Canada's first stamp - S2E15

A stamp celebrating Toronto sparks a conversation about the three pence beaver, Canada's first postage stamp. I take a quick trip to Toronto to find out where the imagery from the stamp comes from.

[drdr]

Another excellent production! Every one of these educational hobby videos is a “mint” “excellent condition” effort. Thanks so much for such an entertaining series.👏👏

[LilyLightOne]

Great video! I lived in Toronto for part of my childhood and a year of college. I have mostly Canadian stamps but nothing as old as the beaver. As far as I know my oldest is a 2¢ King George V with crowns.
Thanks for sharing your love of philately, I know I'm not alone!

[OakvilleLad]

Greetings from Toronto! Been enjoying many of your videos and for this one I thought I'd mention that the location for both stamps featured, was Ontario Place. Cheers!

[luissamson]

I visited Toronto in 1990's, your video give good remember for me. Thank you

[sarahgoodman]

Whoot whoot Canada!! As soon as I saw the title of this episode I had to skip ahead and watch it! I am from London Ont. but live in Ottawa (almost 2 years now) and I am SO happy you did this episode!!!! I can’t believe you have a 3 pence beaver! I have the 1951 stamp (commemorating 100 years since the 1851 stamp’s issuance) which is likely the closest I’ll get to owning it for now as it is expensive! I hope you tried Beaver Tails when you were down, they are delicious! I hope you have more episodes in the future that bring you up here!! 🇨🇦

[rasangichandrasiri]

Never miss this 😊 I watch all the videos.

[Darkblivion]

I collect Canadian stamps exclusively, and I mostly focus on covers and FDCs. My most prized piece is a cover (from Montreal to New York) from 1852 that has a pair of this stamp. It's cool to me that the stamp was around ~15 years before confederation in 1867.

[LadyTomoyo]

A new episode to start my day! And again I learned something. I love that you go to the "scene of the stamp" too, or at least try, in some of your videos.

[antoniosousa]

Another Thursday, another great episode of "Exploring Stamps"...greetings from Portugal...

[thegreenviking]

as always fun to watch and learned some too. :) thanks for sharing.

[johngreen]

I liked the jazz used in your video Toronto almost became part of the US. But the Canadian army were well trained British redcoats who had fought Napolean's army in Europe . They were up against a US army composed of poorly trained militias.and they beat us Americans in the War of 1812. I can not afford Scot 1-3 of Canada. My first Canadians start with Queen Victoria young heads and only the lower values. You are very lucky to have the beaver stamp even with the bad cancellation.

[pepperonly]

Fun to look, greetings from the Netherlands

[gennatarnowski]

Lovely seeing Toronto again! I got engaged at Niagara Falls :)

[KristiaanVanErmengem]

I think the artist used a bird's eye view, so you'd at least need a drone. The last place you were at is my favorite spot from where to take pictures of the Toronto Skyline.

[papawhisky]

A great video, love your sense of humour. You were not far off from where you should have been for the correct angle, if you had of gone to Trillium Park just across the water from the button of runway 08 at Toronto Island Airport, I do believe you would have been in the exact spot the artist was. I think a few newer buildings have gone up to obscure Rogers Centre which was built in '89, 4 years prior to the stamp being issued, which can be seen at the base of the CN Tower on the stamp.

[josephwolfe]

Just rewatching a few of your earlier posts and came across this one. There were actually 4 very early beaver stamps. Using Scott #'s, #1 (imperf laid paper), #4 (imperf wove paper), #12 (perfed wove paper) and #15 (perfed and slightly different colour). I am lucky to have all 4 and the weird thing is that 3 of them have the same SOTN (socked on the nose) bulls eye postmark as yours. It was a fairly common postmark but the post master (or mistress) must have been very careful doing the postmark. As far a colour goes the first three were red and the fourth was vermilion, a very subtle difference. Early Canadian stamps had many varieties due to colour shades and slight differences in design according to which plate was being used. If you're going to seriously collect early stamps from most countries patience is needed, along with a good colour guide, loupe, perforation guide and watermark detector. Patience is the key unless you join the group of people just collecting by face picture, to me that would take the fun out of the hobby. Thanks for your great videos, I doubt if you will ever run out of topics!

[ferhana]

These scene of stamp visits are awesome! My suggestion for the next one: US, 1969 moonlanding commemorative stamp 10c.

[stampineer]

Thanks for visiting my home city where I grew up! While the major towers might have been there in 2013, the surrounding landscape is building up around it. Take a look at some photos from the early 1980s and you'll see what I mean.

[bodhisattyaguha]

Great video....I liked the way you came running out of the 'Snake there snakes on that island?

[williammacdonald]

Great Vid Mate!! How did you clean the Stamp? I have a lot of British Empire Stamps but a lot of was like your one.