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Selected Collections - Canadian Postal Archives

Philatelic Collections

Canadian postage stamp collections and related collections

Design of postage stamps (artworks)

American Bank Note Company fonds
Emanuel Hahn and Elizabeth Wyn Wood fonds
[artworks of the coronation stamp of Elizabeth II in 1953]
E. Philip Weiss fonds
[Documents on stamps designed between 1959 and 1965]
Alma Duncan and Audrey McLaren fonds
[artworks of the stamps in the series "Maple Leaf in Four Seasons" in 1971 and the floral aerogrammes of 1973]
Rolf Harder fonds
[artworks of stamps (1975-1994)]
Barbara Griffin fonds
[artworks of the girl guides stamp of 1985]
Frederick Hagan fonds
[artworks of the stamps in the series "Exploration of Canada" (1986-1989)]
David Nethercott & Associates, Ltd. fonds
[artworks of the Frances Anne Hopkins stamp of 1988]
George A. Gundersen fonds (Series: BABN art director records)
[reference collection of essays]

Production of postage stamps (proofs)

American Bank Note Company fonds
British American Bank Note Company fonds
Canadian Bank Note Company Ltd. fonds
R.H. Pratt fonds (Sub-series: Essays and proofs)
[Newfoundland proofs and essays]
Arthur W. Leggett collection
[proofs, including never issued stamps engraved by the American Bank Note Company]
Clarence A. Stillions collection
[Newfoundland proofs of 1937]
Zurich collection
[Newfoundland proofs and essays]

Postage stamps and other philatelic products

George Carlyle Marler fonds (Sub-series: Stamp collections)
[King Edward VII stamp issue (1904-1909)]
C. Fred Black collection
[Canadian stamps]
J. Don Wilson collection
[sheets of Newfoundland stamps]
George E.L. Manley fonds
[precancelled Canadian postal stationery]
Jonathan C. Johnson collection
[perforated initials on stamps (PERFINS)]
Pierre Gauthier collection
[1930's official post cards]

Forgeries and fakes

André Frodel fonds
[forged stamps of Canada, Nova Scotia and British Columbia created by Frodel]
E.A. Smythies fonds
[faked and forged stamps of Canada and British North America]
Zurich collection
[forged stamps of Newfoundland]
Rowcliffe F. Wrigley collection
[counterfeit O.H.M.S. (On His Majesty's Service) perforations]

Postal markings and cancellations

Anatole Walker fonds
[séries: collection of Quebec postal markings (1779-1999)]
Frank Staff collection
[North American stampless postal covers (1788-1853)]
Fred Stulberg collection
[inland steamboat mails (1811-1862)]
R.H. Webb fonds
[military mail (postal covers and markings between 1825 and 1967)]
Harry Guertin fonds
[military mail (mainly World War I and II)]
Michael J. Squirell fonds
[collection of Manitoulin Island (Ontario) postmarks (1852-1951)]
Elizabeth Hutchinson collection
[commemorative and first day covers of Canada and other countries]
Pritchard-Andrews Limited fonds
[cancellation die proofs (1885-1925)]
Charles L. Wilmore collection
[test impressions of the 1939 Royal Train cancellation]
Fédération québécoise de philatélie collection
[commemorative covers of philatelic exhibitions]
Ross W. Irwin fonds
[metered mail]
Richard Kenneth Malott fonds
[Canadian delegation to the International Commission of Control and Supervision in South Vietnam, 1973]

Postage stamps of other countries

Universal Postal Union

Canadiana

C. Fred Black collection
[twenty volume collection of foreign-issued postage stamps with subjects related to Canada]