The Great and Less Than Great Canadian Logo Thread

[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by J.OT13

Ottawa's signs have displayed 900,000 for 10 years.



Big cities need to add digital counters to their "Welcome" signs.

At one time Strathroy, Ontario had welcome signs that had a changeable population sign. Every time I went to Strathroy the number was different.

Their slogan back then? “And we’re growing”

[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by niwell

I'm 100% sure it no longer exists but I remember when I was a kid the entrance sign to Cochrane, Alberta had the phrase "Nuclear Free Zone" on it somewhere. That one seemed a bit baffling to me.

Vancouver has one of these signs on Lougheed Highway where it becomes Broadway, just west of Boundary Road.

[manny_santos]

Originally Posted by niwell

I was just thinking that I haven't seen one in Montreal aside from the sign on every bridge reminding you not to turn right on reds on the island:
https://goo.gl/maps/Fo68VFdHZMP2

There isn't much in Toronto either except for the standard MTO style city limits with population sign:
https://goo.gl/maps/yuaPp7NJKQm


In general having ornate welcome signs seems more of a thing done in smaller communities. To boost their brand, I'd imagine.

Some Metro Vancouver municipalities have these kinds of signs. Vancouver itself has them, as do Coquitlam and Port Moody. A couple entrances to Burnaby have generic signs showing the city logo (which kind of looks like London’s logo), but crossing between New Westminster and Burnaby you’d never know you’ve crossed a municipal boundary. New Westminster doesn’t mark its city limits, except on North Road entering from Burnaby/Coquitlam.

[VANRIDERFAN]

Originally Posted by stevanford1

No comment on prick-up truck alley?
https://www.google.com/maps/@49.9072...7i13312!8i6656

Sorry lads, but Lamborghini's and Ferrari's are a somewhat useless on gravel roads and prairie trails.

[VANRIDERFAN]

An old Canadian Tractor Company

The original logo


The updated and cleaner look

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by VANRIDERFAN

Sorry lads, but Lamborghini's and Ferrari's are a somewhat useless on gravel roads and prairie trails.

I would say our highways are also ill-suited to anything but a truck or fairly large thing like a Jeep. Frankly, some of our roads are a hazard at the posted speed limit. But it's what you get with the most roads per capita.

I am a big fan of the old logos.


From a rather serendipitous find of [url=https://www.websharx.ca/blog/50-canadian-logos-history/]https://www.websharx.ca/blog/50-canadian-logos-history/[url]

Some of them are downright terrible, like the psychotic Alberta Golden Bears logo, but there's lots of great ones like the National Film Board.

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by manny_santos

The London Knights had a God-awful logo in the mid-late 90s. I believe it was nicknamed Spider-Knight:


Sportslogos.net

Spiderman, Spiderman
Just came out of the garbage can.
Is he strong? No he's not.
He's got radioactive snot.

[VANRIDERFAN]

Really liked the Als logo and uniform colours of that period.

[MolsonExport]

How's this for a so insanely "80's" logo:

wikipedia

[megadude]

Originally Posted by HomeInMyShoes

I would say our highways are also ill-suited to anything but a truck or fairly large thing like a Jeep. Frankly, some of our roads are a hazard at the posted speed limit. But it's what you get with the most roads per capita.

I am a big fan of the old logos.


From a rather serendipitous find of [url=https://www.websharx.ca/blog/50-canadian-logos-history/]https://www.websharx.ca/blog/50-canadian-logos-history/[url]

Some of them are downright terrible, like the psychotic Alberta Golden Bears logo, but there's lots of great ones like the National Film Board.

I had an idea of the U of A logo in my mind but had to look it up when you said it. Ya never noticed how psycho the bear looks. It's pretty funny.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta_Golden_Bears_football

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by megadude

I had an idea of the U of A logo in my mind but had to look it up when you said it. Ya never noticed how psycho the bear looks. It's pretty funny.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert...Bears_football

[esquire]

Originally Posted by manny_santos

The London Knights had a God-awful logo in the mid-late 90s. I believe it was nicknamed Spider-Knight:


Sportslogos.net

Hockey logos kind of went off the rails in the 90s and 00s. Almost every new design from about 1995-2005 looks like absolute crap.

Originally Posted by vid

The goose was really nice too, the way they incorporated it into the livery:



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Airlines



Anyway, speaking of railway noodles:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comboios_de_Portugal

I love the Canadian Airlines goose. It was nice just on its own, but the fact that it was an homage to some of Canadian Pacific's earlier liveries just made it. It's too bad it was so short lived as it was adopted a short while before Air Canada took them over.

Further on the railway noodles, it's interesting to note that CN adapted its noodle to its Grand Trunk and Central Vermont subsidiaries.



In its later years right before it was shut down, CN also had a distinctive logo for its Newfoundland operations. It wasn't a noodle as such but it kind of complemented the CN noodle:

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

How's this for a so insanely "80's" logo:

wikipedia

That is such a weird team name... the "Manic". I know it supposedly references the Manicouagan River, but that seems like more of a weak attempt at rationalizing it... why would a team in Montreal name itself after a river up near Baie-Comeau?

[MolsonExport]

Originally Posted by esquire

Hockey logos kind of went off the rails in the 90s and 00s. Almost every new design from about 1995-2005 looks like absolute crap.




I love the Canadian Airlines goose. It was nice just on its own, but the fact that it was an homage to some of Canadian Pacific's earlier liveries just made it. It's too bad it was so short lived as it was adopted a short while before Air Canada took them over.

Further on the railway noodles, it's interesting to note that CN adapted its noodle to its Grand Trunk and Central Vermont subsidiaries.



In its later years right before it was shut down, CN also had a distinctive logo for its Newfoundland operations. It wasn't a noodle as such but it kind of complemented the CN noodle:






That is such a weird team name... the "Manic". I know it supposedly references the Manicouagan River, but that seems like more of a weak attempt at rationalizing it... why would a team in Montreal name itself after a river up near Baie-Comeau?

yeah, it is bizarre. I always joked that they left out a =n 'a' (Maniac). There was a very fiery player by the name of Tony Towers* that regularly used to loose his shit.

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Towers

Something about guys with curly hair...they often have very bad tempers.

[MolsonExport]

The Vancouver Canucks had a really ugly logo period.

dailyhive

[HomeInMyShoes]

Originally Posted by esquire

That is such a weird team name... the "Manic". I know it supposedly references the Manicouagan River, but that seems like more of a weak attempt at rationalizing it... why would a team in Montreal name itself after a river up near Baie-Comeau?

The headlines when the team is losing pretty much writes itself.

No Need for the Manic to Panic, yet

Time for the Manic to Push the Panic Button

[JHikka]

The V Jersey wasn't that bad.

[Andy6]

Originally Posted by esquire

That is such a weird team name... the "Manic". I know it supposedly references the Manicouagan River, but that seems like more of a weak attempt at rationalizing it... why would a team in Montreal name itself after a river up near Baie-Comeau?

It was a huge Hydro-Quebec project, so very much on people's minds and the pride of the new Quebec Inc. etc.

It also combines English-language understandability with a soupçon of joie de vivre.

[esquire]

Originally Posted by Andy6

It was a huge Hydro-Quebec project, so very much on people's minds and the pride of the new Quebec Inc. etc.

It also combines English-language understandability with a soupçon of joie de vivre.

Sounds like it was their "Spirited Energy"

[Canasian]

Originally Posted by Echoes

The classic Saskatchewan wheat sheaf, replaced a few years ago by the garbage on the right:



http://www.underconsideration.com/br...skatchewan.php

LOL! I was living in SK when they did that. At least they still have the simple licence plates.

[esquire]

A few provinces replaced their longstanding iconic logos in recent years... Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta... it's a shame. Those changes were all downgrades.