Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps

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Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps Corps royal canadien des munitions
The badge of the Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps
Active	1919–1968
Country	Canada
Branch	Canadian Army
Type	administrative corps
Role	Supply chain management, transportation, human resource management, finance, and food services, movements, postal, and ammunition
Size	Corps
Garrison/HQ	Montreal
Motto(s)	Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (French, "Shame to Him Who Thinks Evil of It"; from the motto of the Order of the Garter)
March	The Village Blacksmith

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The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps (RCOC; French: Corps royal canadien des munitions, CRCM) was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army. The Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps RCOC can trace its roots back to the Canadian Stores Department. Formed in 1871, the Canadian Stores Department was a civil department of the Canadian Government. This civil service was charged with control of forts, ammunition, stores, buildings and an ordnance depot left by the departing British Military.

On 1 July 1903 the responsibilities of the Canadian Stores Department were transferred to the Ordnance Stores Corps. In 1907 it was renamed the Canadian Ordnance Corps (COC).^[1][2]