Canada Postage Stamp
Artifact ID1982.41595.01
Object Type
Stamp, Postage
Gifter
William M. Lee
Maker
Canada Post
(Canadian postal service, founded 1867)
Date
August 30, 1982
Medium
Paper, Ink
Dimensions6 × 10 in. (15.2 × 25.4 cm)
Physical DescriptionA first-day cover featuring one stamp from each of Canada's 10 provinces and two territories. The red text printed on the back of the envelope in English and French states, "CANADA DAY 1982 Canada Through the Eyes of its Artists. The striking beauty and diversity of the face of Canada have always been a source of inspiration to its artist. To celebrate Canada Day, Canada Post Corporation presents a miniature sheet of twelve paintings, each one an artist's interpretation of a scene from the ten provinces and two territories.
A.Y. Jackson's painting of The Highway near Kluane Lake in the National Gallery collection, reflects the wild and lonely beauty of the Yukon.
Adrien Hébert's winter street scene in bustling Montreal, owned by the Musée du Québec, represents Quebec, Canada's largest province.
A seascape, Christopher Pratt's serigraph Breakwater, aptly represents Newfoundland, one of Canada's two island provinces.
The Northwest Territories are represented by René Richard's Along Great Slave Lake, an oil in the Permanent Collection of Ottawa University.
Molly Lamb's oil painting of the beach at Tea Hill, owned by Holland College School of Visual Arts, evokes a warm summer day in Prince Edward Island.
Family and Rainstrom by Alex Colville, captures the capricious weather of the seabound coast of Nova Scotia. This oil painting is owned by the National Gallery.
Brown Shadows, in the Edmonton Art Gallery, shows the guiet beauty of Saskatchewan's prairie landscape as rendered in charcoal and watercolour by Dorothy Knowles.
The Red Brick House, is one of the many studies of rural Ontario by David Milne, in the National Gallery.
New Brunswick's trees in colourful autumn dress are a prominent feature of Bruno Bobak's Campus Gates in the Permanent Collection of the University of New Brunswick.
Characteristic grain elevators identify Illingworth Kerr's Prairie Town - Early Morning, in the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
British Columbia's rugged terrain is represented by Totems at Ninstints, a pastel painting by Joe Plaskett, in the Queen Charlotte Islands Museum.
Lionel LeMoine FitzGerald's quiet neighbourhood study Doc Snider's House was chosen to represent Manitoba, and is owned by the National Gallery.
The sheet layout of all twelve stamps was arranged to enhance each individual stamp. Both the layout and the typography are the work of Jean Morin and Pierre Sasseville of Montreal.Additional DetailsCustodial History NoteThe item was a gift from a member of the general public to President Ronald Reagan during the Reagan administration. It was received through the Executive Office of the President Office of Correspondence and maintained there until its transfer to the National Archives in January, 1989 for deposit with the Reagan Presidential Library.
National Archives Catalog CollectionRecords of the White House Gift Unit (Reagan Administration) (National Archives Identifier 6816362) and
National Archives Catalog SeriesGifts from the General Public (National Archives Identifier 6816363)
Use Restriction StatusRestricted - Possibly
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Country/CultureCanadaIn Collection(s)