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By Danforth Guy
What’s not so old is new again.
The January 13th rate increases require a few new issues from Canada Post, marking the first stamps of 2025 from the corporation. No stamps or their subjects had been announced until the issues appeared on the service’s website. The four stamps recycle denominated designs from the ‘From Far and Wide’ series of definitives issued in May 2024:
Point Prim Lighthouse, P.E.I., is reissued as a $1.44 stamp (up from $1.15) intended for single-stamp sales to cover domestic postage. For sale in coil strips of 4 and 10, and coils of 50. No booklet, as booklet stamps are priced lower (as P stamps at the rate of $1.24).- Thousand Islands National Park, Ontario — reissued as a $1.75 stamp (up from $1.40) for US-bound mail. For sale in coil strips of 4 and 10, and coils of 50.
- Restigouche River, New Brunswick — reissued at $2.61 (up from $2.09) to cover the oversized rate. For sale in booklets of 6, coil strips of 4 and 10, and coils of 50.
- Qarlinngua sea arch, Arctic Bay, Nunavut — reissued at $3.65 (up from $2.92) as the international rate (outside the US). For sale in booklets of 6, coil strips of 4 and 10, and coils of 50.
No souvenir sheet will be issued with the newly-priced stamps. Last May, the four denominated stamps were combined with five P-rate stamps on one souvenir sheet.
Because these four stamps do not have new designs, no first-day postmark or first day coers were offered.
Here are images of the other three stamps: 
