Ottawa 150th Year 2007 First Day Covers
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Ottawa 150th Year 2007 First Day Covers:
$1.81
Ottawa 150th Year 2007 First Day Cover
On May 3, 2007, Canada Post issued two stamps-one at the domestic rate (52¢) and one at the international rate ($1.55)-to celebrate Ottawa\'s 150th birthday as our great nation\'s capital.
There are many stories about how Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to be the common capital for what was then the province of Canada. Some tales have her making the choice by sticking a hatpin into a map; others that she liked watercolour paintings she had seen of the area. While these stories seem to have little or no basis in historical fact, they do illustrate how arbitrary the choice of Ottawa seemed to Canadians at the time. Today, Ottawa is a major metropolis and Canada\'s fourth largest city, but, in 1857, when it was chosen to be Canada\'s capital, it was a small, rough and sometimes violent lumber town in the middle of nowhere, far away from the main cities of Québec and Montréal in Lower Canada, and Kingston and Toronto in Upper Canada.
In great condition from a large collection.I do combine shipping.
Ottawa 150th Year 2007 First Day Covers:
$1.81