Some cigar box labels .....
The first one shows Scots-Canadians engaging in the early open-air version of curling .... which has arguably become a strong rival with hockey for the honour of being considered our "national" winter sport.
The second commemorates the capture of the Dargai Heights in the Khyber Pass region by the Gordon Highlanders and Gurkhas (20 October 1897) during which Piper George Findlater, although shot through both feet, propped himself against a boulder and continued to play to inspire the charge, for which he earned one of four Victoria Crosses awarded for that action.
The next is just a rather amusing bit of pure Canadiana.
The fourth plays on the fact that, in those days, Canadians (English-speakers, at least) viewed themselves very much as British subjects.