November 2006 Meeting of the Canadian Club

The November Meeting of the Canadian Club of Edmonton focuses on Remembrance Day.



This year our speaker is MAJOR-GENERAL I.J. FENTON, OMM, CD

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS NATO IMS and our luncheon is 7 November 2006 starting at noon for $25 .



Major-General Ivan Fenton enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1970 while

attending York University, Toronto. On graduation in 1972 with a Bachelor of

Arts in English he was commissioned as an infantry officer into The Royal

Canadian Regiment. Key military courses included the Canadian Forces Command

and Staff Course, the UK Joint Warfare Course, and the US Joint Combined

Warfare Course. In 1993 Major-General Fenton received his Master of War

Studies Degree from the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston. From

January to June 1999, he attended the National Security Studies Course at

the Canadian Forces College in Toronto.

Regimental duty has included service in Canada, with NATO in Germany, and

with the United Nations in Cyprus. Regimental appointments, all with the

Third Battalion The Royal Canadian Regiment, comprised rifle and

reconnaissance platoon commander, intelligence officer, adjutant, company

commander, and battalion commander.

Staff appointments have included instructional duty at the Canadian Forces

School of Communications and Electronics, operational training staff at army

headquarters, Brigade G3 in 1 Brigade, and Division G3 of the 1st Canadian

Division. Posted to National Defence Headquarters in 1995, Major-General

Fenton served in J3 Plans and J3 Doctrine and Training, and as Deputy Chief

of Staff J3 (Operations) in which he supervised the National Defence

Operations Centre and coordinated Canadian Forces taskings and support to

the RCMP. He was appointed as an officer of the Order of Military Merit for

his work there in support of domestic and international operations.

Taking over Canadian Forces Base Petawawa in July 1999, Major-General Fenton

deployed as the Commander of Task Force Kosovo, from December 1999 to June

2000. During this tour, he commanded 1,400 army and air force troops, not

only from Petawawa, but also from Canadian Forces Base Valcartier and other

Canadian Forces bases.

Major-General Fenton was promoted to BGen in July 2001 and assumed command

of Land Force Western Area. In June 2004 he is promoted to his present rank

and appointed in July as Assistant Director of Operations for NATO.

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