Philately Fridays: Canada, 1981

Block of stamps showing Canada throughout the years in honor of Canada Day, 1981. Designed by Raymond Bellemare.

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Philately Fridays: Canada, 1971

Humans recorded as data in graphic format. Perfect.

Philately Fridays: Canada, 1978

Two action-packed stamps celebrating the 11th Commonwealth Games. Thick lines all day.

Philately Fridays: Canada, 1986

Merry Christmas from Canada with a touch of art deco vibes.

Philately Fridays: 1983, Canada

Clean illustration on this Canadian postage stamp commemorating the star-shaped Fort Anne in Nova Scotia.

Philately Fridays: Canada, 1985

Canadians in space!

Philately Fridays: Canada, 1982

Here's one from Canada, celebrating 100 years of the Salvation Army. Really digging the thin gold lines and warm color scheme here.

Expo 67 Official Guide

Here are some highlights from the official guidebook to the 1967 World's Fair held in Montréal, Quebec. The book belonged to my grandparents, who picked it up at the fair. Lots of beautiful architectural drawings, logos, and illustrations to enjoy here.

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Touring Canada

Beautiful little guide book to driving through the great land of Canada. My friend found this for me in Honolulu of all places. Thanks Aerin!

There's no artist or year credit. I'm guessing 1974. If anyone has any details on this one, please share!

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Philately Fridays: Canada, 1974

Here's a block of stamps celebrating Canada Post (Postes Canada). Four fantastic illustrations reminding us to keep the postal system alive and running no matter where we live.



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Philately Fridays: Canada, 1976

Well, since 123Klan is in town getting ready for their big show opening at CO Exhibitions this weekend, we're really in the Montréal mindstate, so here's a set of three stamps from the 1976 Summer Olympic games, held in their hometown.

Philately Fridays: Canada, 1976

Three stamps from Canada celebrating arts, crafts, and music just in time for the 1976 Olympics. This is a perfect execution of the '70s still life photo shoot trend which surfaced in a lot of advertising and graphic arts.

Philately Fridays: Canada, 1980

Wow it's been crazy busy over here. Sorry for the lack of updates! Here's a hot one from Canada - hope it makes up for my truancy.

LOGO WARS VII

This time we're putting the Canada Broadcasting Corporation sunburst up against the Nuclear Pacific Inc of Seattle radioactive burst!


CBC


Nuclear Pacific

FIGHT!

Philately Fridays: Canada 1971

Special dedication to all my Canadian peoples celebrating Boxing Day today.

Candian Broadcasting Corporation

Canada's CBC's gorgeous kaleidoscopic animated on-air identity from 1982:



And their even more gorgeous "Super Concert" pixel universe intro animation, also from '82. Can I get a half-speed version so I can really take it all in?