So was the Lee-Enfield. James Paris Lee came to Canada at the age of 6, did all of his early gun designing in Ontario, only moved to the US when he had a design which he thought could be marketed.
Hiram Maxim lived in Canada for a while, left the country in a rage when a schoolboard paid him $1.25 for a solid week's work AND inventing and supplying Blackboard Paint with which to do the job. The paint, BTW, is still being manufactured as C-I-L Blackboard Slating. The Vickers Gun is a product-improved Maxim. Maxim himself had a hand in redesigning the thing, was a founder of Vickers, Ltd. They make aerospace instruments these days.
