#158: Bluenose

Stamp: Bluenose

Denomination: 50-cent blue

Issued: 8th January, 1929

Designed: The Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited, Ottawa.

Perforated: 12

Plates used: No. 1 of 200 subjects, and 2 and 3 of 100 subjects each. Plate No. 1 was not used because of defects that developed during the process of manufacture. Sheets printed from plates 2 and 3 were issued intact. There were no straight edges in this stamps.

Received: 1,044,900

Note: The vignette of this denomination was engraved by the American Note Company, New York

The Canadian fishing schooner, Bluenose, racing off Halifax Harbour, a composite picture made from photographs taken in 1922 by W.R. MacAskill, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The schooner was built in 1920-21 at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, by Messrs. Smith and Rhuland, to the designs of W.J. Roue, of Halifax, and launched in March , 1921, Essentially a practical fishing boat, the schooner was also designed to uphold the Bluenose racing supremacy on the Atlantic seaboard. That she achieved her promoter´s ambition is proved by the fact she decisively defeated every competitor of her class. She never lost a series of races. The owners of the Bluenose were honored in 1935 by having their schooner present when King George V reviewed the British fleet at Spithead.

In selecting this design, the Department gave world-wide publicity to three important phases of Nova Scotia life and industry: fisheries, ship-building, and seamanship.

REFERENCE

Patrick, Douglas and Mary, CANADA´S POSTAGE STAMPS, Revised Edition, McClelland and Stewart Limited, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1964, 220 pages.