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|align="center"|[[File:{{PAGENAME}}.jpg|center|350 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br> (Badge)
'''Country''': Canada [[File:canada.jpg|60 px|right]]<br><br><br>
 
|align="center"|[[File:{{PAGENAME}}2.png|center|350 px|Arms of {{PAGENAME}}]] <br> (Guidon)
 
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===Official blazon===
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On a maple leaf Vert resting upon a scroll Argent inscribed FRANCE FLANDERS 1915-18, two scrolls conjoined in pale Or inscribed BRITISH COLUMBIA, all above a bugle horn Argent and within a wreath of laurel Vert ensigned by the coronet of a younger son of the Sovereign proper, environed with a battle honour scroll Argent inscribed dexter VIMY 1917, SOMME 1916, FESTUBERT 1915, HINDENBURG LINE and sinister AMIENS, CANAL DU NORD, PASSCHENDAELE, DROCOURT-QUÉANT, the wreath surmounted below the coronet by two battle scrolls conjoined in pale Argent and inscribed SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1900 and YPRES 1915-17 and in base by a scroll Argent inscribed DUKE OF CONNAUGHT’S OWN RIFLES, all inscriptions in letters Sable.<br>
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|On a maple leaf Vert resting upon a scroll Argent inscribed FRANCE FLANDERS 1915-18, two scrolls conjoined in pale Or inscribed BRITISH COLUMBIA, all above a bugle horn Argent and within a wreath of laurel Vert ensigned by the coronet of a younger son of the Sovereign proper, environed with a battle honour scroll Argent inscribed dexter VIMY 1917, SOMME 1916, FESTUBERT 1915, HINDENBURG LINE and sinister AMIENS, CANAL DU NORD, PASSCHENDAELE, DROCOURT-QUÉANT, the wreath surmounted below the coronet by two battle scrolls conjoined in pale Argent and inscribed SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1900 and YPRES 1915-17 and in base by a scroll Argent inscribed DUKE OF CONNAUGHT’S OWN RIFLES, all inscriptions in letters Sable.<br>
Motto: FAUGH A BALLAGH.
Motto: FAUGH A BALLAGH.
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===Origin/meaning===
===Origin/meaning===
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The badge was approved by the Canadian Heraldic Authority on October 4, 2004.
The badge was approved by the Canadian Heraldic Authority on October 4, 2004.


 
[[Literature]]:Images from Wikimedia Commons and https://www.canada.ca/en/services/defence/caf/military-identity-system/guidons-colours-standards-gallery/gallery-guidons-colours-standards-army.html
 
 
[[Literature]]: Image from Wikimedia Commons.


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