Canada

Paleontology related stamps (dinosaurs, prehistoric animals, fossils and fossil found places)

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Contents:

• Country overview
• Philately at Canada
• Official stamps of Canada related to Paleontology
• Another stamps of Canada to consider
• Commemorative postmarks of Canada related to Paleontology
• References

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.