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Canada at War
MacMeohan, Archibald | January 6, 1916 issue

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The fact that Canada is at war is manifest at almost every stage of even a hasty flight by railway through the country from the sea to the center and back again. There is no escaping the khaki. The word is Hindu, meaning "dusty," and the dull brownish drill was first worn as uniform by the Fifty-second Regiment during the Great Mutiny. In the Boer War it displaced the historical red coat in the British army, and now it is the only wear. The prevalent hue is more like that of pea-soup. The streets of Halifax are full of it, for "The Warden of the Honour of the North" shelters some eight or ten thousand fighting men.

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KHAKI; MILITARY uniforms; WAR; TEXTILE fabrics; RAILROADS; CANADA
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