This article counts the stamps Canada emitted in 2007 by Postes Canada.

General information

The emissions are marked “Canada” and a facial value made out in hundred, subdivision of the Canadian dollar (CAD). There are no mention of the year and artists on the stamp; this information is taken again on the margins of the sheets.

If a legend appears on the stamp, it is systematically carried out to be included/understood by the english-speaking and the French-speaking people: either it is limited in the name of the character or of the place, or it is translated in the two languages.

Tariffs

Going rates are those in force on January 16th, 2007. , It differentiates two types of mail: standard sendings respecting of the high limits of size, and the oversize sendings whose forwarding costs approximately the double of the standard tariff.

For the inland rate of the standard letter of less than 30 grams, Postes Canada decides to tolerate into 2007 stampings from 51 hundreds instead of 52 hundreds. This decision makes it possible to save the impression and the storage of stamps of one hundred.

Here realizable tariffs using a stamp or of a notebook emitted in 2007:

Inland rate:

• 0,52 CAD : standard letter of less than 30 grams.
• 0,93 CAD : standard letter from 31 to 50 grams.

Tariff for the foreigner:

• 0,93 CAD : standard letter of less than 30 grams for the the United States.
• 1,55 CAD : standard letter of less than 30 grams for the whole world.

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For each stamp, the text brings back following information:

• date of emission, facial value and description,
• forms of sale,
• artists originators and genesis of the project,
• demonstration first day,
• date of withdrawal, pulling and sales figures,

as well as the useful informations for a given emission.

January

Year of the pig

January 5th, within the framework of the annual series for the Chinese New year in progress since 1997, is emitted a stamp of 0,52 dollar and a block of a stamp of 1,55 dollar on the pig ( Year off the Pig ), astrological sign of the year to come beginning on February 18th, 2007 and finishing on February 6th, 2008. The illustration takes as a starting point a version of the legend on the choice of the twelve animals and their kind by the Empereur of jade: the pig having eaten and slept on the way, it crosses in the last the river whose order of crossing was to give the order of the astrological signs. The pig gambadant approach thus on the stamps of the Jade Emperor: on the 52 hundreds (pink pig, dark and clear orange bottom), it approaches the river, which it finished crossing on the 1,55 dollar (red pig, dark and clear green bottom). On the two stamps, the body of the pig is decorated with flowers and takes as a starting point the technique by the enamel partitioned.

The stamps of 4,8 × 2,6 cm are the work of John Belisle and Kosta Tsetsekas of the agency Signals Design of Vancouver. Three modes of impression carried out by The Lowe-Martin Group are combined: Lithography, Stamping and Embossing. The 52 hundreds is conditioned in sheet of twenty-five stamps. The 1,55 dollar is sold in the form of a block taking again the illustration not notched and without facial value of the 52 hundreds; these blocks are also printed in sheet of twelve.

The seal first day is gone back to Toronto, in Ontario.

The withdrawal of the sale takes place on January 4th, 2008. Initial pulling is of 8 million stamps of 52 hundreds and 700.000 block of 1,55 dollar. 15.000 not cut boards of twelve blocks drawn and are sold 26,95 dollars for 18,6 dollars of facial: these boards include/understand the legend which inspired the stamps in English, Chinese and French.

Celebrations

January 15th, is emitted a notebook of six self-adhesive stamps of 0,52 dollars. On the topic of the celebrations that an invitation sent by the post office can announce, the illustration presents a throw of Confetti S and ribbons coloured, on bottom clear salmon.

The stamp of 3,6 × 2,8 cm is drawn by Karen Smith of the agency Trivium Design Inc. It is printed by The Lowe-Martin Group in Lithographie in notebook of six self-adhesive specimens, without side serration and with a serration undulated in top and bottom to help with the separation of the support.

The seal first day is gone back to Ottawa, the federal capital.

It is withdrawn from the sale on January 14th, 2008.

February

International polar year

February 12th, is emitted a diptych at the time of the international polar Année (API, International Whodunnit Year ) which must see several scientific exhibitions coordinating itself in Arctique and in the Antarctic. The two stamps of 52 hundreds present each one, on black bottom, an Arctic animal specie: on the left, a male eider duck with gray head ( Somateria spectabilis ), species whose migrations will be studied during the API one, and on the right, a Crossota millsaeare , species of jellyfish discovered recently in Arctic water. It is represented on a real scale on the stamp which is 4 cm long on 3 top. The central serration of the diptych includes/understands a hole in form of Feuille of maple, second use goes back some after that of the diptych emitted on October 13rd, 2005 for the joint emission with the Popular republic to China on the large cat-like ones.

The photographs are page layouts by the agency q30 design. The stamps of 4 × 3 cm each one are printed in Lithographie by The Lowe-Martin Group. Conditionings are: a block-layer containing a diptych and illustrated information on the cast iron of the ices of the Arctic; a sheet of sixteen dyptiques divided into two columns of eight separated by a interpanneau; and this sheet with eight half-diptychs on both sides of the interpanneau.

The emission in the shape of a block-layer is that employed for the joint emission at the time of the international polar Year 2007-2008: in addition to Canada, take part in it the Denmark, the the United States, the Finland, the Greenland, the Iceland, the Norway and the Sweden.

The demonstration first day is gone back to Igloolik, with the Nunavut.

The date of withdrawal is on February 11th, 2008.

March

Lilac

March 1st, is emitted two self-adhesive stamps of 52 hundreds representative two species of “lilac” to the approach of the Printemps. With the white flowers photographed on a purple bottom, a common lilac Syringa vulgaris “Princess Alexandra”, which accepted this name at the end of the 19th century of the Canadian horticulturist James Dougall, according to the first name of the wife of the prince de Galles Edouard VII. On the second stamp, with the mauve flowers on green bottom, a Syringa X prestoniae “Isabella” created by Isabella Preston in 1927 by hybridant two Chinese wild species, the Syringa komarowii '' subspecies '' reflexa '' and the Syringa villosa . It with the characteristic to have a late flowering, during second half of spring.

The flowers were cultivated by the Ferme experimental power station of Ottawa, and were photographed in full flowering and in the light of the sun by Isabelle All Saints' day. The stamps are quadrilaterals, whose inferior sides and superior are rounded towards outside; they are 3,4 cm long and 2,56 cm in the greatest height. They are printed in Lithographie, with use of varnish, by the Canadian Bank Note Company. Two conditionings are an illustrated block of two stamps and a notebook of ten stamps (five of each type).

The seal first day is gone back to Cornwall, in the Ontario.

The withdrawal of the sale takes place on February 29th, 2008.

HEC Montreal 1907-2007

March 12th, is emitted a Timbre commemorative of 52 hundreds for the centenary of the École of the high commercial studies of Montreal, with the Quebec, which was the first school of management founded with the Canada. The stamp reproduces a photograph of the frontage of the original building of this school, in the Square Viger, with below its blazon. Exceeding ecu, the attribute of Mercury, the Caduceus to point out the trade on the right faces a symbol of the studies the torch on the left; between the two, in the medium, an open book is posed on the ecu. This one blue is bordered of gold, containing a Globe whose equator is of money, and on which vogue a ship in direction of the rising sun. The boat incarnates a young country moving towards the light of progress in a world of trade.

The photography of Guy Lavigueur is page layout on a stamp of Denis To combine It (which in particular removed image urban furniture). This stamp of 3,6 × 4,5 cm is printed in Lithographie in a notebook of eight stamps by The Lowe-Martin Group.

Obliteration first day is available to Montreal and represents a mortar, the hat of the students and academics.

The withdrawal of the sale takes place on March 11th, 2008.

Art Canada : Mary Pratt

March 15th, in the artistic series Art Canada , is emitted two stamps reproducing of works of Mary Pratt, realistic painter specialized in the Still life , and playing with the representation of the light and generally the domestic life. On the 0,52 CAD, Jello Shelf pots of cold presents thus posed on a table; the photorealism is due to a work of masking of the blows of brushes. The 1,15 dollar reproduced Iceberg in the North Atlantic (Iceberg in the North Atlantic).

The tables of Mary Pratt are put on page on a white zone by Helene the Happy one on a stamp gummed of 5,0325 × 4 cm for the 0,52 CAD. “ Jello Shelf ” is printed in Lithographie in sheet of sixteen specimens by the Canadian Bank Note Company. A printed gummed block also lithographs some takes again the two reproductions.

The seal first is available to St John' S, in Ground-New-and-Labrador.

The withdrawal takes place on March 14th, 2008.

April

University of Saskatchewan

April 3rd, is emitted a notebook of eight self-adhesive stamps for the centenary of the Université of Saskatchewan ( University off Saskatchewan ), installed with Saskatoon, in the province of the Saskatchewan. April 3rd, 1907, the law creating the university receives the royal Sanction. The illustration of this stamp is identical to the stamp of the centenary of HEC Montreal, emitted in March 2007: a sky with the colors of the university (green and gold), the photography of the frontage of the building College of collegial style Gothic, and the blazon. Green, it carries in its center an open book surrounded by three sheaves of corn; on the pages of the book, the currency DEO AND PATRIÆ (For God and the Fatherland) are registered.

The photography of the frontage is signed Guy Lavigneur, and is page layout by Denis To combine It to create a stamp of 3,6 × 4,5 cm printed in Lithographie by The Lowe-Martin Group.

Obliteration first day is available to Saskatoon and represents a mortar, the hat of the students and academics.

The withdrawal of the sale takes place on April 2nd, 2008.

May

Ottawa 1857-2007

May 3rd, takes place an emission for the 150e birthday of the choice of Ottawa by the queen Victoria like Capitale of the Province of Canada, on December 31st, 1857. The illustration common to the stamps superimposes a current photograph of the Parlement of Canada on an orange engraving of a river race between loggers in 1860, realized by G.H. Andrews. The stamp of 1,52 CAD is distinguished from the 0,52 CAD by a Gaufrage and the use of the color gilded for certain elements of the illustration.

The stamp of 52 hundreds is sold in the form of a notebook of eight self-adhesive stamps of 52 hundreds with a serration undulated on the sides superior and inferior. The gummed block includes/understands a specimen of the 0,52 dollar and a stamp of 1,52 dollar.

The engraving of G.H. Andrews is extracted from a number of 1860 of the It London News . The photography of the Parliament is carried out by John McQuarrie. The stamps of 5,8 × 3,2 cm are printed in Lithographie by The Lowe-Martin Group. The block is illustrated of a photograph of Cleaves Branson.

The seal first day takes place with Ottawa.

The sale of the series lasts until May 2nd, 2008. Pulling is of 300.000 blocs.

Royal institute of architecture of Canada

May 9th, is emitted a block of eight stamps of 0,52 dollar (two specimens of four different types) for the centenary of the royal Institut of architecture of Canada ( RAIC in English). Four buildings were chosen, built by four Architecte S rewarded by the gold medal for the Institute and member for the Ordre for Canada. It is about the church St Mary by Douglas Cardinal in 1969, of the Université of Lethbridge of Arthur Erickson of 1971, of the Center of sciences of Ontario of Raymond Moriyama of 1969 and of the Musée of the fine arts of Canada of Moshe Safdie realized in 1988. Two vertical lines of Vignette S supplement the stamps: himself-holding with the column of stamps of left, drawings presenting another aspect of construction; the column of right-hand side reproduces the photographs of the four architects.

The photographs are page layouts by Ivan Novotny agency Taylor/Sprules Corporation. The stamps measure 5,2 × 3,2 cm and are printed in Lithographie by Lowe-Martin.

The seal first day is available to Ottawa.

The withdrawal of the sale takes place on May 8th, 2008.

June

Captain Vancouver 1757-2007

June 22nd, is emitted a stamp of 1,55 dollar for the 250e birthday of the birth of the captain George Vancouver (“ Capt Vancouver ”). British explorer of the Pacific Ocean and the surrounding coasts, it started his career at 16 years in the crew of the second forwarding of James Cook. The character is drawn back, observing since his ship a horizon of islands. On the line, is reproduced its signature on the edge of a recognizable chart to the Latitudes graduated from 6 to 50 degrees towards north.

The stamp of 2,6 × 4 cm is drawn by Niko Potton agency Fleming Design. The signature is extracted from a document preserved at the Files of the Colombia-British. It is printed in Lithographie with a Gaufrage by Lowe-Martin. The stamp is conditioned in sheet of eight stamps égrennables or an illustrated block of a specimen.

The seal first day reproducing the signature is available to Vancouver.

The withdrawal takes place on June 22nd, 2008. Pulling is of four million stamps of sheet and 400.000 blocks.

U-20 world cup of the FIFA, Canada 2007

June 26th, is emitted a stamp of 52 hundreds to announce the behavior of Canada 2007, Football world cup of less than 20 years (U-20) of FIFA, between on June 30th and on July 22nd, 2007. Above broad band reproducing a photograph approximately plane of a lawn and a red band bearing the name in English ( FIFA U-20 World Cup ) and in French of the competition, the red and white official balloon is present on the right. The left, exploit five players of the team of Canada.

The stamp of 5,6 × 3,05 cm is created by Debbie Addams starting from photographs of MacMillan Flagstone. It is printed in Lithographie by the Canadian Bank Note Company in sheet of sixteen.

The seal first day representing a goal of Football (called soccer in Canada) is available to Toronto.

The three million printed stamps is sold until the withdrawal of June 25th, 2008.

Canadian artists of the song

June 29th, four stamps of 0,52 CAD in homage to Canadian singers are emitted: Paul Anka, Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray and Joni Mitchell. Their photographic portraits printed brown-gray colors are put on page surrounded by bright colors.

She is the second emission of stamps of Canada to represent alive personalities, after Oscar Peterson in 2005. All are decorated with the Ordre of Canada.

The series of square stamps of 3,2 cm east coast created by the agency Circle Design starting from photographs. The impression in Lithographie by Lowe-Martin is carried out in two passages: the first prints a metal ink, then are added the other colors. The result imitates the reflection of the discs. The forms of conditioning are a block of four gummed stamps and a notebook of eight self-adhesive stamps made of two discs recut to yield and a block of four stamps. There exist four different covers of notebooks (one by artist).

The seal first day is available to Toronto.

The withdrawal takes place on June 28th, 2008. Pulling is of 300.000 blocks of four different gummed stamps, and approximately six million notebooks of eight self-adhesive stamps.

July

National park Terranova

July 6th, is emitted a notebook of ten self-adhesive stamps of 52 hundreds for the fiftieth anniversary of the National park Tarre-Nova ( Terra Nova National Park ), located at the Eastern end of the island of Newfoundland of the province of Ground-New-and-Labrador of which it was the first national park, on April 12th, 1957. The illustration is a photograph of the setting sun on the landscape of the Alexander bay. Above, a plank recalls the profile of the relief of the park.

A board of ten stamps (called “single interpanneaux band”) is also emitted including/understanding five preceding stamps and five stamps “National park To marble”, emitted the next on July 20th.

The photography of Garry Black is page layout by Saskia van Kampen on a stamp of 4,725 × 2,625 cm, with factitious serration to facilitate separation. The stamps are printed in Lithographie by Lowe-Martin. The illustration of the central margin separating the two columns from the notebook is drawn by the illustrator Vlasta van Kampen, mother of Saskia.

Obliteration first day is available to Glovertown.

The withdrawal takes place on July 5th, 2008.

National park To marble

July 20th, is emitted a notebook of ten self-adhesive stamps of 0,52 CAD for the centenary of the National park To marble ( Jasper National Park ), in Alberta. In the beginning, on September 14th, 1907, it is a forest park become national park in 1930. The illustration is the photography of a landscape of the park presenting wetland, forest and mountains, and where dominates the fogs and the color light blue. Above, a plank represents the mountainous profile of the park.

The photography of Garry Black is page layout by Saskia van Kampen on a stamp of 4,725 × 2,625 cm, with factitious serration to facilitate separation. The stamps are printed in Lithographie by Lowe-Martin. The stamp with the landscape is drawn by the illustrator Vlasta van Kampen, mother of Saskia.

The photography of Daryl Benson is page layout by Saskia van Kampen on a stamp of 4,725 × 2,625 cm, with factitious serration to facilitate separation. The stamps are printed in Lithographie by Lowe-Martin. The illustration of the central margin separating the two columns from the notebook is drawn by the illustrator Vlasta van Kampen, mother of Saskia.

The envelope first day is dated Jasper, village located in the park.

The stamp is withdrawn from the sale on July 19th, 2008.

100 years of scouting

July 25th, is emitted a notebook of eight self-adhesive stamps of 0,52 CAD for the centenary of the Scoutisme ( 100 years off scoutism ). On a background in gray and white reproducing a white Fleur of lily surrounded by four old in bottom and recent photographs in top of scoutes activities, five scouts carry out a figure tended arms.

The photographs of British and Canadian files are page layouts by Matthias Reinicke of the agency Lime Design Inc. of Edmonton to carry out a square stamp of 3,825 side cm and an illustrated notebook. Printed in Lithography by Lowe-Martin, the stamps are equipped with a serration undulated to facilitate separation.

The seal first day is dated from the camp scout of Tamaracouta, with the Quebec, the oldest camp scout always in activity in the world.

The stamp is withdrawn from the sale on July 24th, 2007.

Membertou

July 26th, fourth of the five annual stamps designed to commemorate the arrival of the French in Canada, is emitted a stamp of 52 hundreds with the effigy of the big boss of the Micmacs Henri Membertou ( Mawpiltu ). who helped the first French colonists of the Habitation of Port-Royal at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1607, at the beginning of the French, Membertou dealt with the Dwelling which they found in 1610. With the right-hand side of the portrait, is a camp and a canoe intrigue.

The project of stamp is ensured by the Fugazi agency of Montreal. The portrait of Membertou is carried out starting from the written descriptions existing and compiled by the historian Francis Back. It is drawn by Suzanne Duranceau and is engraved by Jorge Peral. The notched stamp of 3,9 × 4 cm is printed in Taille-douce in sheet of sixteen by the Canadian Bank Note Company.

The seal first day is gone back to St Peter' S, in Nova Scotia, province where currently the site of the Dwelling is, with Annapolis Royal.

The pulling of three million stamps is sold until July 25th, 2008.

August

September

Bars of Alberta and Saskatchewan

September 13rd, are emitted two stamps of 52 hundreds for the centenary of the Barreau X of the provinces of the Alberta ( Law Society off Alberta , LSA ) and of the Saskatchewan ( Law Society off Saskatchewan , LSS ), both created in 1907. The first stamp for the association of the lawyers of Alberta illustrated east of the photography of a pile of books whose titles are the legend of the stamp. James Muir, whose photography is posed on the table with these works and the hammer of a judge, was the founder of the LSA. The stamp for LSS reproduces the photography of group of the nine lawyers founders of association saskatchewanaise and an extract of the register of signature of the adherent members.

The stamp of the centenary of LSA is a creation of Xerxes Irani de Nonfiction Studios, with the assistance of a photograph of Muir preserved by The Legal Files Society off Alberta. Measuring 4 × 2,3 cm, it is printed in Lithographie in sheet of sixteen by Lowe-Martin. That of the centenary of LSS is put on page by Catherine Bradbury of the agency Bradbury Branding Design starting from documents preserved at the Files Glenbow (dimensions NA  4153-1 and NA-354-21). Of 4,2 × 2,95 cm of dimenstion, it are printed in Lithographie in sheet of eight by the Canadian Bank Note Company.

the withdrawal of the sale takes place on September 12th, 2008. Each stamp is drawn to two million specimens.

October

Species in the process of disappearance

October 1st, in a series envisaged of 2006 to 2008, four stamps of 0,52 CAD on species in the process of disappearance are emitted ( endangered species ). After the terrestrial species of Canada in 2006, four marine species are presented: the black whale or Right whale of the North Atlantic ( Eubalaena glacialis ), the white Sturgeon ( Acipenser transmontanus ) of the Western basins of North America, the Tree frog cricket ( Acris crepitans ; a frog) and the Tortoise lute ( Dermochelys coriacea ).

The stamps of 5,05 × 2,7 cm are designed by David Sacha and Karen Satok of the agency Sputnik Design Partners using illustrations of Doug Martin of i2iart. They are printed in Lithographie by Lowe-Martin. The sale is carried out in two forms: a notebook of eight self-adhesive stamps (two of each species) and a block of four gummed and notched specimens 13.

Obliteration first day is available to Halifax, in Nova Scotia.

The sale takes place until September 30th, 2008.

Useful insects

October 12th, is emitted five stamps of everyday usage weak facial values illustrated each one by a useful Insecte of the Jardin ( beneficial insects ), represented on a grass or a plant, within a black framework. For their pollinating role, pesticide and cleaner of the space maintained by the human being, were selected: the convergent Ladybird ( Hippodamia convergens ) on the 1 hundred, the Chrysope with the eyes of gold ( Chrysopa oculata ) on the 3 hundreds, the polar Bumblebee ( Bombus polaris ) of the areas Arctic S on the 5 hundreds, the æschne of Canada ( Aeshna canadensis ; a Dragonfly) on the 10 hundreds, and the Saturnie cécropia ( Hyalophora cecropia ; a butterfly) on the 30 hundreds.

The stamps of 2 × 2,4 cm and notched 13 are drawn by Keith Martin. The impression in Lithographie is carried out by the Canadian Banknotes Company in sheet of fifty stamps. A block of five of each stamp is also available.

Obliteration first day takes place with Beeton in the Ontario.

The series is sold until October 11th, 2008.

November

Christmas: hope, joy and peace

November 1st, three are emitted stamps of Christmas whose drawings are three symbols in connection with this Christian festival : “hope” with the scene of the Nativity of Jesus with the silouhettes of the Magi with the background; “joy” with a Angel announcing the good news with a horn in the sky of a snow-covered village; and “peace” with a Dove carrying a branch of olive-tree. These three stamps respectively carry the tariffs permanent for the interior letter (“P” in a maple sheet), 93 hundreds and 1,55 dollar.

Each stamp is created by an artist and with a different technique: Stephanie Casing by imitating on computer returned engraving on wood for “Hope”, Steve Hepburn by combining three oil-base paints for “Joy”, and Jonathan Milne with a paper sculpture cut out for “Peace”. The work of creation is coordinated by the agency Tandem Design of Richmond, in Colombia-British.

Christmas: reindeer

November 1st, are emitted a notebook of twelve stamps of Christmas to the “Permanent” tariff (“P” in a maple sheet) for the letter with the interior mode and representing a Renne taking its take-off on a coloured and metal bottom of hills and holographic snowflakes .

The self-adhesive Stamp square of 2,4 cm east coast drawn by Helene the Happy. Notched on the sides superior and inferior, it is printed in Lithographie with a holographic Estampage by Lowe-Martin in notebook of twelve.

December

See too

Sources

• the philatelic press French, in particular their pages “Innovations”.
• Left “Collection” the site of Stations Canada.

References

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