Location Taken: New Brunswick, Canada
Time Taken: July 2012
Every so often you spot something a bit, shall we say, out of place. Look closely at this photo, can you spot it?
It’s those signs on the tree. One says there’s gas to the left in 5 km, the other says we’re intersecting New Brunswick Highway 12.
Except there’s no road there. Heck, I was standing in a field right next to a hotel parking lot. And the signs are only visible from said parking lot. And only the rear part of it where few people go.
And no, that’s not Highway 12 back there. Highway 12 doesn’t even exist, well, at least not anymore. It closed down in 1976. That sign looks pretty good for being 36 years old.
And I doubt there’s gas in exactly 5 kilometers in that direction, too. If I remember right, that was an unpopulated hilly area, on the edge of the dividing line between English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Canada. Well, it’s not so much a line as a wide swath of area where everyone local is at least partially bilingual. Most of the signs were swapping over to French already, though.
Makes me wonder if northwestern New Brunswick would join Quebec if it seceded like it keeps threatening to do…
