Canada - Clear Cancellations

Here is an interesting cancellation, especially its placement on KGV

What a great exercise. You've caused me to look back over my Canadian collection and I realize, as much as I like the clear indication of where these have been, I haven't spent much time focusing on that. Most of my early Canadian are cork or target cancels, or locations are almost indiscernible.
Perhaps a new way to look at used stamps? Hmmm.
But just for fun I'll add a few of my own.

circle in square Kingston (I think)



Woodstock Ontario




Calgary




Registered letter from Edmonton




A nice clear Timmins Ontario




Toronto Station?




Hedley BC




And good 'ol Sturgeon Falls

HALIFAX N.S
4
JY 12
98
CANADA

I know the King George V Admirals were produced for a long time but is the Calgary cancel the Canada Scott#116 1912 10c purple issue?

Yes that is the #116 plum (brown purple) issued Jan. 12, 1912.
The 10c also come in blue (117, 1922) and bistre brown (118, 1925).
Unfortunate about the lower perfs, but someday I'll upgrade.

Thanks for that Jamesw. The followers of this thread might be able to answer this question. There is a proliferation of old obliterator cancels or fancy cancels on SCF. Does anyone know if there is or has been a thread for "your earliest/oldest 'dated' cancels on a Canadian stamp"?

Sorry about the delay, cynical. I am away from both my computer and my collection now and will be for the next six weeks or so. In Mississauga right now and shortly to head for the United States.

On the fifty cent oil wells it is a CFPO (101 I think) cancellation. I do not know its location though.

Backroads: thanks for the CFPO 101 info, which I believe was for Soest, one of the army bases in northern Germany. I had the pleasure of spending a few years at the RCAF Baden-Soellingen base (4 Wing) in southern Germany, which was CFPO 5056. Here is a link to some more info on some of the CFPOs.

http://postalhistorycorner.blogspot...anadian.html

I'm currently wading through a 7-stockbook lot of used Canada, covering 19th century through the early 1980s; probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000-40,000 stamps.

I'm specifically looking for full, crisp SON cancels... and they are few and far between. Maybe one every 400 stamps or so. I'm being pretty picky though; I'm throwing back quite a few similar to ones posted in this thread if I see they're smudged in any way or aren't full enough to fit my tastes.

Even so, they're not that common. It's slow going...

revenuecollector,

I have found it extremely difficult to find non-smudged SON cancels amongst Canadian stamps, just as you mentioned. I collect worldwide SON's and pulled out my Canadian cancels to scan just for this thread.

All I can say is "Hang in there" because you will find a few. Just don't forget to eat or sleep.

~~ Mary-Jane ~~

Hard to contain my excitement on seeing postmarks/cancels from places like Bobcaygeon, Collingwood, Orillia, Smooth Rock Falls, Dundas, etc. and that's just Ontario.

Here is an almost clear cds cancel for Wingham, Ontario, on a 3c 1934 Jacques Cartier stamp (Canada Scott#208).

This small town of a few thousand people in Huron County was the birth place of famous Canadian author Alice Munro, who sadly has had some health problems of late.

It is also the home of radio station CKNX, which was started by "Doc" Cruickshank in 1926 and still operates today. As most of you probably already know CKNX Wingham was famous for being the home of Canada's Largest Travelling Barn Dance and spawned such celebrities as Earle Heywood, Slim Boucher (one of the Golden Prairie Cowboys), Ward Allen (famous Canadian fiddle play and writer of Maple Sugar), Maurice Boyler (native New Bruinswicker known as the King of Banjo Players), Gordie Tapp of Country Hoedown and Heehaw fame, fiddler Al Cherney, Tommy Hunter and many others.

CKNX Wingham also started a television station in 1955 and was, according to a popular magazine of the day (Popular Mechanics?), one of the smallest if not the smallest town in North America to have its own TV station.

Okay - how about this one - only two days later but from Oakville, Ontario

Here`s one from my home town.

Alanl: you have to give them credit getting "New Westminister" on the hammer head. If they could have just aimed a little higher on what I assume is Canada Scott#454 it would be perfect.