Robin McQueen has been collecting licence plates since he was a teenager, but he’d never come across a trove of plates like the one he found this summer.
On the outskirts of Fredericton’s south side, thousands of New Brunswick plates dating back to the 1950s, are strewn across the forest floor, covering the ground like leaves.
“Walking in there is like Disneyland for licence plate people,” McQueen said about the site in the woods near the city’s industrial park.
“You’d never know it’s there, but it’s absolutely polluted with licence plates all over the ground,” he said.
Some display an embossed provincial crest. Others have a line that says “Picture Province,” a slogan from the mid-20th century that lasted until the officially bilingual New Brunswick added “Nouveau-Brunswick” to its licence plates.
The plate designations show …