[press release]
Canada Post celebrates centennial of Group of Seven’s first exhibition
Stamps featuring striking landscapes to be unveiled online in partnership with several prominent Canadian galleries.
Issue Date: May 7, 2020
OTTAWA – One hundred years ago tomorrow, Canadian art enthusiasts got their first look at paintings from what would become Canada’s best-known school of art — the Group of 
Seven. Canada Post is celebrating this significant anniversary with a stamp issue featuring works by the Group’s seven founding members.
It was on May 7, 1920, that Canadian artists Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank H. Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald and F.H. Varley held their first exhibition as the Group of Seven at the Art Gallery of Toronto (now the Art Gallery of Ontario [AGO]). Inspired by Tom Thomson – who 
had drowned three years earlier – and encouraged by theirshared creative vision, the Group changed the way Canada was viewed at home and abroad. Their raw and daring depictions of the landscape gave birth to a unique Canadian aesthetic that influenced generations of artists.
More than 2,000 people attended the 1920 show during its 20-day run. While only five paintings were sold, the exhibit received good reviews, captured the attention of major galleries and collectors, and paved 
the way for future exhibitions.
Seven works are featured in the stamp issue:
- In the Nickel Belt (1928), by Franklin Carmichael
- Miners’ Houses, Glace Bay (circa 1925), by Lawren S. Harris
- Labrador Coast (1930), by A.Y. Jackson
- Fire-swept, Algoma (1920), by Frank H. Johnston
- Quebec Village (1926), by Arthur Lismer
- Church by the Sea (1924), by J.E.H. MacDonald
- Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay (1921), by F.H. Varley
The issue includes a self-adhesive booklet and gummed mini-pane of seven Permanent domestic rate stamps and a set of seven Official First Day Covers (OFDCs) cancelled in locations significant to each artist. Using works drawn from six major Canadian galleries and photographs from the McMichael Canadian Art Collection Archives, the issue was designed by Lionel Gadoury, Andrew Conlon and Matthew Killin of Context Creative, and printed by Lowe-Martin.
VIRTUAL UNVEILINGS: This morning [Wednesday], starting at 10:30 am (eastern time), the stamp images will be unveiled live on 
social media as well as Canada Post’s Instagram account (@canadapostagram) and the accounts of several prominent Canadian galleries, including the AGO, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the Ottawa Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Canada, the Agnes Etherington Art Centre at Queen’s University and the Vancouver Art Gallery, with the OFDCs unveiled on Thursday, May 7, by the McMichael Canadian Art Collection. All stamps and collectibles will be available on Thursday, May 7, at canadapost.ca/shop. 
Postmarks for the FDCs: 
Larger versions of the designs: 
take place Friday, June 26, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Bass Pro Shop at 20000 Bass Pro Drive in Spanish Fort, AL. 
After two days of competition, Eddie LeRoy of Eufaula, Alabama, emerged as the winner of the Federal Duck Stamp competition with his painting of a black-bellied whistling-duck pair [left]. The announcement was made by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Principal Deputy Director Margaret Everson at the annual contest, held this year at Patuxent Research Refuge in Laurel, Maryland.
2020-2021 Junior Duck Stamp, which raises funds to educate and engage our nation’s youth in wildlife and wetlands conservation and outdoor recreation.
when news of the conflict’s end was announced, and the subsequent return of personnel from overseas and children who were evacuated
The Second World War in Europe officially came to an end in the early morning of 7 May 1945
A full set of all 12 stamps, available in a Presentation Pack, retails at £14.60
The eight images were originally photographed in black and white, but have been brought to life in colour for the first time by colourist, Royston Leonard.
Evacuees returning home to London after a wartime stay in Leicester
Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Second World War Nazi genocide of six million Jews (which became known as the Holocaust), Yad Vashem – from the Hebrew for ‘A Memorial and a name’ was established in 1953. The Hall of Names memorial holds the names of millions of Holocaust victims, with some 600 portraits displayed on the exhibit’s cone-shaped ceiling.
Located near Egham, Surrey, and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, the Runneymede Memorial – sometimes known as the Air Forces Memorial – was unveiled by the Queen in 1953. It commemorates over 20,000 airmen and women who were lost during operations from bases in the UK and Europe during the Second World War and who have no known grave.
Originally unveiled in 1924 to commemorate more than 7,000 sailors who died in the First World War and have no known grave, the memorial was extended in the early 1950s to include nearly 16,000 sailors who perished during the Second World War. It is one of three national navel memorials built and maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
Situated within the Taukkyan War Cemetery, the Rangoon Memorial commemorates almost 27,000 dead of the British and Commonwealth Land Forces who fell during the Second World War campaigns against the Japanese in Burma (Myanmar) with no known grave. Established by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission in 1958, it forms the centrepiece of the cemetery which contains the graves of nearly 6000 Commonwealth soldiers.
The Second World War in Europe officially came to an end in the early morning of 7 May 1945, when Germany signed a document of unconditional surrender. Public celebrations to mark the end of the war began spontaneously in many places as soon as people heard the news.
August 1945 that Japan also accepted unconditional surrender. A two-day national holiday began with VJ Day on 15 August.
Philip Parker, Royal Mail said: “Our new stamps capture how the end of the War was greeted and the resulting return of service personnel after nearly six long years of conflict. We also pay tribute to those who never returned, and the victims of the Holocaust.”
Both Léo Major and Veronica Foster have passed away.
The stamps tell the stories of Private Léo Major, who fought to liberate the Netherlands, and factory worker Veronica Foster, who helped recruit women to the wartime workforce. Together, they symbolize the more than two million Canadian men and women who played a key role in the Allied victory.
Canada’s military and economy were supported by unprecedented numbers of Canadian women who filled vital roles in factories and on farms during the war. Foster was among them. A vivacious and patriotic young woman, she spent her days assembling Bren machine guns at a factory in Toronto, where she was discovered. The Canadian government created a powerful promotional campaign around “Ronnie the Bren gun girl,” motivating a generation of women to roll up their sleeves to support the Allied effort. Foster is thought to have inspired the creation of the fictional “Rosie the Riveter” character in ads that later appeared in the United States.
changes have been made to how stamps are distributed to postal outlets, there is no guarantee that new issues will be available at all retail sites. To be sure you don’t miss anything, our online store is ready to take your order at 
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The booklet pane (above)
The Official First Day Cover (above)
Royal Mail has announced the launch of 10 new Special Stamps on the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth, the renowned Romantic poet, born on 7th April 1770.
The stamps also celebrate other major Romantic poets: William Blake; John Keats; Lord Byron; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Mary Robinson; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Walter Scott; John Clare; and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.
The Romantic poets made poetry more passionate and more personal than ever before, and they embraced romantic landscapes and the natural world with vigour. Some became international household names. Lord Byron (1788–1824) was the original celebrity author and Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) became famous as the inventor of the historical novel. By contrast, the genius of some others, notably William Blake (1757–1827) and John Clare (1793– 1864), was recognised only after their deaths.
The poet who came to be seen as the primary voice of the Romantic movement, was 
Many other women poets were celebrated during this period, including 
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Royal Mail worked with the award-winning biographer, Jonathan Bate, on the stamp issue. The images are lino-cut illustrations by the artist, Linda Farquharson.
The Hague, April 6, 2020 – PostNL has released new stamps in the Typically Dutch series. This time the tompouce is central, the famous pink pastry that is usually orange on King’s Day. This year, the Typically Dutch series focuses on foods and dishes that are characteristic of our country.
According to tradition, the pastry chef named his pastry after a circus artist named General Tom Thumb who was reportedly only 66 cm tall. Another explanation is that the puff pastry of a tompouce crumbs when you eat it. Just like in the fairy tale of Klein Thumb who sprinkled crumbs in the forest to find the way back home.
The Hague, April 4, 2020 – It is 75 years ago this year that the Netherlands was liberated. On the occasion of this anniversary, PostNL is issuing the stamp sheet “75 years of freedom”.
the outbreak of World War II, in war situations and in peace operations. On May 5 we celebrate the liberation of the Netherlands in 1945 and that we have lived in freedom ever since.
so on. Van den Berg: “The stories themselves can be read in the book published on the occasion of 75 years of freedom. A book about impressive people with a story, a story with a relationship with war and peace. From relatives of resistance fighters and Holocaust victims to refugees from war zones and military personnel who have been on a peace mission. ”
