{"id":63448,"date":"2021-02-16T12:39:28","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlineroadtrip.com\/?p=98"},"modified":"2024-08-26T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T20:14:18","slug":"did-you-know-about-milk-tokens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2021\/did-you-know-about-milk-tokens\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know About Milk Tokens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFound at an <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.etsy.com\/ca\/listing\/945429576\/vintage-kemptville-dairy-milk-token-good?organic_search_click=1&amp;frs=1\">Etsy shop<\/span> with this information:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the late 19th century through the 1960s and 1970s, dairy distributors of Canada issued tokens as monetary substitutes for convenient home delivery. They also served as advertising.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kemptville, I think, is now part of Barrie, Ontario. So a bit more local history for Ontario. I didn&#8217;t know there were tokens like this. But, I do remember milk still being delivered when I was a kid living in what is now the eastern edge of Scarborough, Ontario. It used to be Port Union, but not known by the name of the original town any more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlineroadtrip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/milktoken1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"598\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onlineroadtrip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/milktoken2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"766\" height=\"693\" \/>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/2021\/did-you-know-about-milk-tokens\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Did you Know About Milk Tokens?\"><p>Found at an Etsy shop with this information: From the late 19th century through the 1960s and 1970s, dairy distributors of Canada issued tokens as monetary substitutes for convenient home delivery. They also served as advertising. Kemptville, I think, is now part of Barrie, Ontario. So a bit more local history for Ontario. I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,62],"tags":[226,83,30,399,1103,44,555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63448"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74386,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63448\/revisions\/74386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatgrrl.com\/site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}