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Issued this day in 1968: Sc 479. Meteorology. Design: George Sarra Fanais.
Issued to mark the bicentennary of the first known meteorological readings taken in Canada.
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Issued this day in 2012. Sc 2526 souvenir sheet of 2. Daylilies. Design: Isabelle Toussaint.
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Issued this day in 2010. Sc 2375i vertical pair, die cut to shape from Quarterly Pack. Celebrating the Olympic Spirit. Design: Signals Design Group.
This pair, issued during the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver features (top) men’s four-man bobsleigh and men’s short track realy speed skating. The stamp on the bottom is about women’s cross-country sprint and shows Chandra Crawford winning gold at the 2006 games in Torino.
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Issued this day in 1994. Sc 1507. Greetings Booklet - I. Canada on left. Design: Steven Spazuk. The idea here was that you’d buy a booklet of these and each booklet came with seven different round stickers that you could place in the middle of the stamp. Stickers featured balloons, a heart, a fountain pen and so on. #MyStamps #canadaStamps