You often hear people say to keep your head up and look around, but for one woman, looking down has become her obsession.
Nicole Davison, the UK’s Consul General in Vancouver, has been searching for Vancouver’s oldest sidewalk stamp and took her quest to Twitter.
“It’s something that’s very different that we don’t have in the UK,” Davison said. “We don’t have these markers of local history on the sidewalk, for sure.”
Some of Vancouver’s sidewalks have a date stamp, so finding the oldest one in the city became Davison’s quest after moving here.
“Part of my fascination is to try and find these little pockets of history around,” she said.
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Davison first noticed the stamps when she first moved here two years ago. She said spotted one near her home and became obsessed ever since.
“Part of it for me is thinking that this pavement has been here since 1930 or 1906, I wonder who lived here, I wonder who walked along this street, you know, just kind of connecting to a different time.”
She said the stamps ran through until 1965, then stopped until resuming again in 1986.
Others have now joined the quest with multiple people sharing their findings with her on Twitter.
Thus far, the oldest stamp that has been spotted is from 1906.