What a strange one. An advertisement for the Irish Canadian Rangers, using an incredibly familiar mother figure as recruit-bait. Perrigard, a relatively well known Canadian painter in the (for lack of a better term) [French-Canadian Pastoral](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=hal+ross+perrigard&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&aqi=) style, has gone to great efforts to recreate _Arrangement in Gray and Black: Portrait of the Artist’s Mother_, or, as it’s more commonly known [Whistler’s Mother](http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=arrangement+in+grey+and+black&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=7oUWS8SSFobflAfwpqXKBQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQsAQwAA). It’s interesting to note that when browsing through the [Library and Archives Canada Photostream on Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/lac-bac/) you’ll find Perrigard was responsible for a few pieces of early 20th century Canadian poster art, all of them better than this—and yet, for its barefaced appropriation, clichéd messaging and [Irish Pub Poster](http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&sa=1&q=irish+pub+poster&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0) styling, this one really sticks out.