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So Many Ways to Stop in Canada

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Photo by Canadiana/Flickr

Photo: Citynoise.org

As just a short note following up on my comments on Montreal’s strange “Stop” signs, another thing to note of course is the linguistic variation. I’ve just returned from the Westmount region of the city, where the signs are in English (as in the one posted below, which, as Citynoise.org notes, seems a bit odd since the English bit on the street signs has been blacked out).

But one also seems to find bilingual English/French, as well as signs in Mohawk, Inuktitut, and Kahnawake — there may be more. In any case, an interesting reminder of how culture trickles into the standardized regime of traffic safety.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 13th, 2008 at 5:14 pm and is filed under Traffic Signs, Traffic Wonkery, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “So Many Ways to Stop in Canada”

D42 Says:
October 14th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Design comment: no borders around the photos?
D42 Says:
October 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Also, apropos of your stop signs, investigate the following:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:ManxCarRegistrationPlate.jpg

Oui?

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So Many Ways to Stop in Canada

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