Canadian IHC Garand?

[billsm1]

I am looking at a IHC on GB that is a Canadian Garand with a crown on the receiver. Anybody have any imput on these? would you consider it "import marked"?
Bill

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[Ramboueille]

I am looking at a IHC on GB that is a Canadian Garand with a crown on the receiver. Anybody have any imput on these? would you consider it "import marked"?
Bill

No photo, maybe that's what he thinks the mark is. Consider the rifle for what is shown, not what it is alleged to be.

[Neal Myers]

GCA 68 defines "import marking" as the name, city, & state of the importer.

[tiriaq]

M-1 rifles and BARs were used by Cdn. personnel for airbase defence in Europe in the '50s. Very limited issue.
I have never seen one of the M-1s. The BARs were not Cdn. marked - no C/l\ marks or Cdn. proofs.
If there is a crown, could it be a Brit. proof mark?
I would be very suspicious of a rifle purported to be a Cdn. Garand.

[Curt]

It would have a Canadian broad arrow stamp somewhere

[Sunray]

There's no such thing as a Canadian Garand. Canada never adopted the M1.

[mdoerner]

There's no such thing as a Canadian Garand. Canada never adopted the M1.

Then why are these Canadians at Dieppe armed with Garands? (Sorry, the image just isn't cooperating with me). Granted, they're not IHC's, but those ain't Americans with those guns.....

Mike Doerner

[Ken The Kanuck]

I don't know about Dieppe although I believe some American troops were involved, but I wondered about Alaska and found this picture of a Canadian soldier station in Attu I believe. I see that he has a LE but an American uniform. I would of thought that if the Americans were equiping the Canadians who fought in Alaska it would only make sense to keep the calibres the same, hence issue Garands.





But many strange things happen, I have a Model 94 with the C broad arrow which was issued to our militia here on the westcoast during WWII.

KTK

[M1Riflenut]

This is a 4.5 IHC with a "crown" on the receiver,also has the BNP with it. I'm no Canadian expert but I thought most Canadian marked weapons had the broad arrow mark. This one shown is a British mark yet it has nothing anywhere else on it and the barrel appears original.

[purple]

Actually Canada did use the Garand,but in pre-IHC times. The 6th Cdn Inf Div was formed in 1945 to be a part of the Invasion of Japan in co-operation with US forces. For the sake of interoperability and logistics,the force structure was organized in conformity with the US Army(regiments instead of brigades,etc) and the Div was equipped and trained with US infantry small arms.

I suspect that some/all of these weapons and associated spares and equipment may have wound up in Cdn supply depots as they were a special issue for the Japanese operation which never came off. A friend has attested to the fact that Garand parts were held in Cdn Army inventory and that some parts of obvious Cdn origin were re-imported from Denmark in the late 1990s.My personal copy of the 1947 TM came out of the technical reference library in 25 Central Ordnance Depot,Montreal.

When I joined the Cdn Army in 1964 most of our officers and NCOs were WW2 and/or Korean vets and many had discussed the fact that Garands and carbines were often unofficially aquired and used by Cdn troops in Korea because of their greater firepower in relation to the Lee Enfields and STENs.Other than this,Garands were used by RCAF personnel for NATO airbase defence in Europe in the 1950s.