Capt. Plant: A seasoned leader that understood young potential
Recently retired after 37 years in the Canadian Coast Guard this loss of a good man takes me back to 1978 when I stood "on the carpet" before Capt. Plant my future in his hands. Some wanted me gone... others suggested a second chance. I remember the lecture...
Captain Jim Ewart MM
2014-05-25 13:14:01
Note in mailbox "See Captain Plant - No. 1 Uniform"
On the rare occassions that I had note in my mailbox on Monday morning for a meeting with Captain Plant it usually involved a few classmates as well. He had a way of always making one feel better about the themselves and the college upon our e...
John Constable
2014-05-22 11:11:39
Captain Plant saved my "bacon"
I was a cadet at the Canadian Coast Guard College, 1975 -1978. For reasons unexplained to me, some of the instructors at the CCGC decided I wasn't suitable material and attempted to kick me out. Fortunately for me, Hugh was having none of ...
Captain Ed Lien
2014-05-21 19:36:44
Our collaboration at The Coast Guard College
Teaching French to the cadets and to some menbers of the staff was lots of fun in a very relaxed though para military armosphere at the end of the seventies.Captain Plant was always in a jolly mood among the staff...
Gisele Blanc Lavoie
2014-05-20 20:50:19
Captain Hugh Plant - CCGC
I have many memories of Captain Plant while I was an Officer Cadet at the Canadian Coast Guard College.
I remember the first ceremonial divisions held on Friday afternoon in the early fall of 1977. I was the first class leader of ou...
Captain Andrew McNeill
2014-05-20 11:01:32