$1.20 & $2.50 2014 - UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada


$1.20 & $2.50 2014 - UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada
Added by Alain Martineau
General Description : These sites – some more than 5,700 years old – hold clues that whisper to all who visit. The World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has recognized the significance of these places, and their irresistible call has been answered by travellers from around the world eager for a glimpse into the art, culture and lives of our ancestors.
Curious? Begin your journey through time in Alberta at the evocatively named Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. Here for thousands of years, Aboriginal peoples of the Plains hunted bison by herding them over the edge of the sandstone cliff. At British Columbia’s SGang Gwaay, a now-abandoned village on Haida Gwaii, the weathered remains of 10 houses and 32 mortuary and memorial poles still stand in an area long-inhabited by the Haida. Travel to the opposite coast in Nova Scotia and see the landscape of Grand Pré, shaped by Acadians in the 17th and 18th centuries, or stop in the old town of Lunenburg, where 18th and 19th century settlers raised wooden structures whose colours delight visitors to this day. Then wrap up your journey in our nation’s capital to find the youngest of these World Heritage sites. Officially opened in 1832, the Rideau Canal is a monument to the achievements of Colonel By, his Royal Engineer officers and the thousands of workers who built the 47 locks of this 202-kilometre waterway.
Face value $1.20 & $2.50
Catalog code (Michel) CA BL190
Catalog code (Scott) CA 2739
Catalog code Canada post # 403935145; Yvert et Tellier CA F2989 Stanley Gibbons CA MS3040
Series UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Canada
Place in series 2
Stamp colour Multicolor
Stamp use Souvenir Sheet
Print run 160,000 souvenir sheet
Issue date 16/05/2014
Designer Lara Minja of Victoria-based Lime Design
Paper type Tullis Russell
Print technique Lithography in 5 colours
Printed by Lowe-Martin
Perforation 13+
Height 100.00 mm
Width 130.00 mm
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