PS12 - Licence Plates I
See also: Licence Plates II, Licence Plates III, Licence Plates IV
I take photos of these for no real reason except to enjoy the novelty of seeing out-of-province plates on vehicles operated in this province. Included in this issue:
Alberta
British Columbia
California
Canada**
*Maine (trailer)
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Brunswick
Newfoundland & Labrador
*New Jersey (apportioned)
New York
Nova Scotia (camper, trailer, veteran, sar, vff,
disabled, old style)
Ontario
Prince Edward Island (old style, older style)
*Texas (formerly authentic?)
* - Means I got the specialty plate indicated, but not the regular plate.
** - This plate is normally seen only on military vehicles.
Seen in my recent travels but not photographed yet:
Florida
Maine
Manitoba
New Hampshire
* - Nova Scotia (farm, antique)
Québec
Saskatchewan
Tenessee
Texas
* - Means I got the basic plate, but not the indicated specialty plates.
I may hold off on photographing some of the more mediocre offerings until I get a digital camera.
This is like the Nova Scotia plate you might have seen on that episode
of Malcolm in the Middle where Malcolm's family is in a huge traffic jam
and he makes friends with this girl but discovers she's from Canada when
she shuts the tailgate of her family's station wagon to reveal this plate.
Malcolm: "You're from Canada?!" He's a smart kid.
The older plate.
Volunteer Fire Fighter plate.
Search and Rescue volunteer plate.
Prince Edward Island: Birthplace of Confederation. That is to say,
the first of two meetings over this was held in Prince Edward Island because
it was the only way the other delegates could be sure that Prince Edward
Island would bother to be represented in the meeting. And whatever was
offered wasn't good enough for them; the original four provinces were Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, as well as what are now known as Québec and
Ontario. Prince Edward Island did come in shortly afterwards, though.
We also have a bridge named after this meeting that nobody was really
interested in at the time, since a circus was in town.
The older style plate, showcasing that we're the "Home of Anne of Green
Gables," a character meant in part to show how Islanders react to strangers.
I think it's kind of horrible (the plate, not the books - the books are
great), and they don't age gracefully, either. I think the province stopped
issuing them after a legal fight with the heirs of Lucy Maud Montgomery.
I'd like to see Prince Edward Island advertise itself more for its real
strengths than to use things they didn't really have anything to do with
as a crutch.
The older, and I think the best, plate style.
I photographed this plate because it may once have been authentic.
The rear plate was Nova Scotia, but a lot of people who come here from
other provinces or states just remove the old back plate and leave the
front plate in place (Nova Scotia only requires rear plates, and Prince
Edward Island is the same way). So I took this picture because I didn't
think it was a vanity plate, but since it's not in use on the car, it doesn't
count towards my collection. What's more, the other, authentic, Texas plate
I saw the day I didn't have my camera <sob!> looked a lot different.
Speaking of (ugh!) vanity plates, here's a Saint Mary's vanity plate
just for kicks.
