Happy New Year! We made it to 2017 and I just have this wonderful feeling that its going to be an awesome year. One of the cool things happening in Canada this year, is our 150th Birthday, yes Canada is turning the big 1-5-0 and she is still looking good (even better if I may say). I’m excited this year to get out and explore more of my beloved country and share my adventures with all of you. So stay tuned!

For today’s post we will be exploring beautiful Vintage Canadian Travel Posters & Advertising.


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Vintage Canadian Travel Posters & Advertising

1920’s – 1960’s

Vintage 1920s Canadian Pacific Train Travel Poster

Join us in British Columbia. 1930s Vintage Map Cover.

vintage british columbia map cover-1930s vintage advertising
Source: eBay

Visit Whistler Blackcomb British Columbia-1940s Travel Poster (See Vintage Ski Poster HERE).

1940s Vintage Whistler travel poster featuring a downhill skier.
Source: eBay

The water is nice at Chateau Lake Louise, Alberta.

Further Reading: Vintage Travel To Do List: Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

1920s Chateau Lake Louise Vinta
Source: DiMagio

The Mountie and the Rockies, iconic Canadian symbols. 1920s Travel Poster.

1920s Canadian Pacific Vintage Poster with Mountie and rockies
Source: Pinterest

Official Trail Ride: Banff to Badger Pass.

Vintage Canadian Travel Poster for Banff to Badger Pass featuring an illustration of 2 people on horses.
Source: Pinterest

Saskatoon, is the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. There was also a song written about it in 1915, as seen in the sheet music image below.

Vintage Sheet Music 1915 called Saskatoon featuring an illustration of a women skier on the slopes.
Source: Collections Canada

Here is what the song sounded like. So very Ragtime!

Vintage Manitoba travel advertising circa 1950s.

Vintage Manitoba travel advertising from the 1950s featuring a family on the beach in their 1950s swimsuits.
Source: Click Americana

1940s Travel Brochure (1947) for visiting Ontario! Canada’s Vacation Province!

1940s vintage ontario vintage travel poster featuring two women on a dock with a blow up ball and a floatie in 1940s hairstyles and 1940s swimsuits.
Source: Made Man

Cruise the Great Lakes of Ontario. 1930s Travel Poster.

Are you interested in what one would wear on a cruise if your going for that vintage look? Check out the following post I have written: What to Wear on a Cruise-The 1930s-1950s Edition

1930s Canadian Pacific Cruise the Great Lakes travel poster featuring an illustration of a 1930s woman in 1930s cruisewear on a boat
Source: Allposters

You MUST go to Niagara Falls when you visit, it’s breathtaking.

Further Reading: Vintage Photo Tuesday: Visiting Niagara Falls, Canada

Vintage Niagara Falls Travel Poster for taking the greyhound bus there.
Source: Allposters

The poster is correct, Quebec is truly a Winter Wonderland (1940s Travel Poster).

Quebec Vintage Travel Poster from the 1940s.
Source: Pinterest

“See you in Montreal”. My dad attended Expo 67 in Montreal.

montreal expo 67 vintage poster
Source: Pinterest

Head to the East Coast to discover a truly charming part of Canada.

Canada East Coast Travel Poster Vintage
Source: Pinterest

Visit Nova Scotia-Digby Pines, “A Canadian Pacific Hotel”.

Nova Scotia Calling - Digby Pines vintage travel poster featuring an illustration of a woman in the 1940s / 1950s in her swimsuit at the pool.
Source: Collectors Weekly

1950s Travel Poster for Prince Edward Island. Known world-wide for the beloved and spunky character, Anne of Green Gables, Prince Edward Island will truly delight.

1950s Vintage Travel Poster for Prince Edward Island featuring an illustration and photos of people enjoying the island.
Source: Pinterest

New Brunswick-Canada’s Unspoiled Province by the Sea.

vintage new brunswick travel map
Source: Pinterest

‘Canada’s Happy Province’. This slogan from a 1965 ad for Newfoundland and Labrador made me giggle. I guess the rest of Canada’s provinces are grumpy and unwelcoming?

newfoundland-labrador vintage travel poster from the 1960s.
Source: I desire Vintage Posters

Canada also has 3 Territories: Yukon, Northwest Territory and Nunavut.

Yukon vintage travel poster
Source: Pinterest
Vintage travel Poster for Yellowknife, North West Terrorities featuring the Northern Lights.
Source: Allposters

For more vintage travel Canadian posters, check out my blog post ‘See Canada by Train-Vintage Advertising‘. OR you can visit my archive page on all the posts I have ever done on Travel..HERE.

Question Time: If you have travelled in Canada, where were your favorite places?


Vintage Travel:

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Thanks for dropping by!

Liz

15 Comments on Come Visit Canada! Vintage Travel Posters

  1. Those are some beautiful vintage travel posters. The graphics are stunning. I would love to visit Canada again. I’ve been to Vancouver and Calgary, including Lake Louise/Banff National Park. Just breathtaking. I do tend to love cities though. So future visits will include Toronto and Montreal.

    • Banff and Lake Louise are personal favorites of mine. I use to be a downhill skier and those are some of the best places in the world to ski. Would love to visit them again.

      If you ever visit Toronto, drop me a line! Would love to meet up.

  2. Thanks for sharing these gems. I adore vintage travel posters.

    Funny, isn’t it, how every single Mountie, whether standing manfully in the background, or paddling a canoe through the wilderness, is ALWAYS in his dress uniform.

    I lost track of how many things there were to laugh about in the Saskatoon sheet music pic. The shoes, the dress, the mountains….

    Now I’m all excited to visit all these places.

  3. The oldest posters are so beautiful, great colours and graphics. I like the first one especially. I have never been to Canada but would really love to one day. Where would you recommend to a first time visitor?

  4. These posters are gorgeous! Canada is definitely on my list of places to visit one day, I want to go to all the big cities, particularly Montreal and Quebec. xx

  5. We have been once, and Banff was our favourite place, although our travels were very limited. We have definite plans to make it back one day, or a few times if we can afford it!

    I have a print of a Banff travel poster that I really should put on the wall, it’s only been 4 years now…

    • I totally understand about having art for a long time that needs to be put up. My husband and I bought a beautiful painting in Cuba 3 years we FINALLY got framed and put up..finally.

      Banff is fantastic! I have been there for skiing years ago. Loved it.

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