Object Name
Poster
Date Made
1985
Materials
Paper
Catalogue Number
2016.001.020
Dimensions
l: 84.0 cm x w: 56 cm
Description
This is a Parks Canada poster. It is plain white on the reverse side, while the front is a colour illustration. The top of the illustration has a view of a national park, and below that is a collage of historic people, monuments and locations. There is text identifying some of the people and what the locations are. The text is bilingual. At the top of the poster it says “Heritage // One // Hundred // 1885 // 1985 // Cent ans // de // Patrimonie”. There is a Government of Canada logo at the bottom.
History
In 1985 Parks Canada celebrated “100 years of heritage conservation” 100 years after the creation of the first national park in Banff Alberta in 1885.
