If you are a regular reader by now you realize that I've been out of town for a bit or as they say in that part of the continent, on Holiday!

The Clay Art Company was well represented at the stores we went to. I found the Cow Diner cookie jar very appropriately at Cow's Bay in Prince Rupert. Several other Clay Art jars were found in different stores, but never more than one or two in any place. An old Salmon Cannery Museum was a really unusual place to visit -- quite a bit of history and, of course, a gift shop. The gift shop had another appropriate Clay Art cookie jar, a White Cat holding a fish. I wondered how old this one was, as Mr. Zanfagna of Clay Art mentioned to me the first jar they did was a cat and fish. The cat jar was certainly in the right place, as the Cannery was overrun with cats every where you looked.

I also checked out the Presidents Choice Supermarket in Prince Rupert, where I begged the clerk to find out if any new President's Choice cookie jars or advertising tins would be coming out. She didn't know anything and of course didn't think it was important to find out. Sometimes clerks do not realize how seriously collectors take their hobby. I did find some great premiums in the Red Rose tea boxes, miniature porcelain tea pots. There was only one antique type of store in Prince Rupert -- The Purple Otter -- and not a jar to be see in it, not even a crock.

It was surprising not to find the type of Collectible/Antique Mall concept that is so very plentiful in parts of the States. Of course, we only looked in the small towns that we were visiting, but antique stores were hard to find. Perhaps the Canadians don't have as much junk as we have, therefore do not need a place to sell it!