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A streetcar used by Royal Mail Canada in Ottawa, c. 1890s It was in 1867 that the newly formed Dominion of Canada created the Post Office Department as a federal government department (The Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service) headed by a Cabinet minister, the Postmaster General of Canada.
The "Threepenny beaver" stamp of 1851. The postal and philatelic history of Canada concerns postage of the territories which have formed Canada.Before Canadian confederation, the colonies of British Columbia and Vancouver Island, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Newfoundland issued stamps in their own names.
The building c. 1839. The building opened in 1833, before York became the City of Toronto.Therefore, the post office is known both as the "Fourth York Post Office" (as there had been three prior post offices in the settlement) and "Toronto's First Post Office" (as it was the first post office to serve the newly incorporated city). [1]
The museum was not primarily about postage stamps, although it has a first-class collection that numbered in the tens of thousands. Rather, it presented the broader story of Canada's postal heritage, including the social and economic importance of postal communications throughout the country's history. It also explored international themes ...
The postmaster general of Canada was the Canadian cabinet minister responsible for the Post Office Department (Canada Post). In 1851, management of the post office was transferred from Britain ( Royal Mail ) to the provincial governments of the Province of Canada , New Brunswick , Newfoundland , Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island .
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This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Newfoundland. Newfoundland is a large Canadian island off the east coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The first postage stamps of the Dominion of Newfoundland were issued in 1857. [1]