Ontario, despite having the most boring plate in North America, also has the most extensive collection of graphical license plates, which no one here has brought up? Aside from letting anyone with an amateur radio licence get a plate with their call sign on it, which I think is actually free, there are
seventy three graphical plates at the moment, and it changes every year. Here are a some of the more interesting ones:
Ontario Square and Round Dance Federation
Canadian Tire's Jumpstart charity
St. John Ambulance (this one is fairly common, as all St. John Ambulance vehicles use it)
Elmer the Safety Elephant (???????)
Masons!
Odd Fellows and Rebekahs (they still exist?)
The Ottawa Valley
OFAH (Ontario's NRA)
Anishinabek Nation
Drapeau Franco-Ontarien avec le slogan en francais
Franco-Ontarien flag with the slogan in English, for those lapsed Francophones.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation
United Empire Loyalists (They're still around??)
This is probably the most common:
The serial is usually a slaughtered spelling of someone's name or a variation of "grandma"
The Lacrosse Hall of Fame
Geocaching!!!!
Lakehead University! Wouldn't you be proud to have one of these? It's one of only 6 post-secondary institutions to have its own plate still, so someone is buying them??
So yeah, Ontario's plates aren't just boring in their basic form, they're boring in their graphical form too!
Also, the serials for all those plates are "##LL##" where the LL is a short form of the name of the plate. Lakehead's is LU, the Toronto Maple Leafs plate is ML, the geocaching plate is GC, etc., so there are just as many serial combinations to go with them.
Ontario however doesn't allow its black on white plates to have custom serials, so trucks with a custom plate have to have blue serials. I actually think the black and white plates look better: