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Hudson's Bay cap 
a distinctive cap formerly worn by servants of the Hudson's Bay Company, characterized by a soft crown of blue cloth and a visor with a shiny leather peak, and resembling a seaman's peaked cap.
- 1913 [It appeared the approved uniform [in 1867] for clerks on the boat journey was a greyish blue cloth "Illinois" capote with silverplated buttons, and a broad scarlet worsted sash, the regulation headgear being a fine navy blue cloth cap with a leather peak.]
- 1939 The oarsmen wearing Hudson's Bay caps with shiny peaks and a squirrel tail stuck in the gold band.
- 1943 On shore only one man kept, Willie Smith in his cocky Hudson's Bay cap.
- 1913 [It appeared the approved uniform [in 1867] for clerks on the boat journey was a greyish blue cloth "Illinois" capote with silverplated buttons, and a broad scarlet worsted sash, the regulation headgear being a fine navy blue cloth cap with a leather peak.]