Chapter I: Front Matter

</pre>

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.

This version uses the ASCII character set only. The
following substitutions have been made for Latin-1 symbols:

^o for the ordinal superscript
[L] for the pound (Sterling)
[S] for the section symbol
x for the multiplication symbol
[a'] for a-grave
['e] for e-acute
[^e] for e-circumflex
[e'] for e-grave
[c] for c-cedilla
deg. for the degree symbol

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

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

Page
KEY TO PLATES 4
FOREWORD 9
INTRODUCTION 11