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Canadian soldier

American  

noun

Chiefly Northern U.S.
  1. the mayfly.


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Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth separately appeared to mock the physical appearance of a Canadian soldier on social media.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

They became a symbol of remembrance after 1915, when Canadian soldier and surgeon John McCrae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields, ending with the lines "we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders fields".

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2021

Once, Hikmat told me, a Canadian soldier who searched him at the entrance found ten thousand dollars.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 7, 2016

Within minutes, this former Canadian soldier had spotted an abundance of both.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2015

“They’re a bad bunch,” said one Canadian soldier.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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