Jacques Cartier 1534-1984


Jacques Cartier 1534-1984
Added by Alain Martineau
General Description : To commemorate the 450th anniversary of his first voyage to Canada.
acques Cartier (1491 – September 1, 1557) was a French explorer of Breton origin who claimed what is now Canada for France. He was the first European to describe and map the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River, which he named "The Country of Canadas", after the Iroquois names for the two big settlements he saw at Stadacona (Quebec City) and at Hochelaga (Montreal Island).
Face value 32 Cents
Catalog code (Michel) CA 905
Catalog code (Scott) CA 1011
Catalog code Yvert et Tellier CA 869 Stanley Gibbons CA 1118
Series Explorers, Personalities, famous Canadians
Stamp colour multicolor
Stamp use Commemorative stamp
Print run 20.145.000
Issue date 20/04/1984
Designer Yves Paquin
Paper type medium fluorescent with two fluorescent bands (GT2)
Print technique recess
Printed by Imprimerie Des Timbres-Poste, Paris
Perforation comb 13
Height 26.00 mm
Width 40.00 mm
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