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Pages in category "Post office buildings in Canada" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
The Central Post Office is a historic building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The building was completed in 1939, replacing a Second Empire style office built in 1876. This original office was located in what is today Confederation Square , and was demolished in order to construct the grand public space.
BIOT Post Office, [16] (outbound; inbound is United States Postal Service and British Forces Post Office [17]) British Antarctic Territory Government [18] via Falkland Islands or British Forces [19] BVI Post [20] Cayman Islands Postal Service [21] Falklands Post Service Limited [22] [23] Guernsey Post; Isle of Man Post Office; Jersey Post ...
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.
Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website, [1] via its mobile apps for such smartphones as the iPhone and BlackBerry, [2] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs. Many vendors also sell validation tools, which allow customers to properly match addresses and postal codes.
In 1974, staff at a Canada Post office in Montreal were noticing a considerable number of letters addressed to Santa Claus entering the postal system, and those letters were being treated as undeliverable. Since employees handling those letters did not want the writers (mostly young children) to be disappointed at the lack of response, they ...
In 1913, the post office moved to Love's Drug Store, and before the mid-1930s, to the present building. [12] In 1905, the Bank of British North America branch that opened was the first bank in the Similkameen Valley. [13] The Hedley Gazette was published 1905–1917. [6]
The railroad tracks were removed in 1938, and Canada closed its customs office in 1939. [24] The U.S. Post Office closed in 1950 and, what was left of the town was inundated by water in 1975 with the completion of the Libby Dam, which created Lake Koocanusa. [25