The Great Canadian roadsign thread

[MolsonExport]

Post unique, weird, or otherwise misunderstood road signs here.

No right hand turns on red lights on the Island of Montreal


(LTR, Top then bottom row): playing hockey in a very small room, a room with some books, presumably culture spot, stinky farmer with overalls selling fruits/beggies, church (yay!), flooded basement with extraction ladder, pound of flesh, your trailor-hitched boat has detached and is heading for the lake.

[MolsonExport]

for old times' sake (When the assgass gets to be too much)"


This is also where you go to fart on your skis.

[MonctonRad]

Go to a train station in Germany and everything is a fart(e).

[MolsonExport]

This one is weird.

[MolsonExport]

Ye be warned: Entering Banjo-pickin' land

[niwell]

I've always thought these Quebec signs went hard:



radio-canada


I also love the Quebec sign for industrial parks - big Futurist vibes:


Shuttershock

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

This one is weird.

There is a similar sign on the TCH at the Tantramar Marsh here in southeastern NB (sans the snowflakes). It shows a huffing God-like figure (as above) blowing an 18 wheeler off the road, with a couple of flashing lights that are activated when the winds are particularly high.

[MonctonRad]

I've always been fascinated by the Risque du Brouillard Quand le Feu Clignotent roadsigns in Quebec.

Most Quebec roadsigns are pretty self evident because of vocabulary overlap between English and French, but "brouillard" has no English correlate. I always feel sorry for any American confronted with these large yellow cautionary signs with flashing light on a Quebec autoroute. I can see them freaking out, not knowing that brouillard simply means "fog."

I think that just occasionally, and simply for purposes of clarity, it might not hurt the Quebec government to make just a few roadsigns bilingual, if for no other reason than simply for safety purposes...........

[MonctonRad]

Not Canadian, but still funny:

[ScreamingViking]

If you can't look at a sign and understand it within a fraction of a second, it's a bad sign!

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

This one is weird.

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Not Canadian, but still funny:

I think we have a few of these types. I seem to recall them in Milton and Kingston.

[Dengler Avenue]

Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

I think we have a few of these types. I seem to recall them in Milton and Kingston.

Yep I came across one on I-75 between Ignace and SSM 6 years ago.

[harls]

Haha. Old man Winter looks like some guy on my street. I must stay away from his icy breath of death.

[harls]

When I visited Boston in 2008:



Sorry, the rest of these are just weird signs I spotted in Ottawa.

[O-tacular]

Originally Posted by MolsonExport

This one is weird.

Is that Francois Legault or Lucien Bouchard?

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Is that Francois Legault or Lucien Bouchard?

Looks like Lucky Lucy to me, huffing and puffing at anglo-Canada.

[O-tacular]

Apparently the old Moose warning sign was problematic so a Calgary TikTok star designed a new one:



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...aine-1.6276310


https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/meet-the-...over-1.5698174

This one's badass:

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by harls

I cannot stop laughing at this one. From stuffy Ottawa no less!

Would only be funnier to me if it was on an auto shop window... lube, oil and filter!

[ScreamingViking]

Originally Posted by O-tacular

Apparently the old Moose warning sign was problematic so a Calgary TikTok star designed a new one:



https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calga...aine-1.6276310


https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/meet-the-...over-1.5698174

Maybe it was the droop. Made motorists feel sad. The new one is a moose with purpose!

[O-tacular]

This thread would not be complete without mention of the pride of Newfoundland: