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Click here to see FDC's		First day of issue: January 17, 2000
Width: 108 mm
Height: 112 mm
Perforation: Perforated 13.50 x 13.50
Printing method: Lithography in 4 colors
Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., Williamsville, United States
Creative team:
     Kiky Kambylis, Designer
Catalog number:
     Unitrade 1825
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XIV
Stamp ID = 6204

Part of Canada Post's Millenium Series. The Millenium Series was a set of 68 stamps issued in 17 souvenir sheets consisting of 4 stamps per sheet. The stamps were issued between December 17, 1999 and March 17, 2000.

From the Wikiepedia entry for Lester Pearson

The 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 in 1923. From the Wikiepedia entry on the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club

With 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.

Souvenir sheet 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.