Closest Stamp Geographically

ON day of issue of the Montreal Olympic Stadium, I lived 2 blocks from It (on Viau street). I could see facilities, athletes and hear the crowds from there.

Can't say what the current one is since I have moved, but my avatar fits for where I lived for almost forty years. Mr. Peegee was a pleasant, less than 3 km stroll from our home.

Currently scouring Canadian stamps for something nearby.

I lived in Toronto (Bloor West) in the early '70s & my local library was Runnymede


1989 Scott 1181

We live about 5 miles up the Mississippi river from Fort Snelling.

backroads - something by the Group of Seven perhaps.........?

I was going to be a smart alec and post a personalized stamp with my house on it...

JR1960 - you can't get any closer than that geographically

Chimo

Bujutsu

CanadaStamp - you could start with this one:

LOL Sak ;)

Gilles - That must have been pretty cool to witness, I was still in Ottawa at that time, I only moved to Montreal in 1997.

Dan

It's the little paper and pencil icon in the little row of icons located next to the date and time of your post. No worries, it took me awhile to figure it out as well ;)

That's the closest I can get. Fort Chambly, Quebec. 10 km from my town.

Faken,
this was really amazing. I was there when Gregg joy won the high jump silver, and have a book with dozen of authographs of track and field and swimmers from all over the world. A few years later I also had the chance to be at a dinner with the queen of the Montreal Olympics - Nadya Comanechi. This was a time when people and athletes were not separated by 100000 soldiers and walls. I could hear the roar of the crowd from my living room balcony during closing ceremony.

I don't know if this counts but here goes.

The arrow points to roughly where my town Newmarket,Ontario is
located.
It's hard to see but trust me it's there.



The connection is Sir William Mulock, who among his many other achievements
was responsible for implementing an Imperial Penny Post.

He also designed the 1898 XMAS stamp.

Mulock was born in Bond Head a tiny hamlet about 25Km west of here
but after his father died at age 4 his mother moved the family to Newmarket,
where he spent his early years.

One of the towns' main streets is named after him as
is Sir William Mulock Secondary School.