Canada: Stamps: General

Yes! I thought I’d remember seeing those, too. That label “for pocket or purse” is odd. Pocket??

Unitrade numbers it as # 405bi (Cello paq) while #405b (shown in another thread) is without Cello - René

Canada - 3 souvenir panes of 4
Majestic Forests of Canada -Issued 1990 Sep 17
Unitrade 1284a - 1286b
Won at Auction $2C each (CV 12.50 each) - Did not win the 1283a

Back in July these Cameo miniature panes came up for discussion again featuring the 5 cent value in the cello paq. I knew I had one of those but had forgotten I also had the 4 cent pane still in the packaging. The Unitrade number is 404b for this one. I would be a little excited if it was the 404bi which has florescent paper. My black light needs batteries so I am not able to check it. 

Today is the 3rd National Day for Truth and Reconciliation in Canada. It is a time to reflect and honour the 1000’s of children placed in residential schools, many of whom never made it home. It is not a proud moment in our history. Canada Post has issued 4 new stamps today as a remembrance of this sad past. The following images are from their Instagram posting today. 

Thank you for sharing the TRC stamps, hdm1950. I'll be sure to purchase some in the coming days, although the images of the schools chill my heart.

I haven't been following Canada new issues for several years now, though I just purchased some Indigneous leader booklets after seeing the George Manuel stamps at the post office. I didn't know Canada Post was offering stamps around the day of Truth and Reconciliation.

I'm off to two gatherings today - one with Residential School survivors and later to the South Island Powwow. It promises to be a powerful and emotionally moving day, for sure.

First I've seen of these, quite attractive.

Once upon a time I bought a mint Canadian collection and it came in a Lindner hingeless album (volumes 1 & 2, up to 1974 or so), so later on I started looking for later volumes of the Lindner hingeless albums.  A dealer told to me to not bother beyond volume whatever it was, because the Canada Post yearbooks were so vastly better in value - hardly any more costly than the mint stamps themselves and packaged in such nicely illustrated books.  I did eventually buy another collection that contained even more Lindner pages so now I have them up to about 2014 or so, but I kept buying the Canada Post yearbooks up to about 2015 too, and they are certainly far more informative and nicer to look at.

Ryan

Hi rod222, 

That is definitely not the postal code. It is the numeric identifier of the post office. 

Thank you Alyn, Ryan.

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Further Info P.O.C.O.N cancels

Just a long shot
Seeking any members that may have a POSTMARK   of    RED LAKE  (Ontario)
I believe the Cancelling hammer circa 1926 has the year slug inverted
All the red lake  examples I have are poorly struck 

Thanks

Canada
Canadian Contingents
Anglo-Boer War
1899-1902

Postmarks Type "J"  (Hammer Number 21) on mutilated stationery.   (Sc# 89  1881  16 pearls )

FPO Hammer 21  = 1st Mounted Infantry Brigade, 6th Division S.A.F.F.  =  (South African Field Force ?)




Source : Catalogue as above text.  (Page 96)



Unidentified  Stamp Tabs?   Cinderellas?  anyone?
Tim Horton
Guy Lafleur

It is interesting to pick one of Canada's issues that span from Year 2000 to Year 2005 on the National Hockey League (NHL) All-Stars, in 6 issues. I thought your post would stimulate me to post all 6 issues, with scans of panes (minus booklets). This in a Canadian thread wich I will create (if not already there....have to check) - these scans I do have in my CANADA collection. Thanks franoise !!

René
p.s. there will be a delay in presenting the 6 scans as I cannot locate Scan # 2017 (even though my inventory says I have the 6 !!)

On a Canada-related note and a plowing-related note, but not a Canadian plowing stamp-related note ... I'm currently finishing up another Margaret Atwood book, this time The Blind Assassin, a Booker Prize winner.  While reading during my exercise bike session tonight, I came across the word "snowplough", which got me thinking - what is the correct Canadian English spelling, "plow" or "plough"?  My copy of the book is an edition under the Emblem / McClelland & Stewart imprint, a Canadian company, and Atwood uses Canadian English spellings elsewhere in words like "humour" or "colour", but I've always used the word "plow" in my own Canadian English writing, like Hugh does above, not "plough", as I was surprised to find in this Atwood book.  According to what I can find, "plow" is in fact the common usage for us Canucks, and for the Yanks, but not the Brits or the Aussies (or, I assume by extension, Kiwis).

And on an even more tangential note - what's an acre?  It was supposedly originally defined as the amount of land one man with one horse should be able to plow / plough in one day.  Any student of the metric system with middling knowledge knows what a hectare is (100m x 100m or 10,000m²).  But what's an acre?  A furlong by a chain!  What's a furlong?  10 chains!  What's a chain?  4 rods!  What's a rod?  25 links!  What's a link?  7.92 inches!  And let's not even go into the differences between a survey inch, or an international inch, or a pre-1959 imperial inch ... (fortunately, there's not much need to go into the differences there, as the differences are pretty tiny.)

Ryan