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	Postmaster General of Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Postmaster General of Canada was the Canadian cabinet minister responsible for Canada Post.
		In 1851, management of the post office was transferred from Britain to the provincial governments of the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
		From 1900 until 1909 the Postmaster General was also responsible for the Department of Labour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmaster_General_of_Canada (159 words)

	Postal System
		In 1753 Benjamin Franklin was appointed deputy postmaster general for the British colonies.
		By 1851 there were deputy postmasters general in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and the Province of Canada, but the British government still administered the postal system.
		Canada is also a member of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain (PUAS) in which it has played an active role.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0006427 (3094 words)

	Canada - Posts And Telegraphs
		Canada was admitted to the Postal Union in 1878 when a uniform rate of international postage on letters of five cents per half-ounce was established.
		It was on the motion of Sir William Mulock, at that time Postmaster General of Canada,that this alteration was decided upon, and it has unquestionably had a far-reaching effect in bringing about a closer connection between the Dominion and the Mother Country.
		An arrangement between Canada and the United States came into operation on May 8th, 1907, in which the privilege was withdrawn from news dealers of posting newspapers and periodicals published in the United States at a rate of one cent per pound.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/canada-8.shtml (963 words)

	City of Toronto Bios \| History of Toronto and County of York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		At the general Provincial election in 1867 he was returned to the Ontario Parliament from East Toronto, and re-elected in 1871 and 1875.
		His pedigree on his father's side is derived from the ancient and ennobled foreign family of the De Capreols, and on his mother's side equally illustrious, as she was niece to the late Sir Richard Chase, and a relative by marriage of the late Marquis of Salisbury.
		He came to Canada at the time the Trent affair was likely to lead to war between Great Britain and the United States, with the 16th Foot, under the command of Colonel Peacock, and remained in Montreal about two years.
	www.historyoftoronto.ca /history/bios/torC.html (7297 words)

	MA's Stamp Album - Canada - 1964
		John R. Nicholson, Postmaster General, that effective July 15, 1964, the rate of air mail postage to the United States is to be increased to eight cents for the first ounce and six cents for each additional ounce.
		Canada's centres of commerce and industry are scattered throughout the length of the land.
		Canada's northern land is rich in timber, minerals and hydro power, and is being rapidly developed.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /verona/643/1964.htm (3149 words)

	Benjamin Franklin - LoveToKnow Watches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1753 he and William Hunter were put in charge of the post service of the colonies, which he brought in the next ten years to a high state of efficiency and made a financial success; this position he held until 1774.
		When the home government sent over General Edward Braddock with two regiments of British troops, Franklin undertook to secure the requisite number of horses and waggons for the march against Ft. Duquesne, and became personally responsible for payment to the Pennsylvanians who furnished them.
		Immediately after his return from Montreal he was a member of the committee of five appointed to draw up the Declaration of Independence, but he took no actual part himself in drafting that instrument, aside from suggesting the change or insertion of a few words in Jefferson's draft.
	www.1911ency.org /F/FR/FRANKLIN_BENJAMIN.htm (5193 words)

	.......Postmaster Keillor vs Canada Post - A Retrospective
		I was a Postmaster with the Post Office Department of the Government of Canada and subsequently Canada Post Corporation for over 18 years between 1979 and 1998.
		My mother was the Postmaster of Clayburn before me. She had actually intervened to save the post office from closure several years earlier.
		He contacted Canada Post and told them I was not mentally ill. He had seen through what Sieradzan and Jeffries were up to and told them to go drop on their head.
	www.thepunks.com /keillorvscpc.html (4081 words)

	FactsCanada.ca -- Friday Feature 2001-01Fr -- Canada Post Corporation
		I have a feeling that Canada Post is trying to compete with e-mail (assuming that most of us e-mail friends and relatives within our country) thus the lowest increases on, what one can suppose, is the highest volume.
		Canada Post Corporation (CPC) was created as a Crown corporation on October 16, 1981, as the successor to the Post Office Department.
		Canada is also a member and plays an active role in the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain (PUAS).
	www.factscanada.ca /friday/friday-2001-01-01-05.shtml (3791 words)

	1981 Report of the Auditor General of Canada - Chapter 13
		The same is true of the large volume mailer, who determines the number of pounds or number of pieces in a bulk mailing, applies the rate and enters the total postage charge on a statement of mailing accompanying the mail to the post office or postal facility.
		Canada Post management has taken steps to ensure that in the largest mechanized plants Production Planning and Control systems (PP and C) are in place and operating.
		Canada Post is presently engaged in an evaluation of the appropriateness and currency of the procedures related to all standards under the Letter Carrier Route Measurement System (LCRMS).
	www.oag-bvg.gc.ca /domino/reports.nsf/html/8113ce.html (13057 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Langevin, Sir Hector Louis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He was solicitor general (1964-66) for Lower Canada and postmaster (1866-67) before confederation.
		After the Conservatives returned to power in 1878, he was postmaster general (1878-79) and minister of public works (1879-91).
		There were charges of corruption (1891) in Langevin's public works department; although acquitted of complicity, he was found guilty of negligence in office and was forced to resign.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/LangevinH.asp (172 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The first use of a semi-official airmail stamp in Canada is made on 21 September for a flight between Haileybury, Ontario, and Rouyn, Quebec, the northern mining districts of both provinces.
		Canada’s first official airmail stamp, a five-cent brown, is issued on 21 September.
		Postal censorship in Canada is transferred from the jurisdiction of the Postmaster General to the Minister of National War Services.
	www.civilization.ca /cpm/chrono/che1920e.html (1118 words)

	La Confédération canadienne - The Dinner at Quebec
		They had assembled at Charlottetown a few weeks ago, in order to see whether they could not extend their own family relations, and then Canada intervened, and the consideration of the larger question was the result.
		Since the Union of Canada its population had increased from a little over a million to two millions and a half.
		He hoped for the best; and with the intelligence of which the Conference was composed, he trusted they would overcome all difficulties; and that they would soon meet in Quebec, Montreal, and Ottawa to consummate the union.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /confederation/023001-527-f.html (1142 words)

	1840 Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		January 3 - One of the predecessor papers, Herald Sun of Melbourne, Australia, The Port Phillip Herald, is founded by George Cavanaugh.
		Pedro II is declared "of age" prematurely and begins to reassert central control in Brazil.
		Mount Allison University is founded in Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/1840 (726 words)

	Worldandnation: Crisis tests postmaster general
		Together they waited in the richly decorated Senate meeting room for Postmaster General John Potter, late for the ceremony unveiling a stamp to commemorate the events of Sept. 11.
		"Postmaster General Potter was being advised how to proceed by the medical authorities and those that could give him good advice.
		Potter is the nation's 72nd postmaster general and only the sixth person to be appointed from the Postal Service's rank and file.
	www.sptimes.com /News/102901/Worldandnation/Crisis_tests_postmast.shtml (1150 words)

	Heritage Gazette of the Trent Valley
		Barnardo’s, which assisted 30,000 children to Canada, was the largest of the many agencies organizing the major emigration of perhaps 80,000 to 100,000 children to Canada.
		The first Barnardo children arrived in Canada in 1883, and George A. Cox visited the Toronto base in the summer of 1883 and offered a Peterborough home for the enterprise.
		As well, Canada was developing systems for looking after Canadian orphans and destitute children, and people such as Charlotte Whitton and other social workers thought priority should go to Canadian social welfare developments.
	www.trentvalleyarchives.com /gazette/barnardo.htm (1393 words)

	StampClubs.com :: View topic - "Stamps Take Flight" Exhibit Postmaster General's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Not long after the first U.S. stamps were issued in 1847, the Postmaster General's Collection began as a Post Office stamp reference file in the 1860s.
		Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield gave a speech in Lafayette, and a balloon re-enactment flight and helicopter demonstrations added to the occasion.
		The Postmaster General's Collection holds full panes of U.S. stamps from many periods, from very common to extremely scarce issues.
	stampclubs.com /v-web/bulletin/bb/viewtopic.php?p=69&... (2380 words)

	Postmaster General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Postmaster General is the national politician in charge of the postal system of a country.
		There was also a Grand Master of the Pontifical Posts, or Postmaster General
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Postmaster_General (111 words)

	How The First Christmas Stamp Came To Be
		Canada made the move to be effective on Christmas day 1898.
		It now ranks as the first Christmas stamp in the world, and it was not until 1964 that Canada commenced a regular run of Christmas stamps.
		The map stamp was reissued as a stamp-on-a-stamp by Canada Post for its centennary last year.
	www.psestamp.com /articles/article1087.chtml (870 words)

	Kierans, Eric William
		Educated at Loyola Coll and McGill, Kierans was director of the School of Commerce at McGill 1953-60, president of the Montreal Stock Exchange 1960-63 and then minister of communications and postmaster general of Canada 1968-71.
		Examples include his attack on Walter GORDON's 1963 budget; his 1967 challenge to René LÉVESQUE to abandon separatism or quit the Québec Liberal Party; his candidacy for the national Liberal leadership in 1968; and his sustained criticism of Trudeau's economic policies.
		He was invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1995.
	thecanadianencyclopedia.com /PrinterFriendly.cfm?Params=A1ARTA0004298 (210 words)

	[No title]
		In the spring of 1777, General George Washington appointed Pickering to be adjutant general of the Continental Army.
		Postmaster General As Postmaster General, Pickering appointed Postmasters, settled accounts, and oversaw compliance with postal laws.
		General Heath claimed that Pickering's troops numbered 700 and that their late arrival prevented a victory over the British (Clarfield, Timothy Pickering and the American Republic, 32, citing Heath's memoirs).
	www.usps.com /postalhistory/_rtf/Pickering.rtf (3226 words)

	Postal convention between the United States of America and Canada
		In either case the accounts shall be settled at the same time as the general settlement of accounts between the administrations.
		Both administrations shall give air conveyance to the LC category of letter-post items, as wall as to the AO category of letter-post items and parcel-post items which are marked for this service, [Page 3816] according to the same standards and procedures applicable to analogous items in their internal services.
		Accounts for terminal charges for parcel-post items shall be settled as part of the general settlement of accounts between the administrations.
	www.lexum.umontreal.ca /ca_us/en/tias.1981.10263.en.html (2788 words)

	1958 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		January 23 - Following a two-day general strike, dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela was overthrown by a military-popular uprising.
		May 30 - The bodies of unidentified soldiers killed in action during World War II and the Korean War are buried at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery.
		December 21 - General Charles de Gaulle is elected president of France with 78.5% of the votes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1958 (2451 words)

	Famous Canadian Women on Stamps - Fairclough
		In 1957 she became the first woman to be appointed to the federal cabinet.
		She was also the first woman to be acting Prime Minister and the only woman to have held the position of Postmaster General of Canada.
		She was made a Companion in the Order of Canada in 1995.
	famouscanadianwomen.com /stamps/fairclough.htm (216 words)

	Chapter II: TROTSKY LEAVES NEW YORK TO COMPLETE THE REVOLUTION
		No telegrams from the Russian consul general in New York are in the Canadian files, and it is known that this office was reluctant to issue Russian passports to Russian political exiles.
		The postmaster general's office in Canada had no connection with either internment of prisoners of war or military activities.
		generally the explanation given is that the release was done at the request of Kerensky but months before this British officers and one Canadian serving in Russia, who could speak the Russian language, reported to London and Washington that Kerensky was in German service.
	reformed-theology.org /html/books/bolshevik_revolution/chapter_02.htm (5406 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The corps of Voltigeurs was subsequently increased and reorganized in Lower Canada; Salaberry, who was thinking of relinquishing the command, offered Heriot the opportunity to purchase it.
		In Lower Canada another cousin, Robert Nugent Watts, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly for Drummond on 15 March 1841, had taken up residence in his house; Heriot made over a large part of his belongings to him in 1842.
		Todd, Armory and lineages of Canada (Yonkers, N.Y., 1919), 82—85.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37559 (2608 words)

	MA's Stamp Album - Canada - 1957
		The stamp is being printed in fl and white and will illustrate the Loon, a bird well known on Canada's many lakes.
		These resources are of considerable economic value, and a constant source of pleasure to thousands in every walk of life.
		Hugues Lapointe was Postmaster General from 3rd November, 1955, until 21st June, 1957.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /verona/643/1957.htm (471 words)

	Civilization.ca - Canadian Postal Museum - Philatelic Treasures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Canadian Postal Museum is the only museum in Canada dedicated to preserving the heritage of Canadian postal communication and objects representative of international postal heritage.
		In 1933, one hundred years after the Royal William became the first steam ship to cross the Atlantic, the Postmaster General of Canada marked this accomplishment with the issue of a commemorative stamp.
		The first image submitted to the Postmaster General for the January 1929 issue depicted two fishing boats, rather than the Bluenose.
	www.civilization.ca /cpm/montecarlo/cpmmncoe.html (301 words)

	General Paint - Postmaster General - generalmotors.cellularshades.be (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Anderson Rentals General Equipment Catalog Paint Note: Photos are for illustrations only, may not be of the actual item.
		The soothing music, aromatic fragrance, unique gifts and familiarity known as Jacqueline's General Store and Bargain Barn are coming to a close, but that does not mean customers are left to fend for themselves.
		Much as it had for several years, the General Motors assembly plant in Janesville was plodding along, turning out a line of full-size sport utility vehicles.
	generalmotors.cellularshades.be /postmaster-general/general-paint.html (406 words)

	ACMLA Historical Maps by Title
		Outline Map of the Dominion of Canada (Department of the Interior, Canada) 1881.
		A New Map of the Province of Lower Canada (Samuel Holland) 1802.
		A Map of part of the Province of Upper Canada shewing the proposed route for a Canal...Lake Ontario with the Ottawa River.
	www.ssc.uwo.ca /assoc/acml/faclist.html (1546 words)

	Aylesworth Family Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Sir Allen Bristol Aylesworth of Canada, was born in Newburgh, Ontario Canada.
		He achieved prominence as Postmaster General of Canada - 1905 and Canadian Minister of Justice - 1906.
		In the early 1900's he was part of a commission that argued the Alaskan/Canadian boundaries.
	www.aylesworth.net /sirallen.html (128 words)

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