Photography by Leonard Whistler

1973 Bank of Canada 1-Dollar Banknote Uncut Sheet

In 1988, the Bank of Canada discontinued the 1-dollar banknote and replaced it with a 1-dollar coin. They then offered uncut sheets of the 1973 1-dollar banknotes as collector's items for 50 dollars. Each uncut sheet had 40 banknotes in a 5x8 format.

The banknote serial numbers on my sheet have the prefix BFK; apparently, some prefixes (BFD, BFK, and BFL) are more valuable to collectors than other prefixes.

1973 Bank of Canada 1-Dollar Banknote Sheet

Doodle Art by Len

Recently, I got interested in creating simple drawings, known as doodle art. Using a small Wacom Intuos drawing tablet, PC desktop computer, and GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), I created some doodle art for the My Guestbook page on this website.

On the My Guestbook page, a poster can upload an optional profile picture to go with their post. If no profile picture is uploaded one of my doodle art pictures is used instead.

Doodle Art by Len - 2026

My Canadian Stubby Beer Bottle Website

I just finished redesigning my Canadian stubby beer bottle website at www.stubby.ca.

From the 1960s to the early 1980s all major Canadian brewers used the stubby beer bottle to bottle and distribute their beer in Canada. I collected the bottles from 1976 to about 1983.

In 2002, I registered the www.stubby.ca domain to display my collection of almost 300 Canadian stubby beer bottles, and to get experience in coding and designing websites.

You can visit the website at The Canadian Stubby Beer Bottle.

My Canadian Stubby Beer Bottle Website

FIFA World Cup 2026 - Round of 16

Morocco 3 - 0 Canada

Canada's men's national soccer team made it to the Round of 16 during FIFA World Cup 2026. They were defeated by the Moroccan national soccer team 3 - 0 in the Round of 16 match at the Houston Stadium in Houston, Texas, USA, on July 4, 2026. The official FIFA tournament capacity of the stadium is 72,220, and the attendance at the game was 72,012. This was Canada's best showing at the World Cup.

The pictures were taken at the Game On Watch Party at the Brentwood Mall in Burnaby BC, Canada.

Game On Watch Party at the Brentwood Mall

FIFA World Cup 2026 - Vancouver

FIFA World Cup 2026 is hosted by three countries - USA, Mexico and Canada. Vancouver BC, Canada is hosting seven matches during the FIFA World Cup. The games will be played from Saturday, June 13 to Tuesday, July 7 at the 54,500-seat BC Place Vancouver Stadium.

The World Cup has been very popular in Vancouver, with lots of World Cup 2026 events held in various locations around Vancouver.

FIFA World Cup 2026 - Vancouver

Going For A Walk

Today I went for a 5-kilometre walk around Blue Mountain Park and Como Lake Middle School in Coquiltam BC, Canada.

I used an Android App called GPS Logger to plot my route. I then entered the data into Google Maps to output the map below. My walk lasted 01:02:02, covering 5.40 km at an average speed of 5.2 km/h.

You can visit my GPS Travel Log page to view an animated Google map at: A Walk Around Blue Mountain Park.

GPS Travel Log on Google Maps

Stormy City - 2018

This is a 22-inch x 28-inch acrylic painting on canvas I painted in 2018. It is a city scene on a stormy day titled Stormy City.

Stormy City

Painting by Leonard Whistler - 2018

My First Photograph - 1974

This is one of the first photographs I took back in 1974, about 52 years ago, when I was in grade 8. I used a Canon FX 35mm film camera and B&W film, which I developed myself.

The print I am holding is a 12x18 canvas print mounted on wooden stretcher bars. I then applied 3 coats of Liquitex acrylic satin varnish.

Kerwan Avenue is the street I grew up on from the late 1960's to the 1980's in the city of Coquitlam, about 12 miles east of Vancouver BC, Canada. Location on Google maps:  Kerwan Avenue at Kerwan Place

Kerwan Avenue at Kerwan Place - 1974

My New Cap - len778.ca

I ordered 2 embroidered caps from Vistaprint Canada, with my len778.ca short URL web address and a camera logo. len778.ca redirects to my website at leonardwhistler.ca and is a short, easy-to-remember web address which is easy to enter into the browser address bar.

I chose len778.ca because len is my name, 778 is the telephone area code for Vancouver BC, Canada - where I live, and .ca is the top-level domain (TLD) for Canada.

My New Cap - len778.ca

ChatGPT Keychain Image

I just started using the free ChatGPT plan and uploaded the image on the left and applied the 3D Keychain Figurine Design filter - the finished image is below. The filter created a cartoonish figurine keychain on a wooden surface image. I am very impressed with the final results.

ChatGPT Keychain Image

Daily Selfie

Last month, on January 15, 2026, I added a new webpage to my website - Daily Selfie. I hope to add a new selfie every day. I created a web application that makes it easy to upload a selfie with title, date, and location from my smartphone to my website in seconds. The location information is only visible as a tooltip during mouse-hover over the image.

You can visit the Daily Selfie page at: Daily Selfie.

Vancouver's Centennial (1886-1986) 100 Marker

This seven-foot-tall granite marker is located at the South end of the Granville Street Bridge at West 4th Avenue. It was installed in 1986 to commemorate Vancouver’s centennial year.

1986 was also the year Vancouver hosted Expo 86. Preparations for Expo 86 included building the first line of Vancouver's SkyTrain rapid transit system called The Expo Line.