Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:01:47 GMT
The Indigenous Leaders (Canada, 2022) series pays homage to Marie-Anne Day Walker-Pelletier:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:03:48 GMT
Canadian Women series (Canada, 1993) celebrates Pitseolak, Helen Alice Kinnear, Adelaide Sophia Hoodless, and Marie-Josephine Gerin-Lajoie:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:05:58 GMT
I’m curious. Who is the first woman to be commemorated on a stamp for her own merits excluding royalty? That is a good question! I suppose Martha Washington, if she was being honored just for being the "wife-of", also is disqualified. And women from Greek mythology like Athena or Minerva probably also should not count. Nor would the Virgin Mary in her many representations. I think for Canada, the first non-royal woman to be identified by name (as opposed to just a nondescript gender representative), is Jeanne Mance, first nurse to come to New France, and foundress of the Hôtel-Dieu hospital in Montréal. The issue dates from 1973. Jeanne Mance (1606 - 1673), the first lay nurse in New France on stamp (Canada, 1973) on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of her death:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:08:08 GMT
Feminists series (Canada, 1981) showcases Canada's remarkable women: Idola Saint-Jean, Emily Stowe, Henrietta Edwards, and Louise McKinney:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:10:12 GMT
Decade for Women series (Canada, 1985) celebrates Emily Murphy and Thérèse Casgrain:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:11:39 GMT
This stamp of the feminist Nellie McClung (1873-1951) was issued in Canada in 1973 on the occasion of her birth centenary:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:13:48 GMT
The Authors series (Canada, 1996) celebrates two women authors of Canada: Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) and Gabrielle Roy (1909-1983):
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:15:51 GMT
Canadian Authors series (Canada, 2003) issued to celebrate the 50th anniversary of National Library of Canada pays homage to Anne Hébert, Susanna Moodie and her sister Catharine Parr Traill:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:24:24 GMT
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:26:27 GMT
Margaret Atwood on stamp and FDC (Canada, 2021): ['This is me thinking.' said Atwood at the stamp launch ] [Her own drawing:]
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:29:06 GMT
Francophone actress Monique Mercure (1930-2020) on stamp (Canada, 2022): Water-activated pane of 6 stamps: Booklet of self-adhesive stamps:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 23, 2023 12:32:33 GMT
This year's Black History Month issue (Canada, 2023) celebrates Chloe Cooley, an enslaved woman whose fight for her life adds impetus to the growing abolitionist movement in the late 18th century.
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 28, 2023 13:08:40 GMT
I missed some high-profile women on Canadian stamps last time! Here is Audrey Hepburn as photographed by the Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh (1908-2002):
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 28, 2023 13:10:58 GMT
The first Canadians in Hollywood series (Canada, 2006) celebrates Fay Wray and Mary Pickford:
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Post by Linda on Oct 28, 2023 13:11:54 GMT
The second Canadian in Hollywood series (Canada, 2008) celebrates Norma Shearer and Marie Dressler:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 28, 2023 13:13:48 GMT
Great Canadian Comedians (Canada, 2014) include Catherine O’Hara:
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 28, 2023 13:16:44 GMT
Canadian ballet dancer Karen Kain (1951 - ) on stamp (Canada, 2021):
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Linda
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Post by Linda on Oct 28, 2023 13:22:19 GMT
As state in this post, between 1999 and 2000, Canada Post released The Millennium Collection which consists of 68 specially designed stamps as a series of 17 souvenir sheets, each depicting four different stamps. Another Millennium issue in Canada celebrates Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) by showcasing a photo of Barbara Frum (1937–1992), the radio and television journalist famous for hosting the radio show “As It Happens” on the CBC.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 12, 2023 11:51:40 GMT
Spanish Andorra issue from 2009 showcasing catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda:
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Post by cursus on Nov 12, 2023 14:57:19 GMT
I'm afraid that Mercè Rodoreda is not an "Andorran local writer", she was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1908 and died in Girona, Catalonia, in 1983. Her works, written in Catalan, are among the most popular in our literature. She's "local" to Andorra on the sense that Catalan culture is shared, among other lands (València, Balearic Islands, Northern Catalonia...) with Andorra. Andorran stamps are written in Catalan.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Nov 12, 2023 15:32:12 GMT
Thanks cursus for enlightening us about Mercè Rodoreda. I've edited the post accordingly.
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Post by djcmh on Nov 12, 2023 21:41:01 GMT
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Post by rod222 on Nov 13, 2023 2:19:41 GMT
Issued 24 October 2023, Chile honored Margot Duhaldehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Duhalde Thank you Margot, for your service, to my country. ( A true "Spitfire Sister" ) This may be Margot ( Centre ?)
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 18, 2024 17:57:45 GMT
New French stamp featuring Julie-Victoire Daubié, first female bachelor's recipient in France, on her 200 th birthday:
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 22, 2024 9:15:48 GMT
Two new German stamps, honouring film director Lotte Reiniger and Bertha Benz, here shown next to an early Benz car model, but better known in France for the heavy guns named after her and used by the WWI German army to pound French cities at very long range.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Aug 26, 2024 22:00:16 GMT
Maybe the oldest known woman, Lucy, Australopithecus afarensis, on this new French stamp 50 years after the discovery of her remains in current day Ethiopia:
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