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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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2021-11-02

The third of five stamps in 's editorial cartoonist set features Terry Mosher, a long-time Montreal Gazette artist known by his nom de plume, “Aislin.”

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2021-10-07

in 1668, U.S. sea captain Zachariah Gillam reached Rupert River, in present-day Québec, on the ketch Nonsuch.

Three centuries later, issued a stamp (shown at top left w/ three essays).

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2021-09-29

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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2021-09-16

in 1991, Bryan Adams' single (Everything I Do) I Do It for You topped the Canadian Singles Chart.

In 2009, featured Adams and three other Canadian artists on a record-shaped pane.

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2021-08-24

A decade later, in 1998, honoured architect William Roué on a stamp.

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2021-06-30

in 1864, George Brown joined the “Great Coalition” with George-Étienne Cartier and John A. Macdonald in an attempt to move Canada towards Confederation.

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2021-06-22

in 1981, Canadian artist Lawren Harris' 1930 oil-on-beaverboard painting "South Shore, Baffin Island" sold for $240,000—then a record for a Canadian painting.

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2021-05-27

The design career of renowned Norwegian designer Martin Mörck, the engraver of several Canadian stamps, was highlighted in a recent Collectors’ Conference webinar.

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2021-04-02

in 1928, Gordie Howe was born in a Saskatchewan farmhouse, where he would grow up with eight siblings.

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2021-04-01

Over the years, (and its pre-1981 predecessor, the Post Office Department) also commemorated the and on many stamps.

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2021-03-09

in 1970, William Roué, the visionary naval architect behind the iconic Bluenose, died at age 90.

In 1998, honoured him on a domestic-rate stamp.

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2021-01-15

in 1907, Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell held his first scouting camp, which led to the “Scout” movement a year later.

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2020-07-30

in 1928, Gordie Howe was born at a farmhouse in Floral, Sask., where he grew up with eight siblings.

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2020-03-31