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By Jesse Robitaille

A two-session auction high-lighted by British North

America and Canada, includ-ing an extensive section of King George V “Admiral” stamps and postal history, will be of-fered by New Brunswick’s Eastern Auctions this February.

A worldwide section will open the Feb. 28-29 sale with Lots 1-211, which feature a “re-markable estate” of parallel mint and used Colonial Africa collections, said Eastern Auc-tions stamp specialist and chief describer Yohann Tanguay.

It will be followed by a Brit-ish North America section from Lot 212-314.

Among the highlights is Lot 227, a “flawless” mint one-shilling stamp (Scott #3) is-sued by the then-British col-ony of New Brunswick in 1851. Described as being “among the rarest stamps of British North America,” it’s one of fewer than a dozen ex-amples that can be classified as Very Fine and unused, Tan-guay said.

“A key mint stamp missing from many advanced collec-tions,” it has a catalogue value of $60,000, he added.

Another New Brunswick rar-ity, this a “very rare premium mint example” of the colony’s unissued five-cent brown stamp

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Continued on page 16Part four of Ian Robertson’s Looking Back column can be found on Page 6 in this issue.

By Jesse RobitailleA collector for more than 50 years and a noted specialist in Canadian postal history, Bob Vogel

is now at the helm of the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada (PSSC).Elected at the PSSC’s annual general meeting in December, Vogel joined the invite-only society

nearly two decades ago and most recently served as its membership director for five years. Now sitting in the PSSC’s top spot, he’s set to continue the work of outgoing president Ingo Nessel.

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BNA, Canada offerings abound in upcoming Eastern Auctions sale

By Jesse RobitailleA stamp honouring the “Col-

ored Hockey Championship” and its all-Black competitors was unveiled this January as part of Canada Post’s ongoing Black History Month series.

Established more than two decades before the National Hockey League, the Colored Hockey League was rooted in Nova Scotia’s black churches and boasted upwards of 400 players across more than a dozen teams in the Maritimes. In this little-known chapter of Canadian hockey history, play-ers and organizers arranged their own matches while chang-ing the game of hockey in some significant ways.

“The Colored Hockey League was one of the most complex sports organizations ever cre-ated,” reads a 2004 book, Black Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes, 1895-1925, by George and Dar-ril Fosty.

“It was a league led by Bap-tist ministers and church lay-

men. Natural leaders and pro-ponents of Black pride, these men represented a concept in sports never before seen.”

The league was active be-tween 1895 and the early 1930s, but Black hockey players were competing on frozen ponds and lakes as far back as the 1820s, according to a 2012 re-port by sportswriter and hockey historian Bob Dawson, of Dartmouth, N.S.

“Since racism prevented them from playing on white teams, Blacks formed their own,” wrote Dawson.

In the late 19th century, Bap-tist Church leaders believed all-Black hockey would attract young Black men to the church and strengthen their religious path. Influenced by the writ-ings of contemporary Black leader Booker T. Washington, four Nova Scotians organized the league’s first games, ac-cording to the Fostys.

They included: Pastor James Borden, of Dartmouth Church; James Kinney, a Cornwallis Street Church layman who later became the first Black graduate of the Maritime Busi-ness College; James Johnston, the first black graduate of

The Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada ‘Specialization Medal’ is awarded at national-level Canadian exhibitions for exhibits showing ‘evidence of significant research relating to a subject.’ Only one of these awards is handed out at each show, and non-member recipients also receive an invitation to join the society.

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Black History stamp honours little-known hockey history


The Colored Hockey Championship is commemorated on Canada Post’s 2020 Black History Month stamp. ‘Colored’ is a term no longer in use but something the stamp retains for historical accuracy, the Crown corporation said in a statement.

Two of the featured lots in the upcoming sale include Lot 227 (left), a mint one-shilling stamp issued by the then-British colony of New Brunswick in 1851 with a catalogue value of $60,000, and Lot 231, an unissued New Brunswick five-cent brown stamp depicting Postmaster General Charles Connell with a catalogue value of $40,000.

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The Internet has opened many doors for philately.

Acquiring, researching and dis-cussing material has never been eas-ier – or undertaken on such a large scale – than it is in today’s online landscape.

Speaking as a storyteller, I can find a lot of information to craft a detailed story on basically any philatelic topic with just a simple search.

A cursory Google search of the word philately and the phrase “miss-ing colours” (complete with quota-

tions to search that exact phrase) re-veals nearly 7,700 results. It might not seem like much, but they’re all closely related to missing-colour er-rors on stamps – nothing else.

You name a subject, and the Inter-net will have something for you.

This is especially evident in philat-ely as more collectors begin curating their own online galleries to docu-ment and promote their area of spe-cialization.

A few that immediately come to mind are:

• Ralph Trimble’s re-entries site at re-entries.com;• Michel Houde’s “Mostly Philatelic Interests” site at michelhoude.com;• Robert Pratt’s 4,300-slide collection at nfldstamps.com/CCC.html;• Darlene Burt’s Picture Postage site at picturepostage.net; and• an anonymous collector’s “Enve-lope Collection” at envelopecollec-tion.com.

Across the Internet, there are thou-sands upon thousands of these digi-tized displays covering countless ar-eas of collecting, whether they’re fo-cused on specific countries, time peri-ods or themes.

Dozens of exhibits, books and arti-cles on topics ranging from Admiral stamps, modern coil definitives and illustrated indicia for permit mail are available (for free) from the British North America Philatelic Society alone.

But is this enough for a philatelic researcher – or a journalist – trying to

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A SUTHERLAND STAMP?Dear Editor,I read my current issue of CSN with

great interest (as I always do) and feel that G. Knight’s letter had some merit, but I did not agree with it in totality.

Yes, there is always a chance that an individual could do something offen-sive during their lifetime that could merit the advisory committee to choose not to honour them on a stamp because it could prove embarrassing to Canada Post, but that is a decision made by the commission.

Should awards alone be used as a barometer for inc lus ion on a

stamp? No, certainly not. For that rea-son, I would tend to agree with G. Knight.

I feel that there are quite a few Ca-nadians who have been prematurely honoured. Some of the living actors and actresses come to mind as well as recording artists. They still have fu-tures ahead of them and, I feel, that they have been honoured too soon.

Donald Sutherland, on the other hand, has had a lifetime of accom-plishments that would without doubt place him squarely on a Canadian postage stamp. Yes, he is on the Walk of Fame in both Canada and the U.S., a

member of the Order of Canada, re-cipient of the Governor General’s Award, and the list goes on. The Na-tional Film Board of Canada has even called Mr. Sutherland the patriarch of “Canada’s first family of film.”

Canada Post’s own website states that subjects are chosen “based on their contributions to celebrating and promoting Canada.” You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who truly promotes Canada as Mr. Sutherland.

And Jesse, keep writing great arti-cles!

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FeaturesFeatures BNA, Canada offerings

abound in upcoming Eastern Auctions sale ...................Page 1

Black History stamp honours little-known hockey history ..........Page 1

Barrie’s Bob Vogel takes on PSSC presidency .....................Page 1

Dahlias to dazzle this year’s flower stamps ............................Page 17

Toronto Postcard Club to host 39th annual show in February ....Page 22

RegularsRegularsCSN MARKETPLACE

Are you buying or selling? ..........Page 20

SHOW AND BOURSE Check out the shows

in your area ...............................Page 23

ColumnsColumnsGUEST COMMENTARY

Best research happens when collectors collaborate .........Page 4

LOOKING BACK Year-end review concludes

with final stamps of 2019 ............Page 6

PHILATELIC BOOKSHELF Webb’s Postal Stationery

Catalogue an essential resource ..Page 8

FIRST-DAY COVERS Stamp clubs made FDCs

for ‘Citizenship’ issue .................Page 10

STAMPING GROUNDSStreetcar stamps, postcards to desire ................Page 14

NEW ISSUESFrom around the world ...........Page 18


WHAT’S WHAT’S INSIDEINSIDE

Volume 44 • Number 22

February 18 to March 2, 2020

BNAPS NAMES 17 EMERITUS MEMBERS

The British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) recently announced its 2020 class of emeritus members. In 1978, BNAPS’ board of governors cre-

ated an emeritus mem-bership program

for members who have been with the society for 35 c o n s e c u t i v e years and are aged 75 or older.

A decade later, the criteria for emeri-

tus membership was updated to re-move the age requirement and in-crease the membership requirement from 35 to 40 years. From 1988-93, members who met either set of criteria were accepted as emeritus members; however, since 1993, the 40-year rule has prevailed. Emeritus members have “all the rights, privileges and benefits of regular members, without having any more dues levied or collected,” ac-cording to BNAPS officials. This year’s emeritus members include James Bracken; Bill Burden; Andrew Chung; John Dale; William Day; Shirley Frick; Raynald Gendron; Rodrigue Levesque; David Marasco; Hymie Mida; Tim Morgan; Glenn Playter; Peter Skwarc-zynski; Robert Soper; Mike Street; James Watt; and Ted Wright.

SQUARED CIRCLES, PERFINS LATEST ‘ORE’ ADDITIONS

Handbooks highlighting squared circles and perforated initials – also

known as “per-f i n s ” – a r e among the latest additions to the British North America Phila-telic Society’s “ O n l i n e R e -sources and Ex-h i b i t s . ” T h e sixth edition of the Squared Cir-

cle Postmarks of Canada is prepared by the Squared Circle Study Group and edited by Rick Friesen. Canada’s squared circle postmarks were used by more than 300 post offices between 1893 and the early 1900s. Organized by hammer type and province, the up-dated edition spans nearly 700 pages. It offers an exhaustive treatment of each hammer, including its period of use, time marks, indicia information, stamp issues on which the hammer is found, rarity factors and illustrations

of hammer usage. To read the hand-book for free, visit bnaps.org/ore/SCSG-SquaredCir-c l e P o s t m a r k s /SCSG-SquaredCir-clePostmarks.htm. Also released this January is the sixth edition of Canadian Stamps with Perfo-rated Initials, pre-pared by the Perfin Study Group and edited by Jon John-son Gary Tomasson. “One of the plea-sures of collecting perfins is that addi-tions and expansion of the known range of use of perfins can be found by spending time rather than money,” reads the handbook’s preface. It’s available for free at bnaps.org/Perfin-Handbook/PerfinHandbook.htm.

HERITAGE DESIGNATION FOR CENTURY-OLD P.O.

A city councillor in Dartmouth, N.S., is making a case to designate one of the city’s historic post offices as a heritage building to protect it from potential de-molition. Located at 52 Queen St., in downtown Dartmouth, the 100-year-old post office is a “prominent civic landmark in the community,” said Councillor Sam Austin. Late last year, Canada Post announced its plan to move out of the historic building and into a new location in nearby King’s Wharf, an ur-ban waterfront across from the Halifax Harbour. (For reference, this year’s BNAPEX – the annual convention of the British North Amer-ica Philatelic Society – will be held just around the corner at the DoubleTree by Hilton on 101 Wyse Rd.) Austin’s mo-tion, which was recently approved by city council, stems from fears a future buyer would flatten the historic post office for further development. While some locals are suggesting a municipal museum be established on the site, the city has no plans to buy the property. With Austin’s motion approved, city staff will now research the property’s history and prepare a report for the Heritage Advisory Committee – a pro-cess that could take until the end of 2020 to finalize.

JEOPARDY! CONTESTANT TAKES ON STAMPS

Lucy Yuan, a lawyer from Vancou-ver, B.C., was among three contestants vying for the top prize in a recent epi-

sode of the TV game show Jeop-ardy! Five clues about world-wide stamps were given by host Alex Trebek, who was born in Sudbury, Ont., for a “World Stamp News” category during the first round on Dec. 20. The second clue, valued at $400, stated, “Drawings of the head of a bearded man & of the skeleton are 2019 U.K. stamps commem-orating the 500th anniv. of this artist’s death.” After returning champion Eric Smith, of Ari-

zona, responded incorrectly, Yuan stepped up with the correct response, “Who is Leonardo da Vinci?” With an-other Canadian reference, an $800 clue stated, “Hallelujah! In 2019 Canada is-sued stamps honoring this Canadian singer-songwriter who passed in 2016.” Claire Marinello-Fisher, of New Jersey, correctly responded with “Who is Leonard Cohen?” Smith ultimately retained his champion status and moved on to compete in the next epi-sode.

‘DESIGN-A-STAMP’ FOR ROCHESTER CLUB

The U.S.-based Rochester Philatelic Association (RPA) is once again spon-soring its annual “Design-A-Stamp” competition for young students in the United States and Canada. Up to 10 finalists will be displayed on May 15-16 at the RPA’s annual Ropex show, where three winners will be chosen by a panel of the club’s members. Held at the Greater Canandaigua Civic Center in Canandaigua, N.Y., the show is within a two-hour drive of the

C a n a d a - U . S . border at Fort Erie, Ont. All Canadian and U.S. students in grades 3-6 are eligible to enter, a n d t h e t o p

three entries will win $50, $25 and $15, respectively. All designs must be the entrant’s original artwork and be submitted using the provided stamp template. Any media can be used for the design, which must include the denomination (“Forever”) and coun-try of origin (either “US,” “USA,” “United States” or “United States of America”). Each student can only en-ter one design, and there is no entry fee. Entrants must completely fill out the official entry form available at rpastamps.org/ropexpast/a2020/designastampentryform2020.pdf. All entries must be postmarked by April 1 and sub-mitted to the RPA, P.O. Box 10206 Brighton Station, R o c h e s t e r, N Y 14610-0206.

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This is the fourth and final story in a four-part series on Canada Post’s 2019 stamp program.

The last instalment of my annual summary of Can-

ada Post stamps issued the previous year includes a post office charity stamp, Christ-mas commemoratives, plus others remembering the Red River Resistance and honour-ing Hanukkah.

On sale starting Sept. 23, the eighth annual Canada Post Community Foundation semi-postal issue consisted of

two stamps denominated “P” plus 10 cents for the charity.

“P” stands for Permanent postage, equal last year to 90 cents.

Fun illustrations by Joanna Todd, of Chad Roberts De-sign, show an ice cream cone holding hands with a popsi-cle while walking together on a hot summer day. One of the ice creams is pink, the other is blue, with one popsicle in green, the other in lavender.

Designed for the first time by the Chad Roberts firm, 170,000 booklets featuring

five pairs of stamps were printed by the Canadian B a n k N o t e C o m p a n y (CBNC), using six l i tho colours, die cut perforations in gauge 13.2 and self-stick gum.

Proceeds are provided to “grassroots and community-based organizations that pro-vide life-changing services to children and adults,” the post office’s seventh Details bro-chure notes, adding more than $1 million was raised in 2018.

CHRISTMASAs it has done for several

years, Christmas designs were ordered with one non-secular image plus three without religious themes.

Internationally-known London, Ont., artist Andrew

Lewis designed three 22-mil-l imetre-by-24-mill imetre commemoratives with attrac-tive, fanciful images that in-clude shining stars.

A reindeer flying through a red sky is on the “P” first-class letter rate commemora-tive; three ballerinas dancing across a deep blue sky are on the U.S.-rated $1.27 stamp, representing the sugar plum fairies from The Nutcracker, a still-popular 1892 two-act bal-let with music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; and a golden partridge sitting in a dark green pear tree is on the inter-national-rate $2.65 stamp, based on The Twelve Days of Christmas, a 1782 English carol.

London Free Press reporter Joe Belanger quoted Lewis saying he was inspired by childhood memories of open-ing Christmas cards from overseas relatives.

The artist told Belanger he had an additional inspiration for the ballet dancers design – his daughter Andrea Valen-tine-Lewis, of Victoria, B.C., who studied at the National Ballet School of Canada and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet.

“My illustrations are sim-ply about the illumination of light and love, which is, in my heart, what the holidays are all about,” Lewis was quoted as saying.

The CBNC used four litho colours to produce 800,000 12-stamp booklets of the “P” commemoratives, totalling 9.6 million stamps, 300,000 six-stamp booklet panes of $1 .27 commemorat ives , 310,000 six-stamp booklet panes of $2.65 stamps, plus 70,000 credit card-size souve-nir sheets with the trio printed se-tenant, horizon-tally.

The “Shiny and Bright” booklet stamps have self-stick

gum and die-cut perfs in gauge 13.1. The souvenir sheet stamps have pin perfs in gauge 12.7, with moisture-activated gum.

A large 2019 Christmas stamp issued the same day, Nov. 4, features the three wise men, who, according to the Bible chapter of Matthew, fol-lowed a bright star in the sky to Bethlehem, where they presented gifts of gold, frank-incense and myrrh to the newborn Jesus Christ, in hon-our of their spiritual king’s birth.

The 30-mil l imetre-by-24-millimetre commemora-tive was designed by Liz Wurzinger and Timothy King at Subplot Design in Vancou-ver, and illustrator Michael Little depicted the camel-rid-ing trio as golden “Magi” fig-ures silhouetted against a dark blue, star-studded sky.

The Lowe-Martin security printing firm used three litho transfer colours to produce 500,000 12-stamp booklets, t o t a l l i n g 6 m i l l i o n commemoratives, with die-cut perfs in gauge 13.5-by-13.7, and self-stick gum.

RED RIVER RESISTANCEThe 150th anniversary of

the Red River Resistance of 1869-70 was commemorated on a “P” stamp issued on Nov. 6.

Designed by Raymond Lanctot of the Paprika firm, an illustration by Montreal artist Gerard DuBois on the 38-millimetre-by-38-millime-

Year-end review concludes with final stamps of 2019

By Ian Robertson

LookingLookingBACKBACK



tre five-colour commemora-tive is based on an 1870 pho-tograph of Louis Riel (1844-1885) and 13 fellow members of his Provisional Govern-ment of the Métis Nation in present-day Manitoba.

A contemporary litho-graphic illustration of Fort Garry in Winnipeg in the background.

Born in Saint-Boniface, in the Red River Settlement, Riel studied in Montreal to be-come a Catholic priest but re-turned home after his white fiancé’s parents refused to let her marry a mixed French Canadian-First Nations man.

Fearing the loss of their properties after the federal government acquired a large tract of western and northern lands from the Hudson’s Bay Company, he became head of a provisional government. After blocking land surveys, it seized Upper Fort Garry from the company, rejected Canada’s authority to govern the Northwest, and proposed to negotiate with officials from Ottawa.

Armed Scottish opponents seeking to disband the provi-sional government were im-prisoned in Lower Fort Garry. A court martial resulted in the execution of Thomas Scott, an Orangeman from Stirling, Ont., which enraged Protestants in that province.

Government officials on both s ides downplayed Scott’s death, and talks re-sulted in the Manitoba Act, “which brought the first western province into Con-federation on July 15,1870,” an article in Details notes.

Fearing a military force sent to Red River was not supporting him or his provi-sional government, Riel fled to the U.S., then quietly re-turned several months later.

Regarded in Ontario as a traitor and in Quebec as a hero and defender of Catholi-cism and French culture in his western home province, he returned to the U.S. as an

exile paid off by Prime Minis-ter Sir John A. Macdonald, who sought to avoid further confrontations.

Elected as a Member of Parliament for Provencher in 1873 and 1874, before taking his seat, Riel was expelled on a motion by Ontario Orange leader Mackenzie Bowell, an MP and former newspaper-man from Belleville, south of Stirling. Later a Senator, Bow-ell was Canada’s prime min-ister for 16 months until April 27, 1896.

Offered amnesty in 1875 if he agreed to banishment, Riel suffered a nervous break-down and was admitted to hospital in Montreal, then to a mental asylum at Beauport, Que.

After returning to the U.S. in early 1878, he became an American citizen, married Marguerite Montet, also a Métis, and taught school in Montana until wooed back across the border in mid-1884 by delegates who wanted to protect their rights in the Sas-katchewan Valley.

When the federal govern-ment did not heed the latest of more than three dozen pe-titions seeking land and farm produce price guarantees, the Batoche Métis proposed arm-ing themselves in a bid to force a deal.

On March 8, 1885, Riel’s proposal for provisional Sas-katchewan government failed, but a Revolutionary Bill of Rights was drafted.

The last Métis armed rebel-lion began after the federal government sent 500 soldiers to Batoche, where rebels seized its parish church and formed a provisional govern-ment with Riel as its presi-dent.

Northwest Rebellion fight-ing lasted two months, end-ing in victory for the Cana-dian militia.

Riel surrendered and was convicted at a trial in Regina of high treason.

Defense lawyers represent-i n g t h e s e l f - d e s c r i b e d “prophet of the new world” tried persuading him to plead not guilty due to insanity, but their client refused.

Riel’s execution, despite the tearful foreman of the six-man jury recommending leni-ency, followed two unsuc-cessful post-conviction ap-peals and his examination by psychiatrists – with only one considering him insane, ac-cording to The Canadian Ency-clopedia.

“Politically and philosophi-cally, Riel’s execution has had a lasting effect on Canadian history. Riel’s execution made him the martyr of the Métis,” it noted.

The political fallout rekin-dled French-Canadian na-tionalism, resulting in the election of a Quebec premier w h o c a m p a i g n e d w i t h speeches about Riel’s hang-ing, and a shift from Conser-

vative party support to the Liberal Party of future Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier.

T h e D e t a i l s b ro c h u re quoted Clément Chartier, president of the Métis Na-tional Council, saying it was “thrilled” to have a stamp is-sued “to mark this important anniversary.

“By defending Métis rights, Riel and the provisional gov-ernment changed the course of Canadian history.”

The Post Office Depart-ment in 1970 issued a six-cent red-and-blue Riel commemo-rative (Scott #515) with an il-lustration based on a well-known portrait photograph of the Métis leader, by Wil-liam James Topley.

Artwork on one of five Ca-nadian Opera “P” stamps fea-tured the Louis Riel stage production in Toronto, in-cluded the theatre, two North West Mounted Police officers and part of a publication ti-tled The Riel Rebellion.

A pre-release announce-ment about the 2019 stamp in the final Details brochure in-cluded only a beige-coloured outline. The Fort Garry illus-tration at the top of the issued commemorative was printed on the official first-day cover, which was published at the bottom of the page.

HANUKKAHFollowing its tradition of

featuring other religions on stamps, Canada Post released one on Nov. 14 to celebrate Hanukkah.

Its last 2019 commemora-tive features a white menorah – a sacred brightly-lit cande-labra – against a background of deep lavender in progres-sively dark and light hues. Those tones were intended to symbolize “the relationship of light and darkness for a

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A 2017 Permanent stamp honouring Canadian opera featured the ‘Louis Riel’ production in Toronto.

Canada’s first Louis Riel stamp was issued in 1970. Continued on page 9


An essential British North America (BNA) postal

stationery reference, the eighth edition of Webb’s Postal Stationery Catalogue of Canada and Newfoundland was re-leased just before Christmas.

Edited by William Walton and Earle Covert, the updated edition ends the 19-year hia-tus since the previous version was released in 2001. Al-though CSN has given its re-lease some coverage in recent issues, let’s take a more thor-ough look at the many signifi-cant changes and additions this new edition provides.

Walton and Covert are ex-perts in all things BNA postal stationery. Both have formed impressive collections, and both remain fully involved in the ongoing discovery and re-porting of new finds (whether it’s the endless variety of new issues or previously unre-ported varieties). Despite liv-ing on opposite sides of North America, their collaboration has endured for many years and seems to show no signs of abating. Along with Wal-ton’s wife Jean, who’s also a specialist collector, they have provided decades of leader-ship in the Postal Stationery

Study Group, whose mem-bers have been the first to re-port many discoveries.

NEW NUMBERING SYSTEMWhen Covert purchased the

publishing rights for Webb’s original numbering system, they stuck to his numbers through several editions, in-cluding through the previous version.

Now, for the eighth edition, necessity has required some significant renumbering as too many sub-listings – often based on new finds or differ-ing issues – would continue to complicate matters for collec-tors.

Instead, numbering has been adapted to reflect each stationery item’s separate post office inventory listing as they were, in fact, considered indi-vidual postal issues by the post office.

As examples, #8 and #10 en-velopes are now each cata-logued with major numbers – as are Admiral postal cards of their various dies, whether ty-pographed or offset.

Significant renumbering in almost every section has ne-cessitated the authors’ decision to include a separate concor-

dance to show both the old and new numbers. Collectors are referred to this section to realize how extensively the n u m b e r i n g s y s t e m h a s changed. Although this re-numbering might seem a tem-porary inconvenience to col-lectors and dealers, in the long run, it should benefit us all once we get used to the new system, which is not all that different.

The latest edition is thicker than the previous version, in-corporating some 150 addi-tional pages to reflect on the many new issues since 2001.

These pages focus not only on regular issues but also Post-card Factory cards plus new sections on Lowe-Martin’s “Create a Postcard,” Santa Claus stationery, post office promotional cards and “re-turned dead letter” envelopes. All of these examples are new or newly recognized classes of postal stationery, and alto-gether, about 20 new sections have been added to this edi-tion to reflect the hobby’s vari-ous specializations.

Specialist collectors will ap-preciate the continuing com-prehensive listings of railway and steamship pictorial post-cards, private order cards and envelopes plus proof and es-say material, much of which command surprisingly high prices due to real scarcity cou-pled with enthusiastic de-mand.

Also, the listing of Hechler overprints is prefaced with a full caution that these over-prints were never officially sanctioned. They remain un-priced but fully listed in the catalogue.

With such information, col-lectors can decide for them-selves whether to collect Hechler material or not.

As one can imagine, pricing for the above listings has only been made possible by track-ing sales through public auc-tions, Internet sales and regu-lar reporting by specialist dealers in these areas (as some of this material will only occasionally appear for sale). Pricing of these items is a reliable indication of what one may currently expect to pay in an exchange between an informed seller and buyer.

REMOVED SECTIONSRemoved from this latest

edition are previous listings of “Canada Premium Prod-ucts” (i.e., Priority Post, Xpress Post, etc.), although such listings are now avail-able through the British North America Philatelic Society website, bnaps.org.

Pricing of each listing is given in Canadian dollars for both mint and used “entires” (cut squares are anathema to a postal stationery collector and realistically have little or no value). The minimum list-ing price for the most com-mon items moved from $1 to $2.50 to reflect dealer realities. Collectors are well aware that such common material may nevertheless be found in quantity at significantly dis-counted prices because of minimal demand.

Anyone with an interest in BNA postal stationery will continue to be well-served by this new edition, which proves to be even more com-prehensive than the last.

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fresh interpretation of the holiday’s colours,” the eighth Details brochure notes.

Starting on the 25th day in the Hebrew calendar, Hanuk-kah, which is also known as the Festival of Lights, “com-memorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem, fol-lowing the Maccabees’ trium-phant fight for religious free-dom.”

The Temple’s menorah “was required to burn continuously;

however, only a day’s worth of oil remained after the battle. Miraculously, that small amount kept the light aglow until the oil supply was replen-ished, eight days later.”

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find a specific piece of infor-mation to complete the puz-zle? Often times, it’s not.

Speaking as a journalist, the Internet is a big help – a solid foundation – but it’s far from everything a re-porter needs to build a great story. Not everything is on the Internet (especially some older but still valuable phila-telic references now out of print). And what’s on the In-

ternet can’t simply be taken as the absolute truth on its own.

That’s where the real source of credible informa-tion – the specialist collector – comes in.

Covering this hobby, I need you to help guide my research (much like you lean on your fellow collectors to guide your research). Some-times, new information hasn’t made its way online, where out-of-date informa-tion is occasionally shared as if it’s still current.

While online resources abound, nothing beats dis-cussing your research with a likeminded person, prefera-bly in a face-to-face setting.

In philately, there’s argu-ably no better place to meet trustworthy sources than at a stamp show or local club meeting, where everyone is fired up to tell their story against the backdrop of peer review.

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Canada issued a blue four-cent stamp (Scott #275)

on July 1, 1947, to commemo-rate the 80th anniversary of Confederation and mark the advent of the Canadian Citi-zenship Act, which came into effect earlier that year.

It is the second in a series of six commemorative stamps in the immediate post-war era, and 25 million copies were printed.

As the “Citizenship” stamp was issued about two years before Canada’s Post Office Department began applying its special first-day cover (FDC) postmarks and record-ing the quantities of covers that it serviced, the number of FDCs generated for the stamp is unknown.

More than 70 different FDC cachets are documented for the Citizenship stamp, and they have been studied and catalogued by several philat-el ists , including Melvin Baron, George O’Neill and Bruce Perkins.

The somewhat abstract na-ture of the subject of Cana-dian citizenship led to its in-terpretation in a wide variety of ways by the designers of first-day cachets. Themes of the cachets included family scenes, coats of arms, maple

leaves, beavers, text alone, Canadian scenes, globes, and facsimiles of the stamp de-sign.

The focus here, however, is on the FDCs produced by stamp clubs and philatelic so-cieties. Their covers are shown here in alphabetical or-der of the sponsoring organi-zation.

The Canadian Philatelic So-ciety (CPS) used a cachet (Fig-ure 1) that includes in the text the phrase, “specially de-signed for and distributed by the CPS.” It features a family of three standing on a globe with a house and city in the near background plus a ma-ple leaf, beaver and city buildings in the distance.

This cachet came in several versions using #8 as well as

#10 envelopes, a brown leaf and lower-left corner partial border plus hand-colouring.

The CPS cover also in-cluded a stuffer (Figure 2) de-scribing the purpose of the stamp issue. This enclosure also includes an invitation for new membership applica-

tions, noting the “admission fee” is $1 and annual dues are $2.

Employees of the Ford Mo-tor Company in Windsor, Ont., had a stamp club that produced several FDCs for Canadian stamps in the late 1940s, including the Citizen-ship issue (Figure 3). Their ca-chet includes the Ford logo within a maple leaf and an outside frame perforated like a stamp.

The Guelph Stamp Club ca-chet (Figure 4) features a sim-ple text in bold red with a background of pale blue

showing a facsimile of the stamp.

For many years beginning in 1934, the Ottawa Philatelic Society used a rubber stamp to produce FDCs for its mem-bers. The society’s secretary signed each cachet, which were inked in at least five dif-ferent colours.

One cachet (Figure 5) shows the group’s name within a ma-ple leaf surrounded by a circle resting on a pedestal, which

Stamp clubs made FDCs for ‘Citizenship’ issue

By Gary Dickinson

First-DayFirst-DayCOVERSCOVERS

Figure 1. A Canadian Philatelic Society (CPS) cachet features a family of three standing on a globe.

Figure 2. The CPS stuffer describes the purpose of the stamp and membership in the society.

Figure 3. A Ford Employees Stamp Club first-day cover (FDC) shows the group’s logo and notes the date of the stamp issue.

Figure 4. A Guelph Stamp Club cachet has red text over a faint blue background copy of the stamp.

Figure 5. An Ottawa Philatelic Society cachet uses the club’s standard rubber-stamped cachet showing a maple leaf within a circle on a pedestal.

Figure 6. William Talbot’s general-purpose cachet is augmented by text specific to the ‘Citizenship’ issue.

Figure 7. The Winnipeg Philatelic Society also used a rubber-stamped cachet signed by the society’s secretary.



“For lack of a better term, it’ll be business as usual,” said Vogel, a resident of Barrie, Ont., who’s planning to “carry on with what Ingo was doing by hosting more events and bringing in more members across Canada.”

“Plans are underway for all major shows except Canpex,” he said, adding something might be in the works for the Oct. 31-Nov. 1 national-level show in London, Ont., but details are forthcoming.

Currently, organizers are preparing for the Edmonton Spring National Stamp Show, to be held March 28-29 in the Alberta capital, as well as the annual conventions of the British North America Phila-telic Society (BNAPS) and Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC) later in the year.

“If possible, we’ll probably have a lecture at these shows. Our membership is by invita-tion only, but we do make contact with specialist collec-tors in those areas.”

Also an exhibitor and au-thor, Vogel is “well suited to continue the progress we’ve made and build on every-thing we’ve done,” added Nessel, who served as PSSC president from 2014-19.

“In terms of his capabili-ties, he’s a guy who has done a lot for philately already with publishing books and being very involved in a lot of societies and clubs, not just the PSSC.”

ORAPEX LECTURE RETURNS IN MAY

Among the PSSC’s long-running lectures is its annual breakfast meeting at Orapex, which is returning to Ottawa on May 4-5.

A ticketed event, the Ninth Annual PSSC Breakfast will be held on May 5 at 8 a.m., with Ron Smith, of Frederic-ton, N.B., speaking on pre-1900 Fredericton postmarks and postal history.

An award-winning exhibi-tor and long-time PSSC mem-ber, Smith is also the past president of the Fredericton and District Stamp Club, which will host this year ’s RPSC Convention on June 19-21.

The PSSC’s lecture series, which included talks at six exhibitions across Canada last year, aims to network with potential specialists but also inspire everyday collec-tors to pursue a specialist ap-proach to their hobby.

“In the last few years, we’ve been getting more and more members from outside the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) than inside,” said Vo-gel, who added these new members lend to the PSSC’s national scope.

“This is why we’re trying to have off-site meetings at various shows: it’s to make our presence known and give some of our members in those areas a chance to speak in front of the group and meet new specialists.”

A NATIONAL GROUPChampioned by Nessel, the

lecture series complements the society’s presence at vari-ous stamp shows, where it can capitalize on “the curious crowd of exhibitors and phi-latelists who want to know more about philately,” said the former president.

“One of the things we did was an outreach; we made the title of our society come true.”

F o r m e d i n 1 9 5 4 , t h e PSSC “was a very Toronto-centric organization in the old days,” Nessel added.

“But with that name – the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada – and our program of awarding our PSSC Spe-cialization Medal at all na-tional shows in Canada, I thought why not go out to these shows and show face, hold a lecture – sometimes just a meet and greet – and reach out to our members wherever they are while also growing the society.”

Currently, the PSSC has about 155 members.

In addition to Vogel and Nessel, the PSSC executive includes: Vice-President Da-vid McLaughlin; Secretary Kenneth Snelson; Treasurer Lawrence Pinkney; Director of Programming Ken Lemke; and Director of Membership Jean Wang.

The PSSC also has four re-gional representatives, in-cluding Ed Kroft (British Co-lumbia), David Piercey (the Prairies and northern re-gions), Robert Carswell (Que-

bec and Eastern Ontario), and Hugh Rathbun (Atlantic Can-ada).

VOGEL THE COLLECTORA collector since the mid-

1960s, Vogel is a member of the local Barrie District Stamp Club as well as BNAPS and the Postal History Society of Canada.

More than five decades ago, he started with Cana-dian stamps but soon after ventured into postal history, specifically that of the Mus-koka area, to which he has personal ties.

“As soon as I discovered postal history, I got away from stamps,” he said. “Postal history is more inter-esting; you’ve got the rates, the routes, and I’m attracted more to social history as well, so it’s very fulfilling.”

After taking his Muskoka collection seemingly to its end, he shifted to another area with which he’s also per-sonally connected.

“You get to a point in a col-lection where you run out of things to collect or just can’t afford it, so I shifted to Kitchener, which was my hometown,” he added.

After finding success at both the local and national levels with his exhibit on the machine cancels of Kitchener,

Ont. (and its earlier iteration, B e r l i n ) , h i s “ B e r l i n t o Ki tchener” exhibi t was shown in the court of honour at the 2016 RPSC Convention in nearby Waterloo, Ont.

Some of Vogel’s other col-lections include Second World War patriotic meter slogans, sepia view cards, Ca-nadian Christmas seals, in-cluding postal stationery, and Canadian first-day covers.

“You have to have fun col-lections, as well, because if you don’t, you’ll just go crazy,” he added.

In recent years, Vogel has authored Arthur Klass ’ Christmas Seal Ads on Cana-dian Post Cards and The Caneco Connection – A Study of the First Day Covers of the Can-ada Envelope Company, both published by BNAPS.

“And we just finished the second edition of The National Christmas Seals of Canada,” added Vogel, of his joint ef-fort with fellow philatelists Andrew Chung and Cliff Be-attie.

“Andrew and I are also working on a comprehensive handbook on Canada Post re-placement and publicity cov-ers,” he said, adding Chung and Hank Narbonne have written on this topic in the past, but it will be “expanded on that” in the upcoming handbook.

“If you sent in a first-day cover to the service in Ot-tawa, and for some reason it got mangled in the machine, they would send one of their own cachets to cover for it. This material is available in limited quantities.” W

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NESSEL NOWIngo Nessel, who served as the president of the Philatelic

Specialists Society of Canada for five years between 2014 and 2019, is eager to have more time to focus on his Hong Kong collection. He has “several projects on the go,” among them a one-frame exhibit at the “Gems of Asian Philately” exhibition in London, England, on Feb. 29. He’s also preparing another “more substantial” multi-frame ex-hibit on the King George VI stamps of Hong Kong. “I’m hoping to be ready by later this year, but it’s a big project,” he adds. He’s also been dabbling in Canadian Elizabethan philately. “I have a lot of material accumulated over the years that needs writing up, organizing and putting away. I’ll be playing with stamps, and that’ll be nice.”

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The long-standing rumble of streetcars on downtown To-

ronto tracks took on a new tone on Dec. 29.

The absence of their familiar metal-on-metal wheels at the end of that rainy Sunday serves as a reminder of their 42 years of service.

The Canadian Light Rail Ve-hicles (CLRVs) unique to Cana-da’s largest city have “literally come to the end of the line with a few of the vehicles operating for the last time,” my friend, prolific Toronto author Mike Fi-ley, wrote in his regular Sunday Sun column.

In the only city in this country still using trolleys on streets – and with 11 lines having North America’s second-busiest light rail passenger system – the To-ronto Transit Commission’s (TTC) decision to not only keep streetcars but invest in new models almost didn’t happen four decades ago.

Some communities on this continent and elsewhere pro-vided horse-drawn wooden wheel-mounted minibuses as public transportation in the 1800s.

Montréal and Toronto were the first Canadian cities with horse-drawn tramcars, “using systems incorporated in 1861 by Alexander Easton of Philadel-phia,” according to The Canadian Encyclopedia. Sleighs replaced the cars during winter months.

With 361 trams and 100 sleighs, Toronto tracks extended along streets, totalling 109 kilometres, the encyclopedia added. Montreal had 150 trams, 104 sleighs and 49 horse-drawn minibuses along routes that to-talled 40 kilometres.

Other cities followed suit, with tram service established in Hamilton, Ont.; Winnipeg; Hali-fax; and Saint John, N.B. Sys-tems were soon developed in other Canadian communities.

Horse-drawn streetcars with steel wheels that ran on tracks embedded along streets replaced their wheeled predecessors, whose progress was often hin-dered by mud after heavy rain.

In some cases, storage batter-ies powering small electric mo-tors were installed, but they proved to be expensive and in-efficient, according to the Ency-clopedia Britannica.

ELECTRICITY REVOLUTIONIZES

TRAM SERVICEFrom the 1890s through the

1920s, across North America and in larger cities in Asia, Af-rica and South America, horse-drawn trolleys were replaced by streetcars powered by electricity transmitted to their motors through roof-mounted poles or a collapsible and adjustable frame called a pantograph.

Both types slid along over-head wires.

Electric trolleys were intro-duced after a dynamo capable of transmitting power to over-head wires was invented. The pole system, common across North America, has been cred-ited to Charles J. Van Depoele, a Belgian inventor.

The first electric streetcar system in Canada began oper-ating in Windsor, Ont., in 1886, followed four years later with similarly-powered trams in Vancouver, in Winnipeg in 1891, then Montreal, Hamilton and Toronto the following year.

The first inter-city electric street railway operated be-tween St. Catharines and Thor-old, in Ontario’s Niagara Re-gion, starting in 1887.

By 1914, “48 Canadian cities and towns boasted streetcar systems,” The Canadian Encyclo-pedia notes.

Small four-wheeled cars were rapidly replaced by larger and heavier eight-wheeled trams capable of carrying more passengers. In New York City and London, England, double-decker trolleys were intro-duced.

Wooden bodies, some clad in metal to prevent deterioration in rough weather, were re-placed in North America by steel single-deck streetcars, starting in the 1920s.

In North America, before automobiles and expanded paved highways came into vogue around that decade, electric-operated streetcar ser-vice was extended into the suburbs of many towns and cities. Similar systems were a mainstay of public transporta-tion throughout Europe well into the 1950s, with electricity picked up by pantographs.

STREETCARS ON STAMPSA horse-drawn trolley built

by the Ottawa Car Manufac-turing Company Limited is featured on an 88-cent com-memorative Canada Post is-sued on a souvenir sheet in 1996.

The same image, with “Saint John Railway Co.” inscribed on the trolley’s side, was used on a subsequent 10-cent stamp re-produced on a large sheet with others in the series.

Fourteen years earlier, one of a dozen 30-cent 1982 Canada Day commemoratives repro-duced a 1933 painting by Que-bec artist Adrien Hébert (1890-1967) that shows an old-style wooden electric streetcar stopped on a pedestrian-packed Montréal street.

Another old streetcar is in-cluded on the left side of a 68-cent stamp released in 1986. Part of a series commemorating Expo ’86 in Vancouver, its main transportation image is a mod-ern overhead monorail passen-ger train.

STREETCAR DECLINEDuring a time of prosperity

after the Second World War, many communities opted to in-vest in diesel- or gasoline-pow-ered buses.

Unlike streetcars, they are not restricted to operating along tracks. Improvements to double-decker buses resulted in the last two-level streetcars in Britain’s capital being taken out of service more than 60 years ago.

With so many trams being retired across North America, Toronto began purchasing scores of second-hand Presi-dents Conference Committee (PCC) trolleys that were manu-factured between the 1930s the early 1950s. They were origi-nally ordered as replacements for steel trolleys designed by Peter Witt (1869-1948).

As commissioner of the Cleveland Street Railway in the United States, he spearheaded the transit agency for four years, beginning in 1911, and designed a new style of street-car that bore its name. Intro-duced in 1921, many Witts were used in cities across North America, particularly in To-ronto and Cleveland, Ohio.

Hundreds of second-hand PCCs were shipped north on railway flatbed cars from sev-eral U.S. cities and were re-painted with the TTC’s maroon-and-cream livery. The last few in a refurbished fleet made their final runs in 1996.

By then, years after the city’s subway system was expanded and older streetcars and routes had been retired, the number of track lines had been reduced.

In recent years, passengers have ridden the rails aboard new 28-metre-long, 130-passen-ger Flexity Outlook multi-unit steel streetcars built by Bombar-dier Transportation, which gradually replaced the ageing CLRVs.

IN THE BEGINNING…“I was present when the

CLRV story began to take shape 47 years ago,” Mike wrote.

On Nov. 7, 1972, “along with several other members of the somewhat hastily convened Streetcars for Toronto Commit-tee, we met with the TTC Com-missioners in the boardroom.”

The meeting was called so the committee members could “offer reasons why the TTC should reconsider its plan to re-place all of their now long-in-the-tooth Presidents’ Confer-ence Committee (PCC) street-cars with new, modern, diesel buses.

“Thanks to a series of intelli-gent and convincing reasons to retain the streetcar as put for-ward by our little (non-profit) committee, the Commissioners reversed the staff position that

Streetcar stamps, postcards to desire

By Ian Robertson

StampingStampingGROUNDSGROUNDS

An 88-cent 1996 commemorative features a streetcar built in 1894 for use in Saint John, N.B., by the Ottawa Car Company.

A 1910-era postcard shows streetcars at Queen and Yonge Streets in Toronto.

A 30-cent 1982 Canada Day commemorative features a streetcar and pedestrians in Scène de rue, Montréal, a 1933 painting by Quebec artist Adrien Hébert.


street railway operations be abandoned,” he wrote.

Deciding to order new street-cars was a major step, one that required a great deal of plan-ning.

Since the city’s track system has a mixture of straightaways, tight curves and loops – plus one particularly steep hill – ve-hicles built in other countries could not be readily ordered. The streetcar’s wheels mounted with a 1,495-millimetre gauge was also not used elsewhere.

Engineers and design staff with the TTC, plus the provin-cially-owned Urban Transpor-tation Development Corpora-tion and SIG, a Swiss company that began building rail equip-ment in 1853, were all involved in planning Toronto’s new “light rail vehicles.”

Six of the 196-car fleet of 3.625-metre-by-15.226-metre CLRVs built between 1977 and 1981 were assembled in Swit-zerland. Mike and his wife, Yarmila, visited the plant in 1976 and he took photos of two partly-completed future TTC streetcars on the Swiss Indus-trial Company’s assembly line.

Painted red, with black roofs and white horizontal stripes, the fleet was later mostly man-ufactured at the Thunder Bay, Ont. , factory of Hawker Siddeley Canada, which is now a Bombardier facility.

Seating for 46 passengers was included, with more stand-ing room available. Later modi-fications conducted on the fleet reduced seating to 42.

The first CLRV was deliv-ered on Dec. 29, 1977, and went into service on Sept. 30, 1979, after a series of test runs and in-spections. The last one arrived in 1982.

Only one, No. 4041, was re-built with air conditioning. Rid-ers often criticized the lack of a

cooling system on hot summer and autumn days, but the TTC decided to retrofit the entire fleet was cost-prohibitive.

Longer two-section Articu-lated Light Rail Vehicle (ALRV) versions that flexed in the mid-dle while turning corners were added several years later. The last of 52 ALRVs delivered, starting in 1988, was retired in September 2019.

In 2009, Bombardier won a contract from Toronto to pro-vide 204 new multi-unit Flexity Outlook streetcars.

With those being gradually introduced to the city’s streets, worn-out CLRVs were set aside for scrapping, including No. 4000 – the first one built in Swit-zerland – which was loaded onto a flatbed truck and taken to Hamilton, Ont., for scrapping.

As Mike reported, Swiss-built No. 4001 plus Ontario-built 4089 “will be added to the TTC’s heritage Vehicle Roster,” and are likely to be used on tour service that includes two PCC streetcars during summer months.

Another Ontario-built CLRV is destined for the Illinois Rail-way Museum collection, and he expressed hope that several others “may yet find homes.”

In addition, Swiss-built No. 4003, No. 4010, which was the first Ontario-built CLRV, plus No. 4039, “will be added to the large collection out at the Hal-ton County Radial Railway Museum.”

Based west of Toronto near Guelph, the long-established museum has numerous street-cars, including Witts and PCCs, trolley and diesel-powered buses, interurban railway cars and several TTC subway cars. Volunteers operate some of the historic transit vehicles along tracks set onto a tree-lined for-mer interurban rail line.

On the last day of CLRV ser-vice, the final run was made with 23-year operator Brenda Michaud at the controls.

“It’s bittersweet,” she told CBC Toronto. “It being the last is kind of scary, but ... it’s exciting to have a new streetcar, too.”

In addition to making the switch to new accessible, low-floor Flexity streetcars, Mi-chaud is an instructor.

TRAMS ON STAMPS, POSTCARDS

Numerous postal agencies around the world have issued stamps featuring streetcars, sometimes by themselves, oth-ers as part of a public transit set that includes passenger trains and Light Rail Transit (LRT) systems that mostly operate on lines kept separate from streets.

Thanks to expanded technol-ogy, modern articulated pas-senger rail cars connected by flexible joints caught on more than four decades ago in cities that had ceased to operate streetcars.

The first such LRT system in North America opened in Ed-monton in 1978, followed three years later in Calgary.

Vancouver followed suit, and an LRT system is under construction in Toronto.

One of the nicest examples of an early streetcar stamp is a 2.40-euro commemorative is-sued in Finland, which depicts an 1890 horse-drawn rail trol-ley in Helsinki. It was pro-duced to mark the 100th anni-versary of the capital city’s in-troduction of public streetcar service in 1888.

In 1971, the Deutsche Bunde-spost produced six public tran-sit stamps for use in Berlin, Germany, which included two passenger trains, a pair of mod-ern subway cars plus three showing streetcars, including a horse-drawn one in use before rails were laid along the capital city’s streets, two from the late 1880s, and a pair operating in 1950.

Two years later, a 20-pfennig Berlin commemorative de-picted a 1907 four-wheeled horse-drawn trolley.

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in 1983 issued a set of four 20-cent commemoratives featuring early American streetcars: the first one in New York City in 1832 mounted on four wheels before tracks were laid; an 1886 four-wheel electric streetcar in Montgomery, Ala-bama; a four-wheel horse-

drawn 1926 streetcar; and an iconic 1923 St. Charles streetcar in New Orleans, Louisiana – similar to one I saw operating there in 2004.

Canada featured TTC sub-way cars on a 49-cent stamp is-sued that year, but no Peter Witts, PCCS, CLRVs, ALRVs or new Flexity streetcars have been featured on commemoratives is-sued in this country.

They could be good subjects for a multi-stamp set and a sou-venir sheet to illustrate street-car service in Canada’s largest city for over a century.

An article in The Toronto Star in 2011 about Canada Post launching a free computer ap-plication system that lets cus-tomers order Picture Postage stamps online was illustrated by one featuring a Toronto CLRV streetcar.

I couldn’t find out if any were produced, or if that image was used as a suggested topic, but it would certainly be of in-terest to tram stamp thematic collectors.

In addition to the three ear-lier-mentioned stamps featur-ing older streetcars, the Post Office Department issued a 1971 postcard featuring an Ot-tawa-built electric railway mail car used to carry envelopes and parcels between depots. The same design was used for an eight-cent stamp image printed on the reverse side.

In the 1980s, Canada Post sold 38-cent postal stationery envelopes depicting an Ottawa Car Manufacturing Company Limited four-wheeled electric mail-carrying trolley.

São Tomé and Príncipe – St. Thomas and Prince Islands in the Gulf of Guinea, about 300 kilometres off West Africa –

used a maroon- and cream-co-loured PCC streetcar’s photo on a 2003 transit stamp an eBay seller sourced as “USA/Can-ada.” The livery matches the TTC’s, but Mike said several structural details differ from PCC trams in Toronto, and the Scott catalogue listing lacks a description.

A POPULAR TOPICOn a whimsical note, the

USPS in 1999 released a 33-cent stamp with poster-like artwork commemorating A Streetcar Named Desire, a hit Broadway drama written in New Orleans, La., by Tennessee Williams.

It premiered at the Ethel Bar-rymore Theatre in New York city on Dec. 3, 1947.

Made into a 1951 movie star-ring Marlon Brando, Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, it tells the tension-filled story of two tragic lovers in New Orleans. The story won Williams a coveted Pulitzer Prize in 1948.

A postcard features a Toronto Transit Commission CLRV streetcar built in Switzerland.


A modern photo postcard showing a 1890 horsedrawn streetcar in Helsinki, Finland, is franked with a 1988 2.40-euro commemorative depicting the same No. 11 horsedrawn streetcar.

A 2003 commemorative from São Tomé and Príncipe reproduces a photo of a maroon-cream PCC streetcar similar to Toronto’s, but with slight differences suggesting it operated in the U.S.


(SC #5) depicting Postmaster General Charles Connell, will cross the block as Lot 231.

“The vast majority of the ini-tial printing was destroyed af-ter it was learned that the post-master general had used his portrait instead of Queen Vic-toria,” said Tanguay, of the 1860 five-cent stamp “with characteristic perforations along with some uncleared perf discs.”

“Overall perforations are noticeably superior to what we are accustomed to seeing for this well-known rarity,” added Tanguay.

“After exhaustive research for comparable examples, our conclusion is that this is the finest known mint example. No other example boasts such superior colour, perforations as well as possessing original gum.”

It carries a catalogue value of $40,000.

PENCE ISSUEMoving into the “Pence” is-

sue, a “brilliant fresh mint” im-perforate 1854 three-pence bea-ver on thin hard wove paper (SC #4d) and with “unusually full original gum” will cross the block as Lot 336.

“Sound mint examples of this distinctive printing are rare due to their fragile nature and are underrated as such,” said Tanguay, who added it’s a “de-sirable stamp for the advanced collector.

It has a catalogue value of $4,000-plus.

Descr ibed as an “ im-mensely rare mint example,” an imperforate 1855 six-pence “Consort” stamp (SC #5) on medium wove paper will be offered as Lot 343.

“Only a small number of six-pence ‘Consort’ stamps exist in sound unused condi-tion. From that small popula-tion, a mere few have clean

original gum as the ex-ample offered here,” said Tanguay, who added the stamp “once graced the famous Dale-Lichtenstein Col-lection.”

It carries a catalogue value of $80,000.

Another Pence issue, this an imperforate

10-pence “Cartier” stamp is-sued in 1858 on thick wove paper (SC #7a), will cross the block as Lot 347.

“An amazing mint stamp in all respects that would really stand out in anyone’s collec-tion,” it features “fabulous colour and impression as fresh as the day i t was printed,” Tanguay said.

It has a catalogue value of $28,000.

Still in the Pence issue, Lot 354 will offer a “phenomenal” mint imperforate 7.5-pence

deep green stamp on medium wove paper (SC #9a) issued in 1857. Described as having “the elusive deep green shade,” which is tough to find in high quality, it has a cata-logue value of $30,000.

Another six-pence “Con-sort,” this a brown violet ex-ample (SC #13) issued in 1859, is slated to cross the block as Lot 360.

“Its colour and overall qual-ity are easily superior to most known examples,” said Tan-guay, who added “very few still exist with original gum” like this example, which he describes as an “absolute gem for the connoisseur.”

It carries a catalogue value of $75,000-plus.

DIAMOND JUBILEEMoving on to the 1897 “Di-

amond Jubilee” issue, a com-plete set of 16 large die proofs (SC #50-65) on India paper – one of only two sets known to exist – will be offered as Lot 403.

Die sunk on uniform full-size cards measuring 226 m i l l i m e t r e s b y 1 5 0 millimetres, each piece is “in immaculate state of preserva-tion, each showing razor-sharp impression and excep-tional colour,” Tanguay said.

“These die proofs sunk on India paper are considerably rarer than those printed di-rectly on card,” he added.

This lot has a pre-sale esti-mate of $25,000-plus.

IMPERIAL PENNY POSTAGE

Lot 452 will offer a “very rare” positional block of 25 stamps from the unissued fourth plate of the 1898 two-cent “map stamp.”

“Only one other similar sized block exists which also originates from the sole sheet,” said Tanguay, adding it’s a “must-have to any seri-ous collection.”

It has a pre-sale estimate of $5,000-plus.

GEORGE V ADMIRALSOne of the utmost rarities of

the King George V “Admiral” issue, a pyramid guideline block of four 1923 $1 deep or-ange stampsfrom the first wet printing (SC #122biii) will be offered as Lot 511.

“Virtually all known pyra-mid guide blocks of the $1 Ad-miral are the later dry print-ing,” said Tanguay. “This is the only wet printing block we re-call seeing and is quite possi-bly unique.”

It’s expected to bring $5,000-plus.

From Lot 543-559, a series of covers from an award-winning exhibit collection on the Cana-dian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia will cross the block.

“In July 1918, Canada de-cided to send a brigade of over 4,000 men to Vladivo-stok, Eastern Siberia, support-ing Russian troops using the Trans-Siberian Railway, fol-lowing the collapse of the Eastern Front during the Rus-sian Revolution,” said Tan-guay, who added the first part left Vancouver on Oct. 11, 1918, and arrived later that month.

“During a short period of seven months ‘On Active Ser-vice,’ most Canadian troops were stationed in and around Vladivostok. These postal markings were only used for this expedition and are rare.”

It’s believed only about 120 covers exist today.

The 17 covers on offer this February range in estimates from $150 to $400.

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A pyramid guideline block of four 1923 $1 deep orange stamps will be offered as Lot 511 with a pre-sale estimate of $5,000-plus.

A series of covers from an award-winning exhibit collection on the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in Siberia will cross the block as Lot 543-559, with estimates ranging from $150-$400.

An imperforate 1855 six-pence ‘Consort’ stamp on medium wove paper will be offered as Lot 343 with a catalogue value of $80,000.

An imperforate 10-pence ‘Cartier’ stamp issued in 1858 on thick wove paper will cross the block as Lot 347 with a catalogue value of $28,000.

An 1854 three-pence beaver on thin paper and with ‘unusually full original gum’ will cross the block as Lot 336 with a catalogue value of $4,000-plus.

An 1857 mint imperforate 7.5-pence deep green stamp – ‘the elusive deep green shade’ – will be offered as Lot 354 with a catalogue value of $30,000.

encloses the secretary’s signa-ture and date of the stamp is-sue.

Captain William H. Talbot was active in both the Winnipeg Philatelic Society and the Inter-

national Japanese Philatelic Spe-cialists Study Club. He created a general-purpose FDC cachet featuring the Canadian coat of arms and used it for numerous stamp issues, sometimes only with the text “First Day Cover” and other times with additional text related to the respective stamp. His Citizenship cachet

(Figure 6) has augmented text about this specific stamp.

Like the Ottawa group, the Winnipeg Philatelic Society em-ployed a rubber-stamped cachet (Figure 7) signed by the secre-tary. The artwork depicts a bi-son within a triangle and notes the society was founded in 1908.

One American group, the Te-aneck (New Jersey) Stamp Club, also produced FDCs for Cana-da’s Citizenship issue (as they d i d f o r o t h e r C a n a d i a n commemoratives in the late 1940s). One example (Figure 8) is addressed to one of their members in Hackensack, N.J. W

Tw o s t a m p s f e a t u r i n g brightly coloured dahlias

will welcome spring’s return as part of Canada Post’s annual flower issue on March 2.

The yearly tradition – usually issued just in time for wedding season – stretches back to 2004 with the beginning of a seven-year “Flowers” series. Since then, each year’s issue has fo-cused on a specific flower, in-cluding sunflowers (2011); day-lilies (2012); magnolias (2013); roses (2014); pansies (2015); hy-drangeas (2016); daisies (2017); lotuses (2018); and gardenias (2019).

This year, the flower in the spotlight is the dahlia, which is found in almost every colour of the rainbow except blue. Said to symbolize honesty, balance, in-ner strength, creativity, positive change and kindness, these ver-satile flowers have also been as-sociated with diversity because of the seamless way their petals form a single, dazzling blossom.

“Canadian gardeners enjoy dahlias for their long-blooming, show-stopping appeal, and be-cause they provide a nectar source for pollinators until win-ter,” said Carolyn Cutt, presi-dent of the Hamilton and Dis-trict Chrysanthemum and Dahlia Society.

Throughout the Victorian era, couples gave each other dahlias as a symbol of commitment, something that lends to their popularity as wedding floral ar-rangements today.

Also a favourite among Cana-dian gardeners, the dahlia is na-tive to the mountainous regions of Mexico and Central America and is related to the sunflower, chrysanthemum and daisy.

Late last year, Canada Blooms – the country’s largest garden and flower festival – named the “Sincerity Dahlia” as its flower of the year. Similar in appear-ance to the pinkish dahlia de-picted on one of the recently is-sued stamps, the Sincerity Dahlia has large pink and white bi-colour flowers with a touch of yellow at their centre.

BOOKLETS, COILS STRIPS & SHEETS

The 2020 dahlia set in-cludes:• 600,000 booklets of 10 stamps with both designs,

each measuring 26 millimetres by 32 millimetres and printed using five-colour lithography;• 130,000 coils of 50 stamps with both designs, each measur-ing 20 mill imetres by 24 millimetres and printed using six-colour lithography;• 1,600 strips of 10 stamps made from the 50-stamp coils;• 2,500 strips of four stamps made from the 50-stamp coils;• 70,000 two-stamp souvenir s h e e t s m e a s u r i n g 1 2 7 millimetres by 73 millimetres and printed using five-colour li-thography with both designs.

A total of 7,000 official first-day covers measuring 190 millimetres by 112 millimetres also feature both designs. Ser-viced with a cancel from Bloom-field, N.L., the cover depicts an enlarged version of a dahlia bloom.

The set was printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company and des igned by L ionel Gadoury, Umaymah Motala and Malika Soin, of Context Creative, using photographs by Veronique Meignaud.

OTHER UPCOMING ISSUESAnother six issues are slated

for release by Canada Post be-fore July.

The upcoming issues will commemorate:

• Eid, also known as the “Festi-val of the Sacrifice,” the second of two Islamic holidays cele-brated worldwide each year (April 24);• the 75th anniversary of Allied victory in Europe (April 29);• the 100th anniversary of the

Group of Seven (May 7);• the history of radio (May 20);• vintage travel posters (June 30); and• “Legends of Ballet” (date to be confirmed).

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The 2020 dahlia issue is also available in coils of 50 stamps (shown) plus booklets

of 10 stamps and four- and 10-stamp strips.

Two stamps (souvenir sheet shown) featuring dahlias, the Victorian symbol of commitment, will be issued by Canada Post on March 2.

Figure 8. New Jersey’s Teaneck Stamp Club showed the stamp on its general-purpose cover.

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ALDERNEYAlderney released a set of stamps depicting local sea

life species on Jan. 21.Alderney’s protected Ramsar site extends to 1,500

hectares and includes all the waters from the island’s west coast out to the northern gannet colony of Ortac, Burhou, plus the islets and reefs surrounding it.

Alderney’s west coast and the Burhou islands were recognized as a wetland of international importance in 2005, when they became the first designated Ramsar site within the Bailiwick. The area’s unique tidal streams, with speeds of up to six knots at spring tides, encourage a vibrant and diverse marine environment.

The stamps depict the grey seal pup (48 pence), shore crab (65 pence), gannet (66 pence), beadlet anemone (80 pence), ormer (90 pence) and cushion stars (98 pence).

AUSTRALIAAustralia issued its “Fauna II” stamps on Dec. 16.Mammals are divided into three groups: mono-

tremes, marsupials and placental mammals, the latter being the largest group (and the one that includes hu-mans). Marsupial mammals give birth to tiny babies that crawl into a pouch on the outside of the mother’s abdomen to continue their development. Monotremes differ significantly from marsupials and placental mammals due to their low body temperature and the fact they lay eggs.

A follow-up issue to the “Australian Fauna” stamps released in March 2019, this latest release presents four fascinating Australian mammals, inclduing the com-mon wombat; the koala; the sugar glider; and the short-beaked echidna. These animals span a variety of physical and behavioural traits.

The koala is one of Australia’s best-known animals. This territorial, nocturnal creature has soft, thick grey fur on its body and white fur on its chest. It lives in eucalyptus forests and rarely moves out of its home range, where it eats up to 500 grams of eucalyptus leaves a day.

Wombats are the largest burrowing mammals in Australia. These stocky creatures dig large burrow sys-tems of up to 20 metres long and more than two me-tres below the ground using their rat-like front teeth and powerful claws.

The short-beaked echidna is found across Australia, including in some urban areas. It prefers forests and woodlands, heath, grasslands and arid environments. This shy creature uses its spikes to defend itself (roll-ing into a ball if frightened).

Sugar gliders are palm-sized, tree-dwelling marsu-pials that can glide or “fly” around 50 metres using their bushy tails as rudders.

JERSEYJersey issued eight stamps on Feb. 12 to celebrate

acclaimed artist Claude Cahun.Born Lucie Renee Mathilde Schwob, Cahun was a

French surrealist photographer, sculptor and writer. Best known for her androgynous self-portraits, she is famous for creating some of the most startlingly orig-inal and enigmatic photographic images of the 20th century.

Born in Nantes, France, in 1894, she attended a pri-vate school in Surrey before attending the University of Paris. In the 1920s, she hosted salons at her home attended by eminent figures, including artist Henry Michaux and influential literary figure Sylvia Beach.

In 1937, Cahun moved to Jersey with her partner Marcel Moore.

This stamp issue features eight of Cahun’s photo-graphs, showcasing her work over the decades.

The 80-pence stamp carries the logo of the Small European Postal Administration Co-Operation – or SEPAC – and forms part of a joint stamp issue enti-tled “Art in the National Collection.”

NEW ZEALANDNew Zealand issued a set of six stamps on Feb. 5 to

highlight the daphne moth.From the coast to the highest mountains, and from

Stewart Island in the south to the Far North, Aotearoa New Zealand is home to 35 recognized species of daphne moth in the genus Notoreas, all with discrete distributions within New Zealand.

Daphne moths are colourful, day-flying species with wingspans between 18 and 26 millimetres. They’re characterized by constantly vibrating their neatly pat-

terned wings when they are active on sunny days, and they’re often seen sunbathing on bare surfaces, feeding on nectar or carefully laying their eggs on the right plant during periods of bright sunshine.

Their caterpillars feed on the foliage of just one family of plant, which includes the two New Zealand genera of daphne – Pimelea and Kelleria – while the adults take nectar from the sweet-smelling flowers of their host plants. Together with their daphne host plants, they are often numerous in naturally open habitats from the coastline (sand dunes, gravel beaches and rocky headlands) through inland short-tussock grasslands to a range of open habitats above the treeline (such as alpine grassland, herb fields, cushion fields and snowbanks).

With a few species found as high as 2,000 metres above sea-level, daphne moths define New Zealand’s dynamic topography, coastline and geological fea-tures and epitomize the picturesque and varied land-scapes.

NORFOLK ISLANDEarly botanical art is the theme of two stamps issued

by Norfolk Island on Jan. 14.Situated between temperate and tropical oceanic

environments, Norfolk Island has nearly 190 native flora species with around 40 species and one genus be-ing endemic. Before European settlement of the island, the vegetation mostly comprised subtropical rainfor-est. Early British visitors – first Cook’s 1774 voyage and then Philip Gidley King’s in 1788 – remarked on the denseness of the vegetation. The destruction of the island’s natural flora began with the land clearing and building program introduced with convict settlement (1825-55). Today, much of the island’s botanical diver-sity is restricted to the National Park and Botanic Gar-den, which covers around 14 per cent of the island.

The earliest examples of botanical art from Norfolk Island are from the late 18th century. A body of works is attributed to convict John Doody, who arrived in the colony of New South Wales in 1791 with the Third Fleet before relocating to Norfolk Island as a servant to Captain William Paterson. It is believed Doody is re-sponsible for a wonderful collection of watercolour, ink and pencil works of around 50 flora species, which are held in the collection of the State Library of New South Wales. It is believed the illustrations were pos-sibly made for Paterson, who was in correspondence with British botanist Joseph Banks with regards to the natural history of Norfolk Island.

Lagunaria patersonia, which is shown on the $1.10 stamp, is a common species that also occurs naturally in Lord Howe Island and has been cultivated else-where. This pink-flowering tree is commonly known as the Norfolk Island hibiscus or the white oak, and it can reach 12 to 20 metres.

Ungeria floribunda, which is on the $2.20 stamp, be-longs to Norfolk Island’s only endemic flora genus. Its common name is bastard oak, an apparent refer-ence to its timber, which is considered inferior qual-ity. As the stamp artwork shows, it bears deep pink flowers. It grows to around 15 metres and is listed as “vulnerable.” W

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Deltiologists in and around the Greater Toronto Area

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“It is, as far as we know, the largest postcard show in Can-ada,” said TPC President George Sachs, who has served in that role since 2010, when he succeeded past president Shir-ley Avery.

“The show has evolved in various ways since the first one 39 years ago.”

Aside from venue changes – from the Thornhill Commu-nity Centre to the historic Old Mill and Leaside Gardens arena – the TPC Show has continued to add “more variety and a

wider range of dealers,” Sachs said.

“The dealers come from all over the province and other parts of Canada as well as one from Great Britain. For most postcard collectors, this will pos-sibly be the largest number of cards that they will come into contact with all year.”

This February, show-goers will be able to browse nearly 40 tables of material from 26 deal-ers on the bourse.

“Our 26 dealers include many of the most knowledgeable on Canadian deltiology,” said show chair Win Boyd. “Their carefully organized inventory holds thou-sands of postcards that might include a very special front view or an intriguing stamp or cancel-lation on the other side. It’s a great day when the community of postcard, stamp and postal history collectors gather to shop and share stories.”

Beyond the bourse, while there are typically no special events at the annual TPC Show, the club does host “one-on-one sessions” if attendees have dreams of becoming a del-tiologist.

“People also come to the show to find out what they can do with cards that they have in-herited,” Sachs added, “and we try to advise them in the best way possible.”

With the rise of deltiology among exhibitors – some even winning major awards – the TPC and its annual show are gearing up for a busy outing this February.

“I know philatelists now seem to include more postcards in their exhibits, and they do have exhibits consisting entirely of postcards,” said Sachs. “This is rather refreshing since postcards – especially real photo postcards – are a form of social history in that they capture an instant of time that no longer exists, a building that no longer stands or a way of life that is no more, and I could go on.”

As always, show admission is free for TPC members and $5 for non-members, and parking is free.

FORMED IN 1977The TPC traces its roots back

to 1977, when 10 postcard-col-lecting enthusiasts decided to gather under the umbrella of deltiology.

They met once a month in Ag-incourt, a neighbourhood in Scarborough, just east of To-ronto. Ever since, the club’s con-tribution to deltiology in Canada has been significant, Sachs said.

With more than 250 mem-bers from across Canada and

abroad, the TPC hosts regular meetings mostly every month – usually at the Ontario Histori-cal Society on 34 Parkview Ave. – and visitors are always wel-come. The first 30 minutes are for postcard-related discussions and free coffee. Either a presen-tation (something of interest to history buffs and postcard col-lectors) or a show-and-tell ses-sion about a specific postcard topic follow each meeting.

Later this spring, on April 25, TPC member and CSN colum-nist Mike Smith will speak at the club’s monthly meeting from 2 p.m.-4 p.m. He’s slated to give an update on prolific postcard producer Stedman Bros., which was incorporated in 1908 to trade, manufacture and publish books, magazines and postcards with branches in Brantford, Toronto and Winni-peg. Stedman is believed to have boasted 9,000 different de-signs in its repertoire.

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Toronto Postcard Club to host 39th annual show in February

Desire was a clever play-on-words the author used, based on the name of a former French Quarter streetcar line that operated on Desire Street – which is pronounced “Dez-a-ray.”

The play has been per-formed many times in North America over the past seven decades, including at the Young Centre for the Perform-ing Arts in Toronto last Oct. 27.

Finally, streetcars have long been a popular subject, with people collecting related post-ers, photographs, paintings, toys, models and other souve-nirs. On a personal note, I couldn’t resist buying a fridge magnet in 2018 in San Fran-cisco that shows one of its iconic cable cars.

Known around the world and featured in many films and television programs, the system was invented by An-drew Smith Hallidie, a Scottish engineer and wire rope manu-facturer. As the term “cable” implies, they are pulled by be-

low-floor heavy wire cables embedded in the streets.

Hallidie introduced them to replace horse-drawn trolleys in 1873, with steam-driven pow-erhouse turbines operating ca-bles that pulled the short trams up and down San Francisco’s steep streets. Less-expensive electric-powered streetcar sys-tems and the devastating 1907 earthquake led to reduced ca-ble car use, but fans lobbied for their preservation over the fol-lowing four decades.

National Historic Landmark status was awarded in 1964, and the system was shut down 18 years later and rebuilt. Since 1984, 38 refurbished cable cars have been regularly operated on three lines.

Classic electric streetcars, mostly PCCs refurbished to look like trolleys from several North American cities – includ-ing one painted in TTC livery – carry passengers on other routes and along Fisherman’s Wharf.

I have also seen cable cars in Lisbon, Portugal and Welling-ton, New Zealand, where I rode one to a peak that offers a fabulous view of the country’s capital.

With the advent of picture postcards in the late 1800s, many street scenes included trams.

For tourists and trolley fans, some printing firms and transit systems produced black-and-white and then colour cards as souvenirs.

With a large fan base, doz-ens of cards based on photo-graphs of TTC streetcars have been produced since the mid-dle of the last century. W

With 26 leading deltiology dealers, the 39th-annual Toronto Postcard Club Show returns to the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Feb. 29.

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A 33-cent 1999 U.S. stamp features poster-like image based on A Streetcar Named Desire, a hit Broadway play that author Tennessee Williams wrote while living in New Orleans, La.

The annual Toronto Postcard Club Show is Canada’s largest postcard show, according to organizers.


SHOW & BourseFEB. 8, 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.

FEB. 15 – 16, REGINA, SK2020 Regina 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 Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday 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. Website: reginastampclub.ca/

FEB. 15, BURLINGTON, ONBurlpex 2020, Burlington Seniors’ Centre, 2285 New St. The Burlington Stamp Club’s annual show, Burlpex, returns in 2020 with 12 dealers, silent auctions, club circuit books, free parking and a food vendor. The venue is also wheelchair accessible. This year’s Burlpex runs from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more informa-tion, email [email protected].

FEB. 22, SAGUENAY, QCCoin & Stamp Fair, Hôtel Delta, 2675 Boul Du Royaume. The Société des Numismates du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean and Club Philatélique du Saguenay will jointly host the first Coin & Stamp Fair for collectors in Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Que. It will be held in the large Jonquière Room of the Delta hotel and will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with several dealers of both coins and stamps. Admission and parking are free. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 418-672-2319. Website: www.numismatesaguenay.com/.

FEB. 22, DARTMOUTH, NSNova Scotia Stamp Club Winter Stamp Fair, East Dartmouth Community Centre, 50 Caledonia Rd. The fair will be hosted by the Nova Scotia Stamp Club, and runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with free admission, free parking and a club auction. There will likely be to 6 to 8 dealers and the live auction will start at 1:30 p.m. For more information, email [email protected]. Website: www.nsstampclub.ca.

FEB. 22, ST. THOMAS, ONSt. Thomas Stamp Club 34rd Annual Stamp Show, Community of Christ Church, 105 Fairview Ave. The show will feature 10 dealers, exhibits, lunch counter and door prizes from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission and parking are free, and there are no stairs to climb. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 519-633-3669.

FEB. 23, TORONTO, ONToronto Postcard Club 39th Annual Sale, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond Court. Canada’s largest vintage post-card show. 40 tables with 1,000’s of postcards for sale from many countries covering many topics. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre Toronto (Don Mills & Eglinton) 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission $5. Free parking. TTC accessible. For more information, email [email protected]. Website: torontopostcardclub.com/toronto-postcard-show/.

MAR. 8, MISSISSAUGA, ONMississauga Coin & Stamp Show, John Paul II Polish Cultural Centre, 4300 Cawthra Rd. Sponsored by the Troyak Club, the show will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Over 30 dealers & 60 dealer tables. Canadian and world coins, stamps, paper money, tokens, medals, trade dollars, official Mint products, hobby supplies, reference books and much more. Buy, sell, trade, appraise. Fully accessible with free parking. Admission: $5 at door (youth under 16 years of age free). For more information, email [email protected], tele-phone 416-505-7999. Website: www.troyakclub.com.

MAR. 14, 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.

MAR. 14, WINDSOR, ONWinpex 2020, Caboto Club, 2175 Parent Ave. The annual show of the Essex County Stamp Club will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with 14 dealers, door prizes and a free youth program with free stamps for school-aged children. Show admission is also free for everyone. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 519-966-2276. Website: www.essexcountystampclub.com.

MAR. 14, TORONTO, ONNorth Toronto Stamp Club Spring Bourse, Yorkminster Park Baptist Church, 1585 Yonge St. The show will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Easy subway access at St. Clair subway station, free admission, 22 dealers, more than 100 sales circuit books including recent issues, over 100 ten cents books, members table, door prizes (first prize one kilo of stamps) snack bar, wheelchair access, parking at the Church and on nearby streets, families and children welcome. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 647-990-4073. Website: www.northtorontostampclub.ca.

MAR. 20 – 21, DORVAL, QCLakeshore 2020, Sarto-Desnoyers Community Center, 1335 Lakeshore Drive Free admission and ample free parking. Wheelchair accessible. Lunch counter on premises. Hourly door prizes. Competitive exhibition with over 100 frames of exhibits. 25 dealer tables and club bourses. Show covers with commemo-rative postmarks and picture-postage stamps. Silent auction. Youth activity center with the Fédération québécoise de philatélie. Hours: Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Information: Gary Misener, P.O. Box # 1, Pointe-Claire/Dorval, H9R 4N5. Email: [email protected] Entrée et grand sta-tionnement gratuits. Accessible aux personnes handicapées. Cafétéria. Tirage de prix de présence toutes les heures. Exposition compétitive de plus de 100 cadres. 25 tables de négociants et de bourses du club. Plis souvenirs, oblitérations commémoratives et timbres-photos. Encan silencieux. Centre d’activités pour les jeunes avec la Fédération québécoise de philatélie. Horaire : Vendredi : de 10:00h à 17:00h, samedi : de 10:00h à 16:00h. Renseignements : François Brisse, C.P. #1, Pointe-Claire/Dorval, QC, H9R 4N5. Courriel : [email protected]. For more infor-mation, email [email protected], telephone 514-426-0432.

MAR. 21, WOODSTOCK, ON69th Annual Oxpex/40th Annual Otex, Woodstock Christian School, 800 Juliana Dr. The 69th Annual Oxford Philatelic Society Exhibition (Oxpex 2019) and the 40th Annual All-Ontario Topical Exhibition (Otex 2019) will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Show-goers can expect 15 dealers plus club circuit books, competitive exhibits, lunch/snack counter, youth gift bags and free parking and admis-sion. For more information, email [email protected], tele-phone 519-485-2886. Website: www.oxfordphilsoc.com.

MAR. 28, 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 604-336-1828. Website: northshorenumismaticsociety.org/.

MAR. 28 – 29, EDMONTON, ABEdmonton Spring National Stamp Show, Central Lions Recreation Centre, 11113 113 St. N.W. Dealers, collectors and exhibitors, the Edmonton Stamp Club is recognizing the 100th anniversary of the RCMP with an exhibition and show featuring RCMP postcards, covers and ephemera. This holding has never been seen in public. The show will be open March 28 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and March 29 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Other notable exhibits will be shown as well. Additional features to the Edmonton Stamp Club program include WSI certified judges, awards breakfast, guest speakers, RCMP historians, door prizes, junior tables, free appraisal of stamp, postcard and cover collections, cafeteria, free parking, free admission, anticipated 20 dealers, and an accessible venue. For more information, email [email protected], telephone 780-456-7095. Website: www.edmontonstampclub.com.

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 dateDartmouth University’s law program; and Henry Williams, a Trinidadian law student at Dalhousie University who later founded the first Pan-Af-rican Conference.

Games became community events and brought mixed audi-ences together in the stands while post-game meals united Black players from different communities.

There was no predetermined game schedule – instead, teams challenged one another to matches by te legraph or through advertisements in local newspapers – and the rulebook was simply the Bible. Organiz-ers, players and newspapers of the day called the league’s ulti-mate prize the Colored Hockey Championship.

“I grew up watching hockey without knowing the legacy of these teams,” said Craig Smith, president of the Black Cultural Centre for Nova Scotia. “Telling this important story will broaden the public’s under-standing of the contributions of the African-Canadian commu-nity in the Maritimes to our na-tional winter sport.”

BOOKLETS OF 10The new issue is available

in booklets of 10 stamps, which were illustrated by Toronto art-ist Ron Dollekam, designed by Lara Minja, of British Colum-bia’s Lime Design, and printed by Ottawa’s Lowe-Martin using four-colour lithography.

The stamp features an illus-tration of the Halifax Eurekas – the Colored Hockey Champions in 1904 – and is based on a his-toric photograph. Each stamp measures 32 millimetres by 40 millimetres (vertical), and a total of 140,000 10-stamp booklets were printed.

While the 20th-century term “colored” is no longer in use, the stamp retains it for historical ac-curacy, according to a statement issued by Canada Post.

An official first-day cover – 9,000 in total – is serviced with a Halifax cancel. The front of the cover features an illustration of players from the Halifax Eurekas skating on Egg Pond, where they might have practiced, near the Halifax Citadel. The back in-cludes a 1904 advertisement for the championship game between the Eurekas and the Africville Sea-Sides.

AN EVOLVING GAMEThe Colored Hockey Champi-

onship stamp acknowledges the game’s early developments, in-cluding some of the earliest re-corded uses of down-to-the-ice “butterfly” goaltending that was later adopted by players in “white-only” leagues.

Before Henry Franklyn, of the Dartmouth Jubilees, first used the butterfly style, hockey goal-ies in other leagues stood up-right.

Another player – Eddie Mar-tin, of the Halifax Eurekas – was the first player to use the slap shot, according to the Fostys.

The first record of an all-Black hockey game in the Halifax area dates back to March 1895 and involved the Dartmouth Jubi-lees and the Halifax Stanleys.

Six more teams, including one from Prince Edward Island, soon formed. There were the Halifax Eurekas, Africville Sea-Sides, Truro Victorias, Ham-monds Plains Moss Backs, Amherst Royals and Charlotte-town West End Rangers.

The golden era of all-Black hockey was between 1900 and 1905, when games often out-drew those of “white-only” leagues; however, teams contin-ued to play for the Colored Hockey Championship until the 1930s. W

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The set’s official first-day cover is serviced with a Halifax cancellation.

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This 10¢ green value was re-leased later when the charge for a special delivery letter decreased (Scott #E7). List price for a VF NH mint example is $21.00. My price is just half at $10.50.


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