The Second Canadian Military Postal History Anthology

H.M. (Mike) Street, editor/compiler
Released October 2024.
272 pages, 8.5" x 11", spiral.
Colour C$ 57.00 [ISBN 978-1-989280-46-1].

A Canadian Military Postal History Anthology, published in 1991, was 250 pages in length. Interest in Canadian Military Mail has continued to be strong, resulting in a second, 272-page, anthology. The 44 articles, written by 21 authors, in the second anthology cover the period from 1897 to 1997.

There are several Boer War articles, more than a dozen from World War I, a larger number from World War II, plus a few from the Korean War and the post WW II peace-keeping era.

Subjects include commemorative covers for Boer War nurses; postage applied to WW I mail arriving in Canada from servicemen and women serving in France and Belgium; an explanation of WW II Blackout cancels originating in the United Kingdom; WW II Armed Forces Air Letter rates from India to Canada; and life on a minesweeper during WW II.

Other subjects include a photo of the Canadian Postal Corps Staff taken at Salisbury Base Camp in England in 1915; photographs from the transit of the Czech Legion across Canada after World War I; and mail to and from Royal Canadian Navy personnel during World War II.

The 1997 article concerns mail handling for Armed Forces personnel helping out during the devastating floods on the Red River near Winnipeg that year.