A penchant for maps and places and names
In 1914, the Kent County Publicity & Improvement Association produced this booklet entitled โWhy You Should Come to ๐๐๐ง๐ญ, Ontario, Canada.โ The slogan-style epigraph on the front reads, โWhere opportunities are largest, Rewards are richest, And life is worth living.โ
Categories: #Ontario
Source: W.D. Jordan Special Collections
Map detail showing Funk Island and other locations off the coast of Newfoundland. The isolated, uninhabited Funk Island is more than 35 nautical miles from Musgrave Harbour.
Categories: #Newfoundland
Image source: Rear endpaper map from The Secret Islands by Franklin Russell (W. W. Norton & Company, 1966).
Have you ever been to ๐๐๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ค๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ , Ontario? Here's the title page of an โindustrial data and business directoryโ published by town government there in 1963.
Categories: #Ontario
Will Ferguson's humorous book ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ถ๐ต๐บ ๐๐ช๐ฑ๐ด ๐๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ธ: ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ด ๐๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ณ๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฐ๐ง ๐๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ฅ๐ข famously alludes to the city of ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐๐ฐ, ๐๐๐ฌ๐ค., in its title. The book was awarded the annual Stephen Leacock prize in 2005.
Categories: #Saskatchewan, #Books
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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