Category Archives: Canadiana

Our Nation’s Capital: Otta-wow!

by Chadwick Gendron Posted on July 22, 2014
CCT0151-Looking to Rideau Street on right and the Chateau Laurier on left, from Sappers and Dufferin bridges. Ottawa, Ontario c1912
CCT0151-Looking to Rideau Street on right and the Château Laurier on left, from Sappers and Dufferin bridges. Ottawa, Ontario c1912
CCT0152-Ottawa Exhibition on Parade 1938.
CCT0152-Ottawa Exhibition on Parade 1938.
CCT0128-Large Letter Ottawa Postcard c1930
CCT0128-Large Letter Ottawa Postcard c1930
Greetings from Ottawa, Canada c1951
Greetings from Ottawa, Canada c1951
CCT0055-Ottawa Peace-Tower
CCT0055-Peace Tower and Parliament Buildings. Ottawa, Ontario c1945.
CCT0014-Ottawa April 22, 1968. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada's bachelor leader, sprints away from a crowd of female admirers who had been caught up in Trudeaumania! The women surrounded the Prime Minister on his third day in office, outside of the Parliament Buildings.
CCT0014-Ottawa April 22, 1968. Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Canada’s bachelor leader, sprints away from a crowd of female admirers who had been caught up in Trudeaumania! The women surrounded the Prime Minister on his third day in office, outside of the Parliament Buildings.

And here’s some more…

Greetings from Ottawa, Large Letter Postcard 1906.
Greetings from Ottawa, Large Letter Postcard 1906.
Parliament Buildings and Sappers Bridge c1900.
Parliament Buildings and Sappers Bridge c1900.
Ottawa mileage chart 1954.
Ottawa mileage chart 1954.
Chateau Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario.
Château Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario.
Ottawa postcard.
Ottawa postcard.
Back cover of Ottawa postcard folder.
Back cover of Ottawa postcard folder.
The Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario.
The Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Ontario.
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Here’s what our Flag could have looked like!

by Chadwick Gendron Posted on July 14, 2014

Here’s a submission for the open competition to design Canada’s first flag. Our modern 11-point flag of the red maple leaf, one of the hardest flags to draw freehand, was inaugurated on February 15, 1965.

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Canada’s motto of “Sea to Sea” could have been changed to “Tree to Tree”.
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The U.S. Borders on the Magnificent!

by Chadwick Gendron Posted on May 21, 2014

Sure does.

Here’s a great tourism ad from a 1983 OMNI Magazine.

1983-canada-borders

Thanks to those guys over at the TheDotEaters.com for thinking of us!

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