Canada Postal History
Jim Miller Ltd, Box 56571, Lougheed Mall Postal Outlet
Burnaby, B.C., V3J 7W2, CANADA
Welcome to the exciting world of Canadian Postal History! Our web site was established in March of 2002. Let's have a quick look at who we are ...
I can recall back to the early 1950’s, when I was about 10. One of my older brothers worked in Brazil, and would write home often. I soon became fascinated with the unusual stamps on the envelope; and that’s when I became a hooked philatelist!
Graduating into cover and cancellation collecting in the 1960’s, I became most fascinated with Canadian railway post office markings and provincial town cancellations. The next move was into retail sales in the early 1970’s, eventually getting into the philatelic auction business by 1977.
Since 1971, I had been a full-time instructor of Geography at the University College of the Cariboo in Kamloops, BC. Combining stamp sales with full-time teaching became too much for one to handle, so I sold the auction business in 1979 and kept on with the teaching job. I didn’t leave philatelty though, as I continued to enjoy collecting most every aspect of Canadian postal history. Bob Lee of Kelowna, BC took over the business and retained me as a postal history consultant and lotter.
Both my wife (Mary) and myself retired from the teaching profession in the summer of 2004, and we have moved to Burnaby, BC, a suburb of Vancouver. Mary is the computer whiz of this internet business, but that's not all! Over the years she has collected postal history too, starting with having worked at Clinton Creek, Yukon for 4 years in the early 1970s. She kept all her mail, and now has one of the best Clinton Creek, Yukon postal history collections around. Clinton Creek was a small PO that operated only 1968-1979. She has expanded her interest over the years to include the whole of the Yukon, including the semi-official air mails of the region. Being a geographer, she also loves Canadian covers with maps illustrated as advertising.
Over the past ten years, I’ve sold most of my collections, having retained only two: AMF, or Airmail Facility and Airport cancellations; and ‘Orbs’, those 2-ring and 3-ring large CDS cancels used in a few large Canadian cities from the early 1890’s to early 1970’s. I’ve enjoyed writing a continuous series of articles and research notes about orb cancels for the BNAPS Squared Circle Study Group for over ten years. I have been a member of APS, BNAPS, and RPSC for over 30 years. In 2003, I became a member of the Canadian Stamp Dealers Association.
Well, that’s our background. We feel we have the knowledge and expertise to provide you, a Canada postal history collector, with the kind of material you would appreciate having in your collections.
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