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POSTAGE STAMP TO HONOR QUEEN'S VISIT A new postage stamp to honor the visit to Canada of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I will be issued by the Canada Post Office on October 5th, 1964, it was announ ced today by the Hon. John R. Nicholson, Postmaster General . Her Metesty plans to visit Charlottetown, P.E.I. and Quebec City, marking the centenary celebra- | POSTES POSTAGE tions of the two famous conferences that led to Con- § federation three years later. Special postage stamps commemorating the Charlottetown and Quebec Con- ferences have already been issued by the Canada Post Office. The new stamp will be of the large size in a ver- tical format. It will depict a portrait of Her Majesty from a photograph by Anthony Buckley of London, England. The wording Postes - Canada ~ Postage and the denomination, five cents, complete the design of the stamp. As is customary in special stamps issued to commemorate Royal Visits, no other wording will appear on the special issue. The portrait depicts Her Majesty in a seated position wearing a simple white gown and a tiara. A model of the stamp was submitted to Her Majesty, as is suctomary, before engraving and Queen Elizabeth expressed her satisfaction with the design. The stamp will be printed in purple ink by the steel engraving intaglio process. The stamp was designed and printed by the Canadian Bank Note Compan y of Ottawa. RAL LE PLE ROLY A BEI DBS LOR ATES. EBSA NG LF EEE TT le DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS Somewhere in the "predictable uncertainities" of the next ten years, the time and topic will be- come ripe for serious decision: On what land of the world will trees be grown to support the strongly expanding needs of a rising world population for pulp, paper and other forest products? There will be more of question than answer in the discussion and the inexorable facts of economics and of hungry people will have a great deal more to do with the determination of best land use than deliberate planning. It is hard enough to plan effectually the logical use of land within a single country. Reckoning how to achieve such desirable results internationally is a good deal rougher. \\'e September 24, 1964 ===> == CHRISTMAS}1964;NOEL= FRAME NS RGIAL ANS aon ee DO Led ad ah el A oe ell cn tal YF FISTS SF FIRST CANADIAN CHRISTMAS POSTAGE STAMPS The first special Christmas stamps in Canadian postal history will go on sale October 14th, it was announced today by the Hon. John R. Nicholson, Postmaster General. There will be two stamps of similar design, a blue five cent denomination and a red three cent issue. The stamps, which will be printed by the steel engraving intaglio process, will show a family group of a man, a woman and two children in silhouette, walking off towards a Christmas star in a typical Canadian winter scene » The design is intended to express the feeling of Christmas as a religious and family occasion, and at the same time to portray the scene in a Canadian environment, It is also intended to tie in with the study of the family's place in contemporary Canadian life which was held last summer under the sponsorship of the Governor General and Madame Vanier. The present design had been decided upon, Mr. Nicholson said, after studying and rejecting dozens of sketches and drawings by a variety of Canadian artists. Although in 1898 Canada produced a stamp bearing the words "Xmas 1898", the 1964 issues are the first Canadian postage, stamps intended especially for use on Christmas mails. The three cent denomination is the stamp normally used for unsealed Christmas cards and the five cent issue is the usual rate for first class or sealed letters. Although the special issue will be honoured as postage any time, the stamps will be withdrawn from regular sale at post office wickets immediately after Christmas. The new stamps are both in the regular small size, similar to the general issue postage stamps. A total of one-hundred million five cent stamps and three- hundred million three cent stamps will be printed. The stamps were designed, engraved and printed by the Canadian Bank Note Company, Ltd, of Ottawa.- DRIVE CAREFULLY