Foreign Soil Depicted On Canadian Stamps

wt1...I am embarrassed to say I don't know how many RED lines are on the American flag, but I only see 6 of them on this stamp.

Wert, after a long and exhaustive search on the internet, I managed to track down a picture of the elusive US flag.



I count 7 broad red stripes.

well sak...I guess with you flag and my software, wt1 is correct..

The eleventh example is #935 (1982) high value Waterton Lakes definitive:



The view is a painting, looking south, down the lake, from the town of Waterton. The mountains in the background are in the USA. (Notably Mount Cleveland)

Waterton Lakes National Park was created in 1895 and then joined with the American Glacier National Park in 1932 to become the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park (a world's first).

The fourteenth example is #1249-50 (1989) 75th Anniversary of two of Canada's earliest regiments, formed at the outset of WWI:



The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is shown setting out on a night patrol in Korea. They were the last privately sponsored unit created in the British Empire. They were the first Canadian regiment to go into battle. Below, an old 1917 Canadian dollar with Princess Patricia's likeness. She was the daughter of Prince Arthur (Canada's Gov.Gen. and a son of Queen Victoria.)

The Royal 22e Régiment (the "Van Doos") is shown going "over the top" in France. They were formed when it became obvious that there needed to be a French-speaking section of the Canadian forces. Their motto is "Je me souviens" - the same as Quebec's.

Both regiments fought in WWI, WWII, Korea & Afghanistan.(ex Canadian Postal Archives)



(Incidentally, the above plate block is valued at $250, not the expected $4.00 for a 1989 PB. Unitrade explains.)

Sak:

I am curious re: your comment on value. Why is the PB valued at $250 instead of $4?

I took this off of one of several listings explaining the reason for the Plate Block (Inscription Block) value on Canada #1249-50:




If you want to read the entire story, it was published in the Canadian Philatelist (November/December 1989) and is excerpted below:

The fourteenth example is #1265 (1990) Centennial of birth of Dr. Norman Bethune:



This is one of a pair, joint issued with China, showing him at work in China.

He was a stretcher-bearer, then surgeon, in WWI - TB survivor - chief thoracic surgeon in Montreal - studied the universal health care system in Russia - developed a mobile blood-transfusion unit in the Spanish Civil War - volunteered in the medical corps for the Chinese in the Sino-Japanese War (1938) accidentally cutting his finger with a scalpel and incurring fatal blood poisoning.

His death prompted Mao Zedong to eulogize in an essay studied by EVERY student in China:

"Comrade Bethune's spirit, his utter devotion to others without any thought of self, was shown in his great sense of responsibility in his work and his great warm-heartedness towards all comrades and the people." (In Memory of Bethune, Mao 1939)

As a result, this Canadian is better known in China than he is in Canada!



He is buried in the Revolutionary Martyrs' Cemetery Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China
near the Reverend (missionary) Eric Liddell of Scotland, athletic hero of "Chariots of Fire", who died while incarcerated in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.



Lest we forget!

The fifteenth example is #1323 (1991) commemoration of Boundary Waters - Voyageur Waterway



Part of the fur trading route between Montreal and Lake Winnipeg this 250 km series of rivers and lakes is preserved pristine as one of the Canadian Heritage Rivers System.
Inasmuch as it forms the boundary between Ontario and Minnesota, I think we may assume that the area depicted on the stamp is partly in the USA. I could not identify the escarpment.

Included are two of the hundreds of pictographs scattered along the route.

Hi sak. Is not the portrait of Jacques Cartier on your avatar stamp Scott # 19 (also # 7) from St.Malo, France?

The portrait background gambit was tried by Gilles le timbre back on the first page.
That, along with BeeSee's interpretation which makes all Canadian land at one point or another foreign, renders virtually every Canadian stamp eligible for inclusion here. And spoils the fun.

The sixteenth example is the WWII 50th Anniversary 1939-45
I will list the relevant ones together:



#1348 (1991) The defence of Hong Kong
#1448 (1992) War reporting (Charles Lynch depicted in situ)
#1450 (1992) The Dieppe Raid
#1504 (1993) Bomber forces (loading planes in Europe?)
#1506 (1993) The Italian campaign
#1537 (1994) D-Day beachhead
#1538 (1994) Artillery - Normandy
#1539 (1994) Tactical air forces
#1540 (1994) Walcheren and the Scheldt
#1542 (1995) Freeing the POW
#1543 (1995) Liberation of civilians, Netherlands
#1544 (1995) Crossing the Rhine

The others depict Canadian soil, I believe.

The seventeenth example is: #1556 (1995) The Victoria Golf Club



According to the Canadian Postal Archives, it is the oldest surviving golf club west of Ontario. Laid out in 1893, the club located at Oak Bay was expanded by 1895 to 18 holes - the first of this size in Canada.

As can be attested to in the snip from Google Earth below, this particular hole looks out over the Juan de Fuca Strait (notice the little islands) to Washington state in the far background.



The yellow X marks where the area where the picture was taken and can be reached by "Street View". Perhaps some of you have played there?

This is the nineteenth example. (I am waiting on experts from the Canadian train museum for verification of the 18th. Perhaps you can guess why?)

#1584 (1995) 50th Anniversary of the United Nations



Here is our tenth Prime Minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, signing the UN charter in San Francisco (CF Unitrade)
The extra wide selvedge across the top highlighted Canadian UN achievements, especially Lester Pearson's role in de-escalating the Suez Crisis (1956) for which he won the Nobel Peace prize
and
the Canadian peacekeeping forces in Cyprus (1964) - I believe we are still there (50 years!) keeping the peace between the Greeks and the Turks. Hm-m-m-m

Here is another one, representing the last battle of Napoleon by Leduc, in 1946, and on Canadian stamp 1744