Government of Canada Indelible Copying
Pencils like the one above were made for a variety of uses. One place where pencils like this were found is in old Canadian Civil Defence kits from the 1950s and 1960s. A YouTube video showing a 1958 Civil Defence First Aid Kit show that it contained a sharpened indelible copying pencil as well as a red Blaisdell grease pencil.
Item 5-453 Pencil, Indelible (sharpended) from a 1958 Civil Defence first aid haversack.
Government of Canada 1917
Government of Canada 4213
An older looking jumbo pencil (10mm) marked "MISUSE IS ABUSE." Very similar to a Dixon Beginners 308 jumbo pencil.
Government of Canada 4216
An older looking red marking pencil.
Government of Canada 4222
A reader of the site let me know that a Civil Defence first aid kit issued to the Yukon territory in 1962 included a Government of Canada pencil marked with the number 4222 and the phrase, "MISUSE IS ABUSE".
Government of Canada 4226
Government of Canada 4409
Government of Canada 76 Blue Checking Pencil
Government of Canada 77 Red Checking Pencil
Canadian Census
Census of Canada pencils are fairly common. Eight and a half million census pencils were purchased for the 1971 census and distributed with census forms. These pencils were made by Eagle Northrite and Empire Pencil and had printing in both English and French.
A census pencil that appears to have the original factory sharpening.
A census pencil possibly made by Eagle-Northrite.
Government Spends $151,939 on Pencils
Calgary Herald - 14 Sep 1971
Ottawa (CP) - Pencils provided with the 1971 census forms cost the government $151,939, including sharpening and the printing on them. The information was provided Monday in written Commons return for Clifford Downey (PC-Battle River). Tenders were called for two pencil batches, 6.5 million and 2 million.
Eagle Northrite, a division of Berol Corp., Montreal, won the bigger batch with a low tender of $115,050. Empire Pencil Co., Longueuil, Que. won the smaller with a low tender of $53,860. Mr. Downey asked whether the bids were won by Canadian companies. The reply said that as of the end of 1969, all voting stock of Berol Corp., a U.S. firm, was held by non-residents. No information was available on ownership of Empire Pencil which was not required to report under any act of Parliment.
Calgary Herald - 14 Sep 1971
Ottawa (CP) - Pencils provided with the 1971 census forms cost the government $151,939, including sharpening and the printing on them. The information was provided Monday in written Commons return for Clifford Downey (PC-Battle River). Tenders were called for two pencil batches, 6.5 million and 2 million.
Eagle Northrite, a division of Berol Corp., Montreal, won the bigger batch with a low tender of $115,050. Empire Pencil Co., Longueuil, Que. won the smaller with a low tender of $53,860. Mr. Downey asked whether the bids were won by Canadian companies. The reply said that as of the end of 1969, all voting stock of Berol Corp., a U.S. firm, was held by non-residents. No information was available on ownership of Empire Pencil which was not required to report under any act of Parliment.
