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Canada Post has issued this year’s secular and religious holiday stamps, carrying on a decades-long tradition dating back to 1964.
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#OTD in 1923, @UofT doctors Frederick Banting and John Macleod jointly won the Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery of insulin, which has since saved the lives of millions of diabetics.
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After appearing on stage before making his film debut in the 1958 drama Stage Struck, the Toronto-born, Québec-raised actor appeared in more than 200 films, TV movies and mini-series.
#film #acting #topical #thematic #Canadianstamps
The third of five stamps in @canadapostcorp's editorial cartoonist set features Terry Mosher, a long-time Montreal Gazette artist known by his nom de plume, “Aislin.”
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#OTD in 1988, an international forum on the beluga whale was held in Tadoussac, Qué., after the species was found to be endangered by pollution in the St. Lawrence River and Saguenay River.
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#OTD in 1668, U.S. sea captain Zachariah Gillam reached Rupert River, in present-day Québec, on the ketch Nonsuch.
Three centuries later, @canadapostcorp issued a stamp (shown at top left w/ three essays).
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#OTD in 1254, Italian merchant Marco Polo, known for his far-reaching travels through Asia, was born in the Republic of Venice.
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#OTD in 1991, Bryan Adams' single (Everything I Do) I Do It for You topped the Canadian Singles Chart.
In 2009, @canadapostcorp featured Adams and three other Canadian artists on a record-shaped pane.
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#philately #collectstamps #Canadianmusic
#OTD in 1620, French colonist Samuel de Champlain was appointed as a lieutenant to Henry II, the Duke of Montmorency.
In 2014, the @CanadianMint honoured Champlain via its “Great Explorers” series—but exactly who's featured in the portrait?
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After going unsold despite widespread interest this spring, the Perth Collection will once again cross the block during this August’s Royal Canadian Numismatic Association Auction.
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