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Boutilier, James A.

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Title Lieutenant (RCN(R))
Official Number U-07957; O-7911
 
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Biography
He is the Special Advisor (Policy) at Canada’s Maritime Forces Pacific Headquarters in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Dr. Boutilier served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve from 1956 to 1964 as a navigating officer and in the same capacity in the Royal Navy Reserve from 1964 to 1969. Dr. Boutilier taught at the University of the South Pacific in Suva, Fiji, from 1969 to 1971 and at Royal Roads Military where he spent 24 years as department head and Dean of Arts. He was instrumental in establishing the military and strategic studies degree program at the College and taught courses on naval history, contemporary Asia, the history of the Pacific, and strategic issues. Dr. Boutilier is now the current President of MASC. He was appointed as the Dean of Arts - Royal Roads Military College.
 
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He was appointed as a Naval Cadet (UNTD) RCN(R) (With seniority dated 02/01/1957). He served in HMCS Scotian for UNTD 1956-1958. (He was released.)
 
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In 2009 he reported in an interview that "I had indeed in fact in 1956 when I was just 17 I joined the Royal Canadian Navy Reserve as a cadet. I was here on the west coast in 1958 but I was at HMCS Naden. I didn’t visit RR at the time. I had heard of it and in fact I think naval reserves of various sorts had in fact actually trained here but I was never sent to RR. In 1959 I was commissioned as a sub-lieutenant. Then in 1961 became a lieutenant. I was a navigator and navigation instructor. 1962 I went to the United Kingdom and in fact I was attached to the Royal Navy reserve, HMS President, which was the reserve division in London and then in 1964 in the run-up to unification there was a decision made in Ottawa that they would retire me and I decided that as a 24-year old lieutenant I didn’t want to be retired and so I transferred to the Royal Navy Reserve and remained with them until 1969 when I went to live in Fiji. So all told I had 13 years of naval reserve experience. The Canadian portion involved three to four months with the regular navy every summer. The Royal Navy portion usually involved two to three weeks of time at sea in the English Channel and North Sea and so forth. Wonderful experience and I thoroughly enjoyed it and so I’ve had ties with the navy which go back a long way. "
 
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Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON; Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD);
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2015-05-31 00:00:00

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