E-text prepared by Simon Gardner, Adrian Mastronardi, The Philatelic Digital Library Project (http://www.tpdlp.net), and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numerous original illustrations. See 37457-h.htm or 37457-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/37457/pg37457-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37457/37457-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924030133122 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). Small caps typeface is shown as ALL UPPER CASE. Footnotes are presented after the paragraph in which the anchor appears. The ordinal superscript symbol is represented by ^o. The extensive block quotations within this book feature rows of closely spaced asterisks (* * * * *) which function as an ellipsis (unquoted or missing material). This is distinct from the "thought break", indicating a change of subject. Changes to the text have been limited to correction of typographical errors which have been listed at the end. CANADA ITS POSTAGE STAMPS AND POSTAL STATIONERY by CLIFTON A. HOWES, B. Sc., F. R. P. S. L. Published by The New England Stamp Co. Boston, U. S. A. 1911 [Illustration: 1852-1857 THICK HARD WOVE PAPER. DULL PURPLE. IMPERF. THICK SOFT WOVE PAPER RED-VIOLET. Specimen Page From the Collection of Charles Lathrop Pack Esq.] CANADA ITS POSTAGE STAMPS AND POSTAL STATIONERY by CLIFTON A. HOWES, B. Sc., F. R. P. S. L. Published by The New England Stamp Co. Boston, U. S. A. 1911 Copyright 1911 By the New England Stamp Co. Boston, Mass. Press of Newcomb & Gauss Salem, Mass. CONTENTS