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More Canadian Porcelain Signs
by Morgan Davis - Canadian Correspondent

Reprinted from "Crown Jewels of the Wire", May 1990, page 16

                                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                         

Canadian Independent Sign 
The National symbol of Canada prominent in red and blue on a white background. It is double sided with a straight (flat) flange.
A New Brunswick Telephone Company, Limited Sign
 The logo has a terrific maple leaf background with a candlestick phone. It is double sided, blue with white lettering.
Alberta Government Telephones
This one is circa 1914. AGT had the widest variety of designs for their signs of all the Canadian telephone companies. Blue and white with a red cross over the mountains.
An Office Calendar of the 
Bell Telephone Company of Canada
 
It is one sided in blue and white porcelain.
Early Great Northwestern Telegraph Sign
This has got to be the earliest available porcelain telegraph sign in Canada, since all the early pictures I've seen have wooden signs for Montreal and Dominion Telegraph companies. It is double sided, blue and white.
A later Great Northwestern Sign
Canadian Pacific Telegraph
A beautiful multi-colored shield with crossarm and insulators. It has a red background with white lettering, orange background for pole, and a blue background for the telegraph. WOW!

Canadian Pacific Telegraph
Another fantastic Canadian Pacific sign in with blue and white with gray map of the world.

C.P.R. Telegraph and Cable Office
This sign is blue and white, and I suspect that the missing flange has been cut off
Canadian National Express
A more recent (1950's?) Canadian National Express sign. The sign has a red maple leaf with a yellow background, and black behind the lettering. The sign is one sided and is designed to fit into a frame.
Canadian National Express
A flanged, blue and white sign.
Canadian National Telegraph Signs
Two blue and white variants.
An Independent British Columbia 
This is a real oddball! The Kootenay Telephone Lines, Limited were located in British Columbia. It is a blue and white, flanged sign.


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