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5 Commemorative envelopesWe mark the 150th anniversaries of three Canadian regiments whose members are ready to serve at a moment’s notice.

6 Sweet CanadaTake a delicious cross-country trip with stamps depicting traditional Canadian desserts.

8 Endangered TurtlesA pair of stamps remind us to slow down and look out for these adorable reptiles that are at risk.

10 Historic Covered BridgesThis set of stamps highlights five of these rare historic structures that were once quite common throughout rural Canada.

12 Royal Canadian Mint CoinsBrowse the variety of collectible coins available for all occasions.

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CONTENTS

EVENTS

April 26-27 EXUP 46 – International Stamp Show of Montréal Maison du citoyen 7501 rue François-Perreault Montréal, Quebec

April 27 Sudbury Stamp and Coin Show Parkside Centre 140 Durham Street Sudbury, Ontario

April 27 Valley Stamp Show and Exhibition Port Williams Community Centre 1045 Main Street Port Williams, Nova Scotia

April 28 APEX 2019 Pickering Recreation Complex 1867 Valley Farm Road Pickering, Ontario

April 28 (new date) AMPEX 2019 W.J. Mouat Secondary School 32355 Mouat Drive Abbotsford, British Columbia

May 4 Saugeen Stamp Club Show Hanover Knights of Columbus Hall 963 Bruce Road 4 Hanover, Ontario

May 4-5 ORAPEX 2019 RA Centre – 2451 Riverside Drive Ottawa, Ontario

May 11 LAMPEX 2019 Great Lakes Secondary School 275 Wellington Street Sarnia, Ontario

May 24-25 International Stamp Show of Laval Place des aînés de Laval 435 boul. Curé-Labelle Laval, Quebec

June 21-23 ROYAL 2019 Hilton Mississauga 6750 Mississauga Road Mississauga, Ontario

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DEAR COLLECTORSHere’s to a sweet spring

Jim Phillips, Director, Stamp Services

Spring is on the way and the return of longer, warmer days has special meaning to Canadians: maple syrup, wildlife reappearing from winter hideaways, and family road trips. This issue of Details features three stamp issues that invite us to reconnect with some of our favourite springtime themes.

Five delectable desserts that are quintessentially Canadian include Ontario’s incomparable butter tart and Quebec’s much-loved sugar pie – both of which have been known to include maple syrup. These mouth-watering stamps are the perfect way to send greetings to that special someone with a sweet tooth.

There are two species of turtles assessed as endangered in Canada. While Blanding’s turtles and spotted turtles spend most of their lives in wetland habitats, their stamps will travel across the country to make us more mindful of what threatens our reptilian friends.

Among rural Canada’s most impressive historic covered bridges stand Quebec’s Powerscourt Bridge – one of the oldest in the country – and the Hartland Bridge, in New Brunswick, known to be the longest in the world. These and three other bridges are featured on our stamps.

From swamp creatures to sweets, we have a little something for everyone.

Happy collecting,

Family members unveil a stamp celebrating Albert Jackson, regarded as Canada’s first Black

letter carrier, at St. Lawrence Hall, in Toronto, Ontario, on January 24, 2019. From left to right: Shawne Jackson-Troiano (great-granddaughter),

Lawrence Jackson (grandson) and Jay Jackson (great-grandson).

P.S. We’re looking forward to a summer of exciting stamp issues, including one that is out of this world.• Vancouver Asahi, April 25• June issue to be announced soon• Bears, July 24

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Fusiliers du St-Laurent 150th anniversaryIssue date: April 6, 2019

Fusiliers Mont-Royal 150th anniversaryIssue date: April 26, 2019

Princess Louise Fusiliers 150th anniversaryIssue date: June 7, 2019

With the motto J’y suis en garde (“I am on guard”), the Fusiliers du St-Laurent, based in Rimouski, Quebec, have served with distinction in many Canadian operations, at home and abroad, since their founding on April 9, 1869.

The Fusiliers Mont-Royal call home Montréal’s historic armoury on Pine Avenue. Founded on June 18, 1869, the regiment traces its heritage to earlier local militias. In 1879, it chose the motto, Nunquam Retrorsum (“Never backward”).

Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the Princess Louise Fusiliers were officially created on June 18, 1869. Not long after, the regiment was named in honour of Queen Victoria’s fourth daughter, who was Canada’s vice-regal consort at the time.

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Our country’s traditional desserts offer more than just a scrumptious way to end a meal – their origins are a tasty part of our history. These stamps give you a chance to discover the sweet stories behind some of our favourite treats.

Work ing w i th des igner s Roy Whi te and Liz Wurzinger of Vancouver’s Subplot Design Inc., illustrator Mary Ellen Johnson began her assignment in the kitchen, baking the five delectable desserts chosen for the stamps, photographing them, and then creating oil paintings of each. Subplot reinforced the culinary concept with a recipe card-inspired design that shows a truly satisfying slice of creativity.

The Nanaimo bar (1), a no-bake dessert bar, is named after the city of Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A crumb crust of chocolatey coconut is topped with rich, creamy custard and covered with a layer of melted chocolate.

An original Canadian recipe, Saskatoon berry pie (2) is a local delight, with the berries, tasting like a mix of almonds and apples, wrapped in flaky pastry. A staple for Indigenous peoples and early settlers, the berries are high in fibre, protein and antioxidants.

The i r name i s der i ved f rom the Cree word misâskwatômina, which also inspired the name of the city of Saskatoon, meaning “at the Saskatoon berry.”

The earliest published Canadian recipe of butter tarts (3) dates back to 1900. An integral part of east-ern Canadian cuisine, this sugary treat has inspired tours and tasting festivals. Ontario’s Best Butter Tart Festival and Contest, held annually in Midland, attracts bakers from across the province and is the largest celebration of its kind in Canada.

A staple of Quebec patisseries, sugar pie (4) (tarte au sucre) traces its origins to France. Colonists brought the recipe for the pie along with them – but since brown sugar was a rare commodity in New France, early French-Canadian versions used maple syrup as a sweetener.

Believed to be an early adaptation of an English steamed pudding, blueberry grunt (5) gets the name from the sound it makes as the blueberries bubble and steam under a dumpling topping. The popular desser t has been enjoyed by generat ions of Maritimers, who came up with this delicious way to use a bumper crop of local blueberries.

SWEET CANADAIssue date: April 17, 2019

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Product Denomination Size Quantity Printing process

Booklet of 10 stamps 5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate)Sugar pie

Butter tartSaskatoon berry pie

Nanaimo barBlueberry grunt

34.40 mm x 30.49 mm 31.95 mm x 29.44 mm 40.93 mm x 30.94 mm 35.11 mm x 32.04 mm 43.06 mm x 27.93 mm

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Souvenir sheet of 5 stamps 5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 127 mm x 90 mm 80,000 Lithography in 6 colours

Souvenir sheet Official First Day Cover

5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 190 mm x 112 mm 7,000 Cancellation sites: Nanaimo BC and Saskatoon SK

Design: Subplot Design Inc. Illustration: Mary Ellen Johnson Photos: Index cards – istockphoto.com; box – Storyblocks; label – Adobe | Anja Kaiser; recipe card – deviantart.com | LL-stock; blue paper – deviantart.com | bashcorpo; syrup splashes – istockphoto.com | Alasdair James Printer: Canadian Bank Note

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ENDANGERED TURTLESIssue date: May 23, 2019

With spring in full swing – and camping, canoeing and cottage life just around the corner – you might soon encounter one of Canada’s eight freshwater turtle species. These stamps showcase two species that have been assessed as endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).

In Canada, Blanding’s tur tles (Emydoidea blandingii ) l ive in the centre of southwestern Nova Scot ia and around the Great L akes – St. Lawrence region of Ontario and Quebec. Able to survive and reproduce well into their 80s, Blanding’s turtles are among the longest lived of their freshwater kin. However, encroaching development of their freshwater habitat, which includes ponds,

marshes and the shorelines of shallow lakes and streams, puts their existence at significant risk.

Canadian populations of the spotted turtle (Clemmys guttata) are now found only in isolated pockets around central and southern Ontario. Once much more common, the province’s smallest turtle, which carries a shell that’s less than 13 centimetres long, is a victim of habitat loss and collection for the illegal pet trade. The tiny, hardy reptile survives the long, cold winters by hibernating, singly or communally, in the mud at the bottom of ice-covered wetlands or in underwater burrows.

Creatively presented by designer Adrian Horvath and illustrator Sarah Still, the images on these stamps blend beauty and accuracy – qualities that Still argues

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go hand in hand. “I’ve always enjoyed realism and highly detailed work. I believe nature already provides us with beautiful subjects. It’s my pleasure to help others see them as I do,” she says.

“I wanted these turtles to pop off the stamp,” says Horvath. The real challenge, he added, was finding a way to break the subjects out of the stamp

frame in a way that worked in every application – as 10 stamps in a booklet, as a single stamp on a letter, and as a bound (se-tenant) duo on the Official First Day Cover and souvenir sheet.

According to COSEWIC, habitat loss, road mortality and illegal collection are among the biggest threats to the two species featured on these stamps. Since turtles are exceptionally long-living creatures that breed as slowly as they move, the loss of even a single adult is devastating.

“I want people to be in awe of these beautiful creatures – and to enjoy the playfulness of the stamps,” says Horvath. “I hope this stamp issue inspires people to find out what they can to help these species flourish and to preserve their habitat.”

Product Denomination Size Quantity Printing process

Booklet of 10 stamps 2 x Permanent™ (domestic rate)Clemmys guttata

Emydoidea blandingii 34.74 mm x 32.79 mm 34.87 mm x 34.11 mm

200,000 Lithography in 4 colours

Souvenir sheet of 2 stamps 2 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 82 mm x 85 mm 75,000 Lithography in 4 colours

Official First Day Cover 2 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 190 mm x 112 mm 7,000 Cancellation site: Maitland Bridge NS

Design: Adrian Horvath Illustration: Sarah Still Printer: Canadian Bank Note

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I hope this stamp issue inspires people to find out what they can do to help these species flourish and to preserve their habitat.Adrian Horvath, stamp designer

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At the end of the 19th century, there were more than 1,400 covered bridges in rural communities across Canada. Today, only an estimated 140 remain.

O p ened in 19 01 and cove red in 1922, New Brunswick’s Hartland Bridge (1) is the longest of its kind in the world, spanning 391 metres. An engineering marvel, it boasts seven heavy-timber Howe trusses supported by six piers.

Also known as the Percy Bridge, Quebec’s Powerscourt Bridge (2), built in 1861, is one of Canada’s oldest covered bridges and the only known example of the McCallum inflexible arched-truss design that is still in existence.

The Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge (3), extending 152 metres from end to end, is Quebec’s longest covered bridge and one of its oldest. Built in 1898, it is unique in the province for its combination of Queen Post and Town lattice trusses.

Ontario’s last remaining historic covered bridge, the 60-metre West Montrose Bridge (4) – opened in 1881 over the Grand River – features Howe trusses and louvered window openings.

The Ashnola No. 1 (5) railroad bridge measuring 135 metres across British Columbia’s Similkameen River, was completed in 1907 and rebuilt in 1926 with its Howe trusses sheathed in wood panelling and cross-bracing exposed overhead. I t was converted for automobile use in 1961.

HISTORIC COVERED BRIDGESIssue date: June 17, 2019

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Booklet of 10 stamps 5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 38 mm x 38 mm 200,000 Lithography in 9 colours

Souvenir sheet of 5 stamps ‡ 5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 134 mm x 86 mm 80,000 Lithography in 9 colours

Souvenir sheet Official First Day Cover

5 x Permanent™ (domestic rate) 190 mm x 112 mm 7,000 Cancellation site: Hartland NB

Design: Paprika Photos: Hartland – Craig Lovell | Eagle Visions Photography | Alamy Stock Photo; Powerscourt – Harold Stiver; Félix-Gabriel-Marchand – Éric Foucart; West Montrose – Moment | Getty Images; Ashnola No. 1 – Joe (José) Garcia Printer: Canadian Bank Note ‡Gum Type: PVA

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Postcards (set of 5)262499

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Postcard (Hartland Bridge)262494

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Postcard (Powerscourt Bridge)262495

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Postcard (Félix-Gabriel-Marchand Bridge)262496

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Postcard (West Montrose Bridge)262497

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