There are usually 3 or 4 levels of maintenance involved. Not sure if you are talking about comms equipment, or all equipment in the Cdn army.
At the first line level of maintenance, painting of the equipment falls onto the user. A lot of the painting would be done by the user, especially come annual technical inspection time. During ATI, or GOCs inspection, if you signed for it, you painted it.
You would not likely get a lot of markings from them. Most likely when it goes back to either 3rd line or else a contractor (4th line) it might get a complete paint as part of an overhaul. Sometimes the paint would be automatic, and sometimes it would be as required.
In some cases, like rifle chests, the original paint and markings would often get painted over at the supply/ second or third line level in order to apply the more current NSNs and nomenclature.
Regarding your field telephone, I saw Valcom decals on a lot of that type equipment right into the 80s. They were a 4th line contractor doing overhaul. But before it went there, it would have been looked at by first or second line, then backloaded to the 3rd or 4th line facility if repairs were not able to be done by the lower levels of maintenance.
The Canadian semi gloss green was available in the supply system until the early 90s.
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