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Index to the RPO Newsletter of the Canadian R.P.O. Study Group (19.7 MB)
William G. Robinson

This index of the R.P.O. newsletter covers Vol. 1, No. 1, (Nov. 1973) to Vol. 27, No. 6 (August 1999).

R.P.O. Newsletter Information Finder (0.4 MB)
Version 2 released on 9 May 2022.
Compiled by Richard Cromwell and Brian Stalker. Edited by Ross Gray.

This index of the R.P.O. newsletter covers Vol 28, No. 1, (Sept. 1999) to Vol 49, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2021) or pages 1538 to 2807. The index includes the following lists:

1. “Regular” (i.e. not clerk) date-stamps and hand-stamps that feature in Hammer Studies and in historical summary articles
2. Mail clerk hammers by surname and initials
3. Railway Company articles
4. Railway timetables
5. Picture Post Cards and photographs
6. Miscellaneous articles relating to the transport of mail and the Railway Mail Service
7. Link between page numbers and volume no. for those accessing newsletters via the BNAPS website

Canadian Railway Post Office Database
Richard Cromwell and Brian Stalker

An Excel spreadsheet maps Lionel F. Gillam’s list of railways with Ross Gray's list of Railway Post Offices. The spreadsheet includes the Gray and Lew Ludlow listing numbers for each RPO, the number of official and mail clerk hammers, the RPO mileage, the period of operation, and the year the railway began operating.

Introductory and explanatory notes are provided in a separate file.

Introductory notes (0.1 MB)
Excel spreadsheet (0.1 MB)

Newfoundland & Labrador Railway and Coastal Mail Steamer Database
Richard Cromwell and Brian Stalker

An Excel spreadsheet maps Brian Stalker’s list of Newfoundland & Labrador RPOs and TPOs with the list compiled by Lew Ludlow. The spreadsheet includes the Stalker and Ludlow listing numbers for each RPO and TPO, the number of official and mail clerk hammers, the RPO/TPO mileage, the period of operation, and the year that service began.

Introductory and explanatory notes are provided in a separate file.

Introductory notes (0.2 MB)
Excel spreadsheet (0.1 MB)

Railway Post Office (RPO) Postmarks of Canada on the 1898 Canadian 2¢ Imperial Penny Postage Issue
(The ‘Map Stamp’): A Cover Census and a Roster of Off-Cover Cancellations (5.5 MB)
Rick Friesen

About 250 Map Stamp covers postmarked with RPO hammer strikes are listed. The listing for each cover includes an illustration (if an image is available), RPO cancel identification, origin (if known), destination, and provenance. The census also updates the 1987 Lew Ludlow roster of RPO cancellations on off-cover Map stamps.