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Lots of info here, the modern ‘Canadian VC’ is made out of a variety of metals sourced from across Canada (plus some of the original gunmetal used in the ‘original’ VC)...

Carl is a great dude who is passionate about H&A and has dedicated most of his career to improving the Canadian Honours System (among other efforts, I believe he was the lead on the design and creation of the SWASM, GCS, GSM, and OSM, plus bringing back naming of medals with the recipiant...

National allocations given to the Air Cadet, Army Cadet, and Navy Cadet Leagues. Similar to other youth organizations, such as Scouts Canada.

Based on public information available via the Office of the GG, both received their awards from the Premier’s Office, not DND/CAF. So these awards did not count against the CAF allocation,

It seems like the standards vary province to province. In NB, police, fire, EMS, etc all seem to wear their 'unofficial' medals on the right side of their uniforms, whereas in Alberta, there is a culture of 'wear-em-if-you-got-em', even if it's 4 medals for the same service. Not sure if we'll...

His foreign awards are recorded here: https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/themes/defence/caf/militaryhistory/dhh/honours/commonwealth-foreign-honours.pdf

Not sure when that photo was taken, but when a member is promoted within the ORMM, they are requested to return the lower-level insignia to Rideau Hall. I did find this newer photo which the OMM insignia has been removed.

Are these medals actually being sold somewhere? First seen...

Legend has it that someone in Ottawa converted imperial to metric length incorrectly many moons ago....3.5" is closer to 9cm than 10cm. There is another rumour that mentions that the RCAF imposed longer court mounting length to account for the DFC and ACF size. Somehow that became the standard.

And changes to medal court mounting length.... Court Mountings. Court mounting shall be used. The length from the top of the medal bar suspender to the bottom edge of the medal shall be 9 cm. In rare cases where a recipient has an especially long insignia (i.e. a foreign award), expansion up to...

In less interesting news, CAF members can now wear up to 4 ribbons per row...similar to the Brits and 'pre-CAF' CF. METHOD OF WEARING UNDRESS RIBBONS (see Figure 4-4) General Undress ribbons of orders, decorations and medals may be sewn, but shall normally be placed on a detachable ribbon...

As long as folks are deployed full-time on named operations outside of the country (without family and F&E), medals such as the SSM are suitable. There's a variety of 'nice spots' around the globe that have qualified for the SSM-EXP....including, but not limited to, Jamaica, Malta, Cyprus...