Comments | benvolio1410: Why Canadian Highways are Catholic.

benvolio1410

Why Canadian Highways are Catholic.

Feb 03, 2007 00:32

We have been doing a lot of driving in Canada because for some reason, our tour office can't just put us in the same area for a set amount of weeks, no, they have to make us drive all over BC back and forth. Consistently, we have 12 - 18 hour drives. Yay. This has left me with a lot of time to think. There is something odd about Canadian ( Read more... )

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laurarat February 3 2007, 20:45:32 UTC

"2 - Icons - The Catholic church uses a lot of icons spanning from traditions that basically dealt with the fact that the people they were selling indulgences to were illiterate (did I spell that right?). Canadian highways us them to more graphically illustrate that it is an avalanche area."

Because the Canadians are also illiterate? :)

benvolio1410 February 3 2007, 20:54:54 UTC

yeah, didn't you know that? Kidding, no, I think it has something to do with not wanting to post the sign in both English AND French, so they just do pictures.