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88and were at such pains to avoid using it that they could not even acknowledge that they were doing so. As a result it appears to have been too embarrassing even to raise the question of a formal title and it is a little surprising to find that such a large8scale, international enterprise seems to have operated until 1942 without the benefit of a universally acknowledged name. It should be understood that, initially at least, what the RAF meant by the EATS embraced only the arrangements covered by the Riverdale Agreement, that is to say the training of RAF, RAAF, RCAF and RNZAF personnel in Canada. This informal %u2018definition%u2019 soon expanded, however, to include the training, under domestic arrangements in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere, of additional RAAF and RNZAF air crew for service with the RAF and later developments within the evolving Canadian system. For example, in the summer of 1940 it was agreed that, apart from the schools being run by (or on behalf of10) the RCAF, the RAF would also be permitted to establish and operate its own training organisation on Canadian soil. Although some of the schools involved in this %u2018lodger%u2019 arrangement would actually be formed in Canada, the basis of the organisation was created by moving a number of units, the so8called %u2018transferred schools%u2019, from the UK.11 While these nominally British An RCAF Fairchild Cornell, representative of the BCATP.