In which the Pot calls the Kettle Black

When I spoke at my Dad's funeral (or tribute as my mother prefers) I mentioned his love of maps and atlases.  When Caitlin and I took our epic road trip in October some of the maps we used came from his car.  Why he had a map of the north central states (including useful city maps) was perplexing but much appreciated.  Last week my sister said she had found a filing cabinet drawer full of maps so I volunteered to sort them.  It wasn't really full by my standards but since my sister's only "map" is a GPS I can see how dozens of maps and a few triptiks would be overwhelming.

I laughed while I sorted and arranged them so nicely for picture taking.  Who needs a 1987 map of Nova Scotia or Saskatchewan? And how can you see them both in the same year?  Maps dating to 1994 and 1995 included Virginia, Manitoba, Vermont and Alberta.  In 1997 and 1998 they must have come to visit us in New Brunswick because the maps were all the Atlantic provinces.  But there was also a 2004 New Brunswick map and we lived in Ontario then.

Then I decided I would go through our own map box and um let us just say it needed cleaning too.  Anyone could tell we lived out west in the early 90s since the maps are all from that area.  I couldn't find a date on the map in the top left corner but the governor's clothes indicate it is more than a few years old.  And who needs 3 maps of Fredericton?

I won the prize for the map in the worst condition.  Pretty much every corner and fold was destroyed.  Pretty useless unless you wanted to go to Tobermory.  This map was even relatively new (as in less than a decade old).

All in all I had an enjoyable time sorting the maps.  It was a trip down memory lane - remembering our postings and their visits to us.  Many of the maps were from trips my parents took with my other siblings to resorts.  Though I wasn't with them I sorted the pictures for the long memorial slide show and can see all the good times they enjoyed.

And again I found treasures.  Go back and look at either of the first 2 pictures.  See that Shell Quebec map? It is from 1967!  And the black and white map all the maps are laying on?  It is a 1964 Toronto map!  Toronto stopped at the airport - no Brampton. Those two I am keeping.