cover from Canada

On 31st July I got not only a postcard but also a cover from Canada.

Many wonderful older Canadian stamps were used on the cover. Many favourites are the Wooping Cranes, Queen Elizabeth and the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck with an embossed snowflake.

Inside was a written and stamped postcard.

It shows the waterfront of Toronto. Toronto is a city on Lake Ontario. It is Canada's largest city and the capital of the Canadian Province of Ontario. It is also a centre of business, finance, arts and culture.

Three stamps with their special postmarks were used on the card. The upper two stamps deal with the 75th anniversary of the End of World War II (issued 29-04-2020) and show two Canadian war heroes. Léo Major, who is said to have liberated the Dutch city of Zwolle single-handedly, is shown on the left stamp and Veronica Foster is honoured on the right stamp. She worked in a manufacturing plant that produced munitions and matériel during World War II and was chosen to represent all the women doing so on contemporary propaganda posters. The third stamp is from a set of seven about the Group of Seven (issued 07-05-2020). The Group of Seven was a group of seven Canadian landscape painters founded in 1920. This particular stamp shows Frederick Varley's Stormy Weather.

Thank You very much Allison!