Alberta Centennial Stamp

Canada Post invited all Canadians to join Alberta's centennial festivities with a new Canadian postage stamp celebrating the province's 100th anniversary. The domestic-rate (50-cent) stamp was issued on July 21, 2005.

The stamp uses 'tallpec' photos by Alberta artist  Harry Palmer.  Tallpecs showcase landscape photos where the image is squeezed to give it a hyper-vertical appearance. The Alberta stamp features pictures of a natural gas plant near Fort Saskatchewan, the Calgary skyline and Mount Lawrence Grassi looming over a CPR freight train.

The back of the Alberta sheet displays four different archival photos: Calgary Stampede (undated photo); Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, 1963; Lake Minnewanka (Devil's Lake), Banff, ca. 1887- 1889; Snowdon Oil Refinery, Calgary, ca. 1912.

Available for sale at post offices across the country on July 21, 2005, the stamp measures 32 mm x 48 mm, and will be sold in a sheet of 8 stamps.

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