With Autotype Illustrations.
COMPILED AND PUBLISHED
BY
THE PHILATELIC SOCIETY, LONDON.
(ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
LONDON, 1889.
Investigation into the history of the various and successive issuesof labels, wrappers, and envelopes connected with the Postal systemsof the British Colonies in North America does not present the difficultieswhich had to be surmounted in the case of the Australian Colonies, andperhaps does not therefore include subject matter of so interesting acharacter as that comprised in the recent “Oceania” Catalogue.
Reference Lists of the North American Colonies have neverthelessbeen hitherto crude, as well as deficient, and even incorrect in detail,thus affording but superficial aid to the Philatelist: and the endeavour ofthe Society in the following pages has been to amplify the information atpresent in the possession of collectors; and by the collation of contentsof recent papers in Canadian and English journals, as well as by referenceto official gazettes and correspondence, to present as far as possible acomplete history of the Postal Service in these Colonies.
In this endeavour it has derived a large amount of assistance fromthe researches of its late Secretary, Mr. E. D. Bacon, whose Notes atthe head of each Colony were originally intended to have been readas a paper before the London Society, but which, by the desire of theCommittee entrusted with the revision and publication of the accompanyinglists, he has consented should be amalgamated with them, thus adding tothe completeness of the present work. The Society is also largely indebtedto Mr. Donald A. King for the permission to reproduce the valuablecontents of certain papers he contributed to the Halifax Philatelist.
The lists of Canada and Newfoundland, the only two of the Coloniesnow using distinct stamps, have been completed to the end of June, 1889.
The same mode of illustration by the Autotype process, which provedsuccessful in the case of the “Stamps of Oceania,” has been adopted onthe present occasion, and is undoubtedly the most satisfactory of allmethods of reproduction in fac-simile which have come under the noticeof the Society.
August, 1889.
| T. | Top. |
| B. | Bottom. |
| R. | Right. |
| L. | Left. |
| c. | cent or cents. |
| d. | dollar, penny, or pence. |
| s. | shilling, or shillings. |
By E. D. BACON.
Before laying before the members of the Society the few officia