FREE: 5 cancelled Canadian Stamps - Hogan's Alley

The listing, 5 cancelled Canadian Stamps - Hogan's Alley has ended.

5 used stamps depicting Hogan's Alley as per the information below from the Canada Post website:



Canada Post celebrates Black History Month by commemorating two distinctive and historic African-Canadian communities: Vancouver's Hogan's Alley and Halifax's Africville. Dismantled in the 60s to make way for new construction, these small but vibrant neighbourhoods are gone but not forgotten.

A vibrant destination for food and jazz through the 1960s, Hogan's Alley was the unofficial name of a four-block long dirt lane that formed the nucleus of Vancouver's first concentrated African-Canadian community.

ABOUT THE DESIGN

The Hogan's Alley stamp features residents Fielding Spotts, a cooper by trade and the first Baptist in Western Canada, and Nora Hendrix, Grandmother to rock legend Jimi Hendrix and cook at Vie's Chicken and Steak House.

Stamp designer Karen Smith paired real photographs with photo-inspired illustrations in attempt to marry the physical legacy and memories.

SPECIFICATIONS
•Denomination: $0.63 per stamp
•Issue date: January 30, 2014
•Stamp dimensions: 32 mm x 32 mm
•Stamp designer: Karen Smith
•Stamp illustrator: Janice Kun
•Photograh subjects: Hogan's Alley residents Nora Hendrix and Fielding William Spotts, Jr.
•Printing process: Lithography in 5 colours