I was like, “that’s crazy, like what would that logo even look like, a Mountie? A woodsman in flannel?” - because there’s no image on the wiki article.
Then I found this old article which contains the funny backstory, and explains its definitely a woodsman, and used to be a pine tree…
“Look, I was always embarrassed by our symbol,” says assistant principal Ralph Sorrentino, a North Plainfield football player in the ’50s. “We had a mascot dressed as a tree. South Plainfield had a tiger.” It was a particular problem when they played the Metuchen Bulldogs. “You know what dogs do to trees,” he says.
So in the early 1970s North Plainfield’s teams became the Canucks—woodsmen who cut down trees.
Yeah, IIRC, it was a bearded woodsman holding crossed axes, or something like that. Maybe it was an axe over one shoulder.
The “Little Canada” is also pretty questionable too.
North Plainfield is just across a tiny river and North of Plainfield. Plainfield has a very high black population and pretty fucking ghetto, at least on Front through 4th st. (I lived on 4th Street for six months… the first murder of a new year was right on my front lawn. It was a drive by… stabbing.
My mom immediately moved us to North Plainfield and just by crossing that little stream, we went from counting crack vials, on the side walk, on my way to school, to manicured lawns and all white neighbors that wave.
So North Plainfield was making a comparison of itself to Plainfield as Canada to the U.S…
My High School mascot, from New Jersey, was literally a Canuck.
I was like, “that’s crazy, like what would that logo even look like, a Mountie? A woodsman in flannel?” - because there’s no image on the wiki article.
Then I found this old article which contains the funny backstory, and explains its definitely a woodsman, and used to be a pine tree…
https://njmonthly.com/articles/towns-schools/theyre_lumberjacks_and_theyre_okay/
Yeah, IIRC, it was a bearded woodsman holding crossed axes, or something like that. Maybe it was an axe over one shoulder.
The “Little Canada” is also pretty questionable too.
North Plainfield is just across a tiny river and North of Plainfield. Plainfield has a very high black population and pretty fucking ghetto, at least on Front through 4th st. (I lived on 4th Street for six months… the first murder of a new year was right on my front lawn. It was a drive by… stabbing. My mom immediately moved us to North Plainfield and just by crossing that little stream, we went from counting crack vials, on the side walk, on my way to school, to manicured lawns and all white neighbors that wave. So North Plainfield was making a comparison of itself to Plainfield as Canada to the U.S…
I am still not sure how to take that.