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Hi Chris:

There's a canvas maker here in Ottawa that does a lot of DND work, particularly one offs for the project offices when they are doing trials. They have done a number of historic MV projects for various collectors in the Ottawa area. One of the chaps is a fellow scuba instructor which is how I met him.

They now work primarily in the modern 'plastic' canvas so he and I are looking at buying a quantity of the OD and the yellowish/tan 'real' canvas for various projects I need done. We have also looked at getting a 'C' Broad-arrow stamp or stencil done. To avoid any 'repro' issues, he will stencil 'reproduction' and a modern date inside where it doesn't show.

If you're interested, when you have your drawings ready I'll ask him to quote on the project. If we collectively like the price we might get a better deal.

I can think of four or five needed at the S&P Museum and there are a number of other CMPs in Ottawa.

If Brian Asbury has one left it would be most useful to have an original for a pattern.

My 2 cents.

Cheers! Mike