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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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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