Canada
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Width: 48 mm
Height: 60 mm
Perforation: Perforated 12.00 x 12.50
Printing method: Engraved
Printer: Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited, Ottawa, Canada
Creative team:
David Annesley, Designer
Location: Ice Hockey Volume IX
Stamp ID = 6219
Corner block from inscription sheet #2.
From the Wikiepedia entry for Lester PearsonThe award for the best National Hockey League player as voted by members of the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) was known as the Lester B. Pearson Award from its inception in 1971 to 2010, when its name was changed to the Ted Lindsay Award to honour one of the union's pioneers.
Pearson attended Oxford University and while there he played hockey and was even on the Oxford team that won the very first Spengler Cup in1923. From the Wikiepedia entry on the Oxford University Ice Hockey ClubWith the introduction of the Rhodes Scholarship, the top Canadian players at the University of Oxford formed the Oxford Canadians, but after World War I, the University of Oxford team included Rhodes Scholars. Such players included Lester B. Pearson, Roland Michener, George F.G. Stanley, Clarence Campbell, Allan Blakeney, Ronald Martland and Otto Lang. Thus strengthened, it won the Spengler Cup in 1923, 1925 and 1931.
Plate block or corner block shows Lester Pearson
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.