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Other resources - Exhibits

All the Dead Letter Office exhibits listed below are in the Online Resource and Exhibits (ORE) area of the website. To view any of them, click on the DLO Exhibits button. This brings you to the ORE list of all the Dead Letter Office exhibits.

DLO Exhibits

Ottawa Dead Letter Office Handstamps 1872 to 1950
Gary W. Steele

This five-frame exhibit shows the evolution of the handstamps - small and large circular, oval, and rectangular - used by the Ottawa Dead Letter Office from 1872 to 1950.

Ottawa Dead Letter Office Handstamps 1872 to 1898 Decentralization
Gary W. Steele

With Confederation in 1867, a new Post Office Department was created, but Dead Letter Office (DLO) handstamps were not produced until the early 1870s. Initially, only one office was set up. It was in Ottawa. On 1 July 1898, the DLO was decentralized. Branches were opened across Canada. This exhibit shows the evolution of Ottawa Dead Letter Office (DLO) handstamps from 1872 up to the decentralization on 1 July 1898.

Canadian Dead Letter Office Reorganization Handstamps
Gary W. Steele

This exhibit shows the new style rectangle Dead Letter Office handstamps due to a major Post Office reorganization in 1948. Onward, all mail directed to several Dead Letter Offices was to be sent only to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver depending upon the point of origin and destination. Mail containing valuables that could not be redirected and mail suspected of being illegal or of a fraudulent nature would be forwarded to the Dead Letter Office in Ottawa.

Dead Letter Office Wax Seals & Boxed Registration Handstamps
Gary W. Steele

This exhibit studies the Dead Letter Office (DLO) Wax Seals and Boxed Registration handstamps used only on registered Canadian DLO return envelopes. The exhibit includes several previously unknown, unreported, earliest and latest reported dates.

The Victoria Post Office and Undeliverable Mail 1874 - 1925
Brian C. Plain

This exhibit shows the handling of undelivered mail by the Victoria post office from 1874 to the discontinuance of the service in the mid-1920s. A variety of posted items, date stamps and regulatory markings illustrate the activity of this office.