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Title: Canadian Postal Guide

Author: Various

Editor: John Dewe

Release Date: December 13, 2007 [EBook #23852]

Language: English

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CANADIAN POSTAL GUIDE:

CONTAINING THE

CHIEF REGULATIONS OF THE POST OFFICE,

THE RATES OF POSTAGE,

EVERY INFORMATION IN REGARD TO MONEY ORDERS,

COMPILED BY JOHN DEWE,
POST OFFICE INSPECTOR.

Published with the permission of the Postmaster General.

[Illustration: Coat of arms]

PRICE 25 CENTS.

TORONTO:
R. & A. MILLER, 62, KING STREET;
AND 60, ST. FRANCOIS XAVIER STREET, MONTREAL.
AND FOR SALE AT THE BOOK STORES.

1863.

TORONTO:

PRINTED BY LOVELL AND GIBSON, YONGE STREET.

Reprinted 1966

DEV-SCO PUBLICATIONS LIMITED
2345 MONTEE ST. AUBIN
CHOMEDEY, LAVAL, P.Q.

This Canadian Postal Guide is being reprinted with the hope that Postal
Historians and Collectors of Canadian stamps will benefit greatly from
the information contained therein.

CHARLES P. DEVOLPI

PREFACE.

The principal object of this little work is the dissemination of
information in regard to the Canadian Postal Service. It is published
with the kind permission of the Postmaster General, and it is hoped will
be useful to the public as well as conducive to the interests of the
Post Office.

The short and imperfect sketch of the progress of the post office in
Canada, which has been compiled from authentic sources, will be found
interesting. It extends over a period of one hundred years, and serves
to mark a rapidity of improvement which, in a country purely
agricultural, has seldom been surpassed.

As the regulations of the post office are subject to constant change, it
is proposed to issue new editions of the Canadian Postal Guide, revised
and corrected to the latest date, half-yearly, or yearly, as
circumstances may appear to require.

Toronto, January, 1