North America

Common Terms and Abbreviations

Bermuda

535 to 538 1987

xxxx 1996 CAPEX

Canada

New Brunswick 9 1860

Newfoundland 184 1928

S5 1927

436 1951 One hundred years Canadian railways 1851 to 1951

535 1963 Honouring the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Casimir Gzowski, prominent pioneer railway civil engineer. 1813-1963

589 1967 Grain elevators (and a boxcar), a staple revenue for Canadian railways

606 607 609 1967 Definitives featuring the Turbo train

673 1970 Honouring Sir Donald Alexander Smith, mover and shaker at the fledgling CPR, who drove the last spike at Craiguellachie, BC in 1885. Born 1820, died 1914

892 1977 Honouring Sir Sandford Fleming, railway civil engineer and the inventor of standard time. Born 1827, died 1915

962 1979 Christmas stamp toy train

987 1980 Celebrating 75 years Saskatchewan grain elevators and railway

MS1047 1982 freight yard, Alberta

MS1047 1982 Montreal streetcars

1071 1982 McAdam railway station New Brunswick

1106 1107 1983 "Dorchester" "Toronto"

1108 1983 "Samson"

1109 1983 "Adam Brown"

1132 1133 1984 "Scotia" "Countess of Dufferin"

1134 1984 GTR Class E3 Mogul

1135 1984 CPR Class D10a Tenwheeler

1185 1186 1985 CPR Class K2 GTR Class P2a

1187 1985 CNoR Class O10a

1188 1985 CGR Class H4d

1197 1986 Celebrating Vancouver BC Expo 1986

1203 1986 railway rotary snowplough

1222 1986 Honouring John Molson, capitalist and railway promoter, born 1763, died 1836

1223 1224 1986 CPR Class T1a CNR Class V-1-a

1225 1986 CNR Class U-2-a

1226 1986 CPR Class H1c No. 2850

xxxx 1993 WWII Aid to Allies

xxxx 1993 WWII 50 year anniversary Italian Campaign

xxxx 1993 An iconic tourist destination promoted by the CPR since its pioneer days

xxxx 1993 railway hotels

xxxx 1994 Saint John, NB early streetcar No. 40, built by the Ottawa Car company

xxxx 1996 One hundred years of cinema

xxxx 2001 Agawa Canyon

xxxx 2004 urban transit

xxxx 2004 Christmas stamp booklet, International rate

Royal Hudson Squamish Excursion (bogus)

Canada - First Day Covers and Pre-paid cards and envelopes

Pre-paid postcard. GTP Interior railway post office

Reverse

Pre-paid postcard. Ottawa Royal Mail car

Reverse

Pre-paid envelopes. The reverse of the envelope advises: Passenger engine No. 93 was operated by the Grand Trunk Railway. The locomotive was built at the Grand Trunk Works in Montreal in 1881. A 4-4-0 type, the engine weighed 4,452 kg (98,000 lb) and had 198 cm (78") driving wheels

Pre-paid envelopes. With respect to the lower envelope, the reverse advises: Faced with increasing competition from highway transport after the 1914-18 war, railway companies began to acquire more economical self-propelled rail cars. This six-cylinder gasoline-powered car, built by the Ledoux-Jennings Company of Montreal, carried mail, baggage, and passengers on the Temiscouata Railway from 1933 to the early 1940's

Pre-paid envelopes. With respect to the lower envelope, the reverse advises: Built by Ottawa Car Mfg. Co. Ltd. in the early 1900s, street car 423 was specifically designed as a mail-handling car. The vehicle was 36½ feet long, 10½ feet high and eight feet wide. It was converted to a wrecking car about 1912 and later equipped as a sand car

Pre-paid envelopes. The reverse advises: Built by Ottawa Car Mfg. Co. Ltd. in the early 1900s, street car 423 was specifically designed as a mail-handling car. The vehicle was 36½ feet long, 10½ feet high and eight feet wide. It was converted to a wrecking car about 1912 and later equipped as a sand car