Postage stamp honours black battalion

One hundred years after the No. 2 Construction Battalion was formed in Pictou, Canada Post has released a stamp recognizing their accomplishments and marking African Heritage Month.

With their country going to war in 1914, black Canadians stepped forward to join the fight but many were turned away because of racial prejudice. By persevering, they finally won the right to serve overseas, with hundreds of them joining a new, predominantly black unit.

The stamp uses archival photographs from the First World War in the foreground to depict the faces of some members of the unit, who represent their comrades. Below, against a backdrop of tall conifers, members of a forestry crew move in silhouette, their tools on their shoulders. The men felled trees in a mountainous region of France, then milled the timbers into lumber that supported the walls of trenches, built encampments and repaired the railway lines and roads that supplied the front.

They worked 10 hours a day, six days a week, using hand tools. Living and working conditions were harsh.

They endured segregation – their sleeping quarters were separate from those of white soldiers, as was the hospital wing where they received medical treatment, but they ate meals with white comrades. While most never saw combat, some died from pneumonia or other diseases.

"The battalion's creation is a story of persistence in the face of adversity," said Judy Foote, minister of public services and procurements, responsible for Canada Post Corp. "They helped to pave the way for later generations of black men and women and people of all diverse races to serve in Canada’s army, navy and air force.

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2017 Black History stamp commemorates Mathieu Da Costa
17th century interpreter believed to be the first person of African descent to arrive in Canada whose name is known today

OTTAWA – Canada Post’s annual Black History Month stamp for 2017 will commemorate a historical figure who continues to fascinate and confound scholars.

Admittedly little is known about Mathieu Da Costa. From the few records that remain, historians conclude he was a free man who earned a living as an interpreter for Europeans who were trading with Indigenous people in the New World. Believed to be of African or even Euro-African descent, his connection to Canada came in the year 1608 – the year Samuel de Champlain founded the city of Québec – when Da Costa signed a contract to work for French fur-trader, explorer and governor of Acadia, Pierre Dugua de Mons.

“While the full story of Mathieu Da Costa may never be known, interest in his life and in his unique connection with our country is a reminder of the values of respect, acceptance and diversity that Canadians cherish,” says Canada Post President and CEO Deepak Chopra.

With no portrait of Da Costa available, designer Andrew Perro and illustrator Ron Dollekamp worked closely with Canadian historical illustrator and storyboard artist Francis Back to ensure the period clothing and sailing ship reflect Da Costa’s time and socio-economic milieu. As with all stamps issued in 2017, the Black History stamp will contain references to Canada’s sesquicentennial that are visible only via a special black light.

The domestic rate stamps, available in booklets of 10, are self-adhesive and measure 32 mm x 25 mm. The Official First Day Cover is cancelled in Tadoussac, Quebec, where historians believe Da Costa may have come ashore.

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Canadian Opera issue sings the praises of Canadian talent
Posted on Feb. 05, 2017 by Canada Post in News Releases

OTTAWA – In time for the 2017 opera season, Canada Post has launched five stamps celebrating two significant Canadian-penned operas and three individuals who helped to put modern Canadian opera talent on the world stage.

In their stamp design debut, Parcel Design Inc.’s creative director Gary Beelik and designer Kristine Do, with illustrator Peter Strain, have created a bold five-stamp issue that embodies the colour and drama of modern operatic performances.

Two of the highly theatrical stamps depict significant Canadian operas. Filumena – composed by John Estacio with a libretto by John Murrell – tells the true story of the only woman ever to be hanged in Alberta: an Italian immigrant convicted of murdering a police officer. The opera is being restaged by the Calgary Opera in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, and held its opening performance on February 4. Commissioned to celebrate Canada’s centennial in 1967, Louis Riel – composed by Harry Somers and featuring a libretto by Mavor Moore in collaboration with Jacques Languirand ­– romanticizes the life of the legendary Métis leader. It is being restaged in 2017 to mark both the 50th anniversary of its debut by the Canadian Opera Company and Canada’s sesquicentennial.

The additional three stamps pay homage to the artists who bring magic to the stage. Bass baritone Gerald Finley and soprano Adrianne Pieczonka are regarded internationally as being among the greatest operatic voices on the modern stage. Director Irving Guttman, known as “the father of opera in western Canada” for his artistic vision, is credited with discovering and fostering some of the country’s greatest talent.

The issue includes a booklet of 10 Permanent domestic rate self-adhesive stamps (two of each design), measuring 32 mm x 32 mm, and a gummed souvenir sheet bearing a row of the five stamps. An Official First Day Cover, which incorporates lyrics from both operas, is cancelled in Calgary, Alberta. As with all 2017 stamp issues, Canadian Opera includes references to Canada’s sesquicentennial, which are visible when the stamps are illuminated by a black light.

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Canada Post stamps mark Formula One history in Montreal

The Canadian Grand Prix celebrates its 50th birthday next month and racing icon Sir Jackie Stewart summed up the changes over the years when he sad: “In my day, motor racing was dangerous and sex was safe.”

Stewart was in Montreal to help Canada Post unveil a series of commemorative stamps honouring five of the most memorable drivers in the Formula One race’s history.

Stewart, who won the 1971 and 1972 races at Ontario’s Mosport Park, was selected to represent the first decade of the race’s history. The images from succeeding decades are those of Canadian Gilles Villeneuve, Brazilian Ayrton Senna. German Michael Schumacher and Britain’s Lewis Hamilton, who will be looking for his sixth Canadian Grand Prix title at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, June 9-11.

“All of these drivers won the Canadian Grand Prix at least once and they combined to win 15 world championships,” said RDS Formula One announcer Pierre Houde, who served as the master of ceremonies for the unveiling ceremony at La Poste 1700, an art gallery which began life in 1913 as Postal Station F.

The one driver in the group who didn’t win a world championship was Villeneuve. He won six of his 67 races, including the 1978 Canadian GP, which was the first contested on the Île Notre-Dame track that now bears his name His career ended tragically when he died in a crash during the qualifying for the 1982 Belgian GP. His widow Joanne and daughter Mélanie were on hand for Monday’s unveiling. Absent was Villenueuve’s son, Jacques, who became the only Canadian to win the world championship in 1997.

Stewart won 23 of his 99 Formula One races but quit after Tyrrell teammate François Cevert died in the qualifying for the 1972 U.S Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Stewart became an advocate for safety standards in auto racing and helped bring in such innovations as guard rails, helmets, reinforced car frames, runoff areas and trackside medical facilities.

Cevert was the 34th Formula One driver to die between the start of Formula One in 1950 and 1973. There have been only four fatalities since Senna died in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix.

Stewart, who has had a love affair with Canada since he visited with his mother as a 14-year-old, said he was honoured to have his face on a Canadian stamp.
“Great Britain did one for me but it’s not nearly as nice as this one,” said Stewart. who went on to praise the Canadian Grand Prix as one of the best races on the Formula One circuit.

“You’ve got the Australian Grand Prix and you’ve got Montreal and these two absolutely make Formula One more comfortable, more exciting, more memorable than any other circuits we have,” said Stewart, who served as an analyst when CBC had the rights to the race. “The whole city is behind it and it’s like one big party. Of course, racing drivers are so reserved they never go to any parties, but I understand there’s some good ones going on here.”

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More Star Trek stamps? Make it so, says Canada Post

TORONTO (Reuters) – “Star Trek” fans can now get Starfleet’s most famous figures to help deliver their mail, thanks to a new collection of seven stamps issued on Friday by Canada Post, the country’s mail operator.

The stamps, a followup to a set released last year for the science-fiction franchise’s 50th anniversary, include the captains from each of the five “Star Trek” television series already aired. They are depicted alongside a key nemesis from the series.

The sixth stamp is of the Galileo shuttle craft, which first appeared in the original series in 1966. A holographic foil stamp in the shape of a “Borg” cube is the seventh in the collection.

(Reporting by Solarina Ho; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)

History of Hockey stamps celebrate game with deep roots in Canada and the U.S.
Canada Post, United States Postal Service release sixth joint issue

OTTAWA – Today, Canada Post and the United States Postal Service (USPS) previewed a joint stamp issue celebrating the countries’ shared love of hockey, a game firmly rooted in the lore of both nations.

The History of Hockey stamps will be released at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena October 20, 2017 and available nationwide that day.

This is the sixth joint issue for Canada Post and the USPS dating back to 1959, and the first in more than a decade. It’s also their first celebrating a sport.

“The subjects chosen for joint issues highlight how much our nations have in common, and the love of hockey is one of those things,” says Canada Post’s President and CEO Deepak Chopra. “Hockey has captured the imagination of millions in both countries. It stirs a passion that for many borders on obsession, and these stamps celebrate the pure love of the game.”

Almost 1.2 million people in Canada and the United States are registered in minor and adult hockey leagues, and millions more play recreationally on outdoor rinks and ponds. Both countries have men’s and women’s national teams that have medalled at the Olympics and World Championships, and there are more than 100 professional or semi-professional teams in North America, including in the premier National Hockey League, which has expanded successfully into the American sunbelt.

The stamp format is tête-bêche – a joined pair of similar images in which one is upside down – and the design is strong on nostalgia. On an open pond, a player in modern equipment reflects, literally, on the past. Mirrored in the ice beneath him is a player in vintage gear. The imaginative imagery gives a visual sense of looking back through time. The paired images also depict the game’s evolution and its continuing presence in the lives of players and fans alike.

The selvage – or area outside the stamps on the souvenir sheet – depicts a father teaching his daughter how to play on a pond. “History of Hockey” appears on the bottom left corner of the sheet, with the flags of Canada and the United States in the top right-hand corner.

The first joint issue released by the two postal administrations marked the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Since then, they have jointly commemorated the United States Bicentennial (1976), the 50th anniversary of the Peace Bridge (1977), the St Lawrence Seaway’s 25th anniversary (1984) and the 400th anniversary of Samuel de Champlain’s exploration of the east coast of North America (2006).

About the History of Hockey stamps
Available in a self-adhesive booklet of 10 for $8.50, the two domestic rate PermanentTM stamps measure 26 mm x 40 mm with simulated perforations and are printed in four-colour process plus two special inks. Designed by Roy White of Subplot Design Inc. of Vancouver, the issue features photography by KC Armstrong, with retouching by Brad Pickard, and was printed by Lowe-Martin. The issue also includes a gummed souvenir sheet, featuring a gummed tête-bêche pair. This souvenir sheet also appears on an Official First Day Cover cancelled in Windsor, Ontario. The joint Official First Day Covers feature two tête-bêche pairs, one pair at the Canadian domestic Permanent rate and one at the United States’ Forever domestic rate. The joint cover also features two cancels, one from Detroit, Michigan, and one from Windsor, Ontario.

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Celebrations are underway across the province to celebrate the Memorial Cup and Canada Post is celebrating the centennial event by unveiling a new stamp.

Canada Post lifted the veil on the new stamp at city hall on May 18 celebrating the history of the Memorial Cup.

“The Memorial Cup, 100th Presentation stamp symbolizes junior hockey supremacy in North America, hockey’s connection to community and Canadians’ respect for tradition,” says Jessica McDonald, Canada Post’s chair of the board of directors and interim president and CEO.

“The Cup is part of the very fabric of our great nation.”

The stamp features two players from the Regina Pats who competed in the very first Memorial Cup in 1919 against the University of Toronto.

“The Regina Pats have a very long history in our community and in Canada’s hockey community,” said Regina Mayor Michael Fougere.

“This design acknowledges that the Pats legacy is intertwined with the Memorial Cup’s, and I have no doubt our residents will be very proud of this representation.”

The stamp was illustrated by Louis Hebert and designed by Paprika of Montreal.

Several NHL greats were on-hand for today’s unveiling including Montreal Canadians legend Guy Lafleur.

Stamp marks 100th Anniversary of Armistice of 1918

painting by Uli Malmgren …

Canada Post unveiled a stamp today that celebrates the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended the First World War, a conflict that irrevocably changed Canada and its status on the world stage. After more than 4 years of horrific trench warfare, fighting came to an abrupt end at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. The armistice signed earlier that morning in a railway car near Compiègne, France, silenced the guns on the Western front and brought relief to the world that had never before seen such a conflict.

The stamp depicts a dove suspended above barbed wire and includes the image of a poppy, a powerful symbol of remembrance and the principal emblem of The Royal Canadian Legion. The imagery symbolizes struggle, peace and remembrance and honours those who made the supreme sacrifice in defence of freedom and democracy.

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Canada’s scenery highlighted on From Far and Wide stamps

Canada Post raised postage rates and issued new definitive stamps on Jan. 14.

The stamps are the second set in the From Far and Wide series that began Jan. 15, 2018.

The series is named after lyrics in the national anthem O Canada, and Canada Post says that the stamp designs provide an armchair journey to some of the country’s “most breathtaking and memorable must-see locations.”

Five of the stamps are nondenominated, with a “P” for “permanent” inside a red maple leaf in place of the denomination. These stamps, which Canada Post calls permanent stamps, are always valid for the domestic first-class rate. As of Jan. 14, the rate is 90¢; it previously was 85¢.

The five permanent stamps are se-tenant in booklets of 10, coils of 100 and in a souvenir sheet that includes all nine designs in the new series.

The first stamp in the booklet depicts a group of four hikers in Tombstone Territorial Park in the Yukon. Like all the stamps in the series, the name of the location is hidden in the design. In this case, the microprinting with the park’s name is on the left, just below the ragged mountains.

The Yukon Territory’s website (wwwyukon.ca) said of this remote park: “Tombstone Territorial Park’s 2,200 km2 [approximately 850 square miles) protect a unique wilderness of rugged peaks, permafrost landforms and abundant wildlife, all reflected in a rich First Nations culture. The park is a legacy of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in Land Claim Agreement and lies within their Traditional Territory.”

The second stamp depicts the powerful Athabasca Falls in Jasper National Park in Alberta. Founded in 1907, the park covers approximately 4,250 square miles, making it the largest national park in the Canadian Rockies. It also is part of the Canadian Rocky Mountains Parks UNESCO World Heritage site.

Featured next is the isolated Arctic wilderness of Canada’s northernmost national park, Quttinirpaaq in Nunavut.

A tourism site for the territory (wwwnunavuttourism.com) said: “Featuring wilderness and isolation at its most extreme, Quttinirpaaq (pronounced ‘koo-tin-ir-pa-ak’), as the Inuktitut name suggests, really is the ‘top of the world.’ Located at the northern tip of Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic, it is a vast landscape that offers thrilling adventure to those who are rugged enough to explore it.”

In contrast, the fourth stamp captures a serene view of Nova Scotia’s Mahone Bay in autumn. The town is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and the three churches shown on the stamp (Trinity United Church, St. John’s Lutheran Church and St. James Anglican Church) are also included on the town’s logo.

Pictured on the fifth permanent stamp is Little Limestone Lake in Manitoba’s provincial park of the same name. According to Manitoba’s website (wwwgov.mb.ca), Little Limestone Lake is the “largest and most outstanding example of a marl lake.”

The website also explains that “a marl lake changes colour as its water temperature rises and calcite in the water separates, forming tiny crystals. Little Limestone Lake turns from clear to opaque turquoise or even a milky, blue-white in the warm summer weather.”

Canada Post charges a different price for domestic-rate stamps if they are purchased individually. The stamp for the new single-purchase rate of $1.05 shows Castle Butte, a rock formation that rises 200 feet above Saskatchewan’s Big Muddy Badlands.

This sandstone and clay relic from the last ice age, has help to guide indigenous people, early settlers and the North West Mounted Police. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, outlaws hid in the surrounding badlands.

The postage rate for mail from Canada to the United States jumped 7¢ from $1.20 to $1.27. The $1.27 stamp in the new From Far and Wide set pictures Smoke Lake, one of more than 2,000 lakes in Ontario’s oldest provincial park, Algonquin. The park was established in 1893 and enlarged eight times since.

The remaining two stamps in the set are denominated $1.90 and $2.65 to meet the new rates for oversized mail and international mail, respectively.

Featured on the $1.90 stamp are limestone pillars of Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in Quebec. According to Canada Post, the reserve is home to the largest concentration of ocean-sculpted monoliths in Canada. Puffins, other marine birds and hundreds of species of plants, lichen and moss also inhabit.

The $2.65 stamp depicts icebergs at Iceberg Alley, Ferryland, Newfoundland and Labrador. According to Canada Post, “Crowds gather each spring and summer to gaze at the spectacular sight of icebergs drifting down from the Arctic toward the Grand Banks.”

This 1,800-nautical-mile journey can take two to three years.

In addition to the souvenir sheet, the four stamps with denominations are available in separate booklets of six and coils of 50.

As with the first set in this series, the stamps were designed by Stephane Huot using photographs from different sources and printed by Lowe-Martin using lithography. Each stamp measures 24 millimeters by 20mm, except for the $1.05 coils stamp which is 26mm by 22. The souvenir sheet is 150mm by 75mm.

The photographers are listed at the bottom of the souvenir sheet, and the selvage reproduces the photograph of Algonquin Provincial Park. While the stamps are definitives and can go back to press as needed, the souvenir sheet was printed in a quantity of 80,000.

The souvenir sheet also was used for the 7,000 Canada Post first-day covers canceled in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, with a pictorial cancellation of church steeples.

Canada Post also is depicting the designs of the nine stamps on nondenominated picture postal cards paying the international rate for any destination in the world.

The Canada Post ordering numbers are 262491 for a set of the picture postal cards ($21.20 for the set), 411238145 for the souvenir sheet of nine and 411238144 for the FDC.

The ordering numbers for the booklets are 111238 (permanent stamps), 111239 ($1.27 stamps), 111240 ($1.90) and 111241 ($2.65); and the coils are 101404 (permanent), 401409117 ($1.05), 401406117 ($1.27), 401407117 ($1.90) and 401408117 ($2.65).

Canada Post also is selling the stamps in smaller quantities.

The new Far and Wide stamps and related items are available at wwwcanadapost.ca/shop. Stamps and FDCs are available by mail order from Canada Post Customer Service, Box 90022, 2701 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON K1V 1J8 Canada; or by telephone from the United States or Canada at 800-565-4362, and from other countries at 902-863-6550

Canada Post's newest stamp honours the Vancouver Asahi

Last survivor of the team that invented "brain ball" helps lift the veil on the stamp

BURNABY, B.C. – Canada Post today released a stamp that honours an amateur Japanese-Canadian baseball team that helped remove racial barriers through sport.

The Vancouver Asahi story is well-known in baseball circles, but the stamp honouring the team is about more than baseball. It also tells a uniquely Canadian story about a dark time in our country’s history – a time of overt racism and fear.

It tells the story of adversity, determination and fortitude – a tragic story that ended in reconciliation and forgiveness.

Formed in 1914, the Asahi thrilled fans and filled Japanese Canadians with hope over almost three decades of play on Vancouver’s east side. The team won many senior league championships before being forced to disband shortly after Canada declared war on Japan in 1941. During the Second World War, Canada interned more than 20,000 people of Japanese descent, most of them Canadian citizens.

“Canada’s forcible confinement of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War remains one of the most tragic events in Canadian history,” says the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility, who is responsible for Canada Post. “This stamp reflects the Asahi’s determination to overcome racism and discrimination through the power of sport. Asahi players exhibited integrity, honour and fair play and were shining examples of what it means to be truly Canadian.”

The Asahi developed a unique style of play to compete against bigger, more powerful teams. Dubbed “brain ball,” it involved bunts, base stealing and squeeze plays to score runs – and wins. Their style of play was so successful that, in 1927, the team won a game 3-1 without technically collecting a hit.

The Asahi grew to near mythic proportions within the Japanese-Canadian community; most boys in Vancouver’s “Little Tokyo” dreamed of playing for the team.

Kaye Kaminishi, a third baseman and the last surviving member of the Vancouver Asahi, helped unveil the stamp at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre. Ninety-seven today, he was joined by players from the Asahi Baseball Association, which was inspired by the original team.

The Vancouver Asahi stamp displays 11 Asahi players from the 1940 team, including Kaminishi, who appears in the back row, second from left. Designed by Subplot Inc. of Vancouver, the baseball-shaped stamp is available in booklets of 10. There is also an Official First Day Cover cancelled in Vancouver.

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New stamp commemorates black hockey league nearly lost to time

Players competed in Colored Hockey Championship between 1895 and 1930s

Players used wooden pucks cut from birch trees and would practise in the early mornings on the Bedford Basin or at arenas late at night after white players had finished.

The Cornwallis Street Baptist Church organized Halifax's games. 

"They were paid the handsome sum of 50 cents a month," said Adams.

Though the league continued into the 1930s, and Adams's father and uncles played, he only learned about the significance of the league in the past decade.
'Never too late to recognize history'

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New Mary Riter Hamilton stamp – Oct 28, 2020

World War I battlefield artist Mary Riter Hamilton (1867-1954) will be honored on a new Canadian stamp to be issued Oct. 28. The nondenominated permanent-rate (currently 92¢) stamp will be sold in booklet panes of 10.

In the October issue of its Details magazine for collectors, Canada Post notes that the stamp is being issued to mark Remembrance Day, the Nov. 11 memorial day observed by Canada and other Commonwealth member states in honor of their military members who died in the line of duty.

The stamp pictures Hamilton’s 1919 painting, Trenches on the Somme. The Battle of the Somme was fought in 1916 on both sides of the Somme River in France.

According to Canada Post, “Hamilton developed a reputation as a distinguished painter — and applied to the Canadian War Memorials Fund to be sent to the frontlines as a war artist.”

“Although her application was refused, Hamilton was commissioned by the Amputation Club of British Columbia in 1919 to paint the battered battlefields of France and Belgium for its veterans’ magazine. Hamilton worked endless hours outdoors with poor shelter and little food or money. She produced more than 300 paintings, drawings and etchings of the widespread devastation and arduous reconstruction efforts, and was awarded France’s prestigious Ordre des Palmes academiques in 1922.”

Hamilton endured harsh conditions when she visited the battlefields after the war ended in 1918.

The website of the Canadian Encyclopedia quotes from a 1922 interview in which Hamilton explained what impelled her to work in such a dangerous environment: “I made up my mind that where our men went under so much more dreadful conditions I could go, and I am very proud to have been able even in a small way to commemorate the deeds of my countrymen.”

Today Hamilton’s generosity is on display at the Library and Archives Canada, to which she eventually donated most of her works after returning to Canada in 1925.

In addition to a print quantity of 130,000 booklets, Canada Post produced 7,000 first-day covers for the Mary Riter Hamilton stamp. The covers are postmarked in Teeswater, Ontario, Hamilton’s birthplace. The pictorial cancel features a silhouette of a painting perched on an easel.

Canada Post products are available online and by mail order from Canada Post Customer Service, Box 90022, 2701 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON K1V 1J8 Canada; or by telephone from the United States or Canada at 800-565-4362, and from other countries at 902-863-6550.

Canada’s stamps and stamp products also are available from many new-issue stamp dealers, and from Canada Post’s agent in the United States: Interpost, Box 400, Hewlett, NY 11557.

Canada Post issues Vintage Travel Posters stamps at Capex 2022

On June 9, Canada Post issued five stamps featuring vintage travel posters from the country’s golden age of commercial art and tourism marketing.

The stamps were unveiled on their issue date as part of the opening ceremonies at Capex 2022, the June 9-12 international single-frame stamp championship exhibition in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The nondenominated, permanent-rate (currently 92¢) Vintage Travel Posters stamps were printed in booklets of 10. The issue also includes two souvenir sheets.

In a press release, Canada Post explained that the country’s popularity as a tourist destination surged in the 20th century due to railway expansion and the advent of the automobile.

“Railways and steamship companies promoted the burgeoning industry by commissioning illustrators and designers to target globe-trotting tourists and Canadians alike,” Canada Post said. “Ad campaigns beckoned people to explore Canada’s wild beauty and urban attractions by promising world-class adventure, scenery and luxury.”

The distinctive and elegant style of these travel advertisements promoted the growth of a golden age for commercial art in the country, according to Canada Post. The five posters included in this stamp issue span around 20 years from this golden age.

One stamp from the set shows a poster featuring the observation car on the Canadian, Canadian Pacific Railway’s premier transcontinental train, according to Canada Post. The Rocky Mountains can be seen in the background of the 1955 poster by Canadian artist Roger Couillard.

The poster on another stamp shows a woman sitting atop a ship’s railing against a background of a blue sky with seagulls in flight; text encouraging the viewer to cruise the Great Lakes. Canada Post said the poster dates from around 1937 and credits British artist Tom Purvis for the design.

Toronto’s Royal York hotel dominates the background of the poster on another stamp. The poster, by Norman Fraser and dated around 1935, calls this luxury hotel the largest in the British empire.

Canada Post credits Austrian-born artist Herbert Bayer with the artwork on the 1939 poster showing a woman skiing at the Mont-Tremblant ski resort in Quebec. While the woman’s outfit may not seem practical for skiing (especially by today’s standards), it may point to specific marketing decisions from what Canada Post calls “an era of glamorous travel.”

The remaining stamp features a poster advertising Canada’s picturesque east coast, with people on the beach and a lighthouse in the background. The poster, by Saskatchewan-born artist Peter Ewart and from around 1950, names the towns of St. Andrews by-the-Sea in New Brunswick, and Digby and Yarmouth in Nova Scotia.

Paprika of Montreal, Quebec, designed the stamps. They were printed by Lowe-Martin.

The two souvenir sheets each contain the five stamps. One sheet also is overprinted with the Capex 2022 logo.

In addition, Canada Post also is offering postal cards sold individually and in a set of five, and an official first-day cover.

The booklet, souvenir sheets, FDC and related items are available from Canada Post, and by mail order from Canada Post Customer Service, Box 90022, 2701 Riverside Drive, Ottawa, ON K1V 1J8 Canada; or by telephone from the United States or Canada at 800-565-4362, and from other countries at 902-863-6550.