This is interesting - a documentary made in 1990 about the last trains to go across Canada before they shut off the Sydney, Cape Breton route, and other routes inland. It’s made by an Australian, and as they go through the Maritimes he’s surprisingly (if dishearteningly) on point. Mom took my older sister and I on the train that year, before they shut down the line, so we’d be able to experience something that was disappearing.
Bonus: he meets Pierre Berton!! AND his bowtie
Visit of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Calgary, Alberta. July 9, 1959
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Punch In Canada is also a pretty great blog by the man behind Yesterday’s Papers. Look at that picture! America is always trying to get in our pants.
World War I poster for 1918– Canadian victory bond drive, depicts three French women pulling a plow.
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~ Canadian Druggist, January 1893
“The only Pure Medicinal Gum Manufactured in Canada”It’s like they’re just saying words to say them.
“Nicely put up”
“Everything connected with it is THE BEST”
Mexican fruit chewing gum manufactured in Canada?
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Sir Hugh Allan
Born: 1810 Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland
Died: 1882 Edinburgh, Scotland
“Canada’s richest man” with a personal fortune of $8 million.
Best known as the owner of the Allan Royal Mail Line and the founder of the Merchant’s Bank of Canada. Key participant in the Pacific Scandal.
photo from: Ravenscrag - The Allan Royal Mail Line; Thomas E Appleton; 1974; McClelland and Stewart.
