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Site Conventions
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All maps are oriented with north
at the top unless otherwise indicated.
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The use of abbreviations had
originally
been avoided as far as possible, with the exception of:
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Months, which at one time always appeared in
3-letter abbreviated form except in direct quotes; these
are being edited back to the full form now that
bandwidth and storage limitations are largely a thing of
the past.
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Provinces, which always appear
in the current 2-letter abbreviations used by the post
office (in decades past, longer abbreviations such as
Alta., Sask., Man., Ont., were used; these have been
deleted in favour of the modern AB, SK, MB, ON except in
direct quotes)
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Pages dealing with specific
corps/regiments/branches/units are generally indicated by
the final approved name of the unit, with lineage indicated
in an introductory section of the article. For example, 1st
Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment was the final name of a
unit known previously as Kangaroo Squadron, 1st
Canadian Armoured Personnel Carrier Squadron and 1st
Canadian Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment between August
1944 and December 1944. Only one article is included on the site,
using the final name granted in December 1944.
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Modern spelling will be used
where possible, i.e. Sergeant rather than the archaic
Serjeant
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Dates may be given in
the format dd mmm yyyy where
dd is the day,
mmm is the 3 letter abbreviation for the month, and
yyyy is the year.
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The 24 hour clock was not
adopted until 1918; "a.m." and "p.m." are generally used in
First World War articles for that reason; likewise distances
are given in yards and miles for articles whose subjects
deal with matters taking place before the metric system was
adopted by Canada.
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Code names for exercises and
operations are usually indicated in all-capitals, i.e. Operation
OVERLORD.
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Use of past tense is used
exclusively for consistency, even when in reference to
units, ranks, concepts, etc., that have survived into the
21st Century. This should not be taken to imply ignorance of
the existence of current military units, ranks, etc., but
has been done as a stylistic choice since the site is firmly
a look at past history.
Copyright
All material on the site is
protected by copyright. Permission is usually granted to those
requesting use of images or text for other projects, with the
proviso that canadiansoldiers.com is recognized as the source
of the material. Quotes of the copyrighted material of others
are used under free use laws, and are indicated by inline text
or inline references. Some photographs deemed to be in the
public domain are used on the site and an attempt has been
made to identify them/credit them appropriately. Please
contact the site's webmaster, Michael Dorosh, with any
concerns using the contact info in the header, above.
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