Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Millennium 8 : Bell Canada Enterprises

 [This post is another in a series  profiling each of the 68 stamps issued by Canada Post Corporation on September 15, 1999 on the occasion of the new Millennium. Links to previously published posts are listed at the bottom of this page]




Bell Canada Enterprises is a big Canadian media and telecommunications conglomerate.


 The Millennium Stamp

1.  Millennium Collection Album

The Bell Canada Enterprises stamp was one of 68 Millennium stamps first issued in a hardbound book, Canada Post The Millennium Collection : Expressions of a People, on September 15, 1999. The stamps were printed two to a page.


The  Hudson's Bay Company and  Bell Canada Enterprises stamps were printed on the same page.


2. Millennium Collection Souvenir Sheet

Canada Post Corporation re-issued the Millennium stamps in panes of 4 stamps issued over a three month period from December 17, 1999 to March 17, 2000. The souvenir sheet with the Bell Canada Enterprises stamp  was released on  March 17, 2000.






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Millennium Stamp Collection

1. WikipediaCanada Post Millennium Stamps
(This site describes the stamps and provides links to article dealing with each subject.)

2. Postal History Corner articles:
4. Tom Longboat
5. Inuit Shaman
6. Healing From Within
7. Hudson's Bay Company 
8. Bell Canada Enterprises