The Postcards of Stan V. Wright Ltd., Victoria BC This exhibit by Rick Deegan shows the production history of postcards by Stanley Victor Wright, one of the best-known modern publishers on Vancouver Island. It describes the various printing companies used and the locations captured in a vast array of colour postcards distributed to the tourist […]
This extensive exhibit by David Foreman (more than 80 scanned pages) examines the postal history of the mails to and from the Straits Settlements, Malaya and British Borneo during the Second World War. It includes details of the postal system after the Japanese invasion of the British colonies. David Foreman (1934 – 2017) was an
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I recently bought two related covers for my Similkameen Valley collection. They are concerned with the building of the Hope – Princeton Highway during World War II. This highway – opened on November 2, 1949 – became a direct route to the Similkameen region, through an undeveloped and isolated area. The first cover, posted in
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“Just imagine….” he muttered, staring at a Canadian six pence stamp of 1851. He compared the engraved portrait of Prince Albert on the stamp with the larger image on a steel engraving collected many years earlier. The collector was quietly studying this stamp by kerosene lighting in his Vancouver Island home at Deerholme. And he
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In the 2019 fourth quarter issue of Topics, the journal of BNAPS, I read the article “Classified Mail” by Bill Pekonen. In the article he lists eight different classifications that were used during WWII to indicate how secret the correspondence was. The third classification was Confidential. Having read the classifications, I remembered that I had
This display explores postage stamp production as printing technology, postal needs and design styles evolved. VICPEX 2022 provided me an opportunity to prepare and show a “one frame” display in support of philately on Vancouver Island. “One frame” exhibits generally are defined by judges to show a narrow subject, about a nearly complete story or
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In the early 1970s, when I was a graduate student at Michigan State University, I visited an underwhelming little stamp shop in Lansing and purchased their entire stock of (two) Canadian covers. One was an illustrated brewery cover from Phoenix, BC. After retiring to Victoria, I finally got around to looking at that cover again
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On March 25, 1915, under the provisions of the Special War Revenue Act, Canada’s Post Office Department issued a notice to the public concerning the imposition of a War Tax on letters and postcards [see Fig. 1]. This was to be displayed in post offices and other prominent locations. It announces that the new tax
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Similar Covers – An Endorsement Can Be Crucial The similarities are that the covers are franked by a 6d violet, plate 1 cancelled by an OSWESTRY spoon and addressed to the same address in Goderich, Canada West (now Ontario). Located on the shores of Lake Huron, Goderich was first laid out in 1828 and is
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Censorship is the suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet or other controlling body. Postal Censorship Postal censorship is the inspection or examination of mail, most often by government, that can include the opening,
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