I have a lot of Remembrance Day bookmarks but couldn’t get them all in one picture. So here are a few from 2021, put out by Veterans Affairs Canada, marking the anniversaries of battles that Canadians played a major role in: Beaumont-Hamel (on the opening day of the Somme offensive), Vimy, and Kapyong in Korea.
I’ve looked in bookstores this past couple of weeks and haven’t seen any new ones. I don’t think anyone does bookmarks anymore.
Book: Marching As to War: Canada’s Turbulent Years 1899-1953 by Pierre Berton
Alex Good 
I have photos of that statue at Beaumont Hamel and of the memorial at Vimy, the bookmarks are lovely.
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Yep, they did a good job designing these. Don’t know if they ever did it again.
You’ve been to a lot of places!
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I think it is going to take a whole new generation that reads paper books to bring back bookmarks. And I don’t see that happening in the next couple of decades.
I like that Vimy bookmark of the three you showcase here.
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It’s not going to happen period. We’re not going back to the way things were.
The Vimy memorial is quite something.
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I don’t know, vinyl has made quite the come back, so I think there’s a chance paper books might as well. Definitely be more niche, just like vinyl, but I still hold out hope 😀
How many remembrance day bookmarks do you have in total anyway?
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They’ve been talking about vinyl coming back for decades. But how many people do you know who have turntables? I know of exactly none. I’ve never even heard of anyone who still has one, even sitting in an attic. It’s a micro-niche.
I had about a dozen bookmarks from different Remembrance Days but that was too many to stack into one picture.
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Micro-niche eh? Not heard that term before, but it does seem to fit.
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Not here it doesn’t. In the UK the vinyl market continues to grow, and it’s Gen Z driving it which is surprising as I thought it would be mostly old farts like Phil, who has 2 top quality turntables and enough records to open a shop. ‘According to data from the BPI, the overall vinyl market was up 10.7% year-on-year in Q3 at 1,498,693 units’.
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and tidbits like that are why I still have hope for paper books, even if it’s not me who is reading them.
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Have you been there too?
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Nope. I really don’t travel much.
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I’m posting my WW1 video today so you can see the bookmark places 🙂
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Impressive!
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*takes a bow* 😀
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Same set, three different sizes. I can’t decide if I like that or not. : -)
Cool bookmarks, though. Never forget.
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Ah that’s a distortion from the pic. They’re all identical sizes! They make a nice set.
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I’m actually happy to hear that.
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