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From: Ron Blank <>
Subject: Re: [MIDLOTHIAN] Cdn
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:32:00 -0800
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Hello Listers,

As a Canadian, who served with the our Military in Europe in the 70's and
again in the 80's. Our 1983 Licence Plate was white with red outer border,
numbers and letters, "LY44," which we managed to keep as memento. We
remember our 1971 plate as black on white. Above the licence number was
"CANADA," flanked on both sides with a red maple leaf. We were also
required to place a 10 centimetre wide, white oval sticker, with black oval
outline, and black lettering with "CDN" on the rear of our vehicle.

I believe this to be the origin of the term "CDN."

The CHAPMAN CODEs are internationally recognized short forms (abbreviations)
for Counties for the British Isles, and also the Country Codes and their
Provinces/States, normally used in family history / genealogy. See
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wlsgfhs/ChapmanCodes.htm#Countries Thus, Canada is
identified as CAN.

Our military plate allowed us unfettered crossing to all NATO countries.
(Remember: that was BRD (Bundesrepublic Deutschland, West Germany) ((versus
the current combined DEU) FRA, HOL, BEL, LUX, ITA, ESP, MCO, PRT, MIL, GRC,
etc.

To avoid potential confusion with 2-character ISO Country Codes codes for
Canadian provinces should always be followed by "CAN" Another convention in
genealogy documents is that we capitalize surnames.

Ron BLANK,
Nanaimo, BC, CAN

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