af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 4, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Todays stamp is the first postage stamp with a dog. It was issued in 1887 and it features a Newfoundland dog. Since this first stamp made its appearance in the stamp world, many dog breeds have since sniffed their way onto our collectible postage stamps. The next days...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 3, 2023 | Stamp of the day
Barbados was first occupied by the British in 1627 and remained a British colony until internal autonomy was granted in 1961. The Island gained full independence in 1966, and maintains ties to the Britain monarch represented in Barbados by the Governor General. It is...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 2, 2023 | Stamp of the day
The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to the Bahamas; they took enslaved people with them and established plantations on...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jul 2, 2023 | Stamp of the day
The first recorded European contact was in 1616, when Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog landed on the west coast. Although many expeditions visited the coast during the next 200 years, there was no lasting attempt at establishment of a permanent settlement until December...
af Vagn Juhl-Larsen | jun 30, 2023 | Stamp of the day
In 1849 Vancouver Island became a British crown colony with Fort Victoria as its capital. More settlers arrived, and a small village arose near the fort. By the early 1850s the village site had been formally surveyed, and in 1852 the settlement was named Victoria....
