| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | July 26, 2018 |
| Year | 2018 |
| Quantity | 885,000 |
| Denomination |
 PERMANENT™ (P).Current monetary value: $0.92. |
| Series | Weather Wonders |
| Series Time Span | 2015 - 2018 |
| Printer | Lowe-Martin |
| Postal Administration | Canada |
| Condition | Name | Avg Value |
|---|---|---|
|
M-NH-VF
|
Mint - Never Hinged - Very Fine | View price |
Delight in the breathtaking beauty of some of Canada’s most amazing weather phenomena with this booklet of 10 PermanentTM domestic stamps.
On the stamp featured on the booklet cover, a thick blanket of steam fog floats across the surface of a British Columbia lake. A second stamp shows a towering waterspout rising from Lake Ontario near Toronto, while a third depicts disc-shaped lenticular clouds soaring like UFOs over the mountains of Alberta’s Jasper National Park. Airborne ice crystals are responsible for the sensational light displays depicted on the final two stamps. In one, ice refracts moonlight in the skies above Whistler, British Columbia, creating an eerie halo effect. In the other, artificial light from the city of North Bay, Ontario, is reflected by the crystals, sending colourful pillars of dancing light into the winter sky.
These five striking stamps are a follow up to Canada Post’s first Weather Wonders issue in 2015. The name of the featured weather wonder is printed in microtype on each stamp.
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Enjoy the breathtaking beauty of amazing Canadian weather phenomena with this colourful Souvenir Sheet.
One stamp depicts a thick blanket of steam fog floating across the surface of a British Columbia lake, a second shows a towering waterspout rising from Lake Ontario near Toronto, and a third depicts disc-shaped lenticular clouds soaring like UFOs over the mountains of Alberta’s Jasper National Park. Airborne ice crystals are responsible for the sensational light displays featured on the final two stamps. In one, ice refracts moonlight in the skies above Whistler, British Columbia, creating an eerie halo effect. In the other, artificial light from the city of North Bay, Ontario, is reflected by the crystals, sending colourful pillars of dancing light into the winter sky.
An ideal gift for meteorology enthusiasts and avid photographers, this attractive collectible features all five domestic stamps from the latest Weather Wonders release, a follow up to Canada Post’s original Weather Wonders issue in 2015.
The souvenir sheet also features a background illustration of antique weather monitoring equipment.
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Feast your eyes on five of Canada’s most wondrous weather phenomena with this Souvenir Sheet Official First Day Cover, a perfect gift for meteorology enthusiasts and photography fans.
One stamp depicts a thick blanket of steam fog floating across the surface of a British Columbia lake, a second shows a towering waterspout rising from Lake Ontario near Toronto, and a third depicts disc-shaped lenticular clouds soaring like UFOs over the mountains of Alberta’s Jasper National Park. Airborne ice crystals are responsible for the sensational light displays featured on the final two stamps. In one, ice refracts moonlight in the skies above Whistler, British Columbia, creating an eerie halo effect. In the other, artificial light from the city of North Bay, Ontario, is reflected by the crystals, sending colourful pillars of dancing light into the winter sky.
The five domestic stamps on this handsome collectible are a follow-up to Canada Post’s first Weather Wonders issue in 2015.
The stamps are postmarked in North Bay, Ontario. The pictorial cancellation is an anemometer, a device used to measure wind speed. The Souvenir Sheet Official First Day Cover also features a background illustration of antique weather monitoring equipment.
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Visitors to Canada could be excused for thinking that an intense interest in the weather – not hockey – is our national pastime. Too cold, too hot or just right – Canadians always have something to say on the subject. Yet nothing inspires meteorological murmurs more than some of the fleeting (but fabulous) phenomena that can appear when weather permits.
These stamps, which follow our first weather-themed issue from 2015, showcase five other weather wonders: steam fog, a moon halo, a waterspout, lenticular clouds and light pillars. Captured in Canada by amateur and professional photographers with endless patience, keen eyes and some luck too, these photos reveal the awesome power and beauty of nature.
Timmy Joe Elzinga, a resident of North Bay, Ontario, used his smartphone to shoot the otherworldly photo of light pillars – ethereal bands of light that appear when tiny ice crystals in the air reflect light from artificial sources. Awoken one cold January night by his young son, Timmy noticed the strange lights out the bathroom window. “Red, blue, green, yellow, purple and pink lights seemed to beam up in to the air,” Elzinga explains. “It almost looked like something out of Star Trek.”