Note: The pens featured on this page are part of my collection; they are not for sale or trade.
The Golden Boy graces the top of the Manitoba Legislature.
Winnipeg's Centennial was 1974, Manitoba's 1970, and Canada's 1967.
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.
Read about: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Well, there's not much to say here. It's an airport.
Read about: The Forks, Winnipeg, MB
I noticed that these are the same people who were canoeing at The Forks (above). 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.)
St. Boniface is Winnipeg's "French Quarter".
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.
Read about: Prairie Dog Central, Winnipeg, MB
Read about: Western Canada Aviation Museum, Winnipeg, MB
Read about: The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, MB (They've dropped the "of Man and Nature")
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.
Read about: Countess of Dufferin.
Read about: Assiniboia Downs.
Read about: Lower Fort Garry.
Second Pen Front: Smaller floater; stationary sailboat on opposite side.
Back: Same as above.
Read about: Paddlewheel River Rouge Tours
Background on these pens is the same as the River Rouge. 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. The M.S. Lady Winnipeg is no longer in existence.
Churchill is shown on the Canadian map above. Thompson is south and west of Churchill.
Gimli is located along the shoreline of Lake Winnipeg, approximately 80 km northeast of Winnipeg.
The Great Gray Owl is our provincial bird and the White Spruce our provincial tree emblem. There's also an official Manitoba tartan.
Read about: Manitoba
Austin, Manitoba is about 130 km west of Winnipeg. And, yes, I drove all the way there just to buy these pens!
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.
CANADA | |
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Back: "CANADA" between 2 Canadian flags. |
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Back: "CANADA" (twist & click) |
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Back: "CANADA" between maple leaf and Canadian flag (twist & click) |
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Back: "CANADA" between maple leaf and Canadian flag (twist & click) |
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Back: "CANADA" surrounded by tiny maple leaves, between maple leaf and Canadian flag, (twist & click) |
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Back: "CANADA" (twist & click) |
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Back: "Canada" with Canadian flag on right |
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Back: "CANADA" with Canadian flag on right |
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Back: "CANADA" between maple leaf and Canadian flag, (twist & click) |
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Back: "Canada" flanked by Canadian flags (digital) |
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Back: "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" along with pictures of Canadian flag and
3 maple leaves
Read about: the RCMP |
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Back: "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" between Mounties on horseback (twist & click) |
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Back: "Royal Canadian Mounted Police" horizontally, with vertical Mountie on right (whistle, keychain) |
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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!
Floaty Penthon (my floaty pen movie) is now playing at Cineplex 16 at the Floatsville Mall !!!
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