Today Is The Day

Way to go LeAnn

You've got me thinking I should find out early postmaster generals for Canada

I was just visiting the postal museum web site and saw today in history and thought it would be neat to have something like that here. Like a word of the day or something.
LeAnn

I'm glad you did it kinda got me looking into Canada's postal history.

I found a great site (Civilization.ca A chronology of Canadian Postal History that begins in the 1500's. Boy is our postal history ever complexe.
It looks like the first postmater General who actually lived in Canada was Hugh Finlay (who shared the appointment with John Foxcroft)in 1784.

I've got a lot of studying to do this is quite a site. Looks like the US was quite involved as well; especially Benjamin Frankling who It looks like may have been our Postmaster General as some point.

Thanks LeAnn for getting me interested in this

That's a great post LeAnn - and it was interesting to boot!

Dianne: extract from an article I had published some time ago in CSN regarding the Polish Government in Exile:

................in December 1941 the 'Polish Postal Service' was inaugurated, to ensure Polish partisan mail service continuity. But there was a propaganda value as well. Poles wanted to tell the world that the country fought on, even if those fighters were not serving on their home soil.

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Although the Government in Exile's relations would have focused for the most part on Great Britain and the Allied Command, they did come up against Allied member countries from time to time as part of normal government operations. One such encounter was with Canada, and that had to do with Polish Government in Exile postage stamps.

Their Canadian contact was Postmaster General The Hon. William P. Mulock, K.C., M.P. who served from July 1940 to June 1945. The PMG was of a postal tradition, being grandson to Sir William Mulock, Postmaster General from 1896 through to 1905.

An interesting note about Canadian PMGs

..or a calander celebrating a stamp for each day.

April 8th 2009. Hawaiian Coins (Hawaiian Money, Part III).


















Three stamps in a triptych, a minisheet and a stamp booklet were issued on April 8th 2009 depicting Hawaiian Coins minted in the 19th century.

Hawaiians did not have any official coins prior to 1847. Before that, barter or paper scrip was the chief means of exchange. Many ships visited Hawai'i after Captain Cook's arrival, so foreign coins were also in circulation, especially Spanish "Pieces of Eight" and American coins.

In 1847, King Kamehameha III issued a copper one cent coin ($6 stamp below middle). But it was not until 1883 that King Kalakaua issued additional coins from the dime (ten cents coin) shown on the $2.50 stamp (below left) to the one dollar coin on the minisheet. Pictured on the $9 stamp (below right) is an eighth of a dollar coin. This coin was never realeased to the public and only 20 proofs were made. Other coins issued in 1883 (not depicted in this issue) were the half dollar and quarter coins. All these 1883 coins were minted in San Francisco, California of 90% pure silver and 10% copper. They matched the size, quality and weight of U.S coins. Many survive today in varying condition and are eagerly sought after by coin collectors.



The $2.50 stamp (left) pays for extra charges, such as additional weight. It shows the 1883 Umi Keneta (10 cents or dime) coin. The obverse shows a bust of King Kalakaua. The reverse shows a wreath topped by the Royal Crown of the Kingdom of Hawai'i.

The $6 stamp (middle) prepays the Overnight Day rate. It shows the 1847 Hapa Haneri (one cent or penny) coin. The obverse shows a bust of King Kamehameha III. The reverse shows a wreath.

The $9 stamp (right) prepays the Same Day rate. It shows the 1883 Hapawalu (one eighth of a dollar or 12.5¢) coin. The obverse shows a bust of King Kalakaua. The reverse shows a wreath topped by the Royal Crown of the KIngdom of Hawai'i.

The background of the stamps shows a rainbow of colors. Hawai'i is very famous for its rainbows which occur frequently and can be quite spectacular and large

Bobggg,
What is Hawai'i post? Is that part of some new independence movement in the islands?


-Allen

it should be called paradise instead of HI in my personal opinion sigh

Here You Go Allen

http://www.hawaii-post.com/

I think Hawaii had its own postal system and stamps before annexation by the US

Hawaii Post
Info from 2004