Alberta License Plates. The latest news from Alberta is that the proposed new issue (detailed below) has been put on indefinite hold. Until a new base is issued, the current base will be extended by expanding to an ABC-1234 configuration. News from Rod Gough: The Alberta Government has undertaken a consultation to redesign the plates. Alberta 1969 passenger issue. Alberta plates of this era were issued in an AB-12-34 format. There is supposedly some coding involved with these plates, with the first letter corresponding with the area of the province where the plates were issued, but I have been unable to find reference to the actual codes. Weatherly Systems, Inc. The WSI-Fonts Professional Collection. Digital font data provided under commercial license by W.S.I.

In Canada, licence plate numbers are usually assigned in ascending order, beginning with a starting point such as AAA-001. Thus, someone familiar with the sequence can determine roughly when the licence plate was issued. After Ontario's transition to an ABCD-123 format in 1997, plates were issued in ascending order starting with AAAA-001. It took close to ten years to exhaust the supply of plate numbers with A as the first digit. In late 2006, plates with B as the first digit were assigned, and have continued from there sequentially. Plates with C as the first digit have been spotted in Ottawa and Toronto as of August 2016.

The gradual increase in the use of letters in the serials of licence plates has given rise to an increased possibility of unintentional profane or inappropriate words or messages arising from the use of sequential alphanumeric combinations. Thus, numbering sequences generally exclude certain combinations of letters or numbers that would be potentially offensive. Jurisdictions' attention to excluding offensive combinations varies widely, however. In 1986, Waldale, a Canadian licence plate manufacturer, due to a production error, produced an entire batch of New Brunswick plates that began with the letters ASS. The plates were issued, and were unofficially scrapped, but many found their way into the collectors' black market.

From 1971 to 1975, Manitoba's licence plate bore the slogan 'Sunny Manitoba: 100,000 lakes' ^[1] but was changed to 'Friendly Manitoba', possibly due to conflict with Minnesota's '10,000 lakes' slogan.^{[citation needed]}

Designs and serial formats[edit]

Province/Territory	Description	Slogan	Serial format
Alberta	red on non-reflective white	'Wild Rose Country'	ABC-1234
British Columbia	blue on reflective white with screened provincial flag / yellow and white mountain scene with the 2010 Olympic symbol screened	'Beautiful British Columbia'	AB1 23C, 2014 to 2023, (Passenger Cars)^[2] AB 1234 (Passenger Trucks)
Manitoba	dark blue on white with screened graphic landscape	'Friendly Manitoba'	ABC 123
New Brunswick	red on reflective white with provincial wordmark and rainbow design	N/A	ABC 123
Newfoundland and Labrador	blue on reflective white with provincial wordmark	N/A	ABC 123
Northwest Territories	screened nature scene, shaped like a polar bear	'Spectacular Northwest Territories'	123456
Nova Scotia	blue on reflective white with screened image of the Bluenose	'Canada's Ocean Playground'	ABC 123
Nunavut	blue and white with the aurora borealis and a polar bear, includes the territory's name written in both Latin characters and Inuktitut syllabics	N/A	123 456
Ontario
	blue on reflective white with screened crown separator (commercial vehicles: black on reflective white)	'Yours to Discover'	ABCD 123 (1997 - Passenger) AB1 234 (1995 - Commercial) 234 1AB (1996 - Commercial) AB 12345 (2011 - Commercial)
		'Tant à Découvrir'
	green on reflective white with screened graphic of white trillium; for hydrogen and plug-in electric vehicles^[3]	'Green Vehicle'	GVAB 123
		'Véhicule écologique'	VEAB 123
Prince Edward Island	light brown on reflective white with photo of Province House on the left	'Birthplace of Confederation'	12 3AB
Prince Edward Island		'Berceau de la Confédération'	12 3AB
Quebec	dark blue on reflective white	'Je me souviens' (I Remember)	D12 ABC
Quebec	green on reflective white with electric vehicle pictogram on the lower left side (for electric vehicles)^[4]	'Je me souviens' (I Remember)	Began as B12 VEA, followed by C12 VAB
Saskatchewan	green on reflective white with screened wheat graphic	'Land of Living Skies'	123 ABC
Yukon	black on white with screened miner image	'The Klondike'	ABC12
Department of National Defence - All provinces and territories	dark green on reflective white with 'Canada' on top flanked by two red maple leaves	N/A	12345

Note: For Ontario and Quebec electric vehicle plates, letters in bold denotes that they are specifically set to identify them, apart from the regular issuance.

Plate Types and Serial Formats No Longer Issued But Still Valid[edit]

Province/Territory	Description	Slogan	Serial format
Alberta	red on reflective white	'Wild Rose Country'	ABC-123
Alberta	red on non-reflective white	'Wild Rose Country'	ABC-123
British Columbia	blue on reflective white with screened provincial flag	'Beautiful British Columbia'	ABC 123 (Passenger Cars 1985 to 2001) and 123 ABC (Passenger Cars 2001-2014) 1234 AB (Passenger Trucks)
Manitoba	Friendly Manitoba
New Brunswick	red on reflective white with provincial wordmark	none	ABC-123
New Brunswick	red on reflective white with provincial wordmark and rainbow design	'Be...in this place - Être...ici on le peut'	ABC 123
Newfoundland and Labrador	red and blue embossed on white	none	ABC-123
	red on reflective white with screened Viking ship graphic	'A World of Difference'	ABC 123
	red on reflective blue/white with screened Cabot graphic	'Celebrate 500 Years'	ABC 123
	red on reflective white with screened provincial flag graphic	none	ABC 123
Northwest Territories	none
Nova Scotia	blue on white	'Canada's Ocean Playground'	ABC 123
Nunavut	none
Ontario	blue on white with embossed crown separator	'Keep It Beautiful'	ABC 123
	blue on white with embossed crown separator	'Yours to Discover'	ABC 123 123 ABC
	blue text on reflective white with screened crown separator (license plates issued to commercial vehicles are issued plates with black text on reflective white)	'Yours to Discover'	123 ABC
	white on reflective, two-hue blue with white stylized trillium separator and white crown placed bottom right^[5]^[6]	'A Place to Grow'	ABCD 123
		'En plein essor'	ABCD 123
		'Open for Business' (commercial)	AB 12345
		'Ouvert aux affaires'	AB 12345
Prince Edward Island	green on white with embossed provincial crest	none	ABC 123
	red on reflective white with screened Ann

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