What are Waldale plates?

Page updated on : August 28th 2023 at 12:19pm

Plates nicknamed "Waldales" were manufactured by a company in Nova Scotia called Waldale Manufacturing Limited. Due to supply shortages, Ontario ordered blocks of plates from Nova Scotia to meet the demand for passenger plates. They took blocks from the regular series and had Waldale produce them. Unlike Ontario that uses prisoners to produce plates through a Crown Corporation called Trilcor, Waldale employs staff to produce plates for most North American jurisdictions like Nova Scotia, PEI and Mississippi. The first batch of waldales had the Nova Scotia font on them. 35000 were produced and circulated and are very noticable  There are a few differences between the Waldale plates versus Trilcor plates. 

• Waldale has smaller bolt holes

• Waldale has squared off edges

• Trilcor has a thicker, darker ink for the lettering

• Waldale has a lighter, more transparent ink

• Waldale letters are more square, Trilcor letters are more rounded

• See some examples below, Trilcor on the right and Waldale is on the left

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