This bracelet feels like a tiny scrapbook of Canada—filled with family road trips, paper maps folded across the dashboard and postcards sent home from every new province.
Dating from the 1960s to 1970s, it features ten colourful enamel charms, each displaying a Canadian provincial shield. Perhaps the charms were collected one by one during summer holidays, or the bracelet was once proudly worn as a reminder of home. We may never know its full story, but it has clearly been part of someone’s life and adventures.
A wonderfully nostalgic piece of Canadian history for anyone who remembers travelling Canada before GPS, grew up collecting souvenir charms or simply wants to keep a little piece of home close to their heart.
Details
- Vintage Canadian souvenir charm bracelet
- Design: Ten provincial shield charms
- Material: Gold-tone metal with enamel
- Detailing: multicoloured enamel coat-of-arms designs
- Colours: Gold, red, blue, green, white and multicolour
- Bracelet style: Link charm bracelet
- Closure: Adjustable clasp
- Length: Approx. 7 in (17.8 cm)
- Origin: Canada
- Era: Estimated 1960s-1970s
- Estate piece