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Several Canadian exhibitors, includ-ing three literature entries, received noteworthy honours at the Thailand 2018 world stamp exhibition late last year.

Specifically, in the adult multi-frame category, Canadian representatives were “very satisfied” with the country’s per-

formance, said David McLaughlin, chair of The Royal Philatelic Society of Cana-da’s (RPSC) international liaison. Of the five Canadian multi-frame exhibits, two were first-time entries to a Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (FIP) show. Altogether, there were two gold win-ners; one large vermeil winner; one ver-meil winner; and another large silver winner.

“The two golds were strong golds with 93 points each, and one of our new exhibits won a large vermeil the first time out, making it eligible for expan-sion to eight frames in future exhibi-tions,” said McLaughlin, who served as Canada’s national commissioner for Thailand 2018.

“Judges critiques at FIP shows are held at the frames, and from the feed-back that I received, I think all the ex-hibits have the potential to move up at least one medal level.”

Canada’s multi-frame exhibitors in-cluded:• McLaughlin, who earned one of the two golds with 93 points;• Luc Legault, who received the other gold with 93 points;• Ken Snelson, who received a large vermeil with 86 points;

Canadian winners at Thailand 2018

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A new series of small-format Cana-dian definitives released in 2018 poses quite a challenge for collectors seeking single examples in all formats.

Featuring photographs of picturesque scenes from across the country, nine small-format “Far and Wide” stamps were printed in booklets, on a souvenir sheet and on coil rolls by Lowe-Martin.

Five lithographic transfer colours, die-cut perforations and self-stick polyvinyl (PVA) gum were used for the booklet stamps.

The same materials were used for pro-duction of the coil stamps – with perfora-tions in several different configurations for some denominations.

Six litho colours, moisture-activated gum and perfs in gauge 13.4 by 13 were used for the press run of 80,000 nine-stamp souvenir sheets.

Continuously printed throughout the year, with no total numbers available for the booklets and coils, the booklet and coil versions were among 10 new Can-ada Post series last year.

The program also continued seven previous series.

127 STAMPS, $124.15 FACE VALUE

By my reckoning, 127 definitives and commemoratives consisting of 60 differ-ent designs for 18 subjects were put on sale, including all versions.

The total pre-tax cost was $124.65 for a single of each, including 50 subjects as commemoratives and 10 as definitives.

All of last year’s stamps were printed on paper supplied by Tullis Russell Pa-permakers Limited in the U.K., unless otherwise stated, Canada Post advises. All of the “P” – for Permanent postage –

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18 subjects see 127 stamps, 60 designs produced in 2018

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Benefits abound thanks to ‘The Librarians’By Jesse Robitaille

This is the first story in a two-part series covering ‘The Librarians’ seminar fea-turing Library and Archives Canada, the Harry Sutherland Philatelic Library

and the American Philatelic Research Library.In what was described as “a historic philatelic event,” three members from the

top library and archives dealing with Canadian and British North American mate-rial met under one roof for the first time last fall.

Representatives from Library and Archives Canada (LAC), the Harry Sutherland Philatelic Library (HSPL) and the American Philatelic Research Library (APRL) led a presentation

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From left to right: Sam Chiu, Charles Verge and David McLaughlin, all members of The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) international liaison, comprised The RPSC delegation at the 75th FIP Congress in Bangkok, Thailand. Photo submitted.

From left to right: Scott Tiffney, of the American Philatelic Research Library; Kathy Hartley, of the Harry Sutherland Philatelic Library; and James Bone, of Library and Archives Canada, highlighted how their institutions can assist philatelists and postal historians in their research.

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Years ago, there was a popular tele-vision show by the name of Kids

Say the Darndest Things, which was hosted by the amiable and late Art Lin-kletter, who had a gift of engaging the child in further conversation to elicit even funnier remarks.

I have had many humorous inci-dents during my six decades in profes-sional philately. Some, I daresay, were self inflicted; however, in my case, I did not desire to further engage the other party in continued conversation. You’ll see why.

Let me begin with an incident that yours truly was not involved in. It was relayed to us by Pat Herst.

The collector’s order was filled and mailed promptly as was his custom. A week later, one of the stamps was re-turned with a terse note reading, “How dare you send me a thinned stamp when I ordered a sound exam-ple? It’s a good thing I dipped the stamp in watermark fluid otherwise I would have been stuck. The thin shows very clearly in fluid. In fact it’s a large thin that you should have no-ticed yourself.”

The stamp – perfectly centred and sound in all respects – had a double-line watermark. Pat tried to explain this to the customer, but to no avail.

Then we have the last of the big spenders.

A collector walked into our store one morning, and after careful perusal of our two-cent box, he placed his se-lections on the counter top. While in-serting them in a glassine, we asked him how many he selected.

“I have 60,” he replied. “Here’s a dollar.”

We gently reminded him the price was $1.20 plus the sales tax.

He became visibly perturbed, his face turning crimson and his hand be-gan to shake.

Not wishing to cause a medical mal-ady and certainly not desirous of emu-lating Mr. Linkletter, we accepted the dollar and gave him the register re-ceipt showing the sale at 94 cents and the six-cent sales tax.

Would you like to guess what trans-pired next?

He asked for the six cents in tax money with his reasoning being he

should not have to pay tax as he was paying in cash. We bit our tongue and advised him to use that ploy the next time he visited the grocery store. Needless to say we did not see him again.

The next day, the sign was replaced by one reading, “Free stamps to all kids who select a reasonable amount for their collection.” I’d rather give them away to children than negotiate with another Mr. Big Spender.

Another story in our book Stamps and Stories: Reminiscences of a Stamp Dealer (available from the exclusive distributor Subway Stamps) tells of Mr. $3 Columbian. He boasted of one particular Columbian – the last one needed to complete his set.

At the time, more than 30 years ago, a nicely cancelled, sound fine to very fine example was trading for about $400. I was cautioned he would not pay more than $200, and the stamp, besides being sound and lightly can-celled, should be very fine.

As luck would have it, I happened to pick up a nice set of the dollar val-ues a week later. At the next show, all five stamps were under my glass. As expected, Mr. $3 walked in and headed right for my booth. The stamp in question was priced at $300 and it was graded fine (although many would not hesitate to offer it as fine to very fine). Then, as now, my grading tends to be on the conservative side.

In a loud voice, he proclaimed for all to hear, “You want $300 for that? It’s not even very fine.”

I had to ask him to lower his voice as all eyes were focused on my booth. He said he was certain of obtaining a very fine example soon for $200. I

asked him to bring it in, and if the stamp was as he said and sound, I’d offer him a nice profit. Thankfully, I never saw him again.

When the store was closed and there was no show to do that day, the daily mail could be relied upon to bring a few more chuckles.

“Gentlemen,It has come to my attention that you

are a reputable firm who can supply me with the stamps I need for my large collection.

Before I send you my long list of ex-actly what I need, I want to know the condition too. When I say very fine, I mean very fine, not average or torn. I don’t collect torn stamps.

I’ll look forward to your reply.”We never did learn whether his

large collection was that of U.S. stamps.

Then there was the chap who did submit a want list. It was comprised of classic U.S., all with a $500 or higher Scott catalogue value. The ad-monition followed. He would pur-chase only sound stamps that were

not heavily cancelled. The stamps must grade fine or better, preferably better. It seemed like a reasonable enough request.

What followed was not so reason-able, at least not to us. His spending limit was 20 per cent of Scott, and he would like to pay less. Needless to say, we wished him success in his efforts to acquire choice classics at bargain base-ment prices.

Another incident comes to mind. We once had a request from a collector we’ll call Mr. On A Budget. He listed some lower-priced singles and sets to-talling about eight or nine dollars, if we recall correctly. So far, so good.

The next sentence gave us a chuckle.“If you’ll send these to me for $5

postpaid, you’ll have my immediate check.”

We declined with thanks.Yes, my friends, stamp collecting is

the greatest hobby ever conceived. But it’s always nice to combine a chuckle now and then with this most enjoyable of past times.

Look for our sequel, “Dealers Say the Darnedest Things,” in an upcom-ing issue.

Until next time, stay well and enjoy your hobby. W

By Peter Mosiondz, Jr.

Collecting 101

Collectors say the darnedest things

The next day, the sign was replaced by one reading, ‘Free stamps to all kids who select a reasonable amount for their collection.’ I’d rather give them away to children than negotiate with another Mr. Big Spender.

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Features CSN urges clubs and individuals

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1965 letter gives insight into style of life in Peru ..............Page 14

RegularsCSN MARKETPLACE

Are you buying or selling? ..........Page 16

SHOW AND BOURSE Check out the shows

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ColumnsLOOKING BACK

18 subjects see 127 stamps, 60 designs produced in 2018 ......Page 1

COLLECTING 101 Collectors say

the darnedest things ....................Page 4

FIRST-DAY COVERS Benjamin Franklin’s Québec

pioneered postal services ..........Page 11

STAMPING GROUNDS Thousands of slogan cancel

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NEW ISSUES From around the world ..............Page 18

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Vance Auctions Ltd. ...........................Page 10

Postal History Society of Canada ..................................Page 14

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WHAT’S INSIDE

Volume 43 • Number 19

January 8 to January 21, 2019

SMALL QUEEN COVER, UPU CLARIFICATION

In the previous issue of CSN (Vol. 43 #18), the front-page story “‘Best Small Queen cover’ tops estimate at Eastern sale” highlighted an 1875 registered cover mailed to Norway as being “one of only three registered covers still in exis-tence after being mailed to continental Europe before the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874.” In fact, it’s one of three registered covers still in existence after being mailed to continen-tal Europe before Canada joined the Uni-versal Postal Union on Aug. 1, 1878.

CLOUTIER, CARSWELL JOIN RPSC BOARD

Two new members of the board of di-rectors of The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) were appointed this De-cember after two resignations. Sté-phane Cloutier fills a vacancy left b y L a w r e n c e Pinkney, who re-signed from the b o a rd d u e t o “other commit-ments,” accord-ing to a statement issued by The RPSC. Cloutier will serve the remainder of Pinkney’s term until June 2020, at which time he will be eligible for re-election. “The board of directors is very pleased Stéphane is joining the board,” said RPSC President Ed Kroft. “Stéphane will bring vitality and an acute understand-ing of what collectors need. He is an ex-perienced philatelist who knows our hobby well.” After having worked at the University of Ottawa for 32 years, Cloutier is now working full time at Sparks Auctions in Ottawa, allowing him to have a career focused on his love of philately. Cloutier was formerly the secretary-treasurer of the Postal History Society of Canada from 2005-10 and its president until 2018. He has also been involved in the smooth running of the popular Orapex show in Ottawa since 2006 and is a member of several stamp societies. He started his judging appren-ticeship in 2008, became a fully accred-ited RPSC judge in 2009 and has been judging philatelic exhibitions on a yearly basis since then. Robert Carswell was also appointed to the board after the res-ignation of Robert Timberg for personal reasons. Carswell will serve the rest of Timberg’s term until June 2020, at which time he is eligible to stand for re-election. “Bob is an outstanding philatelist and has been involved in club activities in Quebec for many years,” said RPSC President Ed Kroft. “He brings to the

board his years of experience in legal p r a c t i c e a n d should contribute to our develop-ment of the strate-gic plan.” Car-swell is a member of the Lakeshore Stamp Club in

Montreal and the North Toronto Stamp Club. He is also a member of The RPSC, Fédération québécoise de philatélie, American Philatelic Society, Transvaal Study Circle, the Philatelic Society of Greater South Africa and the Italy and Colonies Study Circle.

‘COLLECTIONS CANADA 2018’ AVAILABLE NOW

Copies of the annual “Collections Canada” 2018 stamp album began to ar-rive at post offices by the end of the first week in December. Delivery was de-layed during recent rotating strikes across the country by members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW). With backlogs of undelivered mail mounting, the federal government ordered the strikes to end in the third week of November. The latest edition of the attractive hardback album contains details about each stamp, related photos and information about their designs and production. Since most modern stamps are issued in more than one format – in-cluding booklets plus souvenir sheets – only one version is included in the al-bums. Priced at $79.95 each, the collec-tions are sold in protective slipcases at post offices or by mail order.

‘GOD LETTER’ BRINGS $3.85MA letter signed and sent by German-

born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein to author and philosopher Eric Gutkind in 1954 realized $2.89 million US (about $3.85 million Cdn.) at an auction in New York this December. Offered as the only lot of the Dec. 4 sale by Christie’s, the two-page letter – known to history as the “God Letter” – included its original cover; Gutkind’s 1952 book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt, which was the reason for the letter; and a black-and-white photograph of Gutkind. In the let-ter, which is dated Jan. 3, 1954, Einstein denounces the religious beliefs espoused in Gutkind’s book as “childish supersti-tions” in what the auction house called the Nobel Prize winner’s “single most

famous letter on God, his Jewish identity, and man’s eternal search for meaning.” Estimated at between $1 million and $1.5 million USD, the lot nearly doubled its high estimate and set a world record for the sale of an Einstein letter. One year before his death, Einstein, then aged 74 and living in Princeton, N.J., wrote: “The word God is for me nothing but the ex-pression and product of human weak-nesses, the Bible a collection of venerable but still rather primitive legends. No in-terpretation, no matter how subtle, can change anything about this.” The “God Letter” was first sold shortly after Ein-stein’s death and has been in private hands ever since. The letter was last sold on eBay in 2012 for $3 million US. Its pre-vious owner paid $404,000 US for it in 2008.

$71M Q3 LOSS FOR CANADA POST

Canada Post reported a third-quarter loss of $71 million, which it claims is “mainly due to implementing the final pay equity ruling” in a previous dispute with its largest union. The Canada Post Group of Companies, which is funded by revenue generated from the sale of its products and services – not taxpayer dol-lars – compared the net loss with the $44-million loss in the third quarter of 2017. The pay equity ruling, which will adjust how delivery employees in subur-ban and rural Canada (RSMC) are paid, reversed what would have been “a small

profit before tax for the first three quarters of 2018,” the Crown cor-poration claims. “In 2016, the Cor-poration and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers jointly agreed to put before an arbitrator the system by which RSMC employees are paid,” reads a statement issued by Canada Post in November. “A fi-nal ruling issued on Sept. 20, 2018, gave the parties clarity on this im-

portant issue. Canada Post expects pay equity will cost approximately $550 mil-lion by the end of 2018, of which $130 million was recorded by the end of 2017. Going forward, the Corporation expects pay equity will cost approxi-mately $140 million annually. The pay and benefit changes resulting from the ruling include wage adjustments, in-creases in pensionable pay and other benefits that have significantly im-pacted the 2018 financial performance.” The impact of pay equity and the five-week rotating strikes, which ended Nov. 27, are major factors in the Crown cor-poration, which expects to end 2018 with a loss. For more information, read Canada Post’s third-quarter financial re-port at canadapost.ca.

SIGNED SEALED

DELIVERED

Stéphane Cloutier.

Robert Carswell.


stamps referred to in this col-umn were provided to prepay the 85-cent first class letter rate.

With the exception of the $4 large-format Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep definitive, for which printing combined inta-glio engraving and offset litho-graphic printing, the latter method was used to produce all of last year’s stamps.

Die-cut perforations and self-stick PVA were used on all the booklet and coil stamps. Pin perfs and moisture-activated PVA gum were applied to all the souvenir sheets.

Since it looks the same and has identical perforations, my calculations don’t include the $2.50 Year of the Rooster 2017 commemorative reprinted on the 2018 Lunar New Year “Tran-sitional Souvenir Sheet” below the Year of the Dog $2.50 com-memorative.

But I did include that two-stamp mini-sheet among last

year’s souvenir sheets, and it could be argued the Year of the Rooster stamp was re-issued in a different format.

The total number of stamps and the related cost for a single of each were significantly lower than Canada Post’s output in all formats in 2017, when 142 dif-ferent stamps were released, in-cluding all versions. Their total pre-tax cost was $150.75 for a single of each of the 132 commemorat ives p lus 10 definitives in varying formats.

I n 2 0 1 6 , 11 2 d i f f e re n t d e f i n i t i v e s a n d commemoratives were pro-duced, costing $128.80 for a sin-gle of all versions.

Going back further, collectors had to pay $145.10 for singles in all formats of the 115 Canadian stamps issued in 2015. That was significantly lower than in the previous year, when 160 differ-ent stamps were sold with a face value of $176.24 for a single of each commemorative and de-finitive printed in various for-mats.

The best way to acquire just one of each stamp in recent years has been from quarterly packs sold by Canada Post.

Most modern Canadian d e f i n i t i v e s a n d commemoratives are produced in booklets with some also on souvenir sheets and coil rolls. They are usually sold intact, leaving a collector with multiple extras to use on mail, sell to

friends or a local small business or tuck away in an ever-grow-ing box of leftovers for ... some-day.

Some posties and a few retail post office employees have ac-commodated my requests to provide single stamps, however, especially in the case of me-dium-denomination booklet definitives needed to provide sufficient postage on parcels.

2018 DEFINITIVES IN MULTIPLE FORMATS

There are two reasons for the larger number of different col-lectible 2018 small-format definitives – 34 in all, according to the 2019 Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps.

In 2017, only five new de-signs for small-format first-class “P” designs were produced. They were printed on booklet panes and repeated se-tenant on a souvenir sheet.

As mentioned earlier, the nine different designs used for the first “Far and Wide” set last year came in different formats.

In addition to being sold in booklets and on a souvenir sheet, with all-round perfora-tions, eight were also issued as die-cut coils with larger hori-zontal perfs on the tops and bot-toms.

The coil versions have more than one Unitrade listing based on research and comparisons by editor Robin Harris of their dif-ferent perforations.

I n a d d i t i o n t o f i v e “P” definitives (Scott #3071-3075) introduced last Jan. 15 in booklets of 10 with all-round perfs in gauge 13.8 by- 3.6, three medium-value stamps were printed on booklet panes of six with denominations of $1.20, $1.80 and $2.50 (SC #3076-3078). They have horizontal perfs in gauge 9.2, with what the cata-logue describes as “rounded tips.”

The ninth new definitive de-sign was selected for a $1 stamp (SC #3070), which was issued for single use on a first-class en-velope as an alternative to buy-ing a 10-stamp booklet of “P” stamps for $8.50 plus tax. Mea-suring 26 millimetres by 22 mm, it is slightly larger than the other eight definitives, which measure 24 mm by 20 mm.

Featuring the remote 13-me-tre-high Pisew Falls Provincial Park, about 700 kilometres north of Winnipeg, from a photo credited to Manitoba Parks, the $1 stamp was sold in rolls of 50 with small die-cut perfs on all four sides in gauge 13.5.

The name Pisew comes from the Cree term for lynx, “since the hissing waters bring to mind the sound of this northern wild cat,” the post office’s Details bro-chure notes.

The nine souvenir sheet stamps, which all measure 24 mm by 20 mm including the second version of the $1, are numbered 3056a-3056i in the catalogue. Some album manu-facturers print spaces on pages for them in addition to other versions.

For people who don’t pack their bags, “hit the road and ex-plore this fabulous country,” the Details article predicts the new definitive series will “satisfy even the most restless of arm-chair travelers and inspire all of us to see more of this land first-hand.”

Their configuration “can pose a special challenge for design-ers. After all, it’s not easy to de-pict a magnificent landscape that is only 24 mm by 20 mm in size.”

The stamps were designed by Stéphane Huot, a veteran Can-ada Post contributor from Mon-treal, using images supplied by several photographers or agen-cies.

“Since the stamps in this se-ries are so tiny, our objective was to keep the design as sim-ple as possible – so as not to de-tract from the visual impact of t h e s e i n c r e d i b l e p h o t o -graphs,” Huot was quoted as saying.

The five stamps with “P” de-nominations feature:• an Elena Elisseeva photo-graph of “Jellybean Row,” a street of 1890s hillside homes with brightly coloured painted sides in St. John’s, Nfld.;• a photo by Kevin Snair, pro-vided by Creative Imagery, of massive flowerpot-style wind-and tides-created structures at Hopewell Rocks, N.B., in the Bay of Fundy;• “a BC Parks photo of old-growth” Douglas Fir trees and a path in MacMillan Provincial Park on Vancouver Island, B.C.;• a Barrett & MacKay photo of reddish soil and rocks below a lighthouse that overlooks a beach cliff at Covehead Harbour in Prince Edward Island Na-tional Park on the province’s north shore; and• the beautiful twin cliffs with a wind-and tide-carved hole at the base of one monument rock in Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Ro-cher-Percé National Park in Quebec, from a photo credited to chictype and Getty Images, courtesy of Sépaq.

Booklet versions are listed in the catalogue as #3071-75. Small perforations on all four sides are in gauge 13.8 by 13.6.

All five were also issued as coils.

Prepared in strips of five or 10 by the National Philatelic Centre, those sold on rolls of 5,000 to businesses have larger perfs and “rounded tips” in gauge 9.2, with the tips starting with a peak. They are listed in the catalogue as #3057-61.

The five “P” stamps from rolls of 100 have perfs in gauges varying from 8.15 to 8.5, includ-

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ing “rounded tips with 3 ‘nibs’ between stamps.” They are listed in the catalogue as #3062-66.

Three medium-denomination stamps sold on booklet panes of six, with horizontal “rounded tips” perfs in gauge 9.2 show wildlife-rich Point Pelee Na-tional Park, 50 kilometres north-east of Windsor, Ont., on the $1.20 (SC #3076), from a photo credited to All Canada Photos, courtesy of Parks Canada; a view by Laani Uunila, courtesy o f P a r k s C a n a d a , o f Nááts’įhch’oh National Park Re-serve, one of Canada’s newest national parks, in the southwest Northwest Territories near the Yukon border, reflected in a clear mount lake where a lone canoeist can be seen, on the $1.80 (SC #3077); and a Clare Kines photo of the majestic northern l ights glistening against a dark sky above tall rocks and trees in Arctic Bay, on Baffin Island in Nunavut, on the $2.50 (SC #3078).

On individual stamp rolls of 50, with perfs die-cut in gauges ranging from 8.15 to 8.5 and with “Rounded tips with three ‘nibs’ between stamps,” the trio is numbered 3067-69. Those from the first 2018 quarterly pack have perforations in gauge 9.2 and have separate catalogue sub-l ist ings (SC #3067i i i -3069iii).

“Single stamps supplied in the Quarter ly Pack have rounded tips (backing paper is ‘plain’ with the repeating ‘Can-ada’ underprint visible), start-ing with a peak at upper left,” Unitrade notes.

SPORTSFive commemoratives featur-

ing six Canadian women who scored multiple top honours during various winter games, including the Olympics, were issued on Jan. 24.

Designed by Roy White, Mat-thew Clark and Jacquie Shaw, of Subplot Design Inc. in Vancou-v e r, t h e y f e a t u r e l a r g e colourized photos of alpine s k i e r N a n c y C a t h e r i n e Greene Raine, by Greg Griffith; cross-country skiers Sharon Anne Firth and her late twin sis-ter Shirley Firth, by Anders Lenes; hockey player Danielle Goyette, by Al Bello; speed skater Clara Hughes, by Rich-ard Lautens; and wheelchair curler Sonja Gaudet, by Jona-than Ferrey.

Photos of the athletes in ac-tion were supplied by various individuals and agencies.

“The women of these stamps have contributed to Canada beyond the medals they’ve won or the records they’ve bro-ken,” Carla Qualtrough, fed-eral Minister of Public Services and Procurement said. “As a group, they have been champi-ons of accessibility, community builders and thought leaders.”

The Firth sisters competed from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s in four Olympic Games and four World Ski Champion-ships, collectively winning 79 medals, including 48 national titles. Born in Aklavik, North-west Territories, Shirley Firth Larsson was 59 when she died from cancer.

Born in Vancouver, Gaudet was 31 when she suffered a se-vere spinal cord injury after falling from a horse while rid-ing in 1997. A keen athlete from childhood, she adapted to wheelchair use in order to re-sume her favourite sports within three years and became the world’s most decorated wheelchair curler, receiving three Paralympic gold medals and three World Wheelchair Curling Championships.

From St-Nazaire, Que., Goy-ette earned two Olympic gold medals and a silver medal, plus eight gold medals at the International Ice Hockey Fed-eration Women’s World Cham-pionships. In 2017, she was in-ducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Ottawa-born Greene, a for-mer senator for British Colum-bia, where she lives, competed through most of the 1960s, winning gold and silver med-als at the 1968 Winter Olym-pics. Declared as “Canada’s Female Athlete of the 20th

Century,” she won 17 Cana-dian titles, 13 World Cup victo-ries and three U.S. ski champi-onships.

Hughes, a Winnipeger, is the only athlete to have won multi-ple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, in-cluding one gold, one silver and four bronze medals for cycling and speed skating during six Olympic competitions.

Colour Innovations used seven different inks to produce 200,000 of the 40-mm-by-24-mm b l u i s h - t o n e “ P ” commemoratives in booklets of 10, which total two million or 400,000 of each stamp, plus 50,000 five-stamp souvenir sheets printed against a large wintry background that in-cludes a snow-covered ever-green tree. The action figures are in colour, with colours high-lighting the single-tone photo of each athlete.

On May 18, soon after a puck was dropped to start the 2018 Memorial Cup games in Regina, Canada Post unveiled “P” stamp for the cup’s 100th pre-sentation.

The Memorial Cup was do-nated in 1919 by the Ontario Hockey Association to honour Canadians “who made the su-preme sacrifice for their country during the First World War,” text on the back of the post of-fice’s Details postcard stated. It was rededicated nine years ago to the memory of all Canadian Armed Forces members who lost their lives in the line of duty.

“The ‘Memorial Cup, 100th Presentation’ stamp symbolizes junior hockey supremacy in North America, hockey’s con-nection to community and Ca-nadians’ respect for tradition,” Jessica McDonald, Canada Post’s board chair, interim presi-dent and CEO, stated.

The prized cup is awarded each year to the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) cham-pion after a four-team round-

robin tournament between a host team and champions of the CHL’s member leagues – the Western Hockey League, Que-bec Major Junior Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League.

Last year’s winning team re-ceived the cup on May 27.

Illustrated by Louis Hébert and designed by the Paprika firm of Montréal, the dark red-and-white main colours on the commemorative resemble Cana-da’s flag.

Two players are featured in a faceoff on either side of the Me-morial Cup.

A player in modern Regina Pats hockey gear is on the right, facing an old-style member of the 1919 team, which competed in 1919 competed in the award’s first game against the Univer-sity of Toronto Schools of the Ontario Hockey Association.

Lowe-Martin printed 140,000 pennant-shaped booklets of 10, totalling 1.4 million five-colour stamps.

SKY-WARD BOUNDC a n a d a P o s t c e r t a i n l y

reached for the stars again last year.

But, unlike subjects featured in 2017, when commemoratives reproducing Star Trek movie scenes were produced in several different formats, the latest stamps suggest the spacious skies have no limit.

Photographs of the Milky Way and Northern Lights taken in 2016 by Matt Quinn and Alan Dyer, respectively, are repro-d u c e d o n t w o “ P ” commemoratives released on June 29 for the 150th of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.

Designed by Parcel Design of Toronto, and showing lines and

names of stars overlaid to high-light the featured constellations, each stamp’s border has hidden data about the co-ordinates, date, time and camera used. Printed with special ink, those details become visible under ul-traviolet light.

Color Innovations used seven colours to produce 180,000 10-stamp booklets, totalling 900,000 of each 38-mm-by-30-mm commemorative, plus 85,000 two-stamp souvenir sheets.

“Looking up rekindles a childlike sense of wonder that can add so much enjoyment to our lives,” Canada Post’s Details brochure quotes Dyer, a Strath-more, Alta.-based photographer, astronomy author and author of several children’s books on space, as saying.

He took the selected photo-graph in a night sky above Churchill, Man., after “decades of experimentation,” the article adds.

On his website, Quinn, a Cambridge, Ont.-based land-scape photographer and travel-ogue book author, took his nighttime photo of the Milky Way in the Bruce Peninsula Na-tional Park in Ontario, between Georgian Bay and the main ba-sin of Lake Huron.

“The sheer scale of the night sky puts into perspective the awesomeness we’re a part of and with this new perspective I’m reminded of what’s truly important and what isn’t,” he wrote on his website.

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exploring how they can help phi-latelists in their research.

“We’re here to serve the re-search needs of people that are doing the work of preserving postal history in Canada and the world,” said Kathy Hartley, a li-brarian with the HSPL, which is part of the Toronto-based Vin-cent Graves Greene Philatelic Re-search Foundation.

She was joined by Scott Tiff-ney, a librarian and director of information services with the APRL, and James Bone, an archi-vist with LAC, whose collection can be viewed online or con-sulted in person.

“We do have a lot of resources that some of you know about and that some of you use,” said Bone, who works with philatelic material at LAC.

With its main headquarters in Ottawa, LAC is “the current in-carnation of the top heritage in-stitution in the country at the federal level,” he added. “It’s an amalgamation of the former na-tional archives and the former national library.”

Altogether, LAC maintains:• 250 kilometres of textual re-cords;• more than 30 million photo-graphs;• more than 22 million books;• more than three million maps;• more than 550,000 hours of au-dio and video recordings;• 4.5 billion megabytes of digital content; and• more than 425,000 Canadian works of art.

There’s also LAC’s Gatineau-based Preservation Centre, which recently received the 2018

Outstanding Building of the Year award from the Building Owners and Managers Association.

NATIONAL POSTAL MUSEUM, CANADIAN

POSTAL ARCHIVESThe product of a merger of the

former National Archives and National Library, LAC is a boon to researchers of philately and postal history alike.

“Many of you are probably fa-miliar with the National Postal Museum in its glory days under Canada Post,” said Bone, of the former museum that opened in 1974. “Unfortunately, it didn’t last nearly long enough; it was gone too soon.”

In 1988, the National Postal Museum collection joined the Canadian Museum of Civiliza-tion (known as the Canadian Museum of History since 2012) before adopting its new name, the Canadian Postal Museum, in 1996.

“They took what we call the postal history artifacts – the three-dimensional objects – and the archival records went to the Canadian Postal Archives, which was under the National Archives at the time.”

The archival records have since been inherited by LAC.

The Canadian Postal Museum at the Canadian Museum of His-tory “still sort of exists,” Bone added, “and they still collect arti-facts, and they still have a very good collection that’s still being developed.”

THREE PARTSLikewise, archival records

from Canada Post, security printers and private collections are still held and regularly up-dated at LAC, which is divided

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RECENT LAC ACQUISITIONSSome of Library and Archives Canada’s recent private phila-

telic acquisitions include:• the Yves Baril fonds (R13163), including Baril’s commentaries on his work, daily logs, autographed first-day covers, philatelic souvenirs and other “treasures” from the cutting room floor of the Canadian Bank Note Co.;• the George Marler fonds (R4050), including research notes, correspondence and photo prints used in Marler’s Admirals and Edward VII books as well as much of Marler’s personal Admirals collection;• the Charles Verge fonds (R4618), including diverse records from across Verge’s philatelic activities as an exhibitor, judge and commissioner as well as records of philatelic societies, other notable philatelists and personal correspondence; and• the Harry Sutherland fonds (R2095), including records of Sutherland’s involvement in the philatelic community and soci-eties.

“If you have one of those top collections and you’ve ex-hausted it, I’d be interested in hearing about how we could add it to our collection and make it available to everyone,” said ar-chivist James Bone, of Library and Archives Canada.

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into three parts – government archives, published Canadiana and private archives.

Government archives include records of the former Post Office Department and Canada Post as well as the National Postal Mu-seum and Canadian Philatelic Archives collections.

“We also are the national re-pository library, so we have all the published works on philately in Canada,” said Bone, who added LAC is “always looking for donations of publications we might not have yet.”

These include published works on philately, the post of-fice and postal history, including government publications, peri-odicals and monographs. Pub-

lished works with no Canadian context are redistributed to the HSPL.

LAC also handles private ar-chives, which is Bone’s main fo-cus.

“These are th ings you wouldn’t necessarily expect to find there,” said Bone. “It might sound a bit strange, but we do actually get a lot of stuff from philatelists like yourselves.”

Artifacts from each of these three areas are still being accu-mulated by LAC.

“It’s ongoing, and we have a new agreement with Canada Post signed very recently,” said Bone last September, “as to what we’re going to be taking from them in the near future.”

Depending on the material being consulted, these collec-tions are available at either LAC’s headquarters in Ottawa or the Preservation Centre in Gatineau.

“If you want to come and see our material, you have to let us know ahead of time because the stacks are closed. We have con-sultations, and they’re nice and inviting, but it takes a day or two for us to have the material ready for you,” said Bone, who added “fragile” material might require a consultation at the Preservation Centre.

Other records are closed and require a request under the Ac-cess to Information Act, which provides any Canadian citizen,

permanent resident or corpora-tion present in Canada with a right to access information un-der the control of a federal gov-ernment institution such as LAC.

“Lots of government records – especially stuff from Canada Post – are still closed. Generally, things are closed by default and only opened after review,” he said, adding the request process is simple and only costs $5. “In turn, you get your own digitized copy of the record. I encourage you to do this.”

For example, stamp design meeting notes are held by LAC, but they’re closed to consulta-tion.

“You can get them if you pay $5, and once it’s open, it’s

open to everyone; it’s not just open to you,” said Bone, who added this only applies to re-cords acquired by LAC from the government and not from security printers. “Unless there are some industry se-crets in there that I think are too sensitive, it gets opened to you.”

Reproductions for any ma-terial not under copyright are available for a nominal fee covering the cost of labour.

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• Ted Nixon, who received a vermeil with 83 points; and• Michael Croy, who received a large silver with 78 points.

PEER GROUP COMPARISONMcLaughlin found these re-

sults to be a “mid-range” per-formance, although he warned comparing Canada’s perfor-mance with other countries is “difficult.”

The FIP tracks how many ex-hibits – and from which coun-try – receive a vermeil or higher

at least once in the past 10 years.

Since 2009, Canadian exhibi-tors have received 50 awards at the vermeil level or higher.

To create a “reasonable” peer group of eight countries, McLaughlin listed all other na-tions with between 45 and 55 qualifying exhibits. In addition to Canada, the peer group in-cludes Austria, Chinese Taipei, Finland, Hong Kong, Korea, Pakistan and Russia.

“For Thailand, our adult multi-frame performance was midrange among our peer group, mostly because three other countries each had a large

gold medal and one had four gold medals,” said McLaughlin, who’s a Fellow of The RPSC. “The peer group analysis pro-vides better insight when com-paring the full year because of the larger sample and because our participation in exhibitions is more consistent than the peer group.”

SINGLE-FRAME EXHIBITSThere were two Canadian

single-frame exhibitors entered into Thailand 2018, which ran Nov. 28-Dec. 3 in Bangkok.

They include Don Hedger and John McEntyre, who earned 78 points and 77 points, respectively, which “are quite respectable scores for one-frame exh ib i t s in terna t iona l ly, McLaughlin said.

“We did much better than our peer group in the single-frame exhibit class,” he said, adding one of the two exhibits was a first-time entry.

“Only one other country in our peer group entered one-frame exhibits.”

LITERATURE EXHIBITSWhile the other countries in

Canada’s peer group have "tra-ditionally done better” in the literature category, Canada’s lit-erature entries “did very well” this year, McLaughlin said.

In the six FIP exhibitions be-fore Thailand, Canada entered only five literature exhibits alto-gether; however, with the help of three of Canada’s national philatelic societies, Canada en-tered three literature exhibits. This compares with an average

of four entries for the six coun-tries in Canada’s peer group that entered literature.

Canada’s entries into Thai-land 2018 include:• The Canadian Philatelist, the bimonthly publication of The RPSC, which received a large vermeil with 86 points;• the PHSC Journal, which is published by the Postal History Society of Canada (PHSC) and received a large vermeil with 85 points; and• 151 Personal Views of Can-ada, A Philatelic Sesquicenten-nial Project, which was pub-lished by the Philatelic Special-ists Society of Canada (PSSC) and received a large silver with 73 points.

The PSSC entry – a celebra-tory book with pages for each year from 1867-2017 contrib-uted by the society’s members – was in class 11A, philatelic books and research papers, the top medals of which went to "professionally edited and pub-lished commercial reference books,” said McLaughlin.

“I think that the silver medal at 73 points was commendable achievement by the PSSC mem-bers,” he added.

Both The RPSC and PHSC publications were entered in class 11B, philatelic magazines and periodicals, which included 27 entries.

“Only one publication, The Gibbons Stamp Monthly, pub-lished commercially by Stanley Gibbons, received a higher score at 87 points.”

While some Canadian phila-telic organizations are reluctant

to enter their publications in competitions, McLaughlin said he hopes the recent successes “will encourage all our phila-telic societies to support their authors’ and editors’ efforts through participation in inter-national shows.”

“Copies of the books, cata-logues and journals entered in these shows end up in the phil-atelic libraries of the host coun-try.”

YOUTH EXHIBITORSAs for youth exhibits, Can-

ada fared poorly compared to its peer group.

“Four members of our peer group had a total of 13 youth exhibits while we had none,” McLaughlin said, adding there were no exhibit fees for youth entries of Thailand 2018.

NEXT FIP EXHIBITIONThe next FIP exhibition is

China 2019, which will be held in Wuhan, China, from June 11-17.

A world general exhibition, China 2019 will feature 2,500 competitive frames across all FIP classes, including the new picture postcard class.

“I am hopeful that we can have several youth exhibits for China 2019 next June,” said McLaughlin, who added there are no exhibit fees for youth en-tries of China 2019.

To receive the exhibition pro-spectus and application form, which is due by the end of Jan-uary, exhibitors can contact McLaughlin at [email protected]. W

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Canadian Stamp News is ex-cited to launch its 2019 cover

contest, which is the second an-nual competition aimed at pro-moting healthy competition among clubs as well as collecting at large.

All philatelic organizations – at the local, regional and national levels in Canada and abroad – are invited to submit a cover promoting National Stamp Col-lecting Month, which will take place this October.

An individual category will also be added for this year ’s competition, and similar to the club category, it is open to every-one.

“CSN is happy to co-ordinate this cover design contest and of-fer four prizes – three for the club competition and one for the

individual category – in an effort to promote philately with a fun competition,” said CSN Pub-lisher and Editor Mike Walsh. “We’re hoping for a good turn-out of covers from clubs and col-lectors across the country.”

The covers should be dated and received by CSN by Septem-ber 20, 2019, with a design pro-moting their club or individual hobby as well as the month-long philatelic celebration, which has fallen to the wayside since its in-ception nearly four decades ago.

All submitted entries will be posted on canadianstampnews.com, where people will be in-vited to vote for their top three favourite club and individual submissions throughout the month of October.

On Nov. 1, CSN will announce

the three covers that received the most votes. The top three clubs will receive from CSN $100, $50 and $25, respectively, while the top individual submission will receive $100.

LAST YEAR’S CONTESTIn last year’s inaugural cover

contest, the Kelowna and Dis-trict Stamp Club won $100 as the first-place winner.

The club, which is chapter 90 of The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, promptly mailed in a cover after CSN announced its “grassroots” effort to reignite National Stamp Collecting Month (CSN Vol. 43 #09).

The club used its 90th anni-versary Picture Postage stamp produced in 2016 as postage while the cover itself references

October being National Stamp Collecting Month and lists the club’s monthly meeting times.

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Benjamin Franklin, the joint deputy postmaster general

for all of British North America, received instructions from the British government in 1763 to survey and establish a postal route linking New York with Montreal and Québec city.

“In the Spring of 1763 I set out on a Tour thro’ all the Northern Colonies to inspect and regulate the Post Offices in the several Provinces,” Frank-

lin wrote about this undertak-ing in a letter to the postmaster general in London. “In this journey, I spent the Summer, travelled about 1600 Miles, and did not get home ‘till the Begin-ning of November.”

By August 1763, six months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Franklin had overseen the opening of post offices in Montréal, Trois-Rivières, and Québec city. He appointed a

postmaster in charge of the Ca-nadian post offices and estab-lished a monthly service be-tween Montréal and New York.

Canada’s Post Office Depart-ment issued a five-cent com-memorative stamp (Scott #413) on Sept. 25, 1963, to celebrate the 200th anniversary of this postal service. More than thirty different first-day cover (FDC) cachets were produced to mark the occasion, and 80,000 covers were serviced by the post office at Ottawa.

Franklin and a postal rider are featured on the cachet illus-trated in Figure 1. The maker, Charles George, used several variations of his name as signa-tures on his FDCs. In this case, it is “C.G. Junior III” as a trib-ute to his first-born son. For other covers, he variously used “C. George,” “C.W. George,” or “Bobby G.”

The ARC cachet shown in Figure 2 identifies the lands of British North America in pink and notes the “First Land Route” connecting Montréal, Trois-Rivières, and Québec city in the text. The left side of the continent is labelled “Louisi-ana” and the upper portion is “Russian.”

Kolor Kover ’s FDCs were U.S. publications distinguished by having coloured envelope stock – anything but white. The cachet in Figure 3 is printed on yellow stock with a brown ca-chet featuring a shield, the names of the three terminals and the legend “Bicentennial of the First Post Offices.”

The Overseas Mailers FDC in Figure 4 is hand-painted and shows a courier arriving at a post-house to an eager greet-ing. A rubber-stamped portrait of Franklin is shown faintly at

the left side of the cachet keep-ing watch over the arrival.

Overseas Mailers covers fea-ture an insert describing the stamp and cachet, and in this case, the insert reads in part: “Benj. Franklin, Deputy PMG on N. America, set up a route of posthouses and inns 2 centuries ago; he hired horses at 6c a league, runners and even boats-men to ferry letters over the St. Lawrence at a penny apiece.”

Rosecraft was the most pop-ular brand of Canadian FDCs when the postal service bicen-tennial stamp was issued, and its cachet (Figure 5) illustrates several of the details pertaining

to the stamp. The artwork shows a sketch map of the route from Montréal to Québec city and features a mail-carry-ing stage coach mired in the mud with the driver and his as-sistant struggling to extract it.

A curious detail is the medal immediately above the stage-coach that has the Latin words “Servire Populo” (to serve the people) around the outside edge.

This may have been the motto of Canada’s Post Office Department as there is a maple leaf at the centre enclosing the initials “CP.”

Benjamin Franklin’s Québec route pioneered postal services

By Gary Dickinson

First-DayCOVERS

Figure 1. This Charles George cachet honours Benjamin Franklin as having established the postal route reaching as far as Québec city.

Figure 2. The outline of British North America in 1763 is illustrated on this ARC cachet.

Figure 3. Kolor Kover’s cachet named the three locations connected by Franklin’s route.

Figure 4. A station along the route is shown on this Overseas Mailers cachet with Franklin overseeing from the left side.

Figure 5. This Rosecraft cachet highlights one of the difficulties of traveling the route.

Figure 6. A Ginn cachet on a registered first-day cover shows a post office along the route.



Introduced more than a century ago, machine slogan cancels

are a fascinating topic that con-tinues to interest collectors across the country.

Not as prolifically applied as they once were since Canada Post introduced modern spray-on dot matrix postmarks, “slo-gans” provide an almost endless number of topics.

Some are rare and costly as noted by specialists and in well-researched books on the subject, but relatively inexpensive exam-ples are still available in dealer’s boxes, at stamp and postal his-tory shows and online.

Since covers take up a fair bit of room, some collectors opt for entire cancels, including the dated round hubs, carefully cut from covers.

Another, less popular option are readable slogans on stamps soaked off envelopes — which are best if available in pairs or a block.

“It is preferable to collect slo-gans on cover but the sheer vol-ume of available material and space required will probably convince the collector to narrow his or her sights,” John T. Burnett writes in a British North Amer-ica Philatelic Society (BNAPS) online article.

“The more common material is considered collectable as a cut-out that includes both the slogan and the dater hub cut to approxi-mate size of two inches by four inches.”

Because the post office pro-moted attaching stamps on the top-right corner of envelopes, they object obscured parts of the text in slogan cancels.

Some collectors ignored the rules.

In order to keep the text read-able, they placed stamps to the

left of the normal position. Ex-amples are uncommon, but such proof-like printing is highly prized.

Covers used by government staff often provide clear slogan postmarks. They didn’t require stamps, but when postmarked to prove they went through the mail, the resulting cancellation was often unobscured.

There are some noteworthy varieties: hubs with date type in-verted, and even more dramatic, slogan plates were sometimes mounted upside down, as shown on the cover of the Slogan Post-marks of Canada catalogue com-piled by Cecil Coutts.

Coutts lists a few slogans is-s u e d w i t h s p e l l i n g e r -rors: “Chirstmas” instead of “Christmas,” “Conoerts” instead of “Concerts,” “Holydays” in-stead of “Holidays,” and “Mus-kora” instead of “Muskoka.” A few were corrected.

NARROWING THE FIELDAs with stamps and other

forms of postal history, most peo-ple tend to narrow their focus.

With so many different sub-jects to choose from, there are plenty of choices.

You could collect slogans from one city or town post office, or the same one from different town or city post offices.

Other subjects include:• a year or era;• community anniversaries;• public events and exhibitions;• religious observances;• sports;• charities;• post office promotions, includ-ing “Address Your Mail to Street and Number,” Air Mail, postal code use, “Mail Early for Christ-mas” and the long-retired “Your Postman Sells Stamps”;

• Second World War patriotic subjects such as “Buy Victory Bonds,” “Enlist Now,” “Fill a Ditty Bag,” “Help the Red Cross,” “Save Metal Rags and Waste Paper” and the pro-lific Victory slogan with the com-bined first letter and Morse code telegraph symbol, “V …-”;• tourism;• car shows;• museums; and• wildlife preservation.

For the record, a ditty bag is a little bag military personnel use to carry small items such as sew-ing implements, including nee-dles and thread, buttons, pins and perhaps a thimble to protect unwary thumbs while repairing a shirt.

Some slogans have little to say: I recently saw a 1934 one from Winnipeg with a single word – “VOTE!” The message obviously promotes casting an election ballot.

Philatelic events have also been featured on slogan cancels, including one on eBay recently that promoted a 1928 Vancouver stamp show. As you might imag-ine, such postmarks were often purchased as souvenirs and could form a nice hobby-related collection or a show exhibit.

At a West Toronto Stamp Club (WTSC) monthly Learning Workshop session on Dec. 4, vet-eran slogan cancel collector John Robertson presented a particu-larly clever theme.

His covers with slogans based on the first letter of the alphabet included: “A” for airmail; “B” for Boy Scouts; “L” for League of Nations that became the United Nations; and “Y” for Y.M.C.A.

BOOKS & CATALOGUESOn the Stamp Community Fo-

rum website, one collector who recently began focusing on slo-gan cancels made some good points, starting with a reference

to them being “an area sort of overlooked and a good topic to deep dive into.

“A lot of us who collect covers miss these completely in our own collections – short of time, we tend to focus on the stamp and classify it.”

He recommended the New-foundland Specialized Stamp Cata-logue by John M. Walsh and John G. Butt, which has a “great de-finitive section” on the prov-ince’s slogans, “including date used and some rarities/imper-fections. even estimates on value – just for the slogan!”

The sharp-eyed writer re-ported finding an uncommon First World War slogan on a $1 cover, which the catalog listed at $90. As in most collecting, get-ting to know a subject can be re-warding from both a knowledge and a budget perspective.

For Canadian collectors, John and other WTSC members rec-ommended the highly detailed Coutts catalogue, in which he is credited by the author as one of 30 “helpers.” The 2007 edition, with thousands of listings, was reprinted five years later with updates.

The introduction credits col-lectors plus the Canadian gov-ernment postal archives for pro-viding key data on machine slo-gan cancellations.

“The primary source of slogan information is a ‘Proof Impres-sion Book’, introduced in 1912,

when minor earlier slogan use was revived in a major fashion.

“Records were maintained, with various degrees of accuracy, until 1953. By then, the number of slogans being issued was so great that the effort to maintain the project appears to have been considered unwarrantable.”

Official correspondence, “some to and from the slogan sponsors,” but mostly consisting of inter-departmental letters with instructions for a die to be acquired, also proved extremely helpful.

Coutts stressed while docu-mented data can generally be re-lied upon to exist,” its absence does not necessary indicate that a slogan cancellation does not exist, “since much known usage was not recorded in the official documentation available.”

As for value, he wrote: “Com-mon material is sold at auction

in large lots, so pricing a single item from the lot becomes more difficult.

“In the latter case, knowledge gained from advanced slogan collectors, plus their examination of dealers’ stocks and price lists as well as auction realizations were all considered when deter-mining the values recorded herein.”

As with most philatelic mate-rial, he added “valuations are a guide only.”

Cutouts are priced in his cata-logue at five to 10 per cent of the value of them on cover, which are listed with minimum values of $1 each.

Older books several collectors brought to the workshop ses-sion included Slogan Postal Can-cels of Canada by David H. Proulx. Another well-recom-mended book that focuses on

Thousands of slogan cancel examples over past century

By Ian Robertson

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John Robertson shows fellow West Toronto Stamp Club members Canadian slogan cancel covers with subjects based on letters of the alphabet, except X and Z. Photo by Ian Robertson.

The positioning of the stamp far left of the slogan produced this cover with a fully readable St. John’s, Nfld. slogan cancel ‘Commemorating First Trans Atlantic Air-Mail June 14th, 1919.’

The one-word ‘VOTE!’ slogan on a 1934 Winnipeg cover had a simple message: cast an election ballot.


machine cancels featuring flags is the Canadian Flag Cancellation Handbook 1896-1973 by Edward Richardson.

EARLY CANCELLING MACHINES

Several groups have special-ized in machine cancellations.

Other useful publications in-clude The Early Rapid Cancelling Machines of Canada by David R. Sessions, The Bickerdike Machine Papers by Geoffrey R. Newman, Canadian Flag Cancels 1896-1919 by Doug Lingard and Slogan Postal Markings of Canada, In the 1912-1953 Period, a BNAPS pub-lication by Daniel G. Rosenblat.

Canceling machines were used in Great Britain and the U.S. before units were tested in Montreal in 1896. Six ma-chines were rented from the Imperial Mail Marking Ma-chine company of Massachu-setts for testing purposes. An-other one was tested in Ot-tawa.

These were followed by im-proved Montreal-built models called the Bickerdike Mail Marking Machine, named af-ter Kingston, Ont.-born busi-nessman Robert Bickerdike.

WTSC member Garfield Portch, vice-president of the Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Foundation, told us “20 clerks with machines could process mail 48 clerks normally handled by hand.”

Among the first machine slogans were ones that com-memorated the 60th anniver-sary of Queen Victoria’s reign. They consisted of beautiful flags engraved with wavy lines surrounding Diamond Jubilee test, which read “1837 - VICTORIA - 1897.”

Garf ield demonstrated some intricate differences, in-

cluding a flag cancel with an extra line in the design. Other less-decorative flag cancels used in Montreal had letters A to F added, which identified each of the six machines used at the central post office.

Machines from the Interna-tional Postal Supply Company (IPSC) of New York replaced the Bickerdike and Imperial units in 1902. Within 10 years, post of-fices in 57 Canadian cities were using their mail-cancelling units.

The first IPSC machine in this country to use a slogan cancel was in Lethbridge, Alta. Its text promoted the “International D r y F a r m i n g C o n g r e s s Lethbridge 1912,” John Robert-son told us.

That was a key year, Coutts wrote.

The Post Office Department “began to offer organizers of ex-hibitions and fairs, and also of charitable causes, the opportu-nity to pay for the manufacture of dies advertising their activi-ties, for use at the office where the event took place.”

By the end of 1912, he noted 21 post offices were using slogan cancellations, some in English, some in French and some in both languages. Within two years, 34 post offices were using 45 can-cels.

But that was the year in which the First World War began, and several advertised events were

canceled, eliminating the need to sponsor some of the slogans.

During both that war and the Second World War that lasted from September 1939 until nearly the end of 1945, patriotic slogans were plentiful, although Coutts noted slogans promoting Victory Bonds were applied “somewhat prematurely, since they were issued several months before victory was attained” on Nov. 11, 1918.

MACHINE, CANCEL DIFFERENCES

Canada’s slogan cancels were designed to be applied as oblit-erators to the right of circular postmarks identifying the origi-nating post office, plus the cor-respondence was serviced.

One of the most popular types of Canadian slogans was pro-duced during the 1912-19 “Clas-sic Period,” when “the popular fair-, flag-, and war-related mate-rial made an appearance,” Bur-nett wrote.

In 1919, the Post Office De-partment rented machines from the U.S.-based Universal Stamp-ing Machine Company. The con-tract with International was ter-minated.

Some Universal machines, plus several bought from the Co-lumbia Postal Supply Co. in New York, were used experi-mentally in Canada, Coutts wrote.

The switch necessitated new dies, he added, since those used on International machines could not be attached to Universal machines. The 55 new dies or-dered 100 years ago can easily be identified, since those on In-ternational machines had the year date at the bottom of the circular hubs while those on Universal and Columbia units had “provincial abbreviations at

the bottom, with the year date above.”

The differences of course pro-vides collectors with even more varieties to pursue and consider. In 1921, the Post Office Depart-ment introduced versions pro-moting a variety of postal ser-vices, including registered mail.

Airmail promotional slogans went into regular use during the 1930s.

Between 1929 and into the 1960s, Coutts reports, some peo-ple and organizations objected to slogans requested by church groups in Quebec and Ontario that promoted “Observe Sun-day,” claiming they were “in-fringing on religious liberties.”

Protests continued until the slogans were retired 40 years af-ter their introduction.

Fulfilling a desire for made-in-Canada machines, units de-veloped by George Robert and bought from J.O. Lamoureux

went into service in 1930 after testing and repairs in Montreal, followed by orders that eventu-ally totalled 132, at a cost of $2,500 each. Universals were rented for $200 a year, but they were built in New Jersey.

As happened before, the new units alternately referred to as a “Robert” or “Lamoureux” ma-

chine, and finally as “Perfect,” could not be fitted with the old slogans. The last of them were scrapped by the 1960s.

A British-designed mechanical segregating, facing and cancel-ling machine, called SEFACAN, was introduced in Winnipeg in 1962. Later that decade, new Pit-ney-Bowes Corporation MK-11 facer-canceller machines were installed in several Canadian post offices.

“In 1970 Canada Post chose a proven Belgian coding system and letter-sorting machine, and Japanese-designed, high-speed culler-facer-canceller (CFC) and optical character reader (OCR) equipment,” The Canadian Ency-clopedia notes.

Several companies supplied machine canceling equipment

for Canadian post offices later in the last century.

They included Pitney-Bowes, with which the Universal Co. merged and were producing rental machines in three different sizes – which could use the old Universal slogan dies – and smaller, low-volume hand-or electricity-driven machines made by International Periph-eral Systems (IPS) of Lewiston, Pa.

In 1972, the year after some OCR machines were installed at the Toronto mail processing plant, the federal government re-quired English and French on all new postal slogans.

As mail volumes increased, some larger post offices had Pit-ney-Bowes machines replaced by ones built by the Toshiba Com-pany.

A three-cent Jubilee commemorative with part of the highly decorative ‘1837-VICTORIA-1897’ flag cancel commemorates the diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria’s reign.

An early slogan cancel promotes the Selkirk centennial in Winnipeg on July 10-20, 1912.

A 1934 Calgary slogan cancel reads ‘Observe Sunday.’

A 1973 slogan on a cacheted cover commemorates the 100th anniversary of the city of Brampton, Ont.


A 1989 Hillsborough, N.B. machine cancel features a slogan promoting the ‘Home of/Chemin S&H Railway Museum/Musee.’

A 1941 Toronto ‘Enlist Now’ slogan was applied during the Second World War.


By Herb Colling

On occasion, collectors find philatelic treasures in the boxes of stamps and letters they purchase.

A case in point relates to a letter written on Nov. 22, 1965. It was penned by a Roman Catholic priest serving in Peru. It’s a poignant letter that captures the spirit and politics of that South American coun-try at the time.

The letter may have disap-peared, and been lost, had I not found and retrieved it from the bottom of the bin, mixed in with a lot of other in-consequential material. It makes me pause to reflect on the importance of looking through things, and analyzing what you have, before dis-carding anything.

Here’s a portion of that let-ter:

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you. All the good will that is experi-enced most everywhere dur-

ing this season no doubt goes a long way in establishing the ‘peace’ that the angels were sent to bring. The yearly re-newal of this good will must be as encouraging to them as it is to us!

The Communists unfortu-nately don’t seem to be giving the angels much of a working chance. For the moment at least here in Peru, the guerril-las have let up somewhat on their activities.

This might be linked to the fact that Ernesto ‘Che’ Gue-

vara (Castro’s right hand man) was recently seen on the Peruvian Brazilian border by a priest who knew him when he was preparing his doctor’s thesis on the Natives of the area.

Last month, in this same area, another priest came upon a baby being offered to appease the gods to have bet-ter luck with hunting and fishing, which was rather poor. The baby is well on the way to recovery at present.

Here in Chincha, we have a variation on this unorthodox way of ending life. There is a continual stream of young people coming to the hospital after taking Folidol (an insec-

ticide) in attempts to end their problems; usually linked with a love affair. Sometimes, though, others tell of their in-

tentions along this line before actually taking such drastic steps. Describing the terrible suffering they will endure of-ten prompts them to suggest another form of suicide, like drinking kerosene, or throw-ing themselves under a truck. If they’re lucky a friend will intervene, and point out that the latter method is hardly fair to the driver who will have to spend many months in jail.

It’s a great relief to meet these children again, happily walking around town on a Sunday afternoon!

Usually Sunday is a good time for visiting and, while doing this, I noticed a consis-tency in the unusually long time between knocking at a door, and the answer to the knock. A little lad let me in on the secret, explaining that the others in his house had to wash their feet, and put their shoes on before entertaining visitors. This seems a bit un-

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A letter penned in November 1965 by a Roman Catholic priest serving in Peru captures the spirit and politics of that South American country in the mid-1960s.

According to the letter, ‘Che’ Guevara had been seen recently near the Peru-Brazil border.

Chincha Alta is a Peruvian city located in the Ica Region, which borders the Pacific Ocean to the west.


usual, but, down here, the houses as a rule have a ce-ment floor only in the first room of the house. The rest of the house has a dirt floor. To save money, many people go in bare feet, using shoes only for special occasions, like re-ceiving visitors. The expres-sion, “Putting your best foot forward,” may well have come from this part of the world.

Looking for a solution to our difficulties, many North Americans point out that a large part of the trouble comes from there being so many sep-arate countries in South America. That the Commu-nists are interested in our troubles was demonstrated by a proud father who brought his little boy in to be baptized. He had chosen the name ‘Ni-kita.’ It was suggested that the man should take his young lad to Russia for the baptism. A compromise was reached, and the father relented, and selected his own name ‘Juan,’ although not without his first proposing Fidel as a substitute to Nikita.

The names at baptism are often English, like Johnny, Wilbur, Mary, or anything they hear on the radio, or see in the movies or even on TV where they have it. A double name is preferred. Joe Louis is more famous than he real-

izes. A sense of humour is evident too. There is a little chuckle whenever the Peruvi-ans hear the name: John Diefenbaker.

One thing that surely does come from Peru is the sweet potato. The maple leaf bears a close resemblance to the leaf of this plant. You can imagine the surprise that was caused recently when the Canadians, after copying the Peruvian flag, selected the leaf of the Peruvian sweet potato to put in the middle of it.

The North American influ-ence on the culture here may help keep the Communists at bay, although that may still be in question. What the United States is doing for this coun-try, for example, was summed up by a taxi driver in Lima last week. He told me that ‘this country is only a branch office of the U.S.’ It’s almost true too! The majority of the school children receive break-fast every day thanks to the Food for Peace program. If they are lucky enough to have a school, it is usually thanks to

an Alliance for Progress loan. The school curriculum is a re-sult of endless collaboration with the U.S. universities.

We see the difference by ob-serving young people who are over 20 years old who did not benefit from this aid. The progress made, thanks to this help, is truly inspiring. How-ever, there is still a lot to do. For example, in our area, only one of the 22 schools is not a rented house. The crowded fa-cilities have to accommodate over three thousand students.

Any suggestions, on how to go about putting up a com-munity centre auditorium for the 22 schools, would be most appreciated. Not being able to aid each of these schools indi-vidually, we have selected this as the most practical way of helping them overcome some of the limitations imposed by their crowded house schools.

Best Regards.....

And that is the end of the letter, which gives an insight into a style of life at a particu-lar time in South American history, which could well have been lost. W

The letter writer references ’the surprise that was caused recently when the Canadians, after copying the Peruvian flag (shown above), selected the leaf of the Peruvian sweet potato to put in the middle of it.’

Peru issued two Christmas stamps depicting the manger in 1977.

Peru featured the Statue of Liberty on a 10-centavos stamp in 1934.

Another Peruvian Christmas stamp depicts a portrait of Santa Claus alongside a Christmas letter.

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ALL NATIONS weekly stamp and coin auction, http://www.allnationsstampandcoin.com, Brian Grant Duff, C.A.N.D., C.S.D.A., 5630 Dunbar Street, Vancouver, BC, V6N 1W7, (604) 684-4613, email: [email protected]. (V42N26-ID-AU)

BRITISHCOMMONWEALTH

BRITISH Commonwealth, Canada, Newfoundland, USA mint and used stamps. No taxes or postage charges. Free lists. Reg’s Stamps, 7 Ashgrove Crescent, Ottawa, ON K2G 0S1. Ph: 613-829-8156, e-mail: [email protected]. (V43N14-408-BRC)

COMMONWEALTH collectors, we can offer you high quality stamps @ com-petitive prices. Friendly, efficient service. 50 different free stamps upon request-ing our approvals. Jay-Lor Reg’d, 1800 Sheppard Ave. E., PO Box 55182, North York (Toronto) ON Canada M2J 5A0, [email protected]. (V43N02-ID-BC)

BUY & SELL

MISSISSAUGA Dealer – 43rd year. Gold, silver, stamps, coins, paper money, sup-plies. Buy & sell. 1723 Lakeshore Rd. W., Mississauga, ON L5J 1J4, 905-822-5464. (V43N09-ID-BS)

MONTREAL Dealer – The Bay Downtown, 585 St. Catherine. Canada Post distributor. Since 1967. Stamps, coins, paper money, gold, silver. Collector supplies. Rousseau Collections, 514-281-4756. (V43N21-ID-BS)

CANADA

2019 UNITRADE Canada Specialized Catalogue, List $52.95, our special $41.95. A 50% postage refund is avail-able on mail orders. Also see our ad under “Supplies.” F.v.H. Stamps, Phone toll free 1-866-684-8408, e-mail: [email protected]. Website: www.fvhstamps.com. (V43N13-ID-CA)

2016 WALSH NEWFOUNDLAND 2016 Walsh British North America; Specialized stamp eCatalogues 10th edition, Colour; none better. www.nfldstamps.com (V43N01-593-CA)

DEVENEY STAMPS LTD. Rare Canadian Stamps for sale. Early Classics, Varieties/Re-entries, Revenues, Provinces & Precancels. Thousands of items listed for sale online (www.deveneystamps.com) (V44N01-ID-CA)

INTERESTING off paper mixtures (dupli-cates, mixed condition) all ages. Priced per 1,000 (approximate) about 35% commemoratives $16.50, about 80% commemoratives $24.50, about 83% commemoratives (higher % last 10 years) $34.50. Also available: 200 commemoratives mixture mostly last 10 years $23.50. Ron Carmichael, Box 9, Shedden Ontario N0L 2E0 [email protected]. (V43N11-760-CA)

NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada, provinces 24-page price list. Large inventory. Mint, used, prompt service. Philip S. Horowitz (Since 1956), PO Box 6595, Delray Beach, FL 33482, 877-794-0009, e-mail: [email protected]. (V43N06-592-CA)

CANADIAN FOR SALE

ASK FOR huge free list with loads of Canadian material from odd ball stuff to high value classics, something for everyone lurks here! Ron Carmichael, Box 9, Shedden, ON N0L 2E0 [email protected]. (V43N11-296-CS)

CANADA interesting mixtures! Off paper with duplication, mixed condition. Each lot contains just over 100 stamps. Revenues $19.50, Newfoundland $19.50, Officials $12.50, Winnipeg tagged $14.50. Ron Carmichael Box 9, Shedden Ontario N0L 2E0. (V43N11-458-CS)

EUROPE

EUROPE & WORLDWIDE Free price list, mint and used, singles and sets. Jack Bode, PO Box 54001E, Markham, ON L3P 7Y4. (V43N11-647-EU)

GERMAN MIXTURE (no DDR) off paper with modern: 100 semipostals $17.50, about 1,000 commemoratives $30.00, about 1,000 approximately 33% commemoratives $19.50, 100 Berlin $19.50, 15 used souvenir sheets (still on paper) $19.50. Check my eBay store or request free list with loads more sets, singles, packets, mixtures and collec-tions! Ron Carmichael, Box 9, Shedden ON N0L 2E0 [email protected]. (V44N01-ID-EU)

EXCHANGE

FRIENDLY stamp exchange, we cover the world, Scott value 25¢ to $100s. Details THE STAMPER, 951 Lawnsberry Dr., Orleans, ON K1E 1Y2. [email protected] (V43N20-700-EXC)

WOULD LIKE to exchange ww. Any preference? Will answer all. Rita Panter, #305 1835 Greenfield Ave., Kamloops, BC V2B 8R5 (V43N16-800-EXC)

FIRST DAY COVERS

CANADA’S largest stock of classic Canadian First Day Covers (pre 1970). Send us your want list by Unitrade number or cachetmaker. Satisfaction guaranteed! Roy’s Stamps, P.O. Box 28001, 600 Ontario Street, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2N 7P8 or call 1-905-934-8377 or email [email protected]. (V43N22-ID-FDC)

FOR SALE

PRIVATE COLLECTOR selling his Mint never hinged collections in Lighthouse hingless albums of Canada, US, UN, Western Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Taiwan at a very large discount. Also duplicates. Please give telephone and location. [email protected]. (V43N19-1100-FO)

FOREIGN

BALTIC STATES, Scandinavia, Great Britain, Channel Islands, Commonwealth, Canada, Newfoundland and more. Mint & used, pricelists and approvals. West Nisssouri Stamps, Box 28026, Oakridge R.O., London, ON N6H 5E1, 519-474-2021, email [email protected], website www.wnstamps.com (V43N07-800-FO)

SPECIALIZING IN semi-numismatic and unique silver bullion products. Be sure to check out our Canada 150 Sesquicentennial 2oz Silver Round. www.phelimint.ca. (V43N06-593-FO)

MIXTURES

GIBRALTAR USED singles, pairs, souve-nir sheets, includiing recent, $100 Scott 2017 CV; $35. Mix postally used FDC cancels. Anthony Gariano, 179 Waverley St., Ottawa, ON K2P 0V5. (V43N17-950-MX)

GREAT SCOTT! Four ounces + off paper, some better values, many to $1+. Few Mint sets, couple SS’s, $25. John Plett, Box 74082 Vancouver BC V5V 5C8. (V43N16-593-MX)

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HOARD BREAKUP! Off paper mixtures (duplicates, mixed condition) 400 large, small, mostly older (decent variety between multiple packs of same country): Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania $12.50, Belgium, Denmark, DDR, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain $14.50, Yugoslavia, Sweden, Turkey $15.50, Italy, Switzerland $18.50. Ron Carmichael, Box 9, Shedden Ontario N0L 2E0, [email protected]. (V43N11-740-MX)

TOPICAL PACKS 250 mostly different, mixed condition (good variety between multiple packs of same topic): $19.50 each: Airplanes/Aircraft, Animals, Art, Birds, Bugs, Butterflies/Moths, Cats/Dogs, Constumes, Christmas, Flowers, Fruits/Vegetables, Horses, Marine Life, Music, Reptiles, Ships/Boats, Space, Sports, Stamp on Stamp/Postal, Trains, Transportation. Ron Carmichael Box 9, Shedden Ontario N0L 2E0. (V43N11-357-MX)

INTERESTING off paper mixtures (dupli-cates, mixed condition), all ages, large, small. Priced per 1,000 (approximate) Canada, USA, Great Britain, Western Europe, Netherlands, Italy, Worldwide: $16.50, Australia: $17.50, British Commonwealth, Switzerland: $18.50, Latin America, Asia: $22.50, Japan: $24.50, Poland, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, South Africa: $29.50, DDR: $34.50, Malta, Africa, Scandinavia: $39.50, Caribbean: $44.50. Ron Carmichael, Box 9, Shedden Ontario N0L 2E0 [email protected]. (V43N11-760-MX)

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BOXLOT of fun! What lurks from estates, accumulations, hoards, mixtures, collections! Canada, USA, Australia, Britain, Germany, or worldwide. $100 each. Ron Carmichael, Box 9, Shedden Ontario N0L 2E0. (V43N11-357-SO)

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BUYING BULK: Canada: QV era, stamps in bundles, modern commemoratives, precan-cels, revenues, pre 1970 FDCs. Newfoundland. Worldwide: perfins, reve-nues, bundles. Don’t send, contact me first: [email protected]. (V43N11-296-BRC)

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AUSTRALIAAustralia’s set of 2018 Christmas stamps were re-

leased Nov. 1.The traditional Christmas stamps are based on Ur-

sula Betka’s paintings, which were created using age-old medieval techniques. The glowing jewel-like colours are achieved through the use of egg tempera, a mixture made from a blend of natural pigments and egg yolk. The gold brocade effect was achieved with burnished 23-karat gold leaf and the traditional medi-eval method of scraffito, in which the decoration is delineated with a fine, sharp metal point.

The Madonna and Child and the Musical Angels are depicted within a mystical landscape. Heaven is brought to earth and the created world is transfigured by the divine presence, uplifting the soul.

The three secular Christmas feature typographical elements, marking the festive season as a time to gather with family and friends in a spirit of peace, un-derstanding and goodwill. Festive words, taken from popular Christmas carols We Wish You a Merry Christ-mas, Jingle Bells and The First Noël are presented in a ribbon-like fashion as a nod to the popular act of gift-giving.

FALKLAND ISLANDSNov. 28 saw the release of a set of four stamps from

Falkland Islands celebrating the centenary of the Old Post Office House at Fox Bay, West Falkland.

It is the oldest remaining post office building in the Falkland Islands. According to official documents, a small wireless station was opened at Fox Bay on Nov. 1, 1918, and from then onwards, the wireless operator on duty there also combined the work of the post of-fice.

This house was built in 1918 for the wireless opera-tor, who then also took over the duties as postmaster. The post office remained in this house until the mid-1980s when it moved into the village store. Later, it moved to the office of the Village Agent, where it is still located today.

The Old Post Office House is one of the most his-torically important buildings on West Falkland, and many of the older folks in the islands have memories of it being the “official” house on the West, not only for postal matters, but also for registrations of marriages, births and deaths as well as many other official duties.

The four stamps depict: an old picture of the house from the 1940s (31 pence); the old post office scales of the Fox Bay Post Office (76 pence); Princess Anne and her husband Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence visit-ing the Fox Bay Post Office Museum in 2016 (£1.01); and the Old Post Office and museum as they look to-day after having been restored to their former glory (£1.22).

BRITISH ANTARCTIC TERRITORYLandscape images of Antarctica were highlighted

on a set of four stamps issued by British Antarctic Ter-ritory Nov. 1.

The vistas in Antarctica are some of the most stun-ning landscapes humans have set eyes on. The wild, dramatic skylines have been inspiring art, science and exploration for the last 200 years, and many parts still remain mysterious and untouched. The untamed natu-ral environment and unique light quality create an al-most dream-like impact that imprints itself on to the imagination.

The four stamps depict: Goudier Island, a small low-lying rocky island in a sheltered glacial area named after the chief engineer of the expedition ship Français (66 pence); Paradise Harbour, a wide bay formed by islands close to the Antarctic Peninsula known for its stunning views and its rich wildlife pop-ulations (76 pence); Gould Bay, which is home to a large emperor penguin colony residing on the north-east corner of Berkner Island in the Weddell Sea (£1.01); and Neumayer Channel, which is named after a German explorer and scientist, Georg von Neu-mayer, who sailed it during his Antarctic expedition of 1897-99 (£1.22).

NIUENiue issued a set of four stamps on Oct. 19, entitled

“Fale Tau Taoga Niue.”In 2004, Cyclone Heta destroyed most of the collec-

tion at the only museum in Niue. These stamps were issued to commemorate the opening of the new Taoga Niue Museum building.

These are some of the taoga that have been collected to preserve Niue’s history and heritage. Each stamp represents a treasure housed in the new museum; these include an ulupuku (close-combat weapon); an uka (arrowroot grater); a tokotoko (walking stick); and a tulei sia (woven tray).

PITCAIRN ISLANDThe big blue octopus (Octopus cyanea) was featured on

a souvenir sheet of three stamps issued by Pitcairn Island on Sept. 19.

In March 2012, a National Geographic “pristine seas” team, in co-operation with the Pew Charitable Trusts, undertook a month-long expedition to determine the health of the marine environment surrounding the four Pitcairn Islands. Over the course of the expedition, the team of top marine ecologists and filmmakers made 384 dives, spent more than 450 person-hours underwater and counted and measured thousands of species of fish, coral and algae. They identified one species of octopus – Octo-pus cyanea – also known as the “big blue” or “day octo-pus,” which occurs in both the Pacific and Indian Oceans.

Like squids and cuttlefish, the octopus is a cephalopod, meaning it has a large head and many arms or tentacles. They are commonly found in coral reefs at depths of up to 100 metres, living in muddy, sandy or rocky bottoms as well as seagrass beds. They create lairs or dens in crevices or coral rubbles within coral reefs. These dens are only used on average for a period of 35 days.

JERSEYJersey’s Christmas stamps, featuring eight different

Christmas jumpers, were released Nov. 19.The origins of the Christmas jumper can be traced

back to the distinctive 19th-century Scandinavian fish-ermen sweaters. By the middle of the 20th century, these sweaters were popularized by skiers, who needed appropriately warm skiwear. By the 1970s, the knitwear was associated with Christmas. Since then, the festive jumper was brought into our homes by tele-vision personalities in the 1980s.

The self-adhesive stamps have been designed with a knitted background effect and cut-out neckline to give the impression of a folded Christmas jumper.

GREAT BRITAINEight different Christmas stamps from Great Britain

were issued Nov. 1. The illustrations show traditional Christmas scenes with people posting their Christmas mail at various styles of post boxes in the countryside and towns.

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SHOW & BourseJAN. 5, SCARBOROUGH, ONScarborough Stamp Club Show, Cedarbrook Community Centre, 91 Eastpark Blvd. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.; no admission charge; free parking. Club circuits with 5 and 10 cent books and other items. Up to 4 dealers per show. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 416-460-3970.

JAN. 12, MONCTON, NBMoncton Stamp Fair, Royal Canadian Legion, 100 War Veterans Ave. The Moncton Stamp Fair is held each month from October to May. Hosted by the Fundy Stamp Collectors Club, the show runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission, free parking and silent auction. There are usually between four and six dealers, and a live auction starts at 1 p.m. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 506-875-2684.

JAN. 12, BRANTFORD, ONBrantford Stamp Club Annual Show & Bourse, Branlyn Community Centre, 238 Brantwood Park Rd. The Brantford Stamp Club’s annual show features a bourse with more than 15 dealers, exhib-its (with special categories for junior and novice exhibitors), silent auctions, club sales circuit books. Free parking and admission, door prizes, and lunch counter. The venue is wheelchair accessi-ble. For more information, email [email protected], tele-phone 519-751-3513. Website: www.brantfordstampclub.com.

JAN. 19 – 20, LONGUEUIL, QCInternational Stamp Show of Longueuil, SandMan Hotel, 999 rue Sérigny. The annual International Stamp Show of Longueuil will be open to the public on Sat. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will be 15 dealers present to help complete your collection as well as a Canada Post draw. For more informa-tion, contact Patrick Chalifoux, email [email protected], telephone 450-223-0082. Website: www.timbratheque.com.

JAN. 26, LAKE COUNTRY, BCLake Country OMPA Stamp Show & Bourse, Senior Activity Centre, 9832 Bottom Wood Lake Rd. The Lake Country Show and Bourse will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m and boasts free admission, door prizes and a stamp auction. Hosted by the Okanagan Mainline Philatelic Association (OMPA), the show is one of several held by the OMPA throughout the year. Check CSN’s online”Events” page for updates about future OMPA shows. For more informa-tion, email [email protected], telephone 250-542-4127. Website: okanaganstampclubs.ca.

JAN. 26 – 27, BOUCHERVILLE, QCCoin and Stamp Show, De Mortagne School, 955 De Montarville The show will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days. Free admission, free parking and 35 dealers in attendance. Club infor-mation and food service available. The show is sponsored by the Association des Numismates et des Philatelistes de Boucherville (ANPB). For more information, email [email protected], tele-phone 514-592-7288. Website: www.anpb.net.

JAN. 26, BURNABY, BCCoins, Stamps & Collectibles Show, Nikkei Centre, 6688 Southoaks Cres. Hosted by the North Shore Numismatic Society, this show is open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be 40 tables of coins, stamps, banknotes, tokens, medals, postcards, art, pins and more. Admission is $2 (or free for children under the age of 16 if accompanied by an adult). Free underground parking. Japanese restaurant at location. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 604-299-3673. Website: www.northshorenumismaticsociety.org.

JAN. 26, ST. CATHARINES, ON70th Cathex, Grantham Lions Club, 732 Niagara St. Host: St. Catharines Stamp Club. Held from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 12 dealers, free admission, free parking club circuit, youth area, lunch coun-ter. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 905-227-9251.

FEB. 2, BRAMPTON, ONBramalea Stamp Show, Judith Nyman Secondary School, 1305 Williams Pkwy Local club show. 10 dealers, silent auction, exhibits - not judged but show and ask, kids booth, snack bar. Hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 905-792-3526. Website: bramaleastampclub.org.

FEB. 9, MONCTON, NBMoncton Stamp Fair, Royal Canadian Legion, 100 War Veterans Ave. The Moncton Stamp Fair is held each month from October to May. Hosted by the Fundy Stamp Collectors Club, the show runs from 10

a.m.-4 p.m. Free admission, free parking and silent auction. There are usually between four and six dealers, and a live auction starts at 1 p.m. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 506-875-2684.

FEB. 14, AJAX, ALAjax-Pickering Stamp Club Auction & Sale, Ajax Public Library, 55 Harwood S. The Ajax-Pickering Stamp Club will host an auc-tion at Ajax Public Library, where there will be 250 lots for auc-tion and 250 lots on sales tables. Viewing: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Auction: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Entrance fee is $1. No dealer fees. For more information, contact Jim Stevenson, meeting/program co-ordinator, by phone at 905-576-4449. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 905-576-4449. Website: www.ajax-pickering-stamp-club.com/.

FEB. 15 – 17, MESA, AZAmeriStamp Expo – APS Winter Convention, Mesa Convention Center, 263 N. Center St. The American Philatelic Society (APS) AmeriStamp Expo will be open to the public on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and on Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 814-933-3803. Website: stamps.org/Ameristamp-expo-ASE.

FEB. 16 – 17, REGINA, SKRegina Stamp Club Spring Show, Regina Senior Citizens Centre, 2134 Winnipeg St. The Regina Philatelic Club’s annual show and bourse features about 10 dealers of stamps and coins as well as club member stamp displays. Show hours are Sat. from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sun. from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $3 a day or $5 for a two-day pass. Children under the age of 12 have free admission. For more information, telephone 306-761-0659. Website: reginastampclub.ca/.

FEB. 23, ST. THOMAS, ONSt. Thomas Stamp Club 33rd Annual Stamp Show, Community of Christ Church, 105 Fairview Ave. The St. Thomas Stamp Club’s 33rd Annual Stamp Show will feature 10 dealers, exhibits, lunch counter and door prizes. Free admission, free parking and no stairs to climb. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 519-633-3669.

FEB. 24, TORONTO, ONToronto Postcard Club 38th Annual Sale, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Crt. This is Canada’s largest vintage postcard show with 40 tables and thousands of postcards for sale from many countries and covering many topics. The show will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $5, and parking is free. TTC accessible. For more information, email [email protected]. Website: www.torontopostcardclub.com

MAR. 1 – 3, MONTREAL, QCNuphilex – The largest coin and stamp show in Canada. Complex EVO, 420 Sherbrooke St. W. Admission $5 Friday and Saturday, free Sunday, early bird admission $25, beginning Friday 8 a.m. Hours: Fri. and Sat. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more informa-tion contact Emmanuel, email [email protected], tele-phone 514-889-7740. Website: www.nuphilex.com.

MAR. 3, MISSISSAUGA, ONMississauga Coin & Stamp Show, John Paul II Polish Cultural Centre, 4300 Cawthra Rd. Sponsored by the Troyak Club. Hours: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Over 30 dealers & 60 dealer tables. Canadian and world stamps, banknotes, coins and supplies. Buy, sell, trade, appraise. For more information, email [email protected], tele-phone 416-505-7999. Website: www.troyakclub.com.

MAR. 9, WINDSOR, ONWINPEX 2019, Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Ave. Winpex, the annual show of the Essex County Stamp Club, will be held at the Caboto Club on March 9 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The show boasts free admission, free parking and 14 dealers. There’s also a youth program with free stamps for school-aged children. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 519-966-2276. Website: essexcountystampclub.com.

MAR. 9, MONCTON, NBMoncton Stamp Fair, Royal Canadian Legion, 100 War Veterans Ave. The Moncton Stamp Fair is held each month from October to May. Hosted by the Fundy Stamp Collectors Club, the show runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission, free parking and silent auction. There are usually between four and six dealers, and a live auction starts at 1 p.m. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 506-875-2684.

SHOW ORGANIZERS: How to list: Simply fill out the form found at www.canadianstampnews.ca or mail, fax or email your information to Trajan Publishing (S&B), PO Box 25009 Rose City RO, Welland, ON L3B 5V0, fax (905) 735-1909, email [email protected]. Please include: date of show; site of event, street, city, prov.; official name of event; organization sponsoring or affiliated with the event; hours; admission charge; if exhibits are present (display or competitive), contact person’s name, address, postal code, telephone number. Two show dates per year will be listed for free (subsequent show dates will cost $15 per listing).

Visit www.canadianstampnews.com/events for the full list of shows posted to date

Robert Ginn’s cachet in Fig-ure 6 shows another view of a log structure serving as a post office along the route. A block of five stamps pays the five-

cent postage rate plus a 20-cent registration fee.

The final FDC as shown in Figure 7 is by H&E Stamp Company and features a postal rider from 1763 along with a letter carrier from 1963. The ca-chet is printed in the same colours as the stamp. W

Figure 7. A postal rider and a contemporary letter carrier represent the 200 years of postal service celebrated by this issue.

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Then, starting in 1983, distinc-tive double-circle style hub can-cels were applied at more than 400 small and large post offices using low-speed machines made by the Klussendorf company in Germany. Each was fitted with a “Postal Code – Code Postal” slo-gan, but some in time made use of sponsored slogans.

In 2000, the first Model 4900 IPS machines were delivered to small-and medium-size post of-fices, to replace the Pitney-Bowes and Klussendorf units. They were fitted with slogans read-ing “www.canadapost.ca - www.postescanada.ca”

SPRAY-ON CANCELSStarting in the 1990s, faster,

computer-driven processors equipped with OCR and rapid ink-jet spray printers took over much of the postmarking work at large mail centres across Canada.

Introduced in 1992, without community names, the sources of these postmarks can only be determined by their postal codes. They also have dates and times, plus numeral codes that identify the machine used.

Although jet-spray dot matrix cancels applied at large mail

processing centres rarely in-clude slogans, they have been used.

The first ones, consisting of the Christmas good wishes text “Joyeuses Fetes,” were applied in December 1993, Coutts notes. This was followed by a bilingual version, with “Greet-ings” added at the end.

Spray-on bilingual slogans from 1997 which accompany Burnett’s article are “Santa HOH OHO” promoting the postal code for mailing letters to Saint Nick at Canada Post; “Best Wishes”; and “From any-where to anyone.”

Few collectors are interested in current slogan cancels, but BNAPS reports early versions consisted of one line – two cur-rently – and suggests “there is much work to be done to docu-ment the types in each area.”

Errors have occurred, with corrections often made quickly due to computerization. Collec-tors might want to acquire Joel Weiner’s book, Canada Inkjet (Jet Spray) Cancels 1992-2005 (3rd Edition, 2006) which lists more than 2,300 distinct variet-ies.

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A ‘Santa HOHOHO Pere Noel’ bilingual Canada Post dot matrix spray-on postmark is dated Dec. 12, 2012.

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As another New Year approaches, the staff and I would like to wish you all a very a successful 2019. Many of you have been with us a long time, some over 40 years in fact, and we are always grateful for the loyal support. An attractively priced selection of Canada and Newfoundland specials follows – several

of them one of a kind offers. Select those you need and order today by phone, fax, mail or email! There are no additional charges for shipping or sales taxes. Installment terms are available if needed on larger purchases. We have the new 2019 Unitrade catalogue in stock at just $54.95 postpaid.

The latest Scott catalogues are also in stock. Have something nice for sale? If you do, please get in touch. We pay the highest prices for specialized collections and individual rarities of not only Canada and Provinces, but U.S.A., British and Foreign material as well.

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OLD TIME BARGAINS #950

SPECIAL OFFER #18,121Well here’s one you seldom see, Scott #9a, which is the deep green shade of the 7½p Queen Victo-ria issue of 1857. I have a rare unused single in stock with a small invisible repair, but with nice colour and Fine appearance. It is the fi rst unused

example that we have had in stock in a very long time. List price for this is $7,500.00. My price is $2,950.00. Installment payments are available.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,122Here is an interesting variety found on the 1¢ Small Queen issue – the ‘strand of hair’ – that was caused by a crack in the printing plate. This is a nice used example with a light fl ag cancel. It has a single blunt perf but otherwise is in VF condition and accompanied by a Greene Foundation certifi cate. List price is $600.00. My price is just $269.00.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,123Next here is the scarce straw shade of the 7c King Edward (#92iii). I have only one left in stock, which came from an old time hoard. List price for a VF NH mint single is $1,200.00. My price is just $495.00 (or 5 payments of $99.00) while they last!

SPECIAL OFFER #18,124One of the scarcest stamps in the popular Admi-ral Issue is the scarce 5c dark blue. I have one in stock (Scott #111) in a lovely deep shade. List price for a VF NH mint single is $900.00. My price is just $395.00.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,125Here’s one of the earlier imper-forate errors ever found – Scott #535a. This is the 6¢ Maple Leaf in spring. Only three sheets of fi fty were discovered back in 1971. A VF NH mint pair lists at $1,200.00. My price is just $595.00 (or fi ve payments of $119.00 each).

SPECIAL OFFER #18,126

here is the 8¢ coil, a scarce imperfo-rate error on hibrite paper. A VF NH mint pair of #604iii lists at $250.00. My price is just $119.95.


Here are two very scarce er-rors of #614a, the imperforate pair of the 15¢ R.C.M.P. The fi rst has one of

the stamps double printed! The second has a 10¢ value overprint-ed on the top stamp of the pair. Very few like these exist. List price is $1,800.00. I can supply both pairs in VF NH mint condi-tion for just $795.00 (or fi ve monthly payments of $159.00 each).

SPECIAL OFFER #18,128It’s hard to imagine a better misperforation variety than this one on the “A” stamp regular issue (Scott #907). The error is drastic – in fact parts of four dif-ferent stamps appear on each single! Price for a VF NH mint example is $79.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,129Here is one of the very scarcest printed on gum side errors yet discovered. It is on the “A” stamp re-leased in 1981 (#907a). Over the years we have seen precious few of this one. A VF NH mint single lists at $1,000.00. My price is just $495.00 (or fi ve pay-ments of $99.00 each).


A very inter-esting colour

shift occurred on the 1983 commemorative to honour the discov-ery of nickel. The silver colour is drastically shifted. Listed at #996ii, list price is $500.00 for a VF NH mint single. My price is just $295.00.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,131While mint singles of the 44¢ Walrus perfo-ration change may cause a budget problem, used examples are much more affordable. I have some nice VF examples of #1171c in stock. List price for these has reached $60.00. My price is $34.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,132The scarce perf 13 x 13 variety also exists on the 78¢ Beluga (1179b). List price for a VF NH mint single is $45.00. My price is just half of that at $22.50 for a single or $89.50 for a mint block of four.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,133Several years ago three sheets of the 45¢ Flag issue were found in the Montreal area with an important major error – they were completely imperforate. I managed to pur-chase one of these and have a couple of nice pairs left in stock. A VF NH mint pair of #1362c lists at $750.00. My price is just $369.00, or fi ve payments of $74.00 each.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,134Here is a misperforation error on the 50¢ Fruit Tree series (#1365). Price for a VF NH single is just $29.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,135In 1994 Canada Post had proposed a change in postal rates and had designed and print-ed a new 52¢ Christmas stamp. However the government turned down their request for the rate change and a 50¢ stamp had to be hastily printed for release. An error oc-curred (probably at the distribution center) and some sheets of the 52¢ denomination

were sent out by mistake. To my way of thinking this item is a major variety. It has already been assigned #1534ii in the Uni-trade catalogue. I can supply a VF NH mint single for just $195.00. I can also supply a VF NH sheet margin block of four at $695.00. Or take an investor lot of fi ve VF NH mint singles at just $795.00.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,136Here is a stamp missing from many a collec-tion -- #1764b -- the very scarce perforation change on the 45¢ Christmas stamp of 1998. List price for a VF NH mint single has risen to $500.00. My price is just $295.00. Or take away a block of four at just $1,150.00. If you need this I suggest you pick one up now.


Next here is one of the FIRST EVER MISSING

COLOUR ERRORS on a self-adhesive stamp. It is Scott #1931i and the resulting effect is startling to say the least, as you can judge by the photo. List price is $500.00. Price for this VF NH mint major error is just $249.95.


More than ten years have already gone by since Sir Gawaine Baillie’s Cana-da collection was sold in New York. It was part of a massive British Commonwealth collection that eventually real-ized some thirty million dollars! In the Newfoundland section was a nice lot of full sheets of the 1928 Publicity Issue. The next four specials are from these sheets. First here is Scott #145-149, the 1¢ to 5¢ values in F-VF NH mint condition. List price is $37.50. My price is just $19.95 for singles or $59.95 for blocks of four.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,139 Next here are the 6¢ to 9¢ values (Scott #150-152). List price for the three in F-VF NH mint condition is $37.75. My price is $19.50. Blocks of four are $69.95.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,140This special contains the 10¢ and 12¢ val-ues from the First Publicity Issue (#153-154). List price in F-VF NH condition is $27.50. My price is $14.95 for singles or $57.50 for blocks of four.

SPECIAL OFFER #18,141Still with the Publicity Issue, here are the 20¢ and 30¢ high values (#157, 159). List price for the pair in F-VF NH condition is $56.50. My price is $24.95. Blocks of four are $79.95.

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