1903- 1911
(Rates to foreign destinations other than the United States are shown in this post. See here for U.S. rates)
1. Letter
a) To September 30, 1907
A preferential letter rate which was the same as the domestic forward rate was in effect for letters addressed to Great Britain and Empire destinations.
Great Britain and Empire
The letter rate to Great Britain and the Empire was 2 cents for each one-half ounce.
North Vancouver to Kennington, England, March 19, 1907
2 cents per one-half ounce letter rate to Great Britain
Undeliverable and Returned
The above letter could not be delivered and was returned to Canada. Undeliverable mail to foreign destinations was returned to the Canadian Dead Letter Office (DLO). The DLO forwarded the undelivered mail to the sender in an ambulance envelope and charged 2 cents for this service.
Ambulance envelope mailed from the Ottawa DLO to the sender, North Vancouver on May 3, 1907
Numeral 2 handstamp indicating the charge for the return of the dead letter
2 cent postage due affixed and cancelled North Vancouver, May 9, 1907
Ottawa DLO handstamp
Hamilton to Vereeniging, South Africa, October 21, 1907
2 cents Empire letter rate
UPU
The rate to all other foreign destinations (the UPU rate) was 5 cents for each one-half ounce.
Quebec to Geele, Sweden, May 11, 1905
5 cents one-half ounce UPU letter rate
C.R. Somerville (Chewing Gum) London to Liechtenfels, Germany, September 11, 1906
5 cents one-half ounce UPU letter rate
Toronto to Kobe Japan, March, 1906 (Vancouver transit March 13, 1906)
5 cents one-half ounce UPU letter rate
Campbellford to U.S. Naval Hospital, Yokahama, Japan
5 cents one-half ounce UPU letter rate
The letter was forwarded to California and eventually returned to the addressee.
b) From October 1, 1907
Great Britain and Empire
The new letter rate to Great Britain and the Empire was 2 cents per ounce.
Welland to Cheltenham, February 28, 1911
2 cents per ounce letter rate
Niagara Falls and London Ry. P.O. to London, May 13, 1909
4 cents paying the 2 ounce letter rate
Forwarded by Canadian Bank of Commerce, London to Edinburgh, June 8, 1909
Paquebot
Liverpool "Paquebot" cancellation, May 23, 1909
Posted on board a Canadian Pacific Railway Company ship and addressed to London
Paquebot Liverpool
UPU
On October 1, 1907, the UPU letter rate was reduced from 5 cents for each one-half ounce to 5 cents for the 1st ounce and 3 cents for each additional ounce.
German Consulate Toronto to Leipzig, Germany, January 10, 1912
5 cents UPU letter rate for one ounce
Humboldt to Gorlitz, Germany, November 6, 1911
8 cents UPU letter rate for 2 ounces : 5 cent 1st ounce + 3 cents 2nd ounce
Redirected
The letter below was mailed from Como, Quebec to Croydon, England, and was properly prepaid 2 cents, the rate to Britain. The letter was redirected to Lausanne, Switzerland, for which the rate from Canada would have been 5 cents. A charge of 15 centimes was levied by the Swiss post office which represented the difference between the amount of postage already paid and the postage which would have been paid if the letter had been originally sent to Switzerland.
Rate to Great Britain...................................2 cents
Rate to Switzerland (from Canada)...........5 cents
Rate difference.............................................3 cents
Rate difference in centimes.........................15 centimes (1 cent= 5 centimes)
Como to Croydon, September 10, 1910 (2 cents rate to Great Britain)
Redirected from Croydon to Lausanne, September 21, 1910
Taxed 15 centimes for the redirection at Lausanne
Further redirection to Lugano
"Parti" label affixed
The addressee had left
"ANNULE" (Void) handstamp on postage due stamps
The letter was returned to Canada (Lugano September 26, 1910) . Montreal receiver October 9, 1910 and forwarded to the Ottawa Dead Letter Office on October 17, 1910
Ottawa Dead Letter Office handstamp
October 18, 1910
2. Post Card
The post card rate to all destinations was 2 cents.
Phoenix, B.C. to Little Bay, Newfoundland, April 3, 1909
2 cents post card rate
2 cent booklet stamp
Toronto to Auckland, New Zealand, August 16, 1905
NOT KNOWN BY LETTER CARRIER AUCKLAND handstamp
Charlottetown to Cairo, Egypt, June 3 1907
2 cents post card rate
Port Said TPO cancellation, June 19, 1907
Montreal to Berlin, June 4, 1906
2 cent post card rate
Esquimalt Crown Cancel
Esquimalt to Bogawandalawa, Ceylon, January 5, 1905
Esquimalt fancy cancel
Crown in a sunburst of rays
Insufficiently Paid
Montreal to Milan, April 8, 1904
2 cents post card rate
Shortpaid 1 cent and taxed single deficiency, 5 centimes by the London post office
The amount to be collected was double the deficiency. Since 25 centesimi (Italian) = 25 centimes, the amount due was 10 centisemi.
UPU Post Card
Montreal to Shidawaka-Ken, Japan, December 9, 1908
2 cent UPU post card
2 cents UPU post card rate
Brussels arrival April 14, 1911
3. Printed Matter
The printed matter rate to all destinations was 1 cent for each 2 ounces.
Canadian Pacific Pictorial Post Cards
Montreal to Paris, July 31, 1908
1 cent printed matter rate
Montreal to Helston, England, October 29, 1909
1 cent printed matter rate
Henry Hechler Correspondence
Henry Hechler was a prominent stamp dealer in Halifax. He served with the 63rd Halifax Regiment that was sent to quell the North-West rebellion of 1885, and arranged for printers to overprint "Service" on current postal stationery for military use, although only a few of his overprinted stationery were legitimately used. Hechler was one of the organizers of the Canadian Philatelic Association (now the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada).
Post card mailed at the printed matter rate
Henry Hechler correspondence, Halifax to Vienna, May 14, 1906
1 cent printed matter rate
" Hechler was a master penman. He prepared covers addressed to himself in care of relatives and others, and these were usually in beautiful script, an ornament to any collector."
Fred Jarrett, BNAPS Topics, September 1963, pg. 204
Signed by Henry Hechler Capt. 63 Regt.
4. Special Services
Registration
The registration fee was 5 cents.
Vermillion Bay to Porto Alegre, Brazil, July 10, 1909
Registration label added at the New York Exchange Office
5 cents UPU letter rate + 5 cents registration fee
Registered Commercial Papers
Victoria to Valparaiso, Chile, September 1904
5 cents printed matter rate for 10 ounces + 5 cents registration fee
Montreal transit September 23, 1904
New York transit September 24, 1904
Registration labels affixed at New York and Valparaiso post offices