mctaggart67
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I haven't seen much of anything from Hull , haven't even seen many postcards from Hull , there is a lot of postcards from Ottawa but very few for Hull/Gatineau . old postcards can often show older views of buildings and places .
for the lack of bottles , it might be likely that some of the bigger dumps haven't been found or dug . there is likely bottles from Hull/Ottawa in dumps in the surrounding farms and towns in the area , they would of bought products from Ottawa and threw out the bottles . I wouldn't expect hull bottles to just be in Hull but a wider area .
have you ever seen any embossed druggist bottles from Pembroke ? its fairly close to Ottawa and downtown was very large at one point , it was a massive lumber town and key town in the region . I have seen many soda bottles from Pembroke but not sure I've seen any druggist . you think there'd be one
The author of The Ontario Drug Store and Druggist List, 1851-1930 occasionally hangs out at this forum. Here are two bottles from Dr. Valade's Ottawa pharmacy, one embossed in French and the other embossed in both of Canada's official languages.