A major development is underway in the local stamp community. Firmin Wyndels, the owner of Victoria-based Weeda Stamps and Garden City Philatelic Auctions, has announced that he will acquire All Nations Stamp & Coin which is based in Vancouver. Brian Grant Duff, the long-time dealer/owner of All Nations is retiring, but will stay on for […]
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Mark your calendars for the 2026 Sea & Valley Philatelic Exhibition sponsored by the Peace Arch Stamp Club and the Fraser Valley Stamp Club. Saturday, March 26, 20269:00 am to 3:00 pm West Langley Hall9402 – 208th Street,Langley More information can also be found on the club websites:https://www.peacearchstampclub.com/https://fraservalleystampclub.com/
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This real-photo picture post card was purchased at VicTopical in early March 2020. The address side is a regular Warwick Brother & Rutter design. The card shows BC Electric Company’s interurban No. 1304 at Edmonds and Kingsway, stopped on its way to New Westminster. The occasion was the visit to Vancouver of the Governor-General of
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This cover is paying the 25¢ airmail rate from Vancouver, BC to Christmas Island (Kiritimati) in the Central South Pacific. Dated November 4, 1957, it was mailed to an officer in the Royal Engineers and is backstamped November 7th, just three days later! The addressee would have been there as part of the contingent that
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In Biblical times, God wrote messages on stone to His people and laid down instructions and guides for those generations. In comparatively modern times, man was to write in steel on mountain passes, across chasms, in valley beds and through the wildest country in southern Canada, in winter and in summer. Twin bands of steel
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Burrard Inlet B.C. is the name of a post office in the province of B.C. Very few people can locate this post office on a map. Some realize it is the beautiful salt-water inlet that starts under the Lion’s Gate Bridge and stretches past the city of Vancouver for thirty miles inland, through fjord-like scenery
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This exhibit describes the evolution of postal services in Vancouver from the earliest pioneer days into the later 19th century. By Gray Scrimgeour
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Sent via California but Censored in Vancouver Gray Scrimgeour brought this cover to Muffin Break a few months ago. Here is a registered cover from Shanghai (mailed October 10, 1941) mailed to New Hampshire. It was carried possibly by an American President liner to San Pedro, California (December 27, 1941) and sent to Vancouver, Canada
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