Canada
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Width: 60 mm
Height: 35 mm
Perforation: Perforated 12.75 x 12.50
Printing method: Lithography in 7 colors
Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., Williamsville, United States
Creative team:
Tania Craan, Designer
Artin Cavouk, Photographer
Catalog number:
Unitrade 1447a
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XII
Stamp ID = 6195
From the 2016 "Unitrade Specialized Catalogue of Canadian Stamps" this stamp was
Issued to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Order of Canada and in memory of its first recipient, the late Govenor-General Roland Michener who died in 1991.
Michener attended Oxford University and while there he played hockey and was even on the Oxford team that won the very first Spengler Cup in 1923. 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.
Se-tenant, stamp and label shows Daniel Roland Michener
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.