Two blue coloured Canadian postage stamps of Canadian Sir Wilfred Grenfell glued onto a small white piece of paper, one above the other; the first stamp from the top features Grenfell in a heavy winter jacket while standing in a boat looking at another masted sailing boat in the ocean near Newfound…
Two blue coloured Canadian postage stamps of Canadian Sir Wilfred Grenfell glued onto a small white piece of paper, one above the other; the first stamp from the top features Grenfell in a heavy winter jacket while standing in a boat looking at another masted sailing boat in the ocean near Newfoundland; behind the boat are two icebergs; behind Grenfell and hovering in the sky is a mark of the cross; the second stamp also features Grenfell in a heavy winter jacket bside a ships wheel in Newfoundland; behind him is the ocean and a large iceberg.
Number Of Parts
1
Provenance
Belonged to the donor, Dr. Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, a hematologist and historian who held the Hannah Chair of the History of Medicine at Queen's University from1988 to 2017.
On the front of the first stamp from the top: "NEWFOUNDLAND // POSTAGE // 5 [cent symbol] // 1865 SIR WILFRED GRENFELL 1940 // FOUNDER OF GRENFELL MISSION // FIVE CENTS // CANADIAN BANK NOTE CO."; on the front of the second stamp: "SIR WILFRED GRENFELL // 5 // CANADA // POSTES POSTAGE"
This website shows the name of the publisher and location in which the stamps were made. It also shows that the stamps were published in 1965.
The website provides an interesting biographical sketch of Sir Wilfred Grenfell. Sir Wilfred Grenfell was a "British sailor, author and medical missionary who founded a series of hospitals, nursing stations and orphanages along the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts."