The Royal Military College of Canada Christmas ball is an annual black tie event that occurs around the third Saturday in November in order to provide a social setting for Officer Cadets (OCdts) to practice their formal dining in skills.
[3] By 1940 it had become "a very grand affair, held in the Gymnasium, featuring lots of red and white (the college colours) awnings decked all over the place",[4] and has continued to grow in size and grandeur.
By 2003, the Ball had become such an affair that young women from Queen's university would come to the college looking for an invitation to "one of Playboy's Top Ten parties".
[6] This fairly laborious event involves mass humiliation at the hope of attracting dates from the neighboring Queen's University.
The typical ball starts as with all formal Canadian Forces Mess Dinners with the piping in of the senior staff followed by the cadets and their dates.