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قراءة كتاب Canadian Postal Guide
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CHIEF REGULATIONS OF THE POST OFFICE,
RATES OF POSTAGE,
MONEY ORDERS,
COMPILED BY JOHN DEWÉ,
PRICE 25 CENTS.
reprinted with the hope that Postal Historians
and Collectors of Canadian stamps will benefit
greatly from the information contained therein.
CHARLES P. DEVOLPI
PREFACE.
The principal object of this little work is the dissemination of information in regard to the Canadian Postal Service. It is published with the kind permission of the Postmaster General, and it is hoped will be useful to the public as well as conducive to the interests of the Post Office.
The short and imperfect sketch of the progress of the post office in Canada, which has been compiled from authentic sources, will be found interesting. It extends over a period of one hundred years, and serves to mark a rapidity of improvement which, in a country purely agricultural, has seldom been surpassed.
As the regulations of the post office are subject to constant change, it is proposed to issue new editions of the Canadian Postal Guide, revised and corrected to the latest date, half-yearly, or yearly, as circumstances may appear to require.
Toronto, January, 1863.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| A Few Facts about the Post Office in Canada | 9 |
| Chief Officers of the Department at Quebec | 15 |
| Post Office Inspectors | 15 |
| Postal Divisions | 16 |
| RULES AND REGULATIONS: | |
| Officers | 17 |
| Post Office | 17 |
| Office Hours | 18 |
| Mails | 18 |
| Rates of Postage on Letters | 19 |
| Soldiers' and Seamen's Letters | 20 |
| Rates of Postage on Newspapers | 21 |
| Periodical Publications | 24 |
| Book Post | 25 |
| Printed Papers, Prices Current, Hand Bills, &c. | 26 |
| Printed Votes and Proceedings of the Imperial Parliament | |
| and Colonial Legislatures | 27 |
| Parcel Post | 27 |
| Franking and Free Letters | 28 |
| Abating and Refunding Postage | 28 |
| Undelivered and Dead Letters | 29 |
| Registration | 30 |
| Postage Stamps | 30 |
| Money Orders | 31 |
| General Regulations | 33 |
| Suggestions to the Public | 34 |
| Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies and Foreign | |
| Countries, by Canadian Ocean Steamers | 36 |
| Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies, &c., by | |
| Cunard Steamers | 39 |
| Do. do. do. by the United States | 40 |
A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE POST OFFICE IN CANADA.
COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
The earliest records of the administration of the post office in Canada bear date 1750, at which period the celebrated Benjamin Franklin was Deputy Postmaster General of North America. At the time of his appointment the revenue of the department was insufficient to defray his salary of £300 per annum; but under his judicious management not only was the postal accommodation in the Provinces considerably extended, but the revenue so greatly increased, that ere long the profit for one year, which he remitted to the British treasury, amounted to £3000.
In the evidence given by Franklin before the British House of Commons in the year 1766, in regard to the extent of the post office accommodation in North America, he made the following statement:—
"The posts generally travel along the sea coasts, and only in a few cases do they go back into the country. Between Quebec and Montreal there is only one post per month. The inhabitants live so scattered and remote from each other in that vast country that the posts cannot be supported amongst them. The English colonies, too, along the frontier are very thinly settled."
Franklin was removed in 1774. War broke out a few months afterwards between the North American Provinces and the Mother Country; and the charge of the post office in Canada was assumed by Mr. Hugh Finlay, who, it appears, had under Franklin performed the duties of postmaster at Quebec.
Mr. Finlay is designated in his commission as Deputy Postmaster General of His Majesty's