It provides graduate-level military education courses designed to develop leadership abilities within the Canadian Forces in a whole-of-government framework.

The CFC campus is located at 215 Yonge Boulevard, on the north side of Wilson Avenue in the Armour Heights neighborhood of Toronto, Ontario.

The site was originally a property named Strathrobyn that was owned by real estate developer Frederick Burton Robins (1866–1948),[1] and the centrepiece was a large Tudor Revival mansion which was built around 1914 pursuant to a design by the architectural firm of George & Moorhouse.

[2] The estate was renamed as Glenalton after it was purchased in 1926 for $175,000 by businessman Albert Leroy Ellsworth (1876–1950),[3] who had founded the British American Oil Company in 1906.

]”[6][7] The curriculum includes military doctrine, exercise and simulation, and the command, control, and administration of allocated personnel and financial resources.