For over forty years Jo-Ann Knicely has been collecting stamps, primarily Canadian ones with a heavy emphasis on the Victorian era.  Among the gems:

• 1851, first stamp in Canada, the three pence beaver
• First Canadian Christmas stamp 1898
• 1865 Dunnville, Ontario cover, has a Prince Albert 10 cent stamp, an expensive stamp for the time and therefore an important letter

The collection has over 500 stamps with an emphasis on stamps from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland.

Jo-Ann’s new area of collecting interest is Canadian law stamps.

1851 three pence beaver

1898 Canada’s first Christmas stamp

1865 Prince Albert stamp

Work has begun to put the project papers for the TG Anderson collection online. Over 500 documents will be posted including a series of letters from the 1800s.  There will be a way to search the collection of transcripts and other documents through this online arrangement.  Needless to say 500 documents to do not get placed online in one day.  This work will be completed by January 1st.  Some documents are already in place and more will be added between now and Spring of 2010 through the efforts of volunteers.  Special thanks to Peter Davis who painstakingly read and transcribed all of these handwritten documents.  The museum would also like to thank Bill Gibson for creating the T.G. Anderson Papers Blog and posting this work on behalf of the museum.

see the blog of the TG Anderson Papers Project at:

http://tgandersonpapers.blogspot.com/

next meeting of the Museum board is Nov. 17th at 7:00PM, please be on time if you wish to attend, the entrance doors are locked very very shortly after 7 pm.