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Prefabricated Housing

Housing in Canada

Stamp Info

Name Value
Date of Issue September 23, 1998
Year 1998
Quantity 1,000,000
Denomination
45¢
Perforation or Dimension 12.5 x 13
Series Housing in Canada
Series Time Span 1998
Printer Ashton-Potter Canada Limited.
Postal Administration Canada

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Layouts

Pane of 9 Stamps

Quantity Produced - 1,000,000
Current Purchase Price: Only available to paid users
Original Purchase Price: $4.05
Perforation: 12.5 x 13
Printing Process: Lithography
Gum Type: PVA
Tagging: General, 4 sides
Paper: Tullis Russell
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Official First Day Cover

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $1.65
Cancellation Location: Ottawa ON
Perforation: 12.5 x 13
Printing Process: Lithography
Gum Type: PVA
Tagging: General, 4 sides
Paper: Tullis Russell
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Set of 3 Official First Day Covers

Quantity Produced - Unknown
Original Purchase Price: $4.95
Cancellation Location: Ottawa ON
Perforation: 12.5 x 13
Printing Process: Lithography
Gum Type: PVA
Tagging: General, 4 sides
Paper: Tullis Russell
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About Stamp

Since the days when only Natives inhabited our vast land, Canadians have been adapting to their local environment, using locally available materials to construct dwellings and build communities. Today, Canada is recognized as a world leader in the housing.

Canada Post will issue a pane of nine domestic-rate Housing stamps this September. Each stamp focuses on one of Canada's celebrated housing structures, with images that evoke the social, environmental, cultural and technological contexts in which these homes were built.

Prefabricated Housing

Canada was an early leader both in the construction of homes from highly processed wood products, and in the advancement of prefabricated wood housing. The prefab homes introduced by the British Columbia Mills, Timber and Trading Company of Vancouver, were a significant contribution to the evolution of Canadian architecture. Prefabs existed before those of B.C. Mills, but these earlier efforts were flimsy and difficult to heat. B.C. Mills' superior offerings were shipped by rail, with pieces numbered and pre-painted. Buyers could assemble their homes in only a few days without professional assistance. Some of these dwellings still stand in Western Canada, mostly in the vicinity of Vancouver.

On the occasion of the Heritage Canada Foundation's 25th anniversary, Canada Post salutes its valuable efforts and recognizes, too, the more than 50 years of service which the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has provided to Canadian dwellers across the country.

Creators

Designed by Peter D.K. Scott. Designed by Glenda Rissman.

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Reference

Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 7, No. 5, 1998, p. 8, 11-12.

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