Canada Sault Ship Canal Postmarks

This is probably a long-shot but does anyone have any stamp images showing "Sault Ship Canal" postmarks?

A couple of postcards:

http://images-01.delcampe-static.ne.../445_002.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4G6qGO0qj...rch%2B84.jpg


Page 17 of this link may be of interest:

http://bnatopics.org/hhlibrary/news...-06-w002.pdf

I will have to get back to you I have to do a search ,was not to sure of the name called until I saw the pics, maybe not with the cancellation Sorry. The stamps yes.

Hi Cynical

Below, I am showing you a scan from my "Noronic" album. The postcard shown was cancelled with a couple of CDS cancellations from the Sault Ship Canal.

I tried to find another example from my collection that was used only over a month after this office opened (July 8, 1909) but, it must be in a safe spot in one of my boxes This office opened in the Algoma District on May 31, 1909 and is apparently still open

Anyway, I hope these images help.

Chimo

Bujutsu

22Crows: thanks for those links. Your BNAtopics link shows a great picture of a steamer running the Lachine Rapids (note the standing waves) on the St. Lawrence River. One of the canals constructed as part of the St. Lawrence Seaway (1959 stamp Canada Scott#387) now allows large ships to get around the rapids.

Bujutsu: thanks for that and even a picture of the famous Noronic. I was not aware that the office was still open.

Just found out (thanks to BNAPS Study Group) that there were four other marine post offices on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence system, namely Cornwall, Iroquois, Port Colborne and Thorold. Must be a lot of old sailors and their families out there with old envelopes with appropriate postmarks for each of these locations.

After digging through 1000s of cards etc, I finally came across the cancel I wanted to show in here.

The Sault Ship Canal post office was located in the Algoma District and opened originally as a Summer office only. It opened on May 31, 1909 and on March 1, 1910. it was allocated as a 'permanent' office.

The cancellation on this card may beone of the EKU of this hammer, a "Split-Ring" because the date on this card is July 18, 1909, only 46 days after it originally opened. The second scan shows a close-up of the cancellation.

I sure love all of this postal history.

Chimo

Bujutsu

Bujutsu: the cancellation (ignoring the stroke through the stamp) looks at first as if it was with a duplex hammer but perhaps not so - maybe a separate dater and killer. An opinion?

Cynical. No, it was just an 'obliterator' marking and it was separate from any hammer used at the time. A lot of people confuse "Duplex" cancels with these. For a duplex, the lines, whether vertical or horizontal has to be even in line with the CDS portion of the hammer itself.

These obliterator markings can be found on the stamp and the post office of origin marking as far away as the L/L corner. That was actually a post office regulation at the time but it was not policed very well.

Hope this helps

Chimo

Bujutsu