DINO OF CANADA 2016
Official First Day Cover (OFDC) with Souvenir Sheet of 5 stamps
New, Unaddressed
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The Official First Day Cover (OFDC) includes all 5 domestic stamps from this year’s issue, each one featuring a different beast.
The stylish stamps depict each animal as a reflection in the eye of a predator or in the eye of one of their own species.
Not all of the 5 prehistoric animals featured on this year’s stamps are actually dinosaurs, but 2 fit the bill.
The first is the Acrotholus audeti, which roamed Alberta’s Badlands about 84 million years ago.
The second, the small, feathered Troodon inequalis, inhabited the same area some 9 million years later.
The creatures on the 3 remaining stamps are the Comox Valley elasmosaur,
Cypretherium coarctatum, and Dimetrodon borealis. The elasmosaur hunted in
the waters off what is now Vancouver Island more than 80 million years ago.
Cypretherium, nicknamed “Terminator Pig”, bared its menacing teeth to stalk prey on
the floodplains of Saskatchewan some 35 million years ago. Finally,
Dimetrodon lived on the arid landscape of Prince Edward Island about 270 million years ago.
The stamps are cancelled with a pictorial cancellation of dinosaur footprints.
The cancel location is Courtenay, British Columbia.
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