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- OBJECT TYPE
- Canada/official/first day of issue
- DATE
- 1987
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2003.0569.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canada Post Corp.
- MODEL
- Unknown
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- Fist day cover
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Paper
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 11.2 cm
- Width
- 19.1 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Commemorative
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Canada Post
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Day of issue 87/09/01
- Canada
-
Trans Canada Airlines (TCA) was formed by the Canadian National Railways. They launched their first flight on September 1, 1937, between Vancouver and Seattle. Throughout the next 25 years, TCA became Canada's national airline, and on January 1, 1965, TCA changed their name to Air Canada. - Function
-
Commemorative cover to celebrate Air Canada / TCA's 50th anniversary. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Canada post stamp: "CANADA/ Air Canada/ 1937-1987/ 36"/ Circular postmark: "DAY OF ISSUE. JOUR D'EMISSION/ OTTAWA CANADA/ 50 [maple leaf logo within "0]"/ 87/09/01"/ Cachet: "Day of Issue/ Canada Post Corporation/ Jour d'emission/ Societe canadienne des postes"/ English portion of back of cover reads: "Air Canada celebrates its 50th anniversary in/ 1987. Air Canada began operations in 1937 as Trans-Canada Air Lines with the flight of a Lockheed/ 10A aircraft from Vancouver to Seattle.The/ inaugural flight carried mail./ Today Canada/ Post Corporation is still Air Canada's largest/ cargo customer./ The cachet photo shows the unloading of mail from a Lockheed 14-H2 aircraft at Winnipeg in April 1940. (pa 618030 [/] Public Archives Canada)/ [signed by] Claude L. Taylor/ Chairman of the Board/ President du Conseil/ Air Canada"/
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Cream cover/ Cachet is black & white photograph/ Black postmark/ Multicolour stamp
- Decoration
- Cachet photo shows groundcrew unloading mail from a Lockheed 14-H2 at Winnipeg in April 1940.
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