In 1967 the Institute provided the Banff National Army Cadet Camp a trophy to be awarded to the top cadet from the United Kingdom. It was a project by the Institute to mark the Centennial of Canada. The trophy was accompanied with a miniature for the cadet to take home. For years, the trophy was on display in the Mewata Officers' Mess.
In 1999, the Banff camp was closed and a replacement camp was built in the forest NW of Cochrane and named Rocky Mountain National Army Cadet Camp. In recent years, the trophy was retained at the camp.
As part of the Institute's Centennial in 2020, the trophy was brought back to Mewata where the wood was refreshed and the names confirmed to past copies of the Journal. The list is the first draft of the names.
In 1969, future Institute President Major Mark Soehner (Ret'd) was a cadet at Banff, being sponsored by the cadet corps in his Elmira, Ontario high school (shown at right).
| Year | Recipient |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Cadet Jack Henry Lord |
| 2018 | Cadet Emma Lucy Grace Graham |
| 2017 | Cadet Andrew Lewis |
| 2016 | Cadet Lewis Francis |
| 2015 | Cadet James Lockwood Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School |
| 2014 | Cadet Calum Hart |
| 2013 | Cadet Bannock Linnell |
| 2012 | Cadet Ben Lockwood |
| 2011 | Cadet Andrew Thomas |
| 2010 | Cadet Sam Bourke |
| 2009 | Cadet Colour Sergeant Heidi Silcox Yeovil College |
| 2008 | Cadet Sargeant Tory Armstrong Royal School Armagh |
| 2007 | Cadet Compan y Sergeant Major Jonathan Beaney Trinity School |
| 2006 | Cadet Colour Sergeant Helen Robertson Scarborough College |
| 2005 | Cadet Compnay Sergeant Major Mathew Reeds Brighton College |
| 2004 | Cadet Sergeant Catriona Wood Duke of York Military School |
| 2003 | Cadet Company Sergeant Major Tom Hull Yorkshire |
| 2003 | Cadet Sergeant Jamie Curry Teddington |
| 2002 | Cadet Sergeant Hugo Doyle Warwick School |
| 2001 | Cadet Sergeant Jenny Marsh Barkhamstead Collegiate |
| 2000 | Cadet Sargeant Christof Masheder Essex |
| 1999 | Cadet Sergeant Leah Torrence-Smith Bancroft School |
| 1998 | Cadet Sargeant Rob Suchet Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School |
| 1997 | Cadet Corporal Giles Sugden Sherborne School |
| 1996 | Cadet Michael Pepper Appleforth College |
| 1995 | Cadet Greg Hutchison Balleymena College |
| 1994 | Cadet Sargeant Martin R Algate Devan ACS |
| 1993 | Cadet Sergeant Gillian Orr Durham ACF |
| 1992 | Cadet A Jones Sederbergh School |
| 1991 | Cadet Richard Young |
| 1990 | Cadet Tom Gaynor Appleforth College |
| 1989 | Cadet Zachary Stenning Brighton College |
| 1988 | Cadet Staff Sargeant R Lane North Yorkshire ACF |
| 1987 | Cadet Sargeant J C Roone South Haven Meadowside Ashford Barnstable North Devon |
| 1986 | Cadet Sargeant Paul Farthing Dovercoat ACF |
| 1985 | Cadet Sargeant Major Colin Hay Queens Own Highlanders |
| 1984 | Cadet James Calvert Glasgow Academy |
| 1983 | Cadet Sergeant G R Pelley Marlborough College |
| 1982 | Cadet Regimental Sargeant Major D A Davies City of London School |
| 1981 | Cadet Under Officer James Rutter Lancashire ACF |
| 1980 | Cadet Sargeant Anthony Goodman Hunterside ACF |
| 1979 | Cadet Company Sargeant Major William Kingdon Nottingham High School |
| 1978 | Cadet Warrant Officer Mike Chitty Cliffton College |
| 1977 | Cadet Company Quartermaster Sargeant G R Robertson Welldeck |
| 1976 | Cadet Staff Sargeant John Wootton Malvern College |
| 1975 | Cadet Company Sargeant Major Martin R Elborne Reading School |
| 1974 | Cadet Sargeant J C Knight Fettes College |
| 1974 | Cadet Sargeant E A B Starkey Royal Russel School |
| 1973 | Cadet Under Officer N J Edwards Charterhouse School |
| 1972 | Cadet Regimental Sargeant Major John Milner Kent |
| 1971 | Cadet Company Sargeant Major Christopher Parsons-Gorham Cranbrook School |
| 1970 | Cadet Under Officer R L McCourt Daunsteys School |
| 1969 | Cadet Corporal A G Greenwood Lord Wandsworth College |
| 1968 | Cadet Corporal J Fane-Gladwin Appleforth College |
| 1967 |
Cadet Lance Corporal J H T Short |
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