Canada Street Name Cancels, Circular Or Roller Type

Street Cancels or cancellations or postmarks are those that have a street name as part of the actual cancel place name.

Below are some MORRIS STREET, HALIFAX N.S. partial cancels.

Most of these, to my limited knowledge, only occurred within a certain range of years.

The Morris Street ones, I am told by a collector of these here, were made by a retired sea captain who became the Postmaster at the Morris Street Post Office. Most of his cancels are Socked On the Nose ones or very close to it.

The other street cancel from Halifax is the Gottingen Street one and most from there are not SON types at all.

Hey Puzzler....You really opened my eyes about cancellations....I didn't know there were actual street names, Thought there were only cities....Ha, learn something new ever day.
Robert

Now I will have to look through all my dupes again..... blast!

I know what you mean....Every time you put your stamps away, some one comes up with something new...Out they come again, wearing them out even more (ha,ha).
Robert

Here is one from St Joseph St in Toronto.
Pic courtesy ebay seller nosaj0009 http://myworld.ebay.com/nosaj0009/

Street cancels also came as Roller type cancels, (which I do not have any of). If anyone has any they would be nice to see also. These look like vertical bars with the street name and city perhaps printed sideways across the bars, usually with a numeral indicating the roller number (clerk number).

Also Squared Circle cancels (example: York St, Toronto) exist.

Hi All

Here is a url for Toronto street cancellations.

http://charleslivermore.com/streets...-history.htm

This should wet your appetite for more of these

Chimo

Bujutsu

In light of Bujutsu's great link re the City of Toronto's first postmark and for those who enjoyed "pitching pennies" in your misspent "yutes" it would make a great thread to see who can come the closest to the March 6, 1834 date.

Some more Morris Street, Halifax NS cancels, inclusing a roller cancel.





You can see, especially from the scan of the backs of the stamps, the varying sizes of the stamps supplied to the public.

Another set of MORRIS STREET, HALIFAX, N.S. cancels an a small Queen issue and some Queen Victoria numeral issues.




For the cancel collector, the ideal is, of course, to have a perfect stamp as well as a perfect cancel placement, but most of the time you have to settle for one or the other.

Here are a couple of stamps with the 'York Street, Toronto' cancellation.


Scott #51



Scott #41

Puzzler: here is another Morris Street image (Canada Scott#75). I think I will put it on the "socked on the nose" thread too.

In reading earlier posts to this topic, I note that there has been no response to the challenge posed by Cynical on Sept 29/11 so here is a start.
I am preparing an exhibit of the Postal History of Toronto. The earliest item so far is May 10, 1834. Although the name had changed, the post office continued to use the YORK / UP-CAN handstamp.



My earliest CITYOF TORONTO / U.C. is November 13, 1834



Unfortunately, the red ink used in the Toronto Post Office left only weak impressions and are often difficult to read.

If any readers of the Forum have earlier dates, I would really appreciate a scan for my reference file. Thanks for looking.

GJP

gportch: sorry I can't help you. It's a bit beyond my cover collection

Puzzler :
I've found a Morris Street while browsing through my collection.
Great topic by the way!

wonderful cancels, thanks.