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Alberta & Saskatchewan, 1905-1955

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue June 30, 1955
Year 1955
Quantity 25,100,000
Denomination
Perforation or Dimension 12
Printer Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited.
Postal Administration Canada

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About Stamp

The fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of Alberta and Saskatchewan as provinces in the Canadian Confederation was marked by the Canadian Post Office by a commemorative issue on 30th June, 1955. The two provinces, once part of the Northwest Territories, had been opened for immigration as the result of the linking of the older provinces of Canada with the Pacific coast by railroad. Immigrants poured in to take up free homesteads after the territory in 1882 had been divided into four districts, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Assiniboia, and Athabasca. Finally on 1st September, 1905, acts of Parliament united parts of the Northwest Territories into the respective provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan. The Post Office took the occasion to pay tribute to the scores of thousands of pioneers who had opened up the provinces. The 5-cent stamps commemorated their achievements.

Alberta and Saskatchewan

A man and a woman in costumes of the early pioneers stand before sheaves of wheat with oil wells in the background.

Creators

Designed by Laurence Hyde. Picture engraved by Yves Baril. Lettering engraved by John F. Mash.

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Reference

Patrick, Douglas and Mary Patrick. Canada's Postage Stamps. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1964, p. 102-103.

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