| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | February 16, 2021 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Quantity | 670,000 |
| Denomination |
 PERMANENT™ (P).Current monetary value: $0.92. |
| Series | Snow Mammals |
| Series Time Span | 2021 |
| Postal Administration | Canada |
| Condition | Name | Avg Value |
|---|
Discover the hidden beauty and diversity of Canada’s snow mammals with this booklet of 10 PermanentTM domestic rate stamps. Each stamp also reproduces its animal’s tracks in snow in fluorescent ink, which are only visible under ultraviolet (black) light.
The stamps feature stunning photographs of five Canadian mammals – the ermine, snowshoe hare, Arctic fox, Peary caribou and northern collared lemming.
Their coats moult from lighter-weight shades of brown or grey in warmer months to a heavier-weight white in winter, giving them effective camouflage and increasing their odds of survival.
Issue Date February 16, 2021 Stamp Designer Adrian Horvath Stamp Value PermanentTM (domestic rate) Quantity Produced 300,000 Dimensions 37.5 mm x 26 mm
Showcase the hidden beauty and diversity of Canada’s snow mammals by adding this souvenir sheet to your collection.
The stamps feature stunning photographs of five Canadian mammals – the ermine, snowshoe hare, Arctic fox, Peary caribou and northern collared lemming.
Their coats moult from lighter-weight shades of brown or grey in warmer months to a heavier-weight white in winter, giving them effective camouflage and increasing their odds of survival.
Issue Date February 16, 2021 Stamp Designer Adrian Horvath Stamp Value PermanentTM (domestic rate) Quantity Produced 70,000 Dimensions 129 mm x 98 mm
Showcase the hidden beauty and diversity of Canada’s snow mammals with this souvenir sheet Official First Day Cover. Each stamp also reproduces its animal’s tracks in snow in fluorescent ink, which are only visible under ultraviolet (black) light. The cancel location is Snow Lake, Manitoba.
The stamps feature stunning photographs of five Canadian mammals – the ermine, snowshoe hare, Arctic fox, Peary caribou and northern collared lemming.
Their coats moult from lighter-weight shades of brown or grey in warmer months to a heavier-weight white in winter, giving them effective camouflage and increasing their odds of survival.
These animals are difficult to see in any season, which is why we’ve added the tracks of each animal on these stamps in ink visible only under ultraviolet (black) light!
Issue Date February 16, 2021 Stamp Designer Adrian Horvath Stamp Value PermanentTM (domestic rate) Quantity Produced 7,000 Dimensions 190 mm x 112 mm Cancellation site Snow Lake MB
Life in the wild can be a deadly game of hide and seek, where blending in with the landscape is critical to survival. These stamps – issued in the depths of our Canadian winter – showcase five native mammals that share the remarkable characteristic of changing colour with the seasons.
Not surprisingly, given the drastic change much of our landscape undergoes from summer to winter, Canada is home to more species of mammals that moult from shades of brown or grey to white – and back again in spring – than any other country in the world.
The five featured on these stamps represent the hunters and the hunted. The ermine and the Arctic fox are predators that blend into the snowy background to sneak up on their next meal. The snowshoe hare, Peary caribou and northern collared lemming are prey that rely on their camouflage to avoid detection.
“These creatures are like ghosts, travelling on or under the snow without a sound,” says Dominique Fauteux, a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature. “Their unique adaptation invokes a very poetic view of winter as not only silent and calm, but also dangerous.”
The seasonal change of outerwear that makes these mammals distinctive is the result of a complex physiological process influenced by sensitivity to changes in daylight, rather than temperature. Starting around the first snowfall, their lighter-weight, darker-coloured coats moult to a heavier, more insulating white. This gradual process reverses in the warmer months, beginning around the spring melt.
Only 19 species of mammals worldwide (about 0.3 per cent) change colour in response to winter: Canada is home to 12 of them.
Canada Post originally planned on printing 300,000 booklets of the Snow Mammals issue. However, due to the media attention that these stamps generated and the high demand for these stamps, Canada Post decided to print 400,000 booklets instead to unsure that everyone got their paws on them.