Viewing my Canadian Stamp Collection: An Informal Walkthrough

[@kengilbride7182]

Hey there Ken it’s been a while for me to comment. Spent Saturday and Sunday at the San Diego Stamp Show and it didn’t disappoint me. Speaking of Canadian stamps, I picked up the Blue Nose (158) mint , light hinged and the New Foundland Blue Moose (119) mint, light hinged. Purchased @ 25 new stamps for my First Editions Album. What great weekend for me and met alot of nice stamp collectors. Wish you were there. Take care and as always Happy Collecting the other Ken

[@KensStampCollection]

Great to hear from you -- A blue nose, what a nice thing to get. Beautiful stamp. One of these days, I'd like to see your first editions. Oh, and I love San Diego.

[@chrislovesstamps]

Lovely video once again. Love seeing how you organise your collection and your narrative. The stamp at 14:08 is beautiful with that cancellation. 14:54, beautiful stamps. Interesting what you said that ‘you’d rather have a stamp in your collection then not’ when you mentioned the stamp that was damaged. I didn’t want placeholders, as I think it gives me a wrong impression what I have and what I don’t. Whatever is in my collection should be right. But as I progressed in my stamp collecting, I tend to agree with you. Because some stamps are harder to get and I was both happy and sad to have a stamp that was not easy to get. I love that it has changed my perspective in ‘what my rules’ are. Anyway, hope that made sense and thanks for this video!

[@KensStampCollection]

That SOTN cancel is nice and clean. There is a strong school of thought to not put damaged stamps into a collection. That belief can be strongly held. That's okay. There don't seem to be any official stamp collecting police. I do worry sometimes that I have a stamp that looks perfect in the mount with damage that is hard to see. I try to mark those when I put them in. The damage I hate the most is when a used stamp hasn't been cancelled. It looks mint in the album, but isn't.

[@MarkDyck]

Hi Ken. What fun! I enjoy Canadian stamps, but I'm biased, being Canadian. 🙂 I quite like modern definitive sets like the handicrafts but they're so small, and cancels often so dark, that the design gets lost. Regarding the early issues, it may help to think of the early "provinces" as British colonies, since that's what they were in the 1850's. Like your "13 colonies" that became US states, in 1867 several colonies federated into the Dominion of Canada (a country) and became provinces in the new country. We call that Confederation. It's more complicated in a way because the "Province of Canada" was the big colony and split into Ontario (English, upper Canada, or Canada West) and Quebec (French, lower Canada, Canada East) -- upper and lower refer to the St. Lawrence River, upstream and downstream. Names and configurations kept changing prior to Confederation. If stamps came along in the 1820's you might see Upper Canada and Lower Canada stamps! The French and English settlements changed a lot in colonial times - the history of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia is rife with these conflicts (the Acadian expulsion was a big one, which has connections with Louisiana) Anyway, PEI decided to go it alone and didn't join in 1867. They joined later. BC and Vancouver Island also joined later. Newfoundland remained a colony until 1949 when they voted to join (at the time, there was a great debate whether to continue to be independent, join Canada or join the US!) There is a Canadian catalogue (Darnell) that starts numbering Canadian stamps with the Large Queens, and puts the Province of Canada stamps in the back of the book with the other colonial stamps. So you might have a #1 after all! 😊

[@KensStampCollection]

Wow, so helpful. Thank you

[@SmokyTheChain]

FYI, I live in Quebec and I bought from my local online dealer (Arpin Philately) the #15 beaver used-fine for CAN$15, in case it's sold much higher in the US. Anyway, a suggestion: when you want to show fine details of a stamp, you could scan it in high resolution then show that image in your video, that way we can see what you're describing. By the way, your collection is gorgeously presented! Also: I have lots of canadian stamps that don't fit in my collection, if you don't mind if they're used I think I could help you complete some series; let me know!

[@KensStampCollection]

I am sure I'll find a beaver at a decent price soon. The later ones really aren't that expensive. But, I'll be excited when it happens. I have been learning about KZbin production as I go, and I think I've figured out how to get better resolution. It was s combination of better scanning and higher resolution of the video itself. Hope that helps. Thank you for your offer. Yes, indeed, I'd happily take used duplicates. I've recently got a whole bunch of Canadian stamps, enough that I think I'll an update video when I get them in. So, I think hold off for now to see where I still have gaps.

[@oldhab7890]

Great survey of your Canadian collection. They one issue I wish you would have mentioned is the Diamond Jubilee series of 1897. They are a beautiful set with values from 1/2 cent to 5 dollars.

[@KensStampCollection]

Oh thanks. I will see why I missed those

[@عمادعباس-ز9ظ]

excellence so nice video🪴🪴✔️🤲🙏thanks for sharing

[@KensStampCollection]

So glad you liked it

[@GreatStampAdventure]

Again a great video, Ken. Thanks! Nice to see your collection and it gives a good overview of some Canadian stamps through time periods. I like the Queen bicolour stamps at 22:01, and naturally for me, I really like the fauna and flora stamps. Best wishes!🙂

[@KensStampCollection]

Thanks Charnie -- I like those flora and fauna stamps too.

[@TideOfStamps]

Really nice/good video. I was searching video about Canadian stamps and come by yours. I really like pages you do by yourself. Thank you for sharing.

[@KensStampCollection]

Thank you so much!

[@jackmlynek8817]

At around 15:45 you have a KGVI page but the red and orange 4¢ stamps are of KEVIII, who abdicated. They need their own page.

[@KensStampCollection]

As much as I'd like to find more KEVIII stamps, I just double checked my catalog and it lists these as a color variant of the KGVI stamp. KEVIII needs more stamps for sure!

[@Mrdoubtfire23]

I love collecting stamps. Those are some nice nice stamps.

[@KensStampCollection]

Thanks for watching

[@fareast_de]

Very informative, thanks for sharing. So you don´t collect Canadian commemorative stamps ?! Greets from GER, U.

[@KensStampCollection]

Well, no -- I used to collect all stamps, but then found the number of issues overwhelming. I focused down to US regular issues, but when I decided to expand my collection again, I moved on to regular issues from all countries. That pushed all those stamp-abusive countries out of my collection. Now, I'm slowly expanding to early commemoratives from countries that I get a fair amount of. Not Canada quite yet.

[@voneschenbachmusic]

Thanks for sharing your collection - always fun to learn about the varieties of these beautiful small Canadian stamps! I love all of the animals on stamps especially the late 1990s/early 2000s wildlife series - I managed to find nice used copies of the grizley and polar bears in local kiloware clippings and got the blue whale during my last visit to Vancouver.

[@KensStampCollection]

I love big lots. Glad you enjoyed

[@adamhuffman3354]

Yea I also just recently acquired the 10$ whale and absolutely love it! On the selvage it has small scuba divers. Got lucky with that it being used. Great video Ken!

[@KensStampCollection]

Nice stamp. Thanks

[@ThreeStunStamps]

Lovely video Ken! Super organized approach, great guide for many of us following you.

[@KensStampCollection]

I appreciate that!

[@AuroraMills]

Interesting and informative as always Ken! Rightly or wrongly, I think of Stanley Gibbons as specialists in GB philately, Michel as the experts in German postal history, and Scott as the specialist in US stamps. Does Canada have an equivalent publisher? Thanks again Ken!

[@KensStampCollection]

Looks like the catalog for Canada is published by Unitrade Associates.

[@AuroraMills]

@@KensStampCollection Thanks Ken!

[@ukujomichael]

Before Canada, the provinces were Colonies of Great Britain. Newfoundland was a British Colony until 1949.

[@KensStampCollection]

Thank you. So I’ve learned

[@zacharymccullough4625]

In my opinion that also makes it so those Newfoundland stamps are not Canadian ... that said it would also feel wrong to not include them...

[@KensStampCollection]

@@zacharymccullough4625 I think you could collect them as part of Canada or as an independent, now-dead country. Same as Bavaria with Germany.

[@dennisengblom4505]

Why were so few stamps issued during the reign of Edward VII? This was true for Great Britain also.

[@KensStampCollection]

There was one series for KEVII in Canada released in 1903. He is featured on a stamp in the Quebec Tercentenary issues of 1908. He was king until 1910, so not very long. In Great Britain, there was also just one series that featured him, so yeah, the same. I don't think it was as common to release new sets all the time back then.

[@ronaldgamache3766]

I have them

[@KensStampCollection]

Nice stamps, enjoy!

[@dennisferguson9129]

Showing what you don't have isn't very interesting

[@KensStampCollection]

I was worried some of that went to slowly. Thank you. I am hopeful that others will feel better about the state of their collections by seeing the gaps in mine.