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Posted 02/24/2019   08:41 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add EdziuMM to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I have run across a Canadian stamp canceled "Brandon & Lan R.P.O."
Does anyone know what the "Lan" is an abbreviation for? Thanks in advance.
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Posted 02/24/2019   09:08 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add CanadaStamp to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I assume Brandon Manitoba.....but my search on the map revealed no "LAN" - you might have better luck.

https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Br...d-99.9500904
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Posted 02/24/2019   09:21 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add wert to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
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Edited by wert - 02/24/2019 09:40 am
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Posted 02/24/2019   09:29 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
i've got a 1944 "Catalogue of Canadian Railroad Cacellations" & it lists "Bran. & Lan" and then "Bran. & Lan P.R.O. on page 33.
On page 34 there is a listing for "Lan & Gron.". I found a Gronlid, Sask.
Nowhere else in that section that I have found is there a listing for "Lan".
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Posted 02/24/2019   09:49 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The 3 times that I found "LAN" in the Catalogue there is no period after it. Maybe it's not an abbreviation of a one-word town name, but the beginnings of three words?
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Posted 02/24/2019   09:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
It's not easy to see & the N is cut off at right.
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Posted 02/24/2019   09:56 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Petert4522 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
"A picture is worth a thousand words"

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Posted 02/24/2019   10:00 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jarnick to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Brandon (MB) & Langley (BC) R.P.O. (?)
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I am not certain either, but, think it could be Langley, B.C., as stated earlier. It appears to be a Type 17A, which was in use from 1933 to 1945, which would fit the time frame of your stamp. There are only 2 listed.

It is known with and without the "No' on the bottom. Of the two listed, one has "P.R.O" in error for "R.P.O." which, oddly enough, has a lower RF than the normal one with RPO. Apart from these two, I do not see any other type,

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Maybe...
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Posted 02/24/2019   1:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gportch to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
BRANDON & LANIGAN - See page 434 of A HISTORY OF CANADIAN R.P.O.s by Lionel Gillam
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Posted 02/24/2019   1:20 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add gportch to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
correction to last posting due to typo error - should read page 44
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Posted 02/24/2019   1:23 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add EdziuMM to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
THANK YOU ALL for your kind help for me!
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