When I looked at my notebook the other day, I realized it is a school supply. That I didn't consider buying a decent notebook for an adult. In fact, I got it at Dollarama, at the lowest price.
This is a mindset left over from school days where a notebook wasn't valued but was a tool to be disposed of after one's courses. Fair enough. And it is interesting that the brand we most remember is Hilroy.
Hilroy notebooks are now part of the ACCO brand. What's on the website? A little about the start of the company:
On July 4, 1918, Hilroy commenced operations in Toronto, Ontario. Disregarding the pessimism of skeptical business associates, Roy Corson Hill borrowed $432 on a life insurance policy and added it to $1,500 his parents obtained by mortgaging their home. With this capital, he formed his own stationery company: Canadian Pad and Paper Co. Limited. The company grew quickly, and by 1958 it was officially known as Hilroy Envelopes and Stationery Ltd.
There must be hundreds of notebook jokes, given they relate to school:
I made a car entirely out of pencils, rubbers, rulers and notebooks. Went to turn the key. Stayed stationary.
Why doesn't a notebook move? Because it's a stationary object.
Recently a teacher got arrested...Police found a pencil, ruler and notebook. Allegedly he was part of the Al-Gebra network and possessed weapons of math instruction.
If you were to steal a historical figures research notebooks what you steal? Charles Darwin’s would be my natural selection.
Here's the gorgeous bronze garden gate at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Front Street garden. It was on the Shaw Guild Garden Tour on Saturday. This was described to me as a "million dollar" landscape job about 10 years ago. Fantastic amount of hardscaping - tiered walls down to a beach on the water, an infinity swimming pool, and so on. The view across is Fort Niagara, so this is prime real estate in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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