Canada
Dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, fossils and fossil-found
places, Natural History Museums on stamps and postmarks of Canada
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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.
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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
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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 the postmark 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 ofCanada 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.
Other stamps to consider: fossil found places, Natural History Museums
Notes:
[O1] The first stamp on the Mini Sheet is dedicated to IMAX movies. Tyrannosaurus, perhaps from Jurassic Park movie is depicting on the middle of the stamp.
[O2] Fossil found site: Joggins Fossil Cliffs
and Miguasha National Park are depicting 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 300million 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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Postal stationery of Canada related to Paleontology: fossils, dinosaurs
Official postmarks of Canada related to Paleontology: dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.
Legend is here
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.
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