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In Defence of the Border – Canadian Military Mails 1667-1885 examines the period’s evolution of military mail in Canada. France, Great Britain, and the United States influenced both the borders, and hence the postal system of Canada. The military mails were handled by favour, military courier and through an emerging official postal system. Canada’s development was largely influenced by military actions and the important events portrayed in the presentation demonstrate both the evolution of the postal system and the development of Canada as a nation.

A besieged but still upbeat Major General Benedict Arnold, La Chine May 24, 1776, Occupied Montréal. Following Arnold and Montgomery’s ill fated New Years Eve 1775 attack on Québec the American assault on Canada withdrew to Montréal, before being forced south by Burgoyne shortly thereafter.

About David

• Vincent Graves Green Philatelic Research Foundation
  • Director
  • Member of expertisation committee from 2010
• Postal History Society of Canada
  • President 2018 – 2022
  • Secretary/Treasurer 2016 – 2022
  • Co-Founder & organiser of the PHSC Symposium National Stamp Show 2017
  • Guest speak PHSC “Under the Covers”
• Exhibitor
  • Only Canadian recipient of an International Gold medal for Canadian Postal History exhibiting In Defence of the Border – Canadian Military Mails 1667-1885, New York 2016 and London 2020
  • Recipient of the Grand Prix National at CAPEX 2022 for single frame Canadian Mails and Dispatches of the War of 1812
  • Recipient of the National Grand Award at the RPSC Royal 2008, ORAPEX 2009, Filex 2015, BNAPEX 2024
• Philatelic Collecting Interests
  • Primary interest is early Canadian military mails
  • Collected and researched Small Queens of Canada
  • Collect and research Early Upper Canada, and Halton County
• General Interests
  • Canadian Military history. While my main exhibiting focus has been pre 1885 material I have had a better than casual interest in all periods of Canadian military history.
  • Visited many Canadian and allied European sites of the World Wars
• Presenter
  • Presented varied formats of In Defence of the Border – Canadian Military mails 1667-1885 in excess of a dozen times
  • Presented on the Postal History, and Development of Halton County to varied to varied local historical societies

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