About the Cadet Training Centre
History and Heritage
Cold Lake Air Cadet Summer Training Centre (CLACSTC) is located at 4 Wing Cold Lake, 300 km northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, close to the Saskatchewan border.
The primary role at CLACSTC is the provision of a safe and challenging summer training program. The Senior Leaders Course (SLC) moved to Cold Lake in 1973.
From 1973 to 1987, SLC was the only course offered at Cold Lake until the Survival School (which hosts two courses: Survival Instructor and Introduction to Survival) relocated in 1988. At that time the two schools existed separately with two separate Commanding Officers.
By 1989, the two united under one Commanding Officer and became Cold Lake Air Cadet Camp (CLACC). In 1993, the camp was proud to add a third school to its name, the Cadet Service Band, which ran for one year as both a Band and SLC but later become solely a band program. These three schools made up CLACSTC until 2011, when the service band moved to Penhold and the SLC course was replaced by the Drill and Ceremonial Course, also held at Penhold.
Activities and Traditions
Cold Lake Air Cadet Summer Training Centre is home to the Fitness and Sports School as well as the Survival School, with each school hosting both three-week basic and six-week instructors’ courses each summer. The training centre is home to over 400 course cadets, and has a staff of approximately 205 staff cadet, officer, civilian instructor, regular force, and civilian contract personnel, from all regions of Canada.
