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By 1927, airmail service had expanded to Manitoba, and a regular airmail route between Rimouski, Quebec, Montreal, and Ottawa had been established. In 1937, the Post Office provided Trans-Canada Airlines with airmail contract. Daily airmail service between Vancouver and Montreal began in 1939. [18]
By this time dozens of post offices were being opened. 1816 was also when the postal services of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia were separated, and not rejoined until 1868. Postmarks had been in use since 1764, Finlay having been introduced to them by Franklin. The earliest markings were town names in a straight line.
1867 1 July - The State of Prussia nationalizes the centuries-old private Thurn und Taxis Post. [3] 1867 1 July - The Province of Canada is joined by Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating the Dominion of Canada. 1867 - first stamps of Bolivia; 1867 - first stamps of Austrian post offices in the Turkish Empire; 1868 - first stamps of Persia
In 1904, three wireless communication offices were established, and in early 1906 they were merged with the postal service to form the Post and Wireless Office. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] In 1945, after the August Revolution, the Post and Wireless Office was renamed the Post Office under the Ministry of Transportation.
The building c. 1839. The building opened in 1833, before York became the City of Toronto.Therefore, the post office is known both as the "Fourth York Post Office" (as there had been three prior post offices in the settlement) and "Toronto's First Post Office" (as it was the first post office to serve the newly incorporated city). [1]
The position of Postmaster General was established in each province. With Canadian Confederation in 1867, a single position was created replacing this post in all of the above provinces except Newfoundland; this position was abolished in 1981 when the post office was transformed from a government department into a crown corporation. Since 1981 ...
The amount of mail sent to Santa Claus increased every Christmas, to the point that Canada Post established an official Santa Claus letter-response program in 1983. By 2011, Santa's mail was being handled with the assistance of 11,000 volunteers, mostly current or former postal workers, [ 36 ] at multiple locations across Canada, [ 37 ] [ 38 ...
Before the introduction of rural free delivery (RFD) by the Post Office in 1896, [17] and in Canada in 1908, [18] many rural residents had no access to the mail unless they collected it at a post office located many miles from their homes or hired a private express company to deliver it to them. For this reason, mailboxes did not become popular ...