Postal History Corner

Postal History Corner

RATE SUMMARIES

1. Canadian Domestic Letter Rates From 1868 to the Present Day
2. Canada Domestic Local Letter Rates : 1851 - 1968
3. United States Letter Rates: 1851 to the present day
4. United States Air Mail Letter Rates : 1927 - 1976
5. Canadian Domestic Air Mail Rates : 1928 - 1954
6. United Kingdom and Empire/Commonwealth Letter Rates : 1859 -1971
7. Air Mail Letter Rates to the United Kingdom
8. International (Universal Postal Union) Letter Rates : 1892 to the present
9. Reduced International Letter Rates : Mexico, Cuba, West Indies and Central America, France, South America, and Spain
10. Links to Other Posts Dealing with Canadian Postal Rates
11. Revamped Centennials

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

1937 - 1952 : King George VI

1937 - 1942 Mufti Issue

United States Rates

International Surface Rates and Fees

International Air Mail

1942 - 1945 War Issue (War Period)

The Stamps
Domestic
United States
International Mail

1945 - 1949 War Issue (Post-War Period)

Peace Issue Pictorials
Domestic Rates 1945-1949

US Rates

International Surface Rates and Fees

International Air Mail

1949 - 1953 : Wilding Definitive Period

The Wilding Issue
Domestic Rates 1949 - 1953
United States Rates 1949 - 1953
International Part 1 Surface
International Part 2 Air Mail

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Postal History Corner provides detailed information regarding Canadian postal rates from the 1800s to the year 2000, as well as a wide-range of articles dealing with Canadian stamps and postal history.

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INDEX

The index should help you find articles of interest, but it is far from complete.

A. 1792 to 1875

1. Canada's First Postage Stamps: Handstruck Paid Stamps
2. Stampless Period Handstruck Postage and Postage Due Marks
3. Pre-stamp Town Marks

4. Free Mail to 1875
5. Canadian Internal Domestic Letter Rates : 1792 to 1851
6. Canada to the United States : 1792 to 1851

7. Mail Rates Within the Province of Canada :
1851 -1859
8. Mail Rates Foreign: 1851-1859
9. Mail Rates Domestic and Foreign : 1859 -1867
10. Mail Rates Domestic and Foreign : 1868 - 1875
11. Handstruck Ocean Mail Stamps: 1854-1869

B. The Small Queen Era 1875 -1897

12.Domestic Mail Rates

13.Foreign Mail Rates

C. The Maple Leaf and Numeral Era 1897 - 1903

14.Domestic Mail Rates
15.Foreign Mail Rates

D. Other

The Canadian Contingent: South African War

Scots at Government House 1893 - 1898

1903 to 2012

King Edward VII

16. Rates, Domestic
17. Rates, International
18. Rates, United States

King George V

1912 - 1928 Admiral Issue

19. Military Mail
20. Rates, Domestic
21. Rates, Great Britain and Empire
22. Rates, United States
23. Rates U.P.U.

Other

1926 Imperial Conference

UPU Destinations Reduced Postage Due

1928 - 1930 : George V Scroll Issue

24. International Peace Centenary
25. Rates, Domestic
26. Rates, International

1930 - 1932 : Arch Issue

27. Introduction
28. Domestic Rates
29. Rates, Foreign

1932 - 1935 : Medallion Issue

30. Rates, Domestic and International

1935 - 1937 : Dated Die Issue Issue

31. Rates, Domestic and International

1937 - 1952 : King George VI

1937 - 1942 Mufti Issue

32. The stamps

33. Domestic Rates

34. United States Rates

35. International Surface Rates and Fees

36. International Air Mail

Other

Dionne Quintuplets

1942 - 1945 War Issue (War Period)

37. The Stamps
38. Domestic
39. United States
40. International Mail

Other

Selye, Hans
WWII German POWs Real Photo Postcards
The War Prisoners' Aid of Cartoon Cards
The War Prisoners' Aid P.O.W. Christmas Cards
WWII Internment Camps in Canada Post

1945 - 1949 War Issue (Post-War Period)

41. Peace Issue Pictorials
42. Domestic Rates 1945-1949

43. US Rates

44. International Surface Rates and Fees

45. International Air Mail

1949 - 1953 : Wilding Definitive Period

46. The Wilding Issue
47. Domestic Rates 1949 - 1953
48. United States Rates 1949 - 1953
49. International Part 1 Surface
50. International Part 2 Air Mail
51. 1937 - 1952 : King George VI

Other

1950 10 cents Fur Resources Definitive

1950 50 cents Petroleum Industries Definitive

1951 $1.00 Fisheries Industries Definitive

1952 20 cents Forest Products Definitive

Advertising Covers: George VI Mufti Period
Advertising Covers War Issue : 1942 - 1949
Advertising Covers George VI Wilding Period

QUEEN ELIZABETH

1953 -1954 : Karsh Period Definitives

Canada Goose 7 cents 1952

Coronation Review of the Fleet 1953
Domestic Mail Rates and Fees
Forest Products 20 cents 1952
International Mail Rates and Fees
Military Korea
Military NATO Forces
Military Navy Mail, 1953-1966

Military Coronation Review of the Fleet 1953
Stamps and Stationery
Textile Industry 50 cents 1953
Totem Pole $1.00 1953
United States Mail Rates and Fees

1954-1963 : Wilding Period
Wilding Definitives Period (1954-1963)

Air Crash 1956
Airlines Courtesy Flight
Arctic Grise Fiord
Censored Mail

Canada and the Cold War: Emergency Stationery Tod.

Chemical Industry 25 cents 1956
Diefenbaker and Pearson
Domestic Acknowledgment of Delivery
Domestic Forward Letter
Domestic Local Letter
Domestic Post Card
Domestic Registration
Domestic Services
Domestic Special Delivery
Domestic Third Class
Eskimo (Inuit) Hunter 1955
Free Mail Diefenbaker
Free Mail Governor General
Free Mail Pearson
Free Mail Senate

Gannet, 15 cents definitive 1954
International Rates and Fees
Interrupted Mail Air Crash
Interrupted Mail Train Fire
Kapuskasing, Model Town of the North
Massey, Vincent Governor General
Mechanization Transorma
Military General Burns
Military Korea
Military, National Cadet Camp
Military NATO Forces
Military Navy HMCS Fort Erie 1962
Military Navy Mail, 1953-1966

Military United Nations Operation in Cyprus
Military UNEF
Military UNTSO
Pulp and Paper Industry 20 cents 1956
Sanatorium Mail
Senate
Ships and Ferries

6 cent Elizabeth Wilding Definitive

Slogans
Stationery, Private Order
Transorma
UPU Congress 1957 Delegate Mail
United States Rates and Fees
Winnipeg Tagging

1962-1967 : Cameo Period

Diefenbaker and Pearson
Domestic Forward (Out-of-Town) Letters
Domestic Local Letters
Domestic Post Cards
Domestic Services : AR, Registration, Special Delivery
Domestic Third Class Mail
Export Trade $1.00 1963
Cameo Definitives Introduction :Essays and First Day Covers
Free Mail Diefenbaker
Free Mail Pearson
Geese in Flight 15 cents 1963
International Postage Due Taxation 1966
International Rates and Fees
Jet Plane 7 cents 1964
Jet Plane 8 cents Overprinted 1964
Jet Plane 8 cents 1964
Jet Plane Stamps 1964 Overview
Kapuskasing, Model Town of the North
Military NATO forces
Military Navy Mail, 1953- 1966
Military Pine Tree Line Lowther Ontario

Military United Nations Operation in Cyprus
Postage Due International
Ships and Ferries
United States Rates and Fees
Vienna System of Taxation

1967-1974 : Centennial Period

Air Crash
Arctic and Sub-Arctic Mail
Booklets, 1967-68
Bush Plane
Cachets, Falkland Post Office
Censored Mail
Centennial Definitive Stamps, 6 cent Black, Booklet Stamp
Centennial Definitive Stamps, 6 cent Black Sheet Stamp
Centennial Definitive Stamps, 6 cent Orange Booklet Stamp
Centennial Definitive Stamps, 6 cent Orange Sheet Stamp
Centennial Definitive Stamps, 7 cent

Centennial Definitive Stamps, 8 cent Library of Parliament Sheet Stamp
Centennial Definitive Stamps February 8, 1967
Centennial Definitive Stamps, dated varieties
Centennial Symbol Machine Cancellation

Change of Address Cards
Coils
Commercial Covers
Courier Mail
Delayed Mail
Directory Service
Domestic Acknowledgment of Receipt
Domestic Fourth Class
Domestic Letter
Domestic Money Packets
Domestic Post Card
Domestic Registration
Domestic Request for Additional Delivery
Domestic Special Delivery
Domestic Third Class
Domestic Third Class Quantity and Householder Mail
Embargoed Mail
Expo 67

Expo 67 Post Offices
Fire
First Day Covers, Chickering
First Day Covers, David M. Pritchard
Free Mail, House of Commons
Free Mail, Senate

Free U.S. Military Mail from Vietnam to Canada
House of Commons

Husky Tower
International Acknowledgment of Receipt
International Aerogrammes
International Despatch Notes
International Letter, Air Mail
International Letter, Surface
International Parcel Post Great Britain
International Post Card, Air Mail
International Post Card, Surface
International Postage Due Inbound Mail (Part 1)
International Postage Due Inbound Mail (Part 2)
International Postage Due Surface Letters

International Postage Due Taxation Errors
International Poste Restante
International Printed Matter, Airmail (Other Articles)
International Printed Matter, Surface
International Special Delivery
International Underpaid Air Mail Correspondence
Kaulbach Island
Kapuskasing, Model Town of the North
Local Posts
Lundy Island
Mechanization, Winnipeg and Ottawa
Mechanization, Burroughs Machine Winnipeg
Mechanization, Pitney-Bowes Machine
Military Bomarc Missile North Bay
Military NATO Forces
Military Naval Mail
Military Nimrod Caper Jamaica
Military RCAF Stations Name Changes
Military, Tattoo
Military Viet Nam, Anti-War
Military Viet Nam, Canadian Supervision
Missent
Paquebot, Great Lakes
Postal Strike 1968
Postage Due Cover 1973 : Australia, GB, Canada
Precancelled Stamps
Prison Censorship
Senate
Ships and Ferries
Slogan Cancellations 1967
Slogan Cancellations 1968
Slogan Cancellations 1969
Slogan Cancellations 1970
Slogan Cancellations 1971
Slogan Cancellations 1972

Slogan Cancellations 1973
Slogan Cancellations on Souvenir Covers
Space, Canadian Satellites
Stationery, Private Order
Strike, Postal 1968
Theft
Toronto Maple Leafs Stanley Cup
Trains, Flying Scotsman
Undeliverable Domestic First Class Mail
Undeliverable Mail Office
United States "Canada" Commemorative Stamp
United States, Rates and Services
Weagamow Lake

Post-Centennial Period (1972 - 2000)

1.Domestic Letter/Post Card Rates
2. International Letter Rates : 1976- 1999
3. International Letter Rates : 1999 - 2013
4. Taxation International Lausanne Handling Charge
5. U.S. Letter Rates

Other

Toronto Postal Terminal "A" Fire

COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS (1947-1951)

1947 Alexander Graham Bell
1947 Citizenship
1948 Princess Elizabeth Wedding
1948 Responsible Government
1949 Newfoundland
1949 Halifax
1950 Prime Ministers : Borden, King
1951 Centenary of Postal Service - CAPEX
1951 Royal Visit

COMMEMORATIVE STAMPS (1952-1966)

Abbott, 1952
Alberta and Saskatchewan Anniversary, 1955
Alberta Floral Emblem, 1966
Alouette II, 1966
Atomic Energy, 1966
Beaver, 1954
Bennett, 1955
Bowell, 1954
Boy Scouts Jamboree, 1955
British Columbia Centennial, 1958
British Columbia Floral Emblem, 1965
Canada Floral Emblem, 1966
Caribou, 1956
Charlottetown Conference 1964
Christmas, 1964
Christmas, 1965
Christmas, 1966
Churchill, 1965
Civil Aviation Organization, International, 1955
Colombo Plan, 1961
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference, 1966
Coronation, 1953
Country Women of the World, Associated, 1959
De La Salle, 1966
Dollard Des Ormeaux, 1960
Education, 1962
Fire Safety, 1956
Flag, 1965
Flight in Canada, 1959
Floral Emblem Alberta, 1966
Floral Emblem British Columbia, 1965
Floral Emblem Canada, 1966
Floral Emblem Maple Leaf Unity, 1964
Floral Emblem Manitoba, 1965
Floral Emblem New Brunswick, 1965
Floral Emblem Newfoundland 1966
Floral Emblem Northwest Territories, 1966
Floral Emblem Nova Scotia, 1965
Floral Emblem Ontario, 1964
Floral Emblem Prince Edward Island, 1965
Floral Emblem Quebec, 1964
Floral Emblem Saskatchewan, 1966
Floral Emblem Souvenir Card, 1966
Floral Emblem Yukon, 1966
Free Press, 1958
Frobisher, 1963
Gannet 15 cents, 1954
Girl Guides, 1960
Goat, Mountain 1956
Grenfell 1965
Gzowski, 1963
Highway Safety, 1966
Hockey, 1956
Inter-Parliamentary Union Congress, 1965
International Co-Operation Year, 1965
International Geophysical Year, 1958
Johnson, E. Pauline, 1961
La Verendrye, 1958
London Conference, 1966
Loon, 1957
Mackenzie, 1952
Manitoba Floral Emblem, 1965
Maple Leaf Unity, 1964
Meighen, Arthur 1961
Mining Conference, Commonwealth, 1957
Moose, 1952
Musk Ox, 1955
NATO, 1959
New Brunswick Floral Emblem, 1965
Newfoundland Floral Emblem, 1966
Northern Development, 1961
Northwest Territories Floral Emblem, 1966
Nova Scotia Assembly, 1958
Nova Scotia Floral Emblem, 1965
Nursing, 1958
Oil Industry, 1958
Ontario Floral Emblem, 1964
Ottawa, National Capital, 1965
Peace on Earth, 1964
Plains of Abraham, 1959
Polar Bear, 1952
Postal Bi-Centennial, 1963
Prime Ministers 1952 : Abbott, Mackenzie
Prime Ministers 1954 : Bowell, Thompson
Prime Ministers 1955 : Bennett, Tupper
Prince Edward Island Floral Emblem, 1965
Quebec City Anniversary, 1958
Quebec Conference, 1964
Quebec Floral Emblem, 1964
Recreational Activities 1957
Red Cross International Conference, 1952
Red River Settlement, 1962
Resources for Tomorrow, 1961
Royal Visit, 1957
Royal Visit, 1959
Royal Visit, 1964
Saskatchewan Floral Emblem, 1966
Sheep, 1952
St. Lawrence Seaway, 1959
Talon, Jean, 1962
Thompson, David, 1957
Thompson, John, 1954
Trans-Canada Highway, 1962
Tupper, 1955
Universal Postal Union Congress, 1957
Victoria, B.C., 1962
Walrus, 1954
Whooping Crane 1955
Wildlife Series 1952: Polar Bear, Moose, Sheep
Wildlife Series 1954 : Beaver, Walrus, Gannet
Wildlife Series 1955 : Musk Ox, Whooping Crane
Wildlife Series 1956 : Caribou, Goat (Mountain)
Wildlife Series 1957 : Loon
Yukon Floral Emblem, 1966

Commemoratives (1967-1973)

1967

Canadian Press, 1967
Centennial, 1967
Christmas 1967
Expo 67,1967
Pan-Am Games, 1967
Royal Visit, 1967
Toronto Capital of Ontario, 1967
Vanier, Georges, 1967
Votes for Women,1967

1968

Armistice
Bourassa, Henri
Brown, George
Christmas, 5 cents
Christmas, 6 cents
Gray Jay
Hydrological Decade
Lacrosse
Meteorology
McCrae, John
Narwhal
Nonsuch

1969

Bird Series
Brock, Isaac
Christmas
Canada Games
Charlottetown
Curling
International Labour Organization
Leacock, Stephen
Massey, Vincent
Osler, William
Suzor-Cote
Transatlantic Flight

1970

International Biological Programme

MacKenzie, Alexander

Manitoba Centennial

Northwest Territories Centennial

1971

British Columbia

Laporte, Pierre

Radio International

1972

Christmas 1972
Earth Sciences

Figure Skating, World Championship

Health Day, World

1973

Laval
Jeanne Mance
The Algonkians
RCMP Centennial
Joseph Howe
J.H.E. Macdonald
Prince Edward Island Centennial
Scottish Settlers in Nova Scotia
Nellie McClung
Royal Visit
Olympics 1976
Christmas 1973

1974-1980 Private First Day Covers

1974 Issues
1975 Issues
1976 Issues
1977 Issues
1978 Issues
1979 Issues
1980 Issues
1981 Issues

NON-INDEXED POSTS

Many of the following posts have not been indexed.

Historic Land Vehicles : The Labatt's Streamliner
Gaylord Products First Day Covers
2012 Wlidlife Domestic Lettermail Stationery
Recent Additions : March 2014
Halifax 1945 : Bedford Explosions
Post-1976 British Postage Due Calculations on Unde...
Another Example of Incorrect 1966 International Ta...
Canada Post Corporation Reneging on Letter Rates
Air Mail Rates to the United Kingdom
Reduced International Letter Rates : Mexico, Franc...

Air Mail Letter Rates from Canada to the United St...
Domestic Air Mail Letter Rates: 1928 - 1954
Canada International (U.P.U.) Letter Rates : 1892 ...
Letter Rates to the United Kingdom and British Emp...
Canadian Letter Rates to the United States : 1868 ...
Canadian Domestic Letter Rates From Confederation ...
UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Canada 2014

Goodwill and Canada Post Corporation

Ice Boating

2006 Museum of Canadian Civilization

Zodiac Stamps : 2011 - 2013

1989 - 1995 : 50th Anniversary of World War II St...

Canada- Alaska Cruise Picture Postage 2003
Inside a Modern Mail Processing Plant
Domestic Second Class Matter Regulations 1957

Picture Postage Stamps

1995 Undenominated Stamp Issues
Diamond Jubilee Keepsake Folders Volume 5 (1993-20...
The Toronto Sun and Lubor J. Zink
Discovery Train
Sir Casimir Gzowski

1953-1957 Canada Wildlife Series : First Day Cover...

Illustrated Covers : 1953 - 1962
King John III Sobieski

Centennial Opera: Louis Riel
Taxation of Insufficiently Paid Domestic Letter Ma...
Monarch-Free First-Class Letter Rate Definitives :...

Customized Postal Indicia
North Bend Aerial Ferry
A Scarce Centennial Rate
The Unissued 6 cent "Garden of the Provinces" Def...

I nkjet Cancellations
International Peripheral Systems Cancelling Machin...

Klussendorf Machine Cancellations
Toronto Numeral Machine Cancellations : 1952 - 197...
YWCA War Services WWII
Toronto "D" Machine Cancellations : 1941 - 1966
3rd Anniversary Postal History Corner
WWII Auxiliary Services
Canadian Postal Indicia
Expo 67 Pavilions : Drawings by David Pritchard

Trail Double Circle Machine Cancellation
Canada Post Customized Postal Indicia

Insufficiently Paid International Mail : "Centimes...

Hillsborough New Brunswick

Unaddressed Admail 2013

Denominated Bulk Mail : 1971 - 1999

8 cent Caricature Definitive Covers

Cityscapes , Terrains, and Caricature Definitive F...
Volume Electronic Mail
Hold Mail
Geese in Flight Change of Address Announcement Car...
Faster Than Regular Mail : 1967 - 1993
Domestic Acknowledgment of Receipt : 1967 - 1989
International Letter Rates : 1999 - 2013
Intelpost
Telepost

Canada at the League of Nations
Ground Observer Corps-The Eyes and Ears of the RCA...

1995 Mario vs. the Leafs
Belgians in Manitoba

The Royal Wedding Postmark On April 29, 2011, Can...
Tommy Douglas : Canada's "Greatest Canadian" Tommy...
Mail to Hungary 1956-57 In 1956, Hungary was a com...

- - 1939 The Royal Bank of Canada and Rocket Mail
  - 1981 Commemoratives : Private First Day Covers "...

- - Sir James Aikins (1851 - 1929) 4th Lieutenant-Gove...
- - Canada and the Cold War: Emergency Stationery Tod...

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