Canada - Clear Cancellations

Thank you, Thank you!

It was such a nice looking stamp but wasn't yielding a place name for me. I think I was stuck on Snowden because that was just 10 miles or so down the road from Choiceland where I spent my first year of teaching in Saskatchewan back in 1968.

Since you asked to see more Canadian cancels, I took some stamps from my CDS collection. I don't collect by town, but by date, so you may not be able to discern a clear town name, but you're welcome to try!






And here are their close-ups:





















I'll have more time tomorrow to post more.

~~ Mary-Jane ~~

Stamphound, the 2 cent QV numeral cancel is GOTTINGEN STREET / * HALIFAX *

Good catch!

I figured it's much easier for Canadians to recognize Canadian cities than it is for one of your southern neighbors (Americans).

Here are a few more.

The third stamp in the first row has the date December 31,1929, which is New Year's Eve.

The second stamp in the second row has the date December 24, 1931, which is Christmas Eve.












The date on this stamp is December 31, 1929, New Year's Eve








The date on this stamp is December 24, 1931, Christmas Eve










I have more and I'll post a few more each day if you'd like. I'm posting these in chronological order. If you want me to skip the definitives and go straight to the commemoratives I can do that.

~~ Mary-Jane ~~

You have some very nice postings, stamphound. Thank you for them.

I noticed that you have some Victorian material showing in the material on your scans. That is somewhere that I have not gone in terms of town names for a few reasons, not the least of which is that the material to pore over is getting scarce and prices are getting a bit steep for my pocket. So, right now, I am concentrating on the time period from 1900 to 1950 (roughly).

There are other reasons and I have included a few scans to demonstrate. There are so many varieties of cancellation in the early years and each type leads to specialization of its own.

For example, this first one show a type of obliterater that uses seven concentric rings. There are variations on this in the number of rings, etc., as well as a different category that has a bulls eye (solid circle) in the centre.

As an aside, there is something odd in the bottom right - red staining that matches the colour of the stamp fairly closely. Just a surface stain (it doesn't go through the paper) or something significant? No mention in any literature that I can find.





The next stamp is pre Confederation and show my earliest town and date stamp. Can't even begin to imagine what a completed set of town cancels would cost. That awaits a significant lottery win.



This large queen demonstrates a category called cork cancels (or fancy cancels in the US) and it is a huge collecting field by itself. Doing a search for that will yield several great threads on SCF.



There were also early 2 ring cancels with a numeral. If this is a "7", and I think it is, it is from St. John, NB.



Some cancels are clear but hard to place. I have not found any literature for this but I have been told it was used in the House of Commons.



As you get closer to the 20th Century, recognizable modern type cancels become more and more common. This one, for example, from Vancouver BC. However, this is another one of those that would take a lottery win to get up to the $5.00 stamp. I've made it to the $1.00 level but the last two have ugly roller parcel cancels.



An this is an entire collecting field all by itself. The squared circle postmark. I notice that you have one in your first posting.



Whatever we decide to do, it's fun. What can you say except "Enjoy your collecting!"

backroads,

I especially like the cork cancel of the 5-cent stamp. That's a real stunner. Plus you have some much older stamps I haven't come across before. Thanks for posting those.

I enjoy collecting all types of cancellations, including the types you mentioned, such as squared circles, targets (concentric rings), fancy cancels, slogan cancels, etc. I'm a member of the Bullseye Cancel Collectors' Club which is US-based and has a worldwide membership. I'm not sure if I can post a link; you can find us by Googling "Jeff Hayward Bullseye Cancel Club." Jeff is the publisher and webmaster.

The cancel on the 4th KGV Arch 3c carmine is WINDSOR N.S. in case you needed confirming.

The cancel you call bullseye can also be called a target cancel.

Found this Xmas stamp with a cancel on it. After staring and playing with picture settings, I can say with certainty it is "Niagara Falls" and it looks like the word 'South' after it. Can anyone confirm if 'south' would be in this cancel?
It is cancelled twice. Not sure of date other than 99 for the year.

What a great looking thread folks! So many nice examples, Beautiful!

I have a few I could contribute to the collective visual compendium, just give me a second to find them.......


A-ha! Found some interesting Military Post cancellations!







I look forward to watching this one develop further, some very nice cancellations on this thread!

Have a Good One,

Skilo54

nodeli - the post office is Niagara Falls South and here's the Post Masters through 1899.
The website is www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/...020129_e.html
where you can search any canadian post office, it's Post Masters, etc.

I've abstracted the following for you.

Name of Office: Niagara Falls - Niagara Falls South
Federal Electoral District: Niagara Falls (Ontario)
Former Office Information:
Former Name Drummondville West Date of Change 1883-05-01

Name of Postmaster Appointment Date
C.H. Leonard 1832-07-06
Samuel Falconbridge 1832-07-06
John Ker, Jr. 1857-09-08
Peter Ker 1862-10-01
Luke Brokenshaw 1864-06-01
Theodore W. Woodruff 1873-10-01
Abel Sand 1893-09-01
Ralph Garner 1902-10-14

Thanks BlackJag,
This would put Abel Sand as the Postmaster for this stamps' time period. Will look for some more cds cancels and cross-reference the above site.

Here are some more stamps with cancellations for you to enjoy. I collect by date, not town, so some of the towns may not be very clear.



























I've been saving the best for last:

Backroads: given my old eyes am I seeing this right - the Canada Scott#294 50 cent Oil Wells stamp is a "CFPO" cancel.

Backroads: thanks for the 1908 Canada Scott#98 2c King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra scan with the Harriston, Ontario cancel. Harriston was one of the mail stops on the old Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Teeswater-Orangeville run, which was about 90 miles long. I have a Teeswater cancel somewhere in my collection. If I remember correctly just outside Harriston there was a junction where this line crossed the Canadian National Railway's (CNR) Palmerston to Southhampton line.