Canada 2001 150 Years of Canada Post
From Stamps of the World
- Issue date: 6th April 2001
- one value, in a sheetlet of eight
- Design : Tom Yakobina Engraved by Larry O'Gorman
- Printer : Canadian Bank Note Company
- Print process: recess and lithography
- stamp format height 42mm x width 32¾mm
- Perforations : 12.7 x 12.8
- Tagging : GT4
- Quantity : 5000000
150 Years of Canadian Posts, and of Canadian Postage Stamps
47c ~ Three Pence beaver (in red) stamp, designed by Sir Sandford Fleming, issued on April 23, 1851
- issue notes unification of Canadian postal services; post routes, postmasters and postal depots had operated since the Benjamin Franklin's time as Postmaster in the 1760s
Sheet stamp and First Day Cover
Sheetlet of eight stamps
- Issued in a sealed Pack, which also contained an informative brochure
- sheetlet format height 200mm x width 95mm
