The two-letter system was already in place in the United States mail system before the 80s.
It wouldn’t be the first time Canada adopted a US data standard to ease utilization of US made or standardized equipment.
The two-letter system was already in place in the United States mail system before the 80s.
It wouldn’t be the first time Canada adopted a US data standard to ease utilization of US made or standardized equipment.
It was the old form. Other than BC, the old postal short forms were 3 or 4 letters.
BC
Alta
Sask
Man
Ont
Que
NB
NS
PEI
Nfld
The 2-letter acronyms came up from the United States relatively recently.
No joke, and the story has legs internationally regrettably.
This isn’t 10 or 15 years ago when global stock video clips were just taking off standard resource in ad company toolboxes.
The maple leaf last year was well done.
Suggest you look back on the canvas thread to see what was done last year.
We managed to do a comm badge and the 1701 Enterprise and a Klingon symbol.
Some context on the Saskatchewan aspect that puts helps to understand the concerns being raised:
“Weekes also said Harrison once sought permission to bring a gun into the legislature. Harrison initially denied the allegation but resigned last week after admitting he had forgotten about the incident, which happened more than a decade ago.”
The CP photo caption says the incident happened in 2016.
They’ve been happily living in British Columbia all along.
If I’m recalling correctly, there was one statistic in the 1970s along the lines that there were more bald eagles living in Vancouver’s Stanley Park than in the lower 48 US states.
No effort at all to see their nests from the outdoor theatre at Malkin Bowl.
https://stanleyparkecology.ca/2018/02/28/eagles-nesting-stanley-park/
I was referring to the one in Vancouver.
I wouldn’t call it a ‘trial’.
It was in place for a couple of decades. Agreed that it failed in the end, as did Rideau street in Ottawa.
We’re deep in the summer NBA doldrums but [email protected] is trying to get traction.
As someone who sees MS Word forms regularly force Canadians to use Month/Day/Year formats which were never native to Canada and don’t meet the ISO standard either, I am inferring the impetus transition.
But truly, I old enough to recall many standards being harmonized in the early 90s in the wake of the North American free trade agreement.
Whether or not a digital archive document demonstrates that Canada Post intentionally harmonized to match the US is TBC.
But it is a verifiable fact that the two-letter standard for provinces and territories has not been commonly established in all federal regulations or data standards or in provincial and territorial data systems standards.
That is to say, it has not been formally adopted as by Canada or as the ‘Canadian data standard.’