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THE NEW CANADIAN POSTAGE STAMP
[Welland Tribune 1 October 1897]
Ottawa, Sept. 28-The design for a new postage stamp has been approved by the postmaster general. There is a portrait of her Majesty as she appeared at the coronation, except that a coronet is substituted for a crown. The portrait has been engraved from a photo procured during the jubilee ceremonies, upon which was the Queen’s own autograph, so that it is authentic. The corners of the stamp will be decorated with maple leaves, which were pulled from maple leaves on Parliament hill and engraved directly from them. Everything, indeed, is correct and up to date, and the new issue will reflect credit on Mr. Mulock’s good taste. The engraving will take care to make this permanent and ordinary issue a tribute to their skill. The present stock of stamps will take some weeks to exhaust, and not till they are done will the new stamps be issued. It may be about November of this year.
*Sir William Mulock was the postmaster general under Laurier 1882-1905.
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