The Great and Less Than Great Canadian Logo Thread
 

Canadian Logos: Past, Present, Future, and Fugly.

Post 'em here along with your thoughts.

To get us started, two Canadian bank logos. I much preferred the old logos to the current ones.

CIBC: OLD (cool symbol)>>>New (banal and fugly)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._logo_1966.png https://s3.amazonaws.com/dix30/wp-co...bc-250x229.jpg
wikimedia, amazonaws

BMO: Old (emphasized Montreal)>New (de-emphasized Montreal, while emphasizing bowel-movement)
http://www.mapleridgehome.com/images/bmo-logo.jpg http://www.glenngould.ca/wp-content/...014/11/bmo.jpg
mapleridgehome; glenngould

The Vancouver Canucks can't seem to make up their mind. Those horrible V-sweaters from the eighties (And almost as bad skate logo)...vs. the boring but comfortable hockey stick....they tried too hard with the orca
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...4220002531.jpg
pinterest

This one scares the shit out of me:
http://csn.qc.ca/wp-content/uploads/...po-300x300.jpg
csn

Hydro Quebec is bad-assed, Hydro One is lower-case Lame-O (not to mention, extraordinarily badly-managed)
http://www.hydroquebec.com/data/meta...couleur-fb.jpg
https://s3.amazonaws.com/piktochartv...f_original.jpg
hydroquebec, amazonaws

Among the "greats" - CN, CBC, Air Canada, National Film Board, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs.

My fave (naturellement):
http://content.sportslogos.net/logos/1/16/full/124.gif
nhl

Just a mess.....

Ill take the first hockey stick logo.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/cyberpublic...n-montreal.png
http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/content/images/Logo-7.jpg

Hydro Quebec must be one of my all-time faves.

http://wpmedia.montrealgazette.com/2...0&h=630&crop=1
The Gazette

just for Harls (if he still checks out the Canada forum):
http://cdnolympic.files.wordpress.co...adian_tire.png
cdn

Mrs. Grinch's pubic hair

I really wish they would just stick with numbers 1. and 2. as home and away.

It just infuriates me they keep monkeying around with ugly logos when they've had a good one all along.

I think our worst is the logo (and motto, and built form) for the suburban Town of Conception Bay South.

http://i63.tinypic.com/n6q6c0.png

One of the local rugby clubs, the St. John's Swilers (that's the term for someone who hunts seals) is probably the only thing with our nationalist flag slapped on it that I dislike. It's just too detailed with the Matthew, a seal, and a pitcher plant.

http://i66.tinypic.com/2lmopa8.jpg

Newfoundland Television's logo is brutal.

http://i64.tinypic.com/282kd9y.png

Jumping Bean (local coffee house chain) has a logo I love. Not sure why - but it's so cute and inviting passing their location.

http://i66.tinypic.com/161b2v.jpg

And another I really love is Fog Off, a clothing line/store on Water Street.

http://i63.tinypic.com/axxxqg.png

A few classics

Montreal Expos
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...poscap2004.png

Montreal Metro
http://104.236.16.159/wp-content/upl...al-transit.jpg

Montreal 1976 Olympics
http://104.236.16.159/wp-content/upl...ympic-logo.jpg

Expo 67
http://104.236.16.159/wp-content/upl...ian_design.jpg

City of Montreal
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...l_logo.svg.png

CBC logo from the 70s and 80s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...4-1986.svg.png

Radio-Québec
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...dio-Quebec.png

Télévision Quatre Saisons
http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/contribu...1150144209.gif

City of Vancouver.



(^^^ That's the new logo, right? I seem to recall an article on SSP about it.)

source: nationalpostcom
https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpr.../1118jays1.jpg

This one really hasn't changed much over the past century.
Source: wpengine.netdna-ssl.com
http://46wvda23y0nl13db2j3bl1yx-wpen...ineupdated.jpg

I have a weakness for GO's logo:

https://cptdb.ca/wiki/images/1/17/GO_Transit_logo.png
https://cptdb.ca/wiki/images/1/17/GO_Transit_logo.png

Huh. So it turns out I grew up in the era during that boring stretch in the third row. Seeing them all lined up like this, I think I really like the classic look with the veins in the leaves.

Sorry..."leafs."

They really can't make up their mind!

I think my old town of London Ontario has a good one with a large tree representing "the Forest City".