| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| Date of Issue | June 7, 2021 |
| Year | 2021 |
| Quantity | 1,200,000 |
| Denomination |
 PERMANENT™ (P).Current monetary value: $0.92. |
| Postal Administration | Canada |
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Celebrate the life of the Right Honourable John Napier Wyndham Turner, Canada’s 17th prime minister, with this booklet of 10 PermanentTM domestic stamps. The stamp features a family photo of Turner on a sailing trip with friends through Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off British Columbia’s west coast, in 1985.
Turner (1929-2020) devoted much of his life to public service. Born in England and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, and British Columbia, he was a Rhodes Scholar who earned his law degree at Oxford and studied at the Sorbonne.
First elected to the House of Commons in 1962, he entered Cabinet in 1965 under then Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and was appointed minister of consumer and corporate affairs in 1967. He served as minister of justice (1968-72) and minister of finance (1972-75) under then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau before returning to work as a lawyer. After Trudeau’s resignation, Turner won the Liberal leadership and became prime minister on June 30, 1984.
Following the next election, he remained as leader of the Official Opposition until 1990, retiring from politics in 1993. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he is remembered as a humble and dedicated public servant who had a strong social conscience.
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Celebrate the life of the Right Honourable John Napier Wyndham Turner, Canada’s 17th prime minister, with this Official First Day Cover. The stamp is cancelled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Turner lived for several periods of his life, and the cancellation postmark features his signature.
Turner (1929-2020) devoted much of his life to public service. Born in England and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, and British Columbia, he was a Rhodes Scholar who earned his law degree at Oxford and studied at the Sorbonne.
First elected to the House of Commons in 1962, he entered Cabinet in 1965 under then Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and was appointed minister of consumer and corporate affairs in 1967. He served as minister of justice (1968-72) and minister of finance (1972-75) under then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau before returning to work as a lawyer. After Trudeau’s resignation, Turner won the Liberal leadership and became prime minister on June 30, 1984.
Following the next election, John Turner remained as leader of the Official Opposition until 1990, retiring from politics in 1993. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he is remembered as a humble and dedicated public servant who had a strong social conscience.
Remembered by mourners at his state funeral for his integrity, humility and grace, the Right Honourable John Napier Wyndham Turner (1929-2020) – Canada’s 17th prime minister – dedicated much of his life to public service.
First elected to the House of Commons in 1962, Turner spent nearly a decade as a cabinet minister under prime ministers Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Trudeau before taking the helm as prime minister in 1984. After the Liberals were defeated in the next election, he stayed on as leader of the Official Opposition for six years.
A corporate lawyer by trade, Turner advanced major justice reforms during his time as a politician and fought tirelessly for the environment. The stamp image, chosen by his family, shows another side of the former prime minister, who was an avid outdoorsman: at the literal helm on a sailing trip through Haida Gwaii in 1985.