Strange Maps — July 23, 2010

31 – Newfoundland On A Stamp

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Not so much strange as just darn purty, this map of Newfoundland on a postage stamp, probably dating from before 1949, when it became a province of Canada (this happened after a referendum in which the other option was independence, with the joining of Canada making it with the slimmest of majorities: 50,50%). Taken off the website of Living Planet, a Newfie t-shirt producing collective with some more nice designs.

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