Canada
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Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: January 12, 2009
Occasion: 2010 Winter Olympics,2010,Vancouver,Canada
Width: 20 mm
Height: 16 mm
Perforation: Serpentine die cut 9.25 x 0.00
Printing method: Lithographed
Printer: Lowe Martin Group, Ottawa, Canada
Creative team:
     Naomi Broudo, Tandem Design Associates, Designer
     Violet Finvers, Tandem Design Associates, Designer
     Vicky Wong, Meomi Design, Illustrator
     Michael Murphy, Meomi Design, Illustrator
Catalog number:
     Scott 2310
Location: Ice Hockey Volume XVIII
Stamp ID = 1925

Stamp shows Quatchi, a shy, adventurous sasquatch, playing hockey. Quatchi was one of the XXI Winter Olympic mascots. Stamp was available in coil form (a target="_blank" href="/cgi-bin/hockey_stamp.pl?stamp=/stamps/scans/Canada/can-20090112-f1-001-01.jpg&number=26">can-20090112-f1-001, 50 stamps).

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.