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ONTARIO Ottawa Stamp Auctions Ottawa City Stamp Montreal Montreal R.D www.canadianstampnews.ca An essential resource for the CANADIAN advanced and beginning collector Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/canadianstampnews Follow us on Twitter @trajanpublisher STAMP NEWS Follow us on Instagram @trajan_csn Volume 44 • Number 22 February 18 - March 2, 2020 $5.50 Black History stamp honours little-known hockey history By Jesse Robitaille men. Natural leaders and pro- In the late 19th century, Bap- A stamp honouring the “Col- ponents of Black pride, these tist Church leaders believed all- ored Hockey Championship” men represented a concept in Black hockey would attract and its all-Black competitors sports never before seen.” young Black men to the church was unveiled this January as The league was active be- and strengthen their religious part of Canada Post’s ongoing tween 1895 and the early 1930s, path. Influenced by the writ- Black History Month series. but Black hockey players were ings of contemporary Black Established more than two competing on frozen ponds leader Booker T. Washington, Two of the featured lots in the upcoming sale include Lot decades before the National and lakes as far back as the four Nova Scotians organized 227 (left), a mint one-shilling stamp issued by the then- Hockey League, the Colored 1820s, according to a 2012 re- the league’s first games, ac- British colony of New Brunswick in 1851 with a catalogue Hockey League was rooted in port by sportswriter and cording to the Fostys. value of $60,000, and Lot 231, an unissued New Brunswick Nova Scotia’s black churches hockey historian Bob Dawson, They included: Pastor James five-cent brown stamp depicting Postmaster General and boasted upwards of 400 of Dartmouth, N.S. Borden, of Dartmouth Church; Charles Connell with a catalogue value of $40,000. players across more than a “Since racism prevented James Kinney, a Cornwallis dozen teams in the Maritimes. them from playing on white Street Church layman who In this little-known chapter of teams, Blacks formed their later became the first Black Canadian hockey history, play- own,” wrote Dawson. graduate of the Maritime Busi- BNA, Canada offerings ers and organizers arranged ness College; James Johnston, their own matches while chang- the first black graduate of ing the game of hockey in some Continued on page 23 abound in upcoming significant ways. “The Colored Hockey League The Colored Hockey Eastern Auctions sale was one of the most complex Championship is sports organizations ever cre- commemorated on Canada By Jesse Robitaille A worldwide section will ated,” reads a 2004 book, Black Post’s 2020 Black History two-session auction high- open the Feb. 28-29 sale with Ice: The Lost History of the Colored Month stamp. ‘Colored’ is lighted by British North Lots 1-211, which feature a “re- Hockey League of the Maritimes, a term no longer in use but AmericaA and Canada, includ- markable estate” of parallel 1895-1925, by George and Dar- something the stamp retains ing an extensive section of King mint and used Colonial Africa ril Fosty. for historical accuracy, the George V “Admiral” stamps collections, said Eastern Auc- “It was a league led by Bap- Crown corporation said in a and postal history, will be of- tions stamp specialist and chief tist ministers and church lay- statement. fered by New Brunswick’s describer Yohann Tanguay. Eastern Auctions this February. It will be followed by a Brit- ish North America section Publications Registration Mail No. 09136 Agreement No. 40069699 Agreement Mail No. 09136 Publications Registration from Lot 212-314. Barrie’s Bob Vogel Among the highlights is Lot 227, a “flawless” mint one- takes on PSSC presidency shilling stamp (Scott #3) is- sued by the then-British col- By Jesse Robitaille ony of New Brunswick in A collector for more than 50 years and a noted specialist in Canadian postal history, Bob Vogel 1851. Described as being is now at the helm of the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada (PSSC). “among the rarest stamps of Elected at the PSSC’s annual general meeting in December, Vogel joined the invite-only society British North America,” it’s nearly two decades ago and most recently served as its membership director for five years. Now one of fewer than a dozen ex- sitting in the PSSC’s top spot, he’s set to continue the work of outgoing president Ingo Nessel. amples that can be classified as Very Fine and unused, Tan- Continued on page 11 guay said. The Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada “A key mint stamp missing ‘Specialization Medal’ is awarded at national- from many advanced collec- level Canadian exhibitions for exhibits showing tions,” it has a catalogue value ‘evidence of significant research relating to a of $60,000, he added. subject.’ Only one of these awards is handed Another New Brunswick rar- out at each show, and non-member recipients ity, this a “very rare premium also receive an invitation to join the society. mint example” of the colony’s unissued five-cent brown stamp Part four of Ian Robertson’s Looking Back column can be found on Page 6 in this issue. 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