Most Canadians likely only concern themselves with road signs telling them how many kilometres there are until their destination.
But one American writer has caused quite a stir in Canada after writing about the “poetic inscrutability of Canadian highway signs” after a brief trip to New Brunswick.
Ty Burr, a film critic for The Boston Globe wrote a hilarious column this week after several days camping in New Brunswick and driving along the edge of the Bay of Fundy.
“But what began as a minor puzzlement for my wife and me bloomed over the course of a few days into a full-on obsession: What in the name of Rob Ford were the road signs trying to tell us?”
His curiosity was piqued with this sign:
“What the hell? I put that one up on my Facebook feed and fielded input from 2,845 of my closest friends and family. Fiddleheads was the general consensus, but why? Maybe there’s a farm stand just off the highway during the few weeks the ferns are harvested in the spring, but what could this possibly mean in the middle of January?”
The New Brunswick signs might not be as simple as kilometre markers on the highway, but they’re no more confusing than the Pan Am Games signs.
Burr only toured New Brunswick, however – that leaves 12 other provinces and territories full of potentially perplexing road signs.
So we want you to send them to us on the Global News Facebook or tweet us at @GlobalNews
Comments