Viewing my Canadian Stamp Collection: An Informal Walkthrough 

Lovely video once again. Love seeing how you organise your collection and your narrative. The stamp at 14:08 is beautiful with that cancellation. 14:54, beautiful stamps. Interesting what you said that ‘you’d rather have a stamp in your collection then not’ when you mentioned the stamp that was damaged. I didn’t want placeholders, as I think it gives me a wrong impression what I have and what I don’t. Whatever is in my collection should be right. But as I progressed in my stamp collecting, I tend to agree with you. Because some stamps are harder to get and I was both happy and sad to have a stamp that was not easy to get. I love that it has changed my perspective in ‘what my rules’ are. Anyway, hope that made sense and thanks for this video!

Very informative, thanks for sharing. So you don´t collect Canadian commemorative stamps ?! Greets from GER, U.

Hey there Ken it’s been a while for me to comment. Spent Saturday and Sunday at the San Diego Stamp Show and it didn’t disappoint me. Speaking of Canadian stamps, I picked up the Blue Nose (158) mint , light hinged and the New Foundland Blue Moose (119) mint, light hinged. Purchased @ 25 new stamps for my First Editions Album. What great weekend for me and met alot of nice stamp collectors. Wish you were there. Take care and as always Happy Collecting the other Ken

Hi Ken. What fun! I enjoy Canadian stamps, but I'm biased, being Canadian. 🙂 I quite like modern definitive sets like the handicrafts but they're so small, and cancels often so dark, that the design gets lost. Regarding the early issues, it may help to think of the early "provinces" as British colonies, since that's what they were in the 1850's. Like your "13 colonies" that became US states, in 1867 several colonies federated into the Dominion of Canada (a country) and became provinces in the new country. We call that Confederation. It's more complicated in a way because the "Province of Canada" was the big colony and split into Ontario (English, upper Canada, or Canada West) and Quebec (French, lower Canada, Canada East) -- upper and lower refer to the St. Lawrence River, upstream and downstream. Names and configurations kept changing prior to Confederation. If stamps came along in the 1820's you might see Upper Canada and Lower Canada stamps! The French and English settlements changed a lot in colonial times - the history of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is rife with these conflicts (the Acadian expulsion was a big one, which has connections with Louisiana) Anyway, PEI decided to go it alone and didn't join in 1867. They joined later. BC and Vancouver Island also joined later. Newfoundland remained a colony until 1949 when they voted to join (at the time, there was a great debate whether to continue to be independent, join Canada or join the US!) There is a Canadian catalogue (Darnell) that starts numbering Canadian stamps with the Large Queens, and puts the Province of Canada stamps in the back of the book with the other colonial stamps. So you might have a #1 after all! 😊

Before Canada, the provinces were Colonies of Great Britain. Newfoundland was a British Colony until 1949.

Great survey of your Canadian collection. They one issue I wish you would have mentioned is the Diamond Jubilee series of 1897. They are a beautiful set with values from 1/2 cent to 5 dollars.

Really nice/good video. I was searching video about Canadian stamps and come by yours. I really like pages you do by yourself. Thank you for sharing.

Interesting and informative as always Ken! Rightly or wrongly, I think of Stanley Gibbons as specialists in GB philately, Michel as the experts in German postal history, and Scott as the specialist in US stamps. Does Canada have an equivalent publisher? Thanks again Ken!

Again a great video, Ken. Thanks! Nice to see your collection and it gives a good overview of some Canadian stamps through time periods. I like the Queen bicolour stamps at 22:01, and naturally for me, I really like the fauna and flora stamps. Best wishes!🙂

At around 15:45 you have a KGVI page but the red and orange 4¢ stamps are of KEVIII, who abdicated. They need their own page.

Lovely video Ken! Super organized approach, great guide for many of us following you.

Showing what you don't have isn't very interesting

Thanks for sharing your collection - always fun to learn about the varieties of these beautiful small Canadian stamps! I love all of the animals on stamps especially the late 1990s/early 2000s wildlife series - I managed to find nice used copies of the grizley and polar bears in local kiloware clippings and got the blue whale during my last visit to Vancouver.

I have them

Why were so few stamps issued during the reign of Edward VII? This was true for Great Britain also.

I love collecting stamps. Those are some nice nice stamps.