Note: The pens featured on this page are part of my collection; they are not for sale or trade, with the exception of the Lake Manitoba pen (trades only).
Note: The pens featured on this page are part of my collection; they are not for sale or trade, with the exception of the Lake Manitoba pen (trades only).
Front: The "kids" (floater) disappear behind the cottage to emerge on the
other side all grown up (floater part 2)
Fireplace on left foreground and steps to the beach on right.
Back: "THE LUTY COTTAGE, Lake Manitoba, St. Laurent CANADA"
along with a picture of a lake serpent (Mippie) on left and the Lutys on right,
set against a beautiful Lake Manitoba sunset.
twist & click
Front: Plane (floater) flies over downtown city scene; parliament building in center.
Back: "Souvenir of WINNIPEG Canada" along with pictures of
(left) Assiniboine Park Pavilion and (right) the Golden Boy.
The Golden Boy graces the top of the Manitoba Legislature.
Front: Plane (floater) flies over downtown city scene.
Back: "souvenir of WINNIPEG CANADA" along with pictures of
(left) an aboriginal in headdress and (right) Upper Fort Garry.
1-vintage and 1-in colour.
Same front as above pen, but airplane floater is about 1/4 inch longer.
Back: "WINNIPEG, CANADA, 1874 CENTENNIAL 1974"
(flanked by pictures also same as above).
Winnipeg's Centennial was 1974, Manitoba's 1970, and Canada's 1967.
Front: Football player (floater) runs after the ball at the stadium.
Back: "WINNIPEG CANADA" along with pictures of
(left) the Grey Cup (the CFL trophy) and (right) the Golden Boy.
Our home Canadian Football League team is called The Blue Bombers. It must be an opponent running for the ball! Our team colours are blue and gold.
Front: Airplane (floater) takes off.
Back: "WINNIPEG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, MANITOBA - CANADA"
with picture of an Air Canada jet on the left.
Well, there's not much to say here. It's an airport.
Front: Voyageurs in canoe (floater) paddle on the Assiniboine River at
The Forks (where the Assiniboine and Red rivers meet).
A picture of the St. Boniface Cathedral is on left.
(At least it looks like the Cathedral, but I don't know what it's doing at The Forks. See next pen - the Cathedral is located nearby in St. Boniface.)
Back: "THE FORKS, Winnipeg, Canada" along with a building.
Front: Voyageurs in canoe (floater) paddle down the Red River in St. Boniface.
(The Cathedral is in the center background. The building to the
right of it with the black roof is the St. Boniface Museum.)
Back: "SAINT BONIFACE, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA"
along with a picture of a buffalo on left.
I noticed that these are the same people who were canoeing at The Forks (above).
St. Boniface is Winnipeg's "French Quarter".
Well, it's really only about a 5 minute paddle from there and they were
heading in the correct direction!
And now it seems they are heading back, St. B. being east of the Red.
(Hey, it never hurts to have a little local geography lesson.)
Front: Miniature steam train (floater), passes through Assiniboine Park.
Back: "ASSINIBOINE PARK, WINNIPEG, CANADA" along with:
(left) Boy with the Boot who stands at the entrance to the English Gardens - and
(right) the park Pavilion.
While at first glance these 2 pens look identical,
the background on them are mirror images of each other.
You can ride this miniature train around the park.
Assiniboine Park opened in 1908 and covers 378 acres (153 hectares) along the Assiniboine River.
The Zoo, Conservatory, English Garden, Leo Mol Sculpture Garden, Tudor-style pavilion and Lyric Theatre are a few of the features found in the park.
There are also picnic areas and cycling and walking trails.
In the winter, you can enjoy cross-country skiing, tobogganing and skating on the Duck Pond.
Front: The Prairie Dog (floater), a vintage train, crosses the prairies.
(Second pen also has a stationary Red River cart on left.)
Back: "PRAIRIE DOG CENTRAL" along with Prairie Dog Central logo on left.
Front: Turboprop plane (floater) crosses in front of the hangar.
Back: "WESTERN CANADA AVIATION MUSEUM INC."
along with drawing of a vintage plane and the museum address.
1-classic (top image) and 1-twist & click.
Front: The Nonsuch (floater) sails on the water (probably Hudson's Bay).
(You can board a replica of this 17th century two-masted ketch at the museum.)
Back: "MANITOBA MUSEUM OF MAN AND NATURE"
They've now dropped the "of Man and Nature"
Front: The Countess (floater) passes in front of a train station
(actually looks more like the Manitoba Legislative building).
Back: "COUNTESS OF DUFFERIN, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA"
along with pictures of (left) Upper Fort Garry and
(right) buffalo and the phrase "GROWING TO BEAT 70".
This is a vintage pen issued in 1970, Manitoba's Centennial year.
Does anybody who was here at the time remember the "Hello Twenty-Seventy!" (2070) ceremony at
the (old) arena? There was a time capsule that our family put something into for
our descendents.
Front: Two jockies on horses race around the track.
Back: "ASSINIBOIA DOWNS, WINNIPEG, MANITOBA"
along with pictures of (left) a jockey cap and (right) a horseshoe.
Front: Guards (floater) march along fort wall.
Back: "FORT GARRY HORSE GUARD, LOWER FORT GARRY,
MANITOBA" flanked by fort-related pictures.
Front: The Paddlewheel (floater) travels on the Red River,
towards the (old) Provencher Bridge.
Back: "PADDLEWHEEL QUEEN, WINNIPEG - MANITOBA,
CANADA'S LARGEST EXCURSION SERVICE"
Front: The River Rouge (floater) travels down the river.
Back: "M.S. RIVER ROUGE, WINNIPEG,
Canada's Finest River Cruise Ship"
Second Pen Front: Smaller floater; stationary sailboat on opposite side.
Back: Same as above.
Front: The Lady Winnipeg (floater) travels down the river.
Back: "M.S. LADY WINNIPEG, cruising the Historic Red River"
Second Pen Front: The same, but much better colour.
Back: "M.S. LADY WINNIPEG, CRUISE TO LOWER FORT GARRY"
Background on these last 2 pens is the same as the River Rouge.
The M.S. Lady Winnipeg is no longer in existence.
Looks like the
Hotel Fort Garry (tall building) on the right-hand side,
but I'm not convinced you can see it from the Red.
The scene is west of the Red River towards downtown Winnipeg, near The Forks.
Front: Polar bear (floater) crosses snow covered land.
Back: "The Arctic Trading Co. | CHURCHILL, THOMPSON, WINNIPEG"
along with picture of a baluga whale on left
twist & click
Churchill is shown on the Canadian map above. Thompson is south and west of Churchill.
Front: Viking ship joins sailboats in the Gimli harbour.
Back: "GIMLI, MANITOBA, LAND OF THE VIKING"
along with pictures of (left) a Viking hat and (right) a fish
Gimli is located along the shoreline of Lake Winnipeg, approximately 80 km northeast of Winnipeg.
Front: Steam engine (floater) crosses field.
Back: "Manitoba Agricultural Museum, AUSTIN, CANADA"
Austin is about 130 km west of Winnipeg. And, yes, I drove all the way there just to buy these pens!
Front: Carriage and horses (floater) travel across farm lands.
Crocus (provincial flower) on left.
Back: "Mennonite Village Museum, Steinbach, Manitoba",
with windmill on left.
Steinbach is about 53 km southeast of Winnipeg.
Front: Buffalo (floater) wanders across the prairie.
Crocus (provincial flower) on left.
Back: "MANITOBA, CANADA" along with pictures of (left) Manitoba flag
and (right) Manitoba Coat of Arms.
twist & click
The Great Gray Owl is our provincial bird and the White Spruce our provincial tree emblem. There's also an official Manitoba tartan.
Front: Canoeist (floater) paddles across a lake.
Back: "MANITOBA, CANADA, THE LAND OF LAKES AND PINES"
along with: (left) a moose and (right) a bear.
Front: CP Rail train travels across the prairies.
Back: "THE PRAIRIES OF CANADA" with grain elevators on left.
This pen is one of my favourites. I'm a prairie girl. This is home. And I worked many years for CP Rail Intermodal Services (it's not a 'piggyback' nor passenger train on the pen, though).
Everybody SING!
(partial)
Manitoba and Saskatchewan then followed, where the wheat fields and the old Red River flowed.
In the quiet hours your whistling on the prairie, touched my heart and set my memories aglow.
Canadian Pacific, carry me 3,000 miles.........
Did you know Winnipeg is the namesake of Winnie the Pooh?
In 1914, an army officer from Winnipeg, on his way to the east coast to be transported to England, bought a black bear while stopped at a train station in White River, Ontario. The officer, Harry Colebourn, named the bear Winnipeg (or Winnie for short), and the bear soon became an honorary member of the regiment, entertaining the soldiers with her tame and friendly behavior.
Winnipeg stayed with the regiment while they were in England preparing for war, but when the regiment was called to battle, Captain Harry Colebourn was ordered to get rid of the bear. He found a home for her at the London Zoo. When the First World War ended, Captain Colebourn returned to Canada, but decided to leave Winnipeg at the zoo, where she seemed to be happy and had become popular with the zoo's staff and visitors.
Eventually, an English writer by the name of A.A. Milne took his son, Christopher Robin, to the London Zoo and it was there they were introduced to 'Winnie the Pooh.'
Debbie rests in her garden. (not a real pen)
CANADA
Back: "CANADA" between 2 Canadian flags.
Back: "CANADA" (twist & click)
Back: "CANADA" between maple leaf and Canadian flag (twist & click)
Back: "CANADA" between maple leaf and Canadian flag (twist & click)
Back: "CANADA" surrounded by tiny maple leaves,
between maple leaf and Canadian flag, (twist & click)
Back: "CANADA" (twist & click)
Back: "Canada" with Canadian flag on right
Back: "CANADA" with Canadian flag on right
Back: "CANADA" between maple leaf and Canadian flag, (twist & click)
Back: "Canada" flanked by Canadian flags (digital)
"CANADA" with multicoloured glitter (twist & click)
Back: "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" along with pictures of Canadian flag and
3 maple leaves
Back: "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" between Mounties on horseback (twist & click)
Back: "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" horizontally, with vertical Mountie on right (whistle, keychain)
Back: "Scarlet and Gold"
My first floaty pen was one of the lunar rover on the moon,
purchased at Kennedy Space Center, Florida in December, 1972.
Sadly, I used to take it to school and I lost it.
I didn't actively start collecting floaties until 1988,
on our trip to Halifax/the Maritimes.
The pens I most enjoy adding to my collection are Canadian locations.
And while, of course, I prefer Eskesen pens, I do have others.
These are my homemade wood display boxes (4 of 17). Each holds 128 pens.
My husband built them for me because I am accident-prone
and would probably have no fingers left if I attempted to use a saw.
I then painted and stamped them.
The non-Eskesen pens are kept in a separate smaller box.
I like to play with my pens, so once in a while I switch the order in which they are kept. Sometimes I put them by groups (city, etc.), sometimes by barrel colour, and sometimes in alphabetical order. I don't leave any spaces for additions because, when I get new pens, part of the fun (for me) is rearranging all the boxes and getting reaquainted with my treasures.
May, 2007 - This is very exciting for me. I bought myself a Palm Z22; and Documents to Go
software for it.
I can now "synchonize" my Excel inventory spreadsheet onto it and always have my
pen list handy if I run across a new pen! I have put lots of other organizational stuff onto it,
but my main reason for buying it was my pens. (Maybe that's pretty pathetic, LOL.)
A couple years ago on our trip to Nova Scotia, I came upon some Bluenose pens.
The front was virtually the same; and the wording of the text also.
What I didn't realize until I got home was that the order of the text and graphic on the back was different.
With my Palm list and pen details on hand, I would have known that!
March, 2008 - OK, so I wasted a whole Saturday evening making little flag poles for my pens out of
shish-kabob sticks, white beads and address label stickers. It worked out really well, except
for the countries where I have few pens, there's a throng of flags all mushed together.
April, 2008 - Hear ye! Hear ye!
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