Weather Wonders • UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada • Alice Munro WEATHER WONDERS UNCUT PRESS SHEET We’Re Forecasting a Sell-Out

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Inside • Weather Wonders • UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada • Alice Munro WEATHER WONDERS UNCUT PRESS SHEET We’re forecasting a sell-out

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6 Weather Wonders We’re always talking about the weather – so this issue of five stamps should be a real conversation starter.

8 UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada Featuring more UNESCO World Heritage sites, including the newest one, which tells the story of Basque whalers and the history of the Newfoundland-Labrador coast.

11 Alice Munro We celebrate Alice Munro, the first Canadian woman author to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013.

12 Royal Canadian Mint Coins All kinds of collectible coins for all occasions.

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Striker Christine Sinclair of Burnaby, British Columbia, and defender Kadeisha Buchanan of Mississauga, Ontario, both of the Canadian women’s soccer team, mug for a selfie in front of the stamp design for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015™ that bears their likenesses. The stamp was revealed in Edmonton April 28, and released nationwide May 6.

Sometimes we look at the stamps we’re covering in a just how amazing the elements can be. Then there’s particular issue of Details, and we can’t get over how our tribute to author Alice Munro, beloved here at just a fraction of the offerings in our annual stamp home not only for writing her short stories, but also program can depict such a wide range of important for capturing the attention of the world when she topics to Canadians. became the first Canadian woman to receive the Take this issue, for example. Nobel Prize for Literature. We’re revealing our third set of stamps on Clearly, the stamps in this issue of Details capture UNESCO World Heritage sites, which feature it all – our nature, history, peace-loving temperament, dinosaur stomping grounds, the early Basque culture, art and achievements. It’s a sampling of all whaling industry and a park that exemplifies the long that Canadian stamps have to offer, and we hope and peaceful relationship we’ve enjoyed with our you enjoy it. neighbours to the south – not to mention some beautiful, typically Canadian scenery that you’ll want to collect and share in your mail. Then there’s our Weather Wonders stamp issue. Let’s face it, Canadians love to talk (and sometimes gripe) about the weather – and these stamps show Jim Phillips, Director, Stamp Services

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Weather is both dazzling and deadly, and that is why it is so attractive to us. David Phillips, senior climatologist at Environment Canada

1 Sunny, cloudy, pleasant or miserable – we feel the weather deeply. There’s no escaping it… but who would want to? The intense beauty of good, bad or even dangerous weather captures imaginations, sparks conversations and inspires artists. From brilliant flashes of lightning to crystal-clear ice veneers, the images on these stamps showcase the incredible variety of weather we experience 2 in Canada – all thanks to the photographers who braved the elements to capture these meteorological marvels. Armed with these spectacular visuals, Kosta Tsetsekas and Defne Corbacioglu – of Vancouver- based Signals – designed a set of stamps that are tied together seamlessly. “We used themed icons as a nod to the long 3 history of weather iconography – the small suns, clouds and raindrops you see in your daily weather forecast,” explains Tsetsekas. “The icons add spice to the stamps without clouding the wonderful photography,” adds Corbacioglu. The five photographs come from every corner of the country. Daryl Benson snapped hoar frost (1) covering a tree near Beaumont, Alberta. Geoff 4 Whiteway focused on hazy, early-morning fog (2) at Cape Spear Lighthouse National Historic Site in Newfoundland. In Saint-Gédéon, Quebec, Mike Grandmaison chased a rain shower to shoot a double rainbow (3), while Dave Reede captured radiant flashes of lightning (4) near Winnipeg, Manitoba. Further north, in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Frank Reardon caught rarely witnessed sun dogs (5), created by ice 5 crystals in the air. Each weather wonder was carefully chosen with expert assistance from Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, David Phillips, who shares our fascination with weather. Says Phillips, “I marvel at the beauty – and violence – of weather in Canada, which these stamps spectacularly depict.”

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I realize how fortunate we are for our many meteorological landscapes. David Phillips

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2 When I look at the new series of stamps, I am reminded of how much there is to explore in this vast country. Lara Minja, stamp designer

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Our multi-year journey through the wonders of are the Canadian components of a vast, unbroken Canada’s UNESCO World Heritage sites continues ecological unit that covers 97,000 square kilometres. with this third issue composed of three U.S.- and two The only human interaction with the land is a historic international-rate stamps. This long-running series is Aboriginal presence. This World Heritage site also being produced along with a fourth issue comprising includes Alaska’s Wrangell-St. Elias National Park domestic definitives that will be released later this and Preserve (1) and Glacier Bay National Park and year. This is in response to many requests we’ve Preserve (1). It was the first transboundary site to be received over the years for stamps that depict the placed on the World Heritage List. natural and cultural beauty of our country. Dinosaur Provincial Park (2), in the badlands of Home to most of the tallest peaks in North America southeastern Alberta, contains some of the most and the largest ice field outside of the polar caps, impor tant fossil discoveries of more than 4 0 dinosaur Kluane National Park and Reserve (1) in the Yukon species dating back to the Late Cretaceous Period, and British Columbia’s Tatshenshini-Alsek Park (1) 75 million years ago. The retreat of the last ice age about

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This year’s series is a beautiful patchwork of differing landscapes, of textures and colours, of contrasts in scale and perspective, and of historical, geographical and cultural history. Lara Minja

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13,000 years ago created the Red Deer River Valley, sustain the largest free-roaming herd of bison, the along with the hoodoos, isolated mesas and low- nesting habitat of the world’s last remaining wild lying coulees of the badlands. It also left the Earth’s migratory flock of whooping cranes, and some nesting greatest concentration of Late Cretaceous dinosaur sites of the peregrine falcon. fossils. Since digging began in the 1880s, more than The idea to unite two national parks, Waterton 300 dinosaur skeletons have been pulled from a Lakes National Park in Alberta and Glacier National 27-kilometre stretch along the Red Deer River. These Park in Montana, was first proposed in 1931 by the remains can be found in museums around the world. Rotary clubs of Alberta and Montana. A year later, Wood Buffalo National Park (3) is the very the two combined to become the Waterton-Glacier embodiment of northern Canada. Its 44,807 square International Peace Park (4), the first park of its kind kilometres encompass boreal forest and plains and in the world to promote peace and friendship some of the largest undisturbed grass and sedge between nations. A diversity of wildlife exists within meadows left in North America. These meadows its boundaries, including an international herd of elk

See what’s new in-store for you. DETAILS 6 | JUNE-JULY 2015 9 that migrates annually between a summer mountain 16th century, whalers from France and Spain came to habitat in Glacier and winter prairie ranges in the Strait of Belle Isle to hunt the then-plentiful right Waterton. An Aboriginal presence dates back and bowhead whales. A thriving whale oil industry 12,000 years, and in both parks remain places that developed along the Labrador coast throughout the hold deep significance for First Nations peoples. In 1500s. Also a National Historic Site of Canada, Red Bay fact, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park houses the remains of rendering ovens, cooperages, stands on the land of three nations: Canada, the workshops, temporary dwellings, wharves and whale United States and the Blackfoot Confederacy. bones. Underwater rest the remains of vessels exempli- In 2013, the World Heritage Committee chose fying 16th-century European shipbuilding techniques, Red Bay Basque Whaling Station (5) as the newest including four whaling ships and smaller boats. site on the UNESCO World Heritage List. In the

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10 DETAILS 6 | JUNE-JULY 2015 From Canada or the U.S. 1-800-565-4362 ALICE Alice Munro is one of Canada’s most celebrated and beloved writers. She was born in 1931 in Wingham, southwestern Ontario, the region that inspired the MUNRO setting for many of her stories. Regarded as an Issue date: July 10, 2015 author who renewed the short-story form, her early work was published in Canadian literary journals and featured on CBC Radio’s Anthology. In the mid- 1970s, her stories began to appear in The New Yorker, which brought her a broader, international audience. Many collections of stories followed, along with numerous awards, culminating in 2013, when she became the first Canadian woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature – an achievement celebrated with this commemorative issue. The stamp features a photo of the author taken by her daughter Sheila Munro and a vintage photo of Wingham. Samples of the author’s handwriting are ghosted over the image. The Official First Day Cover also features these elements and other images from the region; it is cancelled in Wingham, Ontario. The stamp was designed by Marcio Morgado and art directed by Paul Haslip of HM&E.

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