Canada Gains its Postal Autonomy
The Earliest Issues of the Canadian Provinces
Unused Vancouver Island Five Cents, 1865
The Vancouver Island Five Cents and Ten Cents were issued following the Island's adoption of the decimal system. At the time of printing, a small number of stamps were purposely or inadvertently left imperforate. They were used concurrently with the perforated stamps for postage. The unused ones shown here are particularly rare.
