Canada Pictorial Postmarks

For many years Canada has offered collectors pictorial postmarks from post offices around the country. Collectors can obtain a postmark on a stamp addressed envelope and receive a cancel. Subject matter is historically related to the city the postmark comes from. Some baseball related postmarks above... 

Canada Post

1993 World Series - Toronto Blue Jays v Philadelphia Phillies

1993 World Series

October 16-23

Toronto Blue Jays (SkyDome) v Philadelphia Phillies (Veterans Stadium)

Blue Jays defeat the Phillies 4 games to 2

Paul Molitor - MVP

Set of 4 labels issued by Canada Post to commemorate the Blue Jays victory

Labels were serial numbered and were available in a souvenir sheet of 4, or issued individually

Pan American Games : 1999

 

Republic of Domenica issued stamps featuring baseball and weight-lifting for the 1999 games

Cuba issued a baseball stamps along with stamps for volleyball and boxing

Baseball at the 1999 Pan American Games was held between July 25 and August 2 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A total of nine teams competed: Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and the United States. The primary venue for this competition was CanWest Global Park, while Stonewall Quarry Park in Stonewall, Manitoba, was used as a secondary venue.

Cuba entered the competition as the seven-time defending champions, having won each gold medal dating back to 1971. They successfully defended their title, with the United States finishing second (Silver), Canada finished third (Bronze)

Canada Post issued 4-stamps for the games featuring soccer, swimming, cycling and track

The 1999 Pan American Games, officially the XIII Pan American Games or the 13th Pan American Games, was a major international multi-sport event that was held from July 23 to August 8, 1999, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and surrounding towns and cities

Players advancing to MLB:

Team USA: Travis Dawkins, Adam Kennedy, Marcus Jensen, Craig Paquette, Dan Wheeler

Team Cuba: Jose Contreras, Danys Baez

Team Canada: Andy Stewart, Ryan Radmanovich

Toronto Blue Jays

April 9, 2001 Canada Post first day cover

Toronto Blue Jays were founded in 1977, originally playing at Exhibition Stadium. The team color, blue is the traditional color of Toronto's collegiate and professional sport teams, including the NHL - Maple Leafs and the CFL- Argonauts. The Blue also references the original team owners Labatt Brewing Co., producers of Labatt's Blue

The Jays played their inaugural game on April 7, 1977 against the Chicago White Sox before a home crowd of 44,649. A minor snowstorm hit the stadium just before the game started, but the Jays would still go on to defeat the White Sox 9-5 powered by Doug Alt's 2-home runs

1986 - Blue Jays 10th Anniversary

1991 - All-Star Game

2014

Faux-stamps from the artist Shelina Pachai's Twitter

2019 - Vancouver Asahi - Canada Post

Formed in 1914, during a time of overt racism, the Vancouver Asahi, an amateur Japanese-Canadian baseball team, whose name means "morning sun", thrilled fans and outwitted competitors with a unique strategy of bunts, base sterling, speed and squeeze plays that the media dubbed "brain ball".

The Asahi became on of the city's dominant amateur teams between 1919 - 1941. The team was forced to disband after Canada entered the War with Japan, and interned more than 20,000 Japanese living on the west coast, even though they were citizens

The Asahi earned their place in the BC Sports Hall of Fame and Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame

The stamp was designed by Vancouver's Subplot Design, Inc, and features the 1940 team photo

Canada Post

Canadian Baseball - 1988

Sep 14, 1988 Beachville, Ontario

Canada Post Official FDC

signed by Gene Mauch, Montreal Expos manager 1969-1975

 Toronto, Ontario commemorative cancel

Wanda Chirnside, Toronto, Ontario

Gateway cachet

Colorano Silk

Gill Craft

Sep 14, 1988 Canada Post honors the sport of baseball..The roots of baseball in Canada go back to 4 June 1838 in Beachville, Ontario, where the first recorded organized game of baseball in North America took place. Canada's long and colorful baseball history has had many great moments and Canadians have distinguished themselves in both the minor and major leagues.

Baseball's popularity in Canada heightened with the acquisition of two major league franchises. The National League's Montreal Expos played their first game in April 1969, while the Toronto Blue Jays of the American League began play in April 1977. Besides the professionals there are now well over a million baseball players in Canada playing all forms of the game.

The cachet illustration for the Canada Post cover features an early baseball game was published in the Canadian Illustrated News July 1874.. printed on the back of the Canada Post official first day cover...

Fergie Jenkins

2011 Canada Post issued a commemorative stamp in honor of Ferguson Jenkins and Black History. The image of Jenkins in his Cubs Uniform is taken from the cover of the August 30, 1971 issue of Sports Illustrated magazine. The profile image was taken by John Oddi, Executive Director of the Fergie Jenkins Foundation.

The official Canada Post first day cover was designed by Lara Minja and approved by the Fergie Jenkins Foundation. The reverse of the envelope shows reproductions of Jenkins' baseball cards.

The stamp comes in a booklet form, which was designed to look like a baseball game ticket. It holds ten stamps. The ticket concept was developed by Foundation President Carl Kovacs assisted by Rick McCorkell of Canada Post.

The Fergie Jenkins Foundation

Ferguson Jenkins  was born in 1942 in Chatham, Ontario. He signed with the Philadelphia Phillies as a free agent own 1962. He made his major league debut on September 10, 1965. Jenkins would play for the Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox from 1965-1983. Jenkins compiled a pitching record of 284-226.

Jenkins was selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1991

Dragon Cards