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from the Cowley district...Here is her replies.
Quote:Hi Robert
I have heard back from our Archivist and our board member Doug McLarty - who is George Hunter's nephew and also has also been researching George's stamp collection. Unfortunately due to Covid 19 we are locked out of the office and therefore cannot take a look for an actual negative or print of the image, but here are the two remarks:
Doug has let me know that it appears that the term "strip mining" to describe the stamp appeared in a 1988 stamp catalogue. Apparently a recent catalogue has changed the description to "strip farming". No mention of "strip mining" from
Canada Post brochure when stamp issued apparently.
From our Archivist: I looked in the inventories and whenever George mentions Cowley Alberta he calls it "strip farming". It is difficult to say if he is referring to the same image since we haven't digitized anything from Alberta yet and I can't get into the archive to look at the photos at the moment. He mentions "strip farming" in relation to for over a dozen photographs of the Cowley area but never mining. I wish I could go and look at the images because he also references the stamp in one of his inscriptions but for now we at least have the metadata confirmation.
I hope this helps in some way. Thank you for reaching out to CHPF. We are digitizing George's images on a project to project basis. We have digitized over 4000 images of Ontario, Quebec and the East coast as well as 2000 images of BC. We hope to get to Manitoba as well as some of the Alberta images this year if funding comes through.
Yours Sincerely,
Nicole
Posted 02/03/2021 1:33 pm
