CanadianBottles
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I just picked these up a little while ago from a guy selling off his collection on Kijiji (a site similar to Craigslist). They're all from Ottawa. Kijiji has gotten pretty good for bottles lately, I'm not sure if it was always like that or if I just lucked out by seeing some better posts right after they were posted. I just missed out on eight boxes of bottles dug out of one of the older city dumps during construction of a foundation, someone else snapped it up right away while I was at work. Of course now I'm imagining all the coloured local druggists that must have been in there (okay, probably not, but I know there was good stuff in there). I'm still pretty happy to have gotten these, it's not that easy to find pharmacy bottles from Eastern Ontario these days since almost all the antique stores in Ottawa closed down in the last year.
Norman W. Campbell and two Brownlee's.
J.A. Craig, Joseph Valiquette & Co, E.M. Ahearn. The Valiquette I'm quite happy to get even though it's got some damage, since I didn't previously know it existed and can't find any record of it online.
These are all Allen and Cochrane bottles. I think they were Ottawa's most successful chain of pharmacies for a few years. The smallest is my first half ounce embossed druggist bottle.
I'm still trying to get a pharmacy bottle from Eastern Ontario with French embossing (that shouldn't be too hard), a coloured Eastern Ontario druggist (that's quite a bit harder without going over my price limit), and a druggist bottle from one of the Ottawa suburbs before they were annexed (this one will likely be really difficult, I only know of one and it's a label-only).
Norman W. Campbell and two Brownlee's.
J.A. Craig, Joseph Valiquette & Co, E.M. Ahearn. The Valiquette I'm quite happy to get even though it's got some damage, since I didn't previously know it existed and can't find any record of it online.
These are all Allen and Cochrane bottles. I think they were Ottawa's most successful chain of pharmacies for a few years. The smallest is my first half ounce embossed druggist bottle.
I'm still trying to get a pharmacy bottle from Eastern Ontario with French embossing (that shouldn't be too hard), a coloured Eastern Ontario druggist (that's quite a bit harder without going over my price limit), and a druggist bottle from one of the Ottawa suburbs before they were annexed (this one will likely be really difficult, I only know of one and it's a label-only).