Nunavut Postmark Album

After buying 15 pounds of Canada kiloware years ago and picking out whatever was needed to fill or upgrade spaces in my Canadian collection, I turned to making postmark albums. Since finding ones from NWT or Nunavut is nearly impossible, I began sending them postcards to handstamp and return to me. As best I can determine, there are 26 post offices in Nunavut. Here is one of my album pages with the returned mailing from Qikiqtarjuaq.

Hello ajuchum, welcome to Stamp Community!

You have a great page there. The map and extra info are a nice bonus. Please feel fre to add lots more great (and not so great too ) info to your thread and others (mine too! ) as often as you wish.

I had wondered myself about starting or having a northern collection, as I have started an collection of POCON (6-digit) postmarks this year.


There is also a thread about POCON postmarks ( https://goscf.com/t/29893 ) to add to, with a list which I am slowly adding to, as people add their contributions to the online catalogue display we all have going here.

This SCF site feeds to Google so just talking about something and naming it allows people to find the info and/or stamps when they search.

Welcome to the forum Ajuchum

It is true that the territorial cancellations are touch to get, though not impossible. It is our newest territories. Another way to collect them might be to obtain post office cancellations of some of these post offices while they were still part of the North West Territories as well?

It would be a challenging collection to try to get the twenty some odd offices complete.

Chimo

Bujutsu

The stock pages for your postmark album are nicely done. The northern postmarks have been challenging to acquire.
Can anyone create a list of active postmarks in the Great White North (Nunavut, NWT, Yukon, Labrador) ?
Queries from the CanadaPost site are not always valid. I placed a call to CanadaPost and was informed that mail for Alert/Eureka are postmarked in Cambridge Bay.

In the mid 1970s articles dealing with Post Offices in the Northwest Territories and the Yukon were published in the Canadian Philatelist, journal of the Royal Canadian Philatelic Society.

Northwest Territories

Thompson, K. Northwest Territories, Checklist of Modern Postmarks, Canadian Philatelist (1974) Vol.25 No.5 p.276

http://www.rpsc.org/CP_scans/Canadi...o.%20144.pdf

Yukon Territory

Smith, F.C., Yukon Territory: Current Postal MarkingsCanadian Philatelist (1976) Vol.27 No.2 p.79

http://www.rpsc.org/CP_scans/Canadi...o.%20153.pdf

I would recommend membership in the Canadian Postal History Society. Their study group dealing with Northern Post Offices would be most informative.

http://www.postalhistorycanada.net/...ps/Northern/

I expect there will be disagreement from some posters with respect to my next comment. I appreciate that you are sending covers to post offices to receive postmarks. I do this as well and purchase these "favour" covers. In some cases this is the only way postmarks can be obtained. Instead of using out-of-period commemoratives, I prefer using current definitive stamps. The Victoria stamp on your cover is a distraction, taking away from the postmark. Just an opinion.

You might want to write to businesses in the North and ask them if they might have envelopes to send you. You never know.

I note that the cover you posted was cancelled in 2001 so you have been at this for a while. You can probably provide us with information.

Nunavut postmarks are quite uncommon. I've seen a plethora of NWT/NT postmarks from those cities, but of course the city name changes,spelling variations also happened. As postmark collectors, do others consider those as different postmarks ? (e.g. Forbisher Bay NWT /Iqaluit NU or Goa Haven NWT /Gjoa Haven NU)

So far I have yet to find an Arctic Red River, a Fort Michener, Goa Haven (NWT), Grise Fiord, Port Burwell and Sanikiluag but there's always more to search. Alert postmarks on cover were found with a blue red or purple cache. I've come by a few at $2-$5 (US) in dealer's stock.

Now I'm facing a challenge of those Nunavik cities. Nunavik are likely displaced in QB/QC postmarks but I isloated two, so writing the postmasters will be my next step.

Are there those out there who separate the postmarks related to First Nations communities ?

Thanks

I myself do not separate postmarks. I am more doing the names and Post Office numbers, eg. POCON or MOON for example. At least for starters! It is hard to not get excited sometimes.