I am considering doing a model of WW2 Canadian mkVIII -with a contrasting Jeep or so- but I am trouble finding pictures. All the pictures so far (Profile) are of either US or British immediate-post WW1 subjects.
The only photo of the 90 or so Mk VIIIs in service with the Canadian Army during the early years of the Second World War that's known to me is plate 15 in the USA section of "Pictorial History of Tanks of the World 1915 - 1945" by Peter Chamberlain and Chris Ellis.
I've also found the same picture (but reproduced much larger) in "United States Tanks of Word War II" by George Forty at page 9. Here the caption says they are laid up at Fort George C Meade.
I've just posted (youtube) up a film of the Mark VIII tanks that were sold to the Canadian Army. I'm afraid it won't help much!
It confirms that the picture in Tanks of The World 1915-45, and United States Tanks of World War II, is of the tanks when they were still in The USA. In the photo and the film you can see no track marks and long grass growing all around the tanks, and it would look very different if 90 ish 30ton tanks had just parked up!
In the film some markings can be seen; a '6' and a '66'. The 66 looks like it was just painted on recently, ie when the tanks were sold. So maybe the 90 tanks were numbered as they were chosen. But the 6 looks like an American unit marking (the Canadians may have painted over it, maybe not).
I have also recently been to base Borden and took a lot of pictures. The 6ton there has Canadian markings, and they may be similar to ones used on the Mark 8 tanks. you can find the photos on my flickr page.
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