Canada Post Souvenir Cards?

I was out of town so I'm late getting back to this thread. WOW, jarnick, you have blown my mind on these cards! And given me some things to think about. Clearly, many of these cards were issued with the intent that the actual stamps be attached and cancelled. So in some ways they are much like Maximum cards. But they were nearly all issued to commemorate various philatelic events, so that would seem to qualify them as souvenir cards. It's a little amusing that some have cancellations over the stamp designs, although they are not valid stamps. Can you tell me whether there is anything on the reverse of any of the cards?

BTW, there is one -- Philex '83 -- which was previously given a catalog number since it was printed by a known security printer, Canadian Bank Note Co. It was issued with and without serial numbers (SO-30 and SO-31).

As I had hoped, there are indeed more of these Canada Post "national" cards. We've uncovered two more, from Canada '84 and Montreal National '88. What I don't know is whether these two were issued mint (I suspect the latter was). Does anyone have an answer?

Not an answer, but the 1934 French and Canadian Cartier stamps are to the 1984 issue as the crack in the sitting-room wall is to the Grand Canyon, as they say. Sic transit gloria philateli, or something.

1967 Centennial Stuck Downs.
https://goscf.com/t/51602&whichpage=21#630866 br /

Greg,
do you wish Images posted here of SO48-49-50-51 ?
On the site you offer, content is not allowed.

Also
Have Joint Stamp Issue Card US-Canada printed by USPS 1984
Does it have a place in this thread?

Thanks Rod - What I'm specifically looking for here are cards issued by Canada Post, so no USPS cards or semi-officials like those SO cards you listed. Canada Post has complicated things by marketing their annual mint stamp sets as "souvenir cards." For our purposes, those "stuck-downs" don't qualify; these need to be cards issued for a specific event or exhibition.

I wonder if Canada Post itself would have any information about these cards. Does anyone know if they have a historian who I could contact?

Greg/Alex Have you contacted anyone at Canadadian Stamp News?

https://canadianstampnews.com/the-m...ne/magazine/

Not yet, but I'm planning to!

Does anyone have the current Unitrade catalog? I recently read that both the International and National exhibition cards are listed now. Could someone check on this for me?

I contacted several Canadian philatelic publications regarding the search for Canada Post national cards. Then the pandemic kicked in and I don't know whether it fell through the cracks. Does anyone recall seeing anything published recently about this?

8 Philatelic Exhibition Cards (like for CAPEX) are listed on page 668 in the Unitrade Catalogue.
22 Thematic Post Cards (no indicia) are listed on page 669.
20 International Philatelic Exhibition Cards are listed on page 669.
These have been listed for quite a few years in the Unitrade.

After several years, I'd like to do some follow-up on this topic. These cards are now posted on the SCCS website in their own gallery:
http://www.souvenircards.org/html/gallery_CP.html

In the interim, I've found a few more I think should be added:

CP1986E Stampex May 86


CP1986F Salon Des Collectionneurs Oct. 87




CP1988F Montreal National Nov. 88




CP-1997A Canadian Gran Prix '97


We would like to obtain images of all the above cards in mint condition -- that is, without stamps affixed and cancelled.

Does anyone know of other designs that have been missed? If so, please post them here. We are nearing the point at which we will want to assign permanent catalog numbers (not year-based) and I'd like to feel confident that we have captured all of them.