Canadian NANAIMO INDEPENDENT COY OF INFANTRY brass cap badge. Scrap The ears of the button

The ears of the button hole fixing have been cut short

Nice looking medal

confirming its manufacture between 1860 and 1912

superb condition

Canadian NANAIMO INDEPENDENT COY OF INFANTRY brass cap badge. Scrap The ears of the buttonThe Nanaimo Independent Company of Infantry: Rare Canadian Militia Cap Badge The brass cap badge shown here is one of the rarest surviving pieces of Canadian militia insignia from the Pacific coast a tangible remnant of a short lived but historically significant unit: the Nanaimo Independent Company of Infantry. At the centre of the badge stands the famous Nanaimo Bastion, the Hudsons Bay Company blockhouse that had guarded the towns vital coal