Veteran's Stamp Project?

Working on placing covers in the album when I noticed something about this homemade first day cover, which I described on another thread as 'boring'.
The recipient is a Mr. E Holloway at the Veterans Hospital in St. Hyacinthe, Que.



The sender, typed on the back is Mathieu Bolduc, Veterans Hospital, St. Hyacinthe, Que.



Postmarked July 1 1947, possibly a stamp project between two hospital bound veterans following WWII?
Even the most boring cover can have a story.

The postmark is "OTTAWA". So the cover was given to someone who mailed it from Ottawa the day of issue as a gift between two veterans.

That is a neat cover none the less though.

A little online research found this 1946 Montreal Gazette article about the acquisition of St. Hyacinthe Hospital by the Department of Veterans Affairs for use by TB patients.




You can read the article online at
http://news.google.com/newspapers?n...=4354,480708

Guess we know what our co-correspondents were in for. Hope they didn't have to stay too long.