Ship's badge, HMCS Acadia. Originally created in World War Two for the wartime naval servbice of the ship CSS Acadia, the badge is currently in use by a Sea Cadet Summer Training Centre located in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia. http://www.cadets.net/atl/acadia/images/acadiacrest.jpg

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