A penchant for maps and places and names
๐๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐, ๐๐ง๐ญ., and ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐๐๐ฎ, ๐๐ฎ๐., are labelled on this yellow-toned 1967 Canadian map.
Categories: #Ontario, #Quebec, #maps
Source: ๐๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ'๐ด ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐ข๐จ๐ฆ: ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข'๐ด ๐๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ด by David M. Baird (Prentice Hall of Canada, 1967, unpaginated).
The front cover of a souvenir โviewbookโ containing postcards of Alberta's ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ซ ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค (formerly known as Jasper Park) c. 1920s-1940s.
Category: #Alberta
Source: Prairie Postcard collection (Peelโs)
The roadside welcome sign on Glover's Harbour Rd., outside the community of ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐๐ซ'๐ฌ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ, ๐๐๐ฅ๐., pictured in 2017.
Categories: #Newfoundland, #signs
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Town Hall on Ochterloney Street, Dartmouth, N.S., in the 1950s. Credit: Halifax Municipal Archives.
Category: #NovaScotia, #municipalbuildings
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A pen-and-ink drawing depicting the Calgary and Edmonton Railway (C&ER) station in Didsbury, Alberta, as it looked in 1893. Illustration by M. Weber.
Categories: #Alberta
The water tower in Estevan, Sask., pictured in 2008, with the cityโs name in quotation marks. Credit: Estevan Art Gallery and Museum via the Canadian Water Tower and Standpipe Directory.
Category: #Saskatchewan #watertowers
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An abandoned design for a โCape Forchuโ trademark created circa 2019. The community of Cape Forchu, N.S., shares its name with a nearby headland on Nova Scotiaโs south shore. Have you ever been to Cape Forchu?
Category: #NovaScotia, #other
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An ad in the Toronto Telegram in 1956 declaring Toronto โan evening paper city.โ
Category: #Ontario, #advertisements
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