Owl of Vulcan

Thanks to Rob for another great card from Vulcan, Canada, showing

one of my favourites, an owl and the special Spock postmark from Vulcan ^_^

Sent: 13 May 2016   Received: 6 June 2016   Travelled: 24 days

Vulcan, Canada

Vulcan is a town in the prairies of southern Alberta, Canada, within Vulcan County. It is located on Highway 23, midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge. The population of the town was 1,836 in 2011.

Vulcan was named by a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railway after the Roman God of Fire – Vulcan. Originally, all the streets of Vulcan were named after gods and goddesses of the classical world such as Juno, Mars, and Jupiter. The community was incorporated as a village on December 23, 1912 and then as a town on June 15, 1921. In July 1927, a major tornado destroyed many homes and the new curling rink in the town. That tornado was made famous when a photograph of it approaching Vulcan was used for the "tornado" article in Encyclopædia Britannica.

The town's name has brought some attention that has helped it become a tourist attraction. In the Star Trek television and feature film series it is the name of the homeworld of Spock and his fellow Vulcans.

Capitalizing on this coincidence, the town has built a Star Trek–themed tourist station (the Tourism and Trek Station), which provides tourist information, displays Star Trek memorabilia, provides unique photo opportunities, and allows visitors to participate in The Vulcan Space Adventure virtual reality game. Nearby, a replica of the starship Enterprise from Star Trek V has been mounted on a pedestal which includes writing from Trek alien languages like Klingon. The town has also created space-themed murals and signs, and hosts an annual community-wide Star Trek convention known as "Spock Days". This convention attracts hundreds of Star Trek fans from around the world. In 2013, the TrekCetera Star Trek museum opened in Vulcan. A plaque commemorates a Star Trek postage stamp issued by Canada Post in 2016, which was unveiled in Vulcan and which features Spock.

Source: Wikipedia

Yippee! A card from Vulcan! Thanks very much to Rob and Anaik who made

a special trip to Vulcan for the Commemorative Star Trek issue and the

amazing Spock Vulcan Postmark!! 

Sent: 5 May 2016    Received: 25 May 2016  Travelled:  20 days

Mille Marotta's Animal Kingdom

Thanks to Anaik and Rob for this Deer DIY Colouring card and

the amazing Monkey stamp! 

Sent: 19 February 2016   Received: 8 March 2016   Travelled: 18 days

Year Of the Monkey: Canada

Thanks to Rob and Anaik for the joint write and meetup Monkey postcard :)

Sent: 19 February 2016   Received: 7 March 2016   Travelled: 17 days

Canada's Cool

Thanks to Anaik and Rob for this birthday card :D

Sent: 3 November 2015   Received: 24 November 2015   Travelled: 21 days

Canadian Christmas wishes

Thanks to Rob for this beautiful Christmas envelope. Another year and 

another cat for Christmas. Also a beautiful vintage embossed rose card

and a snowflake! 

Sent: 27 November 2015   Received: 9 December 2015   Travelled: 12 days

Palindrome day card

Thanks to Rob for this special postal card sent on Palindrome date 5-10-2015

The old stamps and cancellation are super awesome! <3 <3 <3

Sent: 5-10-2015   Received: 20 October 2015   Travelled: 15 days

Dinosaur mail

Wow this fantastic mail arrived from Canada.Inside was a beautiful postcard,

a new type of postcard and the Stamp newsletter of Canada post with the 

awesome front cover of my peculiar collection of dinosaurs :) Also on the 

cover of the envelope the full set of the Love Your Pets stamp issue ,there's even a 

tabby cat in a cone that's almost a copy of my own tabby, plus some dinosaur 

stamps. Big thank you to Rob for this surprise!

Sent: 24 May 2015   Received: 5 June 2015   Travelled: 12 days

Eotriceratops

Eotriceratops is a new ceratopsian (or horned dinosaur) recently discovered in

souther Alverta's Horseshow Canyon Formtion. At 68 million years of age, it is 

the oldest known relative of Triceratops. The skull alone is over three metres long,

qualifying it as the largest horned dinosaur ever found in Alberta, and quite possibly, the world.

Thanks to Rob for this most fascianting card of a triceratop and the amazing 

Year of Ram stamp! Also the other zodiac animals are embossed on the horn, beautiful

stamp!

Sent: 24 February 2015   Received: 23 March 2015   Travelled: 27 days

dr no

Dr. No is a 1962 British spy film, starring Sean Connery; it is the first James Bond film. Based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, it was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather and was directed by Terence Young. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that would continue until 1975.

Thank you Rob for this great poster art card of James Bond

Silver Owl

Inuit Art - Kenojuak Ashevak

Wow! I've never seen a mini stamp sheet like this with the 

Zodiac Horse making way for the Ram. Note how much bigger the Ram

is on the right than the outgoing horse on the left. Fantastic! Thank you so much Rob

Sent: 5 February 2015   Received: 24 February 2015   Travelled: 19 days

Waterton Lakes

View from Bear's Hump in Waterton Lakes National Park

Photo by Krzysztof Ratynski

Waterton Lakes National Park is a national park located in the southwest corner of Alberta, Canada, and borders Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. Waterton was Canada's fourth national park, formed in 1895 and named after Waterton Lake, in turn after the Victorian naturalist and conservationist Charles Waterton. The park contains 505 km2 (195 sq mi) of rugged mountains and wilderness.

American TV talkshow host David Letterman recommended the park on the Monday, 24 June 2013 episode of his nightly show. In an interview with Melissa McCarthy he told her, “when you go to Montana, you gotta' go North to Glacier ... and then dip-up into Waterton International Peace Park, it’s the Canadian part of Glacier National Park. It’s stunning.” The quotation was covered by several Canadian news outlets.

Thanks to Rob for this stunning postcard and beautiful stamps! 

Received: 14 October 2014 (no postmark >.> )

Calgary Stampede

Art Poster reproduction from Canada's 1967 Centennial. The 8 cent stamp celebrates 

Calgary's centennial in 1975. The postcard was issued for he stampede's centennial in 2012.

Wow , thanks to Rob for the very special stamps of one of my favourite topics (trees)

and the fun facts on the card. A card I won from playing a quiz on the Calgary stampede!

Sent: 22 July 2014   Received: 12 August 2014   Travelled: 21 days

Canadian Rockies

When I first saw this card,it was from the back and I noticed

first, the old stamps and the dotted lines and thought hey it

could be a bookmark, before reading the caption which said

"Postcard and Bookmark"! haha

Of course I could never bear to tear it off it's a neat little card

of this kind of card. Thank you very much Rob for the

EXTRA SMILES!

Received: 9 June 2014

First Nations arts and crafts

First Nations arts and crafts

 

ooh boy what a week, got a mother load of postcards into my mailbox this week

and then having my computer visit the computer doctor for a few days, f inally

able to get caught up to my backlog of cards to upload. Here's another interesting card

from Rob which could fit into my theme of dolls,puppets,totems or I should

just refile them all under "Arts and Crafts". Although I had studied in Canada

I'd never come across First Nations crafts,thanks very much for this piece Rob!

Strange cancellation on the bear stamp >.<

Received: 4 April 2014

Unusual postcard

I was curious about the unusual card Rob offered in the forum, after all people can describe one thing very differently. I like his sense of unusual because this is pretty funny! Pretty apt to coincide with the year of the horse. Merci beaucoup Rob!

Sent: 4 January 2014   Received: 22 January 2014   Travelled: 18 days 

Canada fossil

The bones of a crested dinosaur or duck billed dinosaur,are dug from the dirt in Alberta's Badlands where they have been buried for 75 million years.

Dinosaur Provincial Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located about two and a half hours drive southeast of Calgary, Alberta, Canada or 48 kilometres (30 mi), about a half hour drive, northeast of Brooks.

The park is situated in the valley of the Red Deer River, which is noted for its striking badland topography. The park is well known for being one of the richest dinosaur fossil locales in the world. Forty dinosaur species have been discovered at the park and more than 500 specimens have been removed and exhibited in museums across the globe. The renowned fossil assemblage of nearly 500 species of life, from microscopic fern spores to large carnivorous dinosaurs, justified it becoming a World Heritage Site in 1979. They're coming to get us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_Provincial_Park



Thank you very much Maria and Rob for this amazing dinosaur for my collection!



Sent:16 October 2013

Received:15 November 2013

Travelled: 30 days

Royal wedding card from Canada

Thank you Rob for this special commemorative card of the Royal couple :)

Per the Canadian constitution, the responsibilities of the sovereign and/or governor general include summoning and dismissing parliament, calling elections, and appointing governments. Further, Royal Assent and the royal sign-manual are required to enact laws, letters patent, and orders in council. But the authority for these acts stems from the Canadian populace and, within the conventional stipulations of constitutional monarchy, the sovereign's direct participation in any of these areas of governance is limited, with most related powers entrusted for exercise by the elected and appointed parliamentarians, the ministers of the Crown generally drawn from amongst them, and the judges and justices of the peace.[8] The Crown today primarily functions as a guarantor of continuous and stable governance and a nonpartisan safeguard against the abuse of power, the sovereign acting as a custodian of the Crown's democratic powers and a representation of the "power of the people above government and political parties."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchy_of_Canada

 Received: 14 February 2013