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Medal for service with the Strathcona Horse

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

1900.

Type of material:

Objects (including medals and pins)

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3638683

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Sir Donald Alexander Smith, Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal fonds

Lord Strathcona medals and portraits collection

Lord Strathcona medals collection

Medal for service with the Strathcona Horse
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

1900.

Place:

Canada:

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 medal / médaille : silver ; 014.16 gr
Support 34.000 x mm

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Medal in commemoration of Canada's participation in the Boer War in South Africa. This medal also refers to the Strathcona Horse, the famous cavalry unit financed by Lord Strathcona to serve in the South African War, 1899-1901. The medal was struck by P.W. Ellis & Co.

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Exhibitions note:

Exhibition Title: Lasting Impressions: Seals In Our History. Curator: Daniel Cogné, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; 1996.08.19-1996.08.23

Signatures and inscriptions note:

Inscription: obverse: FOR / SOUTH / AFRICA / 1900 / STRATHCONA / P W ELLIS & CO, Inscription: reverse: CANADA / CONGRATULATES / HER / QUEEN / DIEU ET MON DROIT / P EDWARDS I / MANITOBA / N. SCOTIA / ONTARIO / QUEBEC / N BRUNSWICK / B. COLUMBIA / P W. ELLIS & CO. / TORONTO REGISTERED, Inscription: edge: no inscription, Inscription: attachment: no attachment

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C-046426 : obverse
C-046425 : reverse
Subject heading:

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commemoration

military activity heraldry
Source:

Private

Other accession no.:

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1959-001 X PIC
00097M
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Medals

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6330 Item no. assigned by LAC 97M

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Copy negative C-046425--C-046426

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1959-1-97M

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