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World of Maps on 27 Nov 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ottawa map and book store World of Maps<\/a> is for sale, per their Facebook page<\/a>: \u201cAfter 30 years of running this interesting and profitable map & book business Petra and Brad want to sell and retire. There are plenty of adventures and trips still to take after we find the next owner(s) who we can help take it over.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously: World of Maps Turns 25<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ottawa map and book store World of Maps is for sale, per their Facebook page: \u201cAfter 30 years of running this interesting and profitable map & book business Petra and Brad want to sell and… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[307,357],"class_list":["post-1838745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-industry","tag-map-stores","tag-ottawa","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787884,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/10\/world-of-maps-turns-25\/","url_meta":{"origin":1838745,"position":0},"title":"World of Maps Turns 25","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"4 October 2019","format":"link","excerpt":"My local map store\u2014or at least the one closest to me\u2014is World of Maps in Ottawa. 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