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The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada. Before Canadian confederation , the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names.
Atlantic Mails: A History of the Mail Service Between Great Britain and Canada to 1889 (National Postal Museum, 1980). Bickerton, Geoff. "Postal deregulation and its impact on postal workers: a Canadian union perspective." in Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector (Edward Elgar, 2006) pp. 203–216.
The Canadian Postal Museum was established in 1971 and opened in 1974 as the National Postal Museum. It joined the Canadian Museum of Civilization in 1988, adopted its current name in 1996, and moved into a permanent space in the Museum of Civilization in 1997.
The postmaster general of Canada was the Canadian cabinet minister responsible for the Post Office Department (Canada Post). In 1851, management of the post office was transferred from Britain ( Royal Mail ) to the provincial governments of the Province of Canada , New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island .
Postal orders were a service provided by the Canadian Post Office, and was a method of transferring funds between 1898 and 1 April 1949.. Postal orders have been issued by the Canadian Post Office roughly since confederation (the timeline linked to below, for example, cites the postal money order system as expanding to Manitoba in July 1873).
From 1784 to 1850, Deputy Postmasters General were appointed in the Canadian colonies, subordinate to the Postmaster General of the United Kingdom. On July 28, 1849, the British Parliament passed An Act for Enabling Colonial Legislatures to Establish Inland Posts. Legislation was passed in the Province of Canada in 1850 to regulate the ...
According to a cover story in Canadian Stamp News, the third 2c Laid Paper was found in an American Philatelic Society salesbook and purchased for less than $5. Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation Certificate No. G 20118 states the following: "Date June 24, 2013 Comments: Canada Scott No. 32, used, on horizontal laid paper ...
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