Canadian Cinderellas

Found these two groups of labels in an old album purchased at an estate auction yesterday. Not much else really interesting in the book, but these were a pleasant surprise.

Collection of 14 Prime Ministers of Canada up until Lester Pearson. That would date these pre-1968. Possibly produced for Canada's Centennial, although they do not sport the centennial logo.



Also a complete collection picturing the official flowers of the 10 provinces and (then) 2 territories.



Not beautifully designed, by any means, but at least both collections are complete.

I just had a vision of the worst trading card idea ever ... Canadian Prime Ministers.

Kid 1) "I'll trade my Sir Charles Tupper for your 1921, 1926, and 1935 William Lyon Mackenzie King."

Kid 2) "No fair! Tupper didn't serve in Parliament! I'm telling mom!"


- Brian

True Brian. That's almost what they look like. Perhaps I should bury them in a Mason jar in my backyard, and maybe in a hundred years they'll be worth millions.

Here are images of these Cinderellas on a sheet.

Also there appears to be a spelling error in Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott name ( Jeseph)

Paul

Ahh, so it was a Centennial souvenir. Thanks for showing the original package Paul. Seeing the flower sheet also explains the straight edges on the Ontario and Northwest Territories labels.
Many thanks!

jamesw

Not sure if you can tell from the scans but these were printed with the Prime Ministers and the Flowers on the same sheet. The scans I posted above have been folded to fit the packaging.

I have 2 sheets and one of them has a "gutter strip" separating the Prime Ministers and the flowers.

Paul

Another Canada cinderellas thread:
https://goscf.com/t/20133