Send Your Christmas Cards From Christmas Island, Nova Scotia

Wiki link about Christmas Island, Nova Scotia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ..._Nova_Scotia


Link to an national Post article on the Christmas Island Post Office in Nova Scotia, Canada:
http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/1...r-postmarks/

From the article:

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Mail is sent through the office, with postage enclosed, to be stamped and forwarded, by the postmistress, around the world. To have your holiday cards postmarked, send your addressed cards with proper postage in a larger envelope, and address to:

CHRISTMAS ISLAND POST OFFICE
8499 GRAND NARROWS HWY
CHRISTMAS ISLAND NS B1T 1A0
CANADA

Proper Postage link to Canada Post rates (and store):
http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/per.../default.jsf
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Stamp: Canada 1938 King George VI Pictorial Issue Scott #242 (depicting Halifax, NS harbour) with Christmas Island, NS postmark from December 9, 1941.

New cancels this year 2010 (from the Canada Post website at http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/per...ls/index.jsf )

Canada Post is pleased to present philatelic pictorial cancels to collect. These cancels are available on an ongoing basis from the respective post offices across Canada. To obtain any of these cancels, send your stamped envelopes and/or covers* with proper postage inside a stamped envelope addressed to the 'Postmaster' followed by the name and full address of the post office as it appears below the particular cancel. Be sure to enclose a self-addressed envelope pre-stamped with sufficient postage for return mailing.

Please note:
Envelopes and/or covers will be stamped on or around the dates they're received.
*Individual Postmasters reserve the right to limit quantities.
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Sorry for the lateness of this post but I didn't know about this until now. Good for next year anyway, eh?
Good Day and Merry Christmas !

edit: added postage link and extra info at bottom

Thanks Puzzler,
I would need to make arrangements for Canadian postage since I live in the US.

You can also find several places in the US that have pictorial postmarks for the holidays with town names like: Rudolph, Frost, Nazareth, Bethlehem, North Pole, etc. These can normally be requested for 30 days from the postmark date and be found on the usps.com's biweekly postal bulletin. I'll be sending off for some using my kids photos as cachets.

Nice postmark Puzzler, a keeper.

I note the designer has included the trident in design.
Tri-dentis = 3 tooth
The spear Poseidon carried to create waterways
and to create tidal waves and tsunamis.

DoH!
I went looking for an island didn't I !

That is what I did when I first saw this stamp.

I had been reading on SCF about micro nations and small countries on islands and I knew of a couple of islands in the harbour so I thought maybe there are more and some nut has made his own country there or something! I should visit to get more cancels and stamps!

But, darn it, it was a small community down on Cape Breton Island in highland Scots country that I had never been to nor heard of.

Pretty little post office though.

I like the cancels they have (and I went looking for tridents on those cancels instead of on the Halifax harbour stamp !) I shall have to send one down there and scan it and show here when it gets back.

Rod if you mean you were looking for an island on the Halifax harbour stamp, McNabs, Lawlor and Devils Islands may be there. They are located at the mouth of Halifax Harbour.

You may be able to see them in the stamp.

I could not help myself! I just had to post this image Puzzler!
At least they are Christmas Island stamps. John

KGV
These Christmas stamps look very funny to me as Canadian. A palm tree decorated as a Christmas tree and Santa Claus sleigh pull by crabs. In the north we tend to forget that Christmas is celebrated during summer time on tropical islands in the southern hemisphere. Daniel

Thanks Daniel
That is why I could not help myself. Hehehe! John

Why do you have to create a false Christmas Island, when there is two real Christmas Islands? One in the Indian Ocean and one in the Pacific Ocean.

Here is a cover that Bandicoot, Emma and I made up, a couple of years ago and sent to a few members, from the real Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean.



Steve

I wonder if I had some of those Christmas Islands stamps on the cover as well as proper Canadian postage would they cancel them all? That would be a neat cover. Philatelic but still nice, showing both ends of the globe at Christmas time.

Ah, I get too sentimental near Christmas sometimes.

Triggersmob, nice cover, I know there is / are real Christmas Islands, this is not a false one.

The settler family's last name was Christmas and this island property was theirs (now connected to the main island with other islands to make a Christmas Island Pond) and the small community just continued from the name from years ago. Most of the community and post office even are not actually on the island but nearby on the mainland.

Settled around 1840 by highland Scots during the Clearances, landlords incorporating all kinds of small farms and properties into large sheep farms and evicting the tenants. Nasty business.

It might be fun to send myself to Nova Scotia. In the spring.

As Puzzler said, Christmas Island NS, WAS an island, but it has been connected to the mainland with causways. Here is Google streetview, and Google maps:





No Hi-res available.

It's a nice market niche to take advantage of.

For this year it's too late but it would be interesting if you could ask them to send you an envelope with the Christmas stamps of the current year. It's always a bit more challenging the further away you are, like me in Portugal.

The Christmas in summer topic reminds me of "Mele Kalikimaka" by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.

Nice work Bee See.

The Post Office is, according to Google maps, just a wee bit up the highway from the bottom of the map. So, close to the island, but no haggis. I would think you could see the island from there though.

Thanks for the extra info guys.

AndrewF31, I love Mele Kalikimaka.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEvGKUXW0iI

Steve