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A cover franked with a 'Ad from the 1880 crown CC issue and 2d from the 1883 crown CA
issue paying the Vi Oz rate to Canada which had existed since 1886. The adhesives were cancelled by
a Hamilton No 1 duplex on 12th April 1888. There are no back stamps but a manuscript endorsement
notes delivery in Berlin, Ontario (modern Kitchener) on the 17th, a transit of 5 days. This was probably
too fast for it to have gone via Halifax as Pickford & Black vessels usually took 4 days over the sea
transit. Consequently, it went via New York, probably on a Quebec SS vessel and then through
Albany, Buffalo and Hamilton.

Another cover addressed to Canada (British Columbia), cancelled on 22nd February 1888,
which followed a similar route through New York. It paid 7d (2d registration and 5d for a 1 oz.
postage rate) with a mix of adhesives from the CC & CA sets. These obscure a printed straight line
“O.H.M.S. RETURNED DEAD LETTER”, a very scarce official Dead Letter envelope from the
Post Office. Like the cover above it was bagged through to Canada (there is no New York back
stamp); but went through Montreal on the 27th and arrived in New Westminster on 5th March.