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  TEACHING CANADA
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Field Trip to Canada - in your classroom - Exhibit 5

    
At the Post Office
   
Look at images of stamps with magnifying glasses
 
 


Exhibit Supplies
   
 

Stamps, booklets illustrating Canadian stamps, magnifying glasses

Sources:

     Envelopes with Canadian stamps

     Publications from the National Philatelic Centre - www.canadapost.ca

     Images of Canadian stamps on-line

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ExhibitTasks
  • Use the magnifying glass to examine the stamps.  Consider that you are looking at a mini poster of a work of art.
     
  • What categories of Canadian culture and nature are celebrated on Canadian stamps?   Make a list.

 

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Last Updated: 7 July, 2005



 

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