Canada
Paleontology related
stamps (dinosaurs, prehistoric animals, fossils and fossil found
places)
Contents:
Canada
is a country in
the northern part of North America. Its ten provinces and three
territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into
the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres, making it
the world's second-largest country by total area and the fourth-largest
country by land area. Canada's border with the United States is the
world's longest land border. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority
of its land territory being dominated by forest and tundra and the
Rocky Mountains; about four-fifths of the country's population of 35
million people live near the southern border. The majority of Canada
has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are
warm in summer.
Canada is very reach country of fossils of Dinosaurs and other
prehistoric animals. Many fossil found paces and natural history
museums are there.
[R1]
The postal and philatelic
history of Canada concerns the territories
which have formed Canada. Before Canadian confederation, the colonies
of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own
names
[R2].
Nowadays Canada issue 50-100 stamps per year of various topics related
to the country Fossils , dinosaurs, prehistoric animals and fossil
found sites shown on many stamps of the country. One of
unique feature of Canadian post is big amount of
permanent pictorial cancels.
These cancels are
available on various post offices across the country, the list of
available cancels can be found of website of Canadian Post. However,
over the time, some of these postmarks are damaged or even stolen,
therefore it can happened that th epostmark that listed there is
not available in the local post-office. Some postmark are replaced by
new with slightly different design, as
"Dinosaur Capital of the World" postmark from Drumheller. To get canceled letter,
send stamped envelope and a cover with proper postage inside a
stamped envelope addressed to the "Postmaster", followed by the name
and full address of the post office. Some of these postmarks
depict fossils and
prehistoric animals on it.
Official
stamps of
Canada related to Paleontology: fossils, dinosaurs and other
prehistoric animals.
Notes:
[1] On
October
10,
1993, only
three month after release of "Jurassic Park" movie, three commonwealth
countries:
Australia,
Canada and
New Zealand
issued dinosaur stamps.
Another stamps
to consider
Notes:
[O1] The
first stamp on
the Mini Sheet is dedicated to IMAX movies. Tyrannosaurus,
perhaps from Jurassic Park movie is depicted on the middle of
the stamp.
[O2] Fossil found
site:
Joggins Fossil
Cliffs
and Miguasha
National Park are depicted on UNESCO Workd Heritage Sites
stamps from 2014

Nearly 400
million years ago, today’s Miguasha
National Park,
Quebec(right) on the Gaspé Peninsula
was once a tropical estuary. The fossil beds of the
Escuminac Formation, exposed in a seaside cliff provide a rare portrait
of Devonian life – including 21 species of fish fossils that
have made Miguasha famous.
Nearly
200
fossil species
found in the Joggins
Fossil Cliffs
(left)
reveal the world’s most complete
record of
terrestrial life from the Pennsylvanian Period (the Coal
Age), over 300
million years ago. Here is possible to find fossilized reptiles and
amniotes, the first vertebrates to reproduce on
land, marking one of the
most significant events in the evolution of life on Earth.
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[O3] Fossil
found
site: Dinosaur
Provincial Park, in the badlands of southeastern Alberta,
contains some of the most important fossil discoveries of more than 40
dinosaur species dating back to the
Late Cretaceous Period, 75 million years ago.
On
July 3,
2015 Canada
Post
launched the third set of stamps of UNESCO
World Heritage sites in Canada serie. On July 7,
Officials at Canada Post have issued a recall on a stamp featuring
Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, because of a
big problem. The error comes from the image used on the stamp, which is
of a set of hoodoos (left) , a rock formation found in the provincial
park,
located just north of Brooks, Alberta. The problem is that the image on
the stamp is actually of hoodoos that exist east of Drumheller, a
community about an hour and a half northwest of Brooks. Canada Post has
apologized for the error and is recalling the stamps from all post
offices so they can be destroyed. A new stamp, with a correct picture,
issued on August 21 (right).
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[O4] Fossil
found
site: Dinosaur Provincial Park
in
Alberta and Mistaken Point
The
first stamp on the mini sheet shows Dinosaur Provincial Park
in
Alberta (the
same design as in 2015). Dinosaur Provincial Park is known
for its remarkable fossil
specimens that represent every known group of Cretaceous dinosaurs,
as well as its impressive area of virtually undisturbed badlands and
riparian (riverside) habitat.
At Mistaken Point (the second stamp on the mini sheet), the rugged
coastal
cliffs host the oldest known collection
of large fossils in the world, marking the world’s first
appearance of large, biologically complex organisms.
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Official postmarks of Canada
related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other
prehistoric animals.
Legend:
[FDC] - Post Marks used on FDC of official stamp
[PM] - Permanent postmark: available for a long period of time
[Sp] - Special postmark: issued for special event and was available for
short period of time
[N] - new design of early introduced postmarks
[xDate] - date of first issue is unknown.
Notes:
[C1]
There are some FDC with an extra postmark that shows
Tyrannosaurus from Alberta.. However, this postmark cancel no stamp and
has "Philatelic Canaada" instead of "Canada Post" text.
Moreover, similar postmark used on another FDC from 1990, but without
any date on it.
As from above, it is very likely not official but personalized
mark designed by some philatelic club, dealer or collector
for decoration purpose only
[C2] New design of
postmark from 2001 "Dinosaur Capital of the
world" from Drumheller, new postmark is larger and uses different font
[C3] The earlier, known to date, postmark issue
date (still valid) is 05.07.199, as published in January-March 2002 Canada
Post "Details" Bulletin., but date on the postmark image from Canadian Post website is 30.09.2007.
References:
[R1]
More information
about Canada is on
Wikipedia
WikiTravel Flag
Country
[R2]
More
information about postal
history of Canada is on
Wikipedia
Links to Canada's post authority and
stamps catalog websites are
here
Latest
update 23.11.2018
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