Cadet progresses, in addition to technical skills, he
or she gains in self-discipline and self-reliance, and learns to
work with others and for others.

It has been cormented by judges and others in the legal profession
that there is 4 stenificantly low proportion of youth who have had
Cadet training who get-into trouble with the law to the extent that
it has been proposed that the courts be empowered to make the taking
of such training a condicion of probation in appropriate cases.

The Canadian Government, through the Department of National Defence,
makes it possible for the Royal Canadian Army Cadets to operate,
providing uniforms, instructors, training aids and the sucner cazps.
Where a Canadian Forces base exists, free accommodation is generally
‘available to the Cadet Co-as. Few Cadet Corps, however, can adequately
fulfil their role without additional funds.

One of the responsibilities of the Army Cadet League of British
Columbia is to raise these additional funds.

Army Cadet Week, sponsored by the League, will take the form of
displays in local shopping centres and the like combined with a "tag day"

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Yours truly,