"Your place" on stamps, postmark...

First of all, just want to say thanks to Joan (cursus ) for starting this thread.  It's the sort of thing to which any member should be able to contribute, an idea that really appeals to me.  Choosing the location of my "place" is a little tougher, since I left my hometown long ago, and I am living far away from my home country, too.

So, I will choose one of the places where I have lived that I thought was truly special.  Although I have never lived there since I left, I have returned many times over the years, and it will always hold a special place in my heart: the Hawaiian Islands.  I was lucky enough to live there for 2 years in the early 1980s, and it has been during my return visits that I started to collect the stamps of Hawaii.


Left: Statue of King Kamehameha I, taken in 2017 -- Right: Hawaii, Sc82, 5-cent blue issued in 1899
This statue is located right in downtown Honolulu, and I have visited it on many occasions.


Left: View of Honolulu on entering the harbor, taken in 2005 -- Right: Hawaii, Sc81, 2-cent rose issued in 1899

Old 1895 cancel used in my City of Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada - I am trying to get a similar circle postmark used today as this one was replaced by an ugly square

René

The Battle of Fallen Timbers stamp issued by the US features a statue that is a few miles from my house.

I spent my early years in Birmingham,UK.Not a particularly attractive city but in recent years,it has become more popular with lots of improvements.This is a stamp from the Modern Architecture set of 2006 and shows the exterior of Selfridges store in the iconic Bull Ring Centre.

But my hometown is Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada where I was born and raised and lived until just last year.

Regina was first noted in an overprint for a 1933 grain conference. The 'broken X' overprint is a somewhat famous variety. I don't have one of those, however.



Another early stamp with a Regina connection is the RCMP stamp from 1935 (same set as the Victoria stamp.) Regina is the traditional home of the RCMP and is still home to the training depot.



Regina is in the heart of the Canadian Prairies. The southern third of Saskatchewan is flat, dry and exceptional for wheat growing. It's the Bread Basket of the world, as much as Kansas in the USA.

The prairie agricultural life is depicted on several stamps. I like this one from 1980, issued to commemorate Saskatchewan existing as a province for 75 years.



Regina is the capital city of Saskatchewan; I lived within a short walk from the Saskatchewan Legislative building. It's a remarkable structure, and very large for a province of just over 1 million people. Construction began when folks thought the province was going to be much larger than it actually is. Manitoba as it exists today, Alberta and much of the Northwest Territories was 'in scope' at one point.

I mention this because the Saskatchewan Legislative building was featured on the single ugliest stamp ever issued by Canada Post, in my opinion. And yes, there are many modern uglies to compete with this one. But my goodness - to me this looks like it was copied from a beer token, or possibly some mimeographed local currency. They must've been up against a very tight deadline here.



Here's a photo of the Legislature with slightly more realistic colours:




Thanks for letting me brag about my hometown.

Streetman is my last name.

Redoing my Admirals and posted (that was Jan 29) I found a particular Postmark.

This is a Petit Sault (Little Falls), New Brunswick, dated Au 18 1931 on a 3¢ Admiral Carmine. The particular is not the Die type or any shade which would be different. The name Petit Sault applied to my Town, Edmundston, and was the name of our City until its change of name and name of Post Office.

In Campbell's book, Canada Post Offices, page 91, one sees Little Falls (or Petit Sault in French) with a change of name in 1850 to Edmundston, where I was born and lived since 1951.
Now I did research why the cancel had the name Petit Sault (Little Falls) so late (1931) - Archives of Canada Post did document a "sub" post office in Edmundston that had that name until its closure around 1936.

René

p.s. old postmark of Edmundston of 1852

For me, it is the Canal Zone.  Even though I only lived there for the last several years of it's existence, it left an indelible mark on me.  I kept on living in the same place for a total of 28 years though after 1980 it was no longer called the Canal Zone.

When our family came to the Canal Zone in 1971 a mere two years after my birth, my father started work in the engineering department in the Canal Zone Administration Building.  It is a monolith of a building with three floors and at least one basement.  My mother started working there in 1978 as well.  I had several stints there myself as a student worker.




As a Red Cross volunteer, I ran errands picking up frozen medicines from the repository in the old Gorgas Hospital Administration Building.


Growing up we travelled all over the Canal Zone.  The number of Canal Zone townships I have not visited or passed through can be numbered on two hands.  Most of them no longer existed by the time I got there.   One place I visited a few times was Fort San Lorenzo.  It was a Spanish fort and supply port on the Atlantic Ocean.


A few times I got to transit the Panama Canal.


I still miss the moody tropical evenings . . .


. . . and the glorious sunsets.

I currently live in South Saint Paul.  It was home to many years to the stockyards that collected and processed meats for consumption here in the Twin Cities.  The stockyards and their associated smell that used to hang over the town are no longer.

Received today, this souvenir sheet issued by Cameroon in 2011 to mark 40 years of cooperation with China, and which shows in the selvedge field the Reunification monument which was up the hill from my elementary school, and added bonus, the left stamp pictures the hospital where my mother practiced: