Hello once again to those who read this blog. It has been a pretty busy lately at the museum but lately we've been doing some work in the back trying to protect and maintain our artifacts. Recently this has involved doing condition checks and changing out the neutral paper used to store and preserve these items. Today we worked with dozens of items but there were a few that were pretty amusing. The first one I will talk about is a Canadian army uniform that belonged to a member of the Royal Canadian Ordinance Corp.

Formed from the Canadian Ordinance Corp in 1919 the Royal Canadian Ordinance Corp uniform is recognizable for several reasons, my personal favorite is the inscriptions on the buttons.

It is probably impossible to make out the inscription from this photo, that I unfortunately had to take with my phone, but it says "honi soit qui mal y pense" which roughly translates into "Shame be he who thinks ill of it."

Another item that we found rather interesting was a photo of Canadian forces during the Boer War. The reason that the men in this photo can be easily recognized as Canadian is that they were the only troops equipped with Stetson hats during the Boer War.

We've been affectionately referring to this photo as the "Boer War photo-bomb" as a guy, this guy

is comically smoking a cigarette and possibly making a face through the window. So with that little bit of fun I will quickly wrap up this entry.