Aug. 15th, 2011

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From the Globe and Mail:

"The Canadian Army is not called the Royal Canadian Army because Canada follows British tradition, which holds that the navy and the air force are commanded by the Queen but the army is a collection of independent regiments that serve the sovereign but are not part of the Royal Canadian Forces."

The British tradition dates from the Civil War, in which Parliament decided that having the monarch be in charge of the army was a Bad Thing.

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