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 45 • Number 24 March 16 - 29, 2021 $5.50 Mail between Maritimes, U.S. leading up to Confederation By Jesse Robitaille The 16-year span saw several This is the final story in a administrative changes with three-part series exploring various colonial and state gov- cross-border mail between ernments plus rate changes on Canada’s Maritime provinces both sides of the border be- and the United States. tween British North America Many postal history rarities (BNA) and the United States. were created between 1851, Among the major catalysts was when Britain granted the Mari- the 1851 Postal Convention Be- time colonies and Province of tween Canada and the United Canada control over its postal States of America, which estab- systems, and 1867, when four lished a uniform combined half- provinces formed the Dominion Continued on page 23 of Canada. A cover mailed in July A five-stamp souvenir sheet official first-day cover is serviced with three cancels from 1862 from Houlton, Snow Lake, Man., a town 685 kilometres north of Winnipeg popular for wildlife observation. Maine, to Woodstock, N.B., pays the two- cent ‘line office’ rate Winter-white snow mammals for mail between adjacent exchange offices. Photos by David on latest Canadian issue D’Alessandris. By Jesse Robitaille Canada with a survival skill blend into the background to n a new set issued Feb. 16, that’s distinctly adapted to the escape detection. Long-time CSN columnist Canada Post is recognizing country’s snowy climate: their These five animals are among fiveI of the world’s 19 mammal otherwise dark coats turn only 19 mammal species world- species that undergo the twice- white in winter. wide – 12 in Canada – that Michael Nowlan dies at 83 yearly process of moulting. “These creatures are like change coat colours owing to a By Jesse Robitaille Throughout his life, Nowlan The five-stamp “Snow ghosts, travelling on or under complex physiological process ‘Philatelic literature is the pulse amassed a nearly complete Mammals” set features a the snow without a sound,” influenced by changes in day- and heartbeat of stamp collecting.’ collection of used Canadian handful of animals found in Dominique Fauteux, a research light hours. Known as moult- – Michael Nowlan (1937-2021) stamps plus several thematic Publications Registration Mail No. 09136 Agreement No. 40069699 Agreement Mail No. 09136 Publications Registration scientist at the Canadian Mu- ing, the gradual process starts Award-winning philatelic collections, including one with seum of Nature, is quoted as around the first snowfall before author and poet Michael more than 100 Beethoven saying in the latest issue of De- reversing in the warmer months O’Keeffe Nowlan, of Oro- stamps (he was a big fan of the tails magazine. “Their unique (beginning around the spring mocto, N.B., has died at the famed Austrian composer). In adaptation invokes a very po- melt). age of 83. addition to a philatelic litera- etic view of winter as not only The author of CSN’s “Phila- ture library spanning more STAMP DESIGNS silent and calm, but also dan- telic Bookshelf” column for than 500 volumes, Nowlan gerous.” Designed by Vancouver art- nearly 25 years, Nowlan was also uncovered the wide world The stamps feature the Arctic ist Adrian Horvath, who also born on Sept. 1, 1937, in of philately to collectors and fox, ermine, northern collared designed Canada Post’s 2016 Chatham, a small but bus- non-collectors through his pro- lemming, Peary caribou and “Birds of Canada” and Star Trek tling town on the southern lific writing. snowshoe hare – two predators sets, this year’s snow mammal shore of New Brunswick’s Continued on page 22 and three prey, respectively – stamps showcase each animal in Miramichi River. At his moth- whose camouflage makes them its winter coat and habitat. er’s suggestion, he started difficult to spot in their natural The stamps’ photographs collecting stamps when he habitats. The Arctic fox and er- were all taken by Canadian was about 10 years old. After mine are stealthy hunters that photographers, including: partnering with a pen pal in often rely on the element of • Manitoba’s Dennis Fast, who Newfoundland – then a Brit- surprise to sneak up on their captured the Arctic fox; ish dominion of its own, sep- next meal. The snowshoe hare, • Ontario’s Michelle Valberg, arate from Canada until 1949 northern collared lemming (di- who captured the snowshoe – the young duo would swap etary staples of many carni- hare; stamps. vores) and Peary caribou try to Continued on page 3 FIND DEALERS YOU CAN TRUST! These dealers are members of the Canadian Stamp Dealers’ Association. They have subscribed to a high standard of business ethics. 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