Celebrating Cadet Week in Ontario! October 3 marked the beginning of Cadet Week across Ontario, a week dedicated to recognizing the thousands of young people who take part in the Cadet Program and the positive impact they have in communities across our province. On Friday, PO1 Peterson and SLt McGurgin joined members of Branch 52 Royal Canadian Legion to raise the Cadets Canada flag, helping kick off this year’s celebrations. This morning, Commanding Officer Capt Payne and PO1 Peterson were joined by cadets and staff from 2672 Army Cadet Corps and Mayor Jeff Leal at Peterborough City Hall to raise the Cadets Canada flag. The City of Peterborough also formally recognized Cadet Week today — a great show of support for the young people who dedicate their time to learning, leading and serving their communities. Cadet Week was established following the passage of legislation on April 11, 2022, formally recognizing the Cadet Program in Ontario. Across the province, approximately 24,000 cadets in more than 300 corps and squadrons are building skills, friendships and confidence through the program. But cadets is about more than uniforms, drill and training. It is about giving young people opportunities to lead, challenge themselves, try new things, serve their communities and discover what they are capable of. For many youth, the program provides a place to belong, develop lifelong friendships and gain experiences that stay with them long after they age out. Here in Peterborough, we are proud to see our local cadets representing the program and our community. Their commitment, enthusiasm and willingness to get involved make a real difference. To every cadet, staff member, volunteer, sponsor and supporter across Ontario — Happy Cadet Week! Be proud of who you are, where you are going, and the community you are helping build. #CadetWeek #CadetsCanada #OntarioCadets #RoyalCanadianSeaCadets

⛵️🌊 Our cadets spent the last weekend in September out on the water for our sailing weekend! Everyone had a great time and learned a lot! We love to start the year off strong with some on the water training! 😃⚓️ #sailing #sail #seacadets #navyleague #peterborough

👋 WE ARE SO BACK 🙌 Time sure flies when you are having fun! Our first few training nights have been busy, but it has been great to be reunited with everyone! Training is underway and running like a well oiled machine! ⚓️ Over the past two weeks we have promoted some cadets! Congratulation to our new Able Cadet and our new Leading Cadets! 🎉 We were also thrilled to award our Marksmanship Team with their pins from last year’s competition! BZ 👏 Stay tuned to see what else we have been up to! #seacadets #peterborough #peterboroughontario #promotion #marksmanship

🧡 Tonight, the cadets, staff and volunteers of 112 Howe took pause on the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation. Acting Sub-Lieutenant Peterson offered led a smudging ceremony. Today is a day to honour the strength and resilience of Indigenous People’s. We are fortunate to have leaders who can guide us on this journey as we listen, learn from and support our Indigenous communities with empathy and compassion. 🧡

🎃🎨 HALLOWEEN PAINT NIGHT 🧑‍🎨⚓️ Please join us for our second paint night fundraiser! We will be painting this adorable trick or treating gnome under the instruction of Catarina of @360colourfulcreations! 🗓️ October 17, 2026 🕒 3:00 PM 📍 Peterborough Armoury 💲 $45 per person Please call or email her directly to enroll no later than October 14th! See you there! 👻 #peterboroughontario #peterboroughevents #paintnight #seacadets #halloween

🎉⚓️ RCSCC 112 HOWE IS BACK ⚓️🎉 Tonight we kicked off the 2026-27 training year with our welcome back barbecue! It was great to see everyone again after the summer stand down! We are thrilled to have welcomed 7 new cadets aboard and were happy to give them a warm welcome to 112 Howe. 👋 Thank you to our cadets for attending, families for sticking around to help with paperwork and our senior cadets, officers and volunteers for ensuring that our first night back was smooth sailing. ⛵️ Next week we jump back into training! Can’t wait to see you there. 😁 #seacadets #peterborough #peterboroughontario #cadetscanada #navyleague

🍩 DOOHER’S DONUT FUNDRAISER 🍩 We are excited to be selling Dooher’s famous cream filled donuts! Orders are being accepted from now until September 17th! Pickup will be on October 4th at the Peterborough Armoury between 12-3PM Help support 112 Howe cadets and Dooher’s Bakery in Campbellford! #doohersbakery #peterborough #peterboroughontario #seacadets #peterboroughfood

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🎨⛵️Our first paint night fundraiser on July 25th was a very successful event! We had a great turnout and everyone left with their own masterpiece and feeling like artists 🧑‍🎨 Huge thanks to @360colourfulcreations for facilitating the event, and to John for being so attentive to keeping everyone’s palettes topped up with paint and making sure that we only had to focus on painting! We can’t wait to have you back this fall! 🍂 #seacadets #peterborough #peterboroughontario #peterboroughevents #paintnight

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to our cadets who attended @cadets.hmcsncsm.ontario this year! 👏 On August 15th, we attended the Final Graduation Parade at HMCS Ontario, where we had two course cadets and two staff cadets. Can you find all 4 in these photos? 🔍 WO2 Cowan and PO1 Peterson worked in the canteen department as staff cadets all summer, learned many valuable skills and had lots of fun. 😄 PO2 Amarasinghe successfully completed the Sail 1 course and we can’t wait to see all of the skills he has learned on our next sail weekend ⛵️ MC Coleman successfully completed the Seamanship course and had a great time! We look forward to hearing more about it when we return in a few short weeks. ⚓️ Thanks to the officers and staff cadets at HMCS Ontario for making this summer a memorable experience for 4 of our cadets! 🫶 #seacadets #hmcsontario #summertraining #peterborough #navyleague