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- OBJECT TYPE
- Canada/official/airmail
- DATE
- 1939
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1989.0493.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Unknown
- MODEL
- North Bay - Ottawa
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Paper
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 9.4 cm
- Width
- 16.5 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Commemorative
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Unknown
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Postmarked March 1, 1939
- Canada
-
Mr. W.T. Traynor was a postal inspector out of North Bay. He started his career as a mail sorter on the train from Ottawa to North Bay. He wrote this correspondence to his daughter, Isobel. - Function
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SENT THROUGH THE MAIL FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A COLLECTIBLE ITEM - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- Canada post reads: "CANADA/ POSTES/ POSTAGE/ 6/ CENTS AIR CENTS/ 6"/ Below stamp: "VIA AIR MAIL"/ Two identical postmarks read: "NORTH BAY/ 9/ MR 1/ 39/ ONT."/ Cachet reads: "TRANS CANADA AIR MAIL/ LUMBERING/ FIRST OFFICIAL FLIGHT/ NORTH BAY- OTTAWA"/ Handwritten address: "Miss Isobel Traynor/ 164-2nd Ave. W./ North Bay/ Ont."/ Label upper left corner: "This Letter/ sent by/ AIR MAIL/ Would appreciate/ reply by/ AIR MAIL"/ Circular postmark on back of cover: "OTTAWA/ MAR 1/ 1 PM/ 1939/ ONT."/
- Missing
- Complete
- Finish
- Cream coloured cover with red and blue design around edges, a black cachet, and a red and blue label shaped as an arrow
- Decoration
- Cachet depicts men lumbering with an airplane flying over head
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Unknown Manufacturer, Cover, 1939, Artifact no. 1989.0493, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1989.0493.001/
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