🌎 Country

Canada

📅 Year

1851

💰 Denomination

3 pence

📮 Issue type

Definitive

🖼 Topic

Animals

The first stamp of the Province of Canada, designed by Sandford Fleming, who later devised standard time zones. At a time when stamps showed monarchs, it pictured a beaver, and it is usually called the first animal on a postage stamp.

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