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Here's the URL to Canon's own "history museum". Basically it was invented in the 1930s as a knock-off of the Leica camera because the Leica, a German-made camera, was too expensive for the Japanese market.

http://www.canon.com/camera-museum/history/canon_story/digest/1933_1936_digest.html

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