Canada
can-19560123-c-001
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Cancel size is 88 mm x 19 mm. This cancel was used as First Day of Issue cancel in Kitchener, Ontario for Canada Post's 1953 ice hockey stamp, can-19560123-s-001. Kitchener was home to the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen hockey team which represented Canada at the 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics. This allowed the cancel to say
THE HOME OF CANADA'SOLYMPIC HOCKEY TEAM1958
Location: Ice Hockey Volume VII
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page
Canada (1851-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 29,123,194. An independent state within the British Commonwealth, occupying the northern part of North America.