Profile: Lapel Pins – 1989 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Chicoutimi, Canada Not very often do the Canadian Figure Skating Championships (often called "Canadians") take place in the province of Quebec, but the last national event of the 1980s was contested in the small arrondissements of Jonquiere and Chicoutimi,1 both part of the city of Saguenay.… Continue reading 1989 Canadian Figure Skating Championships Pins: Il Fait Frette.
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1988 Canadian Figure Skating Championships Pins: Road to Calgary.
Profile: Lapel Pins – 1988 Canadian Figure Skating Championships, Victoria, Canada An Olympic year. 1988. And, in a bonus for Canadians, the Winter Games on home turf in Calgary the same winter. Ten years had passed since the last national figure skating championship had been staged in Victoria, British Columbia, but the 1988 Canadian Figure… Continue reading 1988 Canadian Figure Skating Championships Pins: Road to Calgary.
1975 Canadian Figure Skating Pins: A Quebec One and Done.
One of Canada's oldest cities hosted the nation's top figure skaters—and marked the event with at least three different lapel pins Quebec City, capital of the French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec, is a sister city of sorts to Oakland, California, when it comes to having hosted a national figure skating championship. Each city has done… Continue reading 1975 Canadian Figure Skating Pins: A Quebec One and Done.
1974 Canadian Figure Skating Pin: Let It Snow(flake).
Canada's Maritime Provinces, Moncton, New Brunswick, welcomed Canada's finest figure skaters for the 1974 Canadian Figure Skating Championships. An unusually shaped event pin, a hexagon, marked the occasion and repeated the shape used for the pin that commemorated the 1972 World Championships, held in Calgary. The hexagon would make another appearance on a major championship pin in Canada when it was used for the the 1987 Skate Canada event.