Canada Post millennium stamps

Canada Post millennium stamps

Due to popular demand, Canada Post released the 68 specially designed stamps as a series of 17 Millennium souvenir sheets, each depicting four different stamps, starting December 17, 1999 through to March 17, 2000.

December 1999

This first series highlights pivotal Canadian subjects in the world of entertainment and the arts including IMAX motion-picture technology, the Calgary Stampede, singer Félix Leclerc and the National Film Board. The simultaneously released Millennium Souvenir Sheet OFDCs will be cancelled in Ottawa. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14-15. ]

The Millennium Collection, Canadian Entertainment

* Calgary StampedeFamous throughout the world, the Calgary Stampede has put the wild in West for more than eight decades, thrilling visitors with traditional rodeo events such as chuckwagon racing, calf roping and bareback bronc riding. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14-15. ]

* Cirque du SoleilA spectacular blend of music, theatre, dance and acrobatics, Cirque du Soleil has blossomed from a group of Quebec buskers into an award-winning troupe of more than 550 performers whose shows have wowed millions worldwide. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14-15. ]

* Hockey Night in CanadaPlay-by-play announcers have brought the excitement of Canada's national game into our living rooms since Foster Hewitt first went on the air in 1923. Today few broadcasting institutions are as entrenched in our culture as Hockey Night in Canada and the French-language La Soirée du hockey. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14-15. ]

* La Soirée du hockey: Live From the Forum Today, few broadcasting institutions are as entrenched in our culture as Hockey Night in Canada and the French-language La Soirée du hockey. During his 33 years with La Soirée, announcer René Lecavalier created a unique lexicon for the sport that is still used today. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14-15. ]

The Millennium Collection, Media Technologies

*IMAXOriginated at Montreal's Expo 67, IMAX gives movie audience a larger-than-life experience by projecting dazzling images shot on special large-format film onto screens up to eight storeys high. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14. ]

*Sir William StephensonBefore becoming an Allied super spy during the Second World War, Sir William Stephenson developed a radio facsimile device that revolutionized the newspaper industry by enabling the wireless transmission of publishable photographs. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14. ]

*SoftimageMontreal-based Softimage Co. is the world's leading 2-D and 3-D animation software designer and the wizard behind the stunning special effects in such Oscar-winning blockbusters as Jurassic Park and Titanic. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14. ]

*Ted Rogers, Sr.Ted Rogers Sr. invented a tube which allowed hum-free radios to be plugged directly into electrical outlets. His work lives on in his son's telecommunications empire, which spans everything from cable television to Internet access. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 14. ]

The Millennium Collection, Medical Innovators

* Sir Frederick BantingNobel Prize-winner Sir Frederick Banting was one of the century's greatest medical heroes. His discovery of a pancreatic extract called insulin, achieved with his assistant Charles Best and other colleagues, has saved the lives of millions of diabetics.
* Armand FrappierA champion in the war against disease, Quebec physician Armand Frappier helped establish a preventative treatment for infant leukemia and founded studies in immunology, advanced microbiology and hygiene at the Université de Montréal. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 18. ]

* Maude AbbottCurator of the McGill University Medical Museum and a founder of the Federation of Medical Women of Canada, Dr. Maude Abbott overcame the gender-based odds against her to become an internationally respected pathologist and a world authority on heart defects. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 18-19. ]

* Dr. Hans SelyeThe scientific work of Vienna-born Hans Selye, an endocrinologist at the Université de Montréal, greatly increased our understanding of the biological factors causing stress and of how to control it. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 18. ]

The Millennium Collection, Canada's Cultural Fabric

* L'Anse aux MeadowsThe oldest known European settlement in the New World, l'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, was established by Norse colonists a thousand years ago. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 22-23. ]

* Neptune TheatreHalifax is home to a cultural tradition that took root in the early 17th century, when the Neptune Theatre's predecessor, Le Théâtre de Neptune de la Nouvelle-France held its first performance at Port Royal, Nova Scotia. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 22-23. ]

* Pier 21In the past century, some 1.5 million immigrants, refugees and displaced persons arrived on our shores at Halifax's Pier 21, which served as a symbol of hope, dreams and opportunity for newcomers to Canada. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 22-23. ]

* Stratford FestivalAlthough its history spans just less than 50 years, Ontario's Stratford Festival has become the jewel of North American classical theatre, specialized in showcasing the works of William Shakespeare. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 22-23. ]

The Millennium Collection, Literary Legends

* Gratien GélinasA talented actor, director, producer and playwright, Gratien Gélinas is considered the father of contemporary Quebec theatre. His remarkable career ran the gamut from staging theatrical revues to co-founding Montreal's National Theatre School. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 22, 24.]

*HarlequinManitoba's chilly capital is the birthplace of a sizzling romantic literary tradition that transformed Harlequin Books from a small company into the world's leading paperback publisher. Today, its titles appear in 24 languages. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 22, 24.. ]

* Pierre TisseyrePierre Tisseyre promoted Canada's French-language literary tradition by adapting the book-of-the-month club concept for a Quebec readership. His publishing house has help launch the careers of numerous Quebec writers. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 18, 20. ]

* W.O. MitchellW.O. Mitchell is one of Canada's most celebrated writers. The Saskatchewan-born novelist and dramatist's carefully crafted prose - which include the classical Who Has Seen the Wind - reveal a gifted artist intrigued by the human experience. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2000, p. 22, 24.]

The Millennium Collection, Food, Glorious Food!

*Archibald Gowanlock HuntsmanOntario-born marine biologist Archibald Gowanlock Huntsman pioneered methods of packaging frozen fish fillets in the late 1920s, thirty years before the technique became a viable business. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000, p. 16, 18. ]

*McCain FoodsThanks to the strong business acumen of a New Brunswick family, McCain Foods Limited has grown from a small factory to a group of companies that earns $5.1 billion annually from its frozen food products. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000, p. 16, 18.]

*PablumBabies of the world have Canadian pediatrician Frederick Tisdall and his collaborators to thank for the popular ready-to-eat cereal Pablum. Developed as a healthy yet tasty solid food, its sales have raised millions for pediatric research. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000, p. 16, 18.]

*Sir Charles Saunders Sir Charles Saunders established Canada's reputation as a leading producer of quality wheat by developing a new strain called Marquis, which matured early, produced a high yield and had superior milling and baking qualities. [ Canada Post Corporation, Canada's Stamp Details, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2000, p. 16, 18. ]

ee also

*Celebrate the Century
*Millennium stamp

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