First Day Covers of the 1946 Canada King George VI Peace Issue

Donald J. LeBlanc
Released December 2024.
222 pages, 8.5" x 11", spiral.
Colour C$ 53.00 [ISBN 978-1-989280-48-5].

Shortly before his passing in July 2024, the late Donald J. LeBlanc completed the third and final volume of his series on Canadian First Day Covers, First Day Covers of the 1946 Canada King George VI Peace Issue.

Celebrating the end of World War II, in September 1946 Canada released a new set of high-value definitive stamps to replace the 1942 King George VI War Issue set. The new stamps showed different aspects of life in peacetime Canada.

Because of the large number of cachets, it would be difficult for a collector to search for and identify a particular FDC in his or her collection so the author grouped a significant number of cachets under a dominant theme. Sections of First Day Covers of the 1946 Canada King George VI Peace Issue cover Peace and/or Victory themes, followed by Reconversion and/or Reconstruction themes, the Canadian Coat of Arms, text indicators of FDC status, left-over War Issue covers, hand-drawn or hand-painted, Air Mail envelopes, plus General-purpose and Business Corner Cards.