It's real but it's a later M1icon. Maybe 60's vintage. We used those in the Canadian army for years so that's not too rare around where you are. Currie Barracks and the PPCLI were there for years and the Queens Own Rifles of Canadaicon before then. Sarcee had the LDSH Armoured regiment. This was standard equipment. You also had Crown assets in Calgary and they sold thousands of those over the years.