Second Canadian Military Postal History Anthology (2024).

BNAPS is pleased to announce the release of the Second Canadian Military Postal History Anthology, published by the BNAPS Canadian Military Mail Study Group; Mike Street, Editor/Compiler. October 2024, Spiral bound, 250+ pages, 8.5 ×11, colour. ISBN: 978-1-989280-46-1. Stock # B4h124-1. Price: C$57.00.

The first Canadian Military Postal History Anthology, published in 1991, was 250 pages in length. Interest in Canadian Military Mail has continued to be strong enough to result in a second 250 page Anthology. The 44 articles, written by 21 Authors, cover the period from 1897 to 1997.

There are several Boer War articles, more than a dozen from World War I, a larger number from World War II, plus a few from the Korean War and the post WWII Peace Keeping era.

Subjects include Commemorative covers for Boer War Nurses; Postage applied to WWI mail arriving in Canada from servicemen and women serving in France and Belgium; an explanation of WWII Blackout cancels originating in the United Kingdom; WWII Armed Forces Air Letter rates from India to Canada; and life on a Minesweeper during WWII. Other subjects include a photo of the Canadian Postal Corps Staff taken at Salisbury Base Camp in in England in 1915; photographs from the transit of the Czech Legion across Canada after World War I; and Mail to and From Royal Canadian Navy Personnel During World War II. The 1997 article concerns mail handling for Armed Forces personnel help-ing out during the devastating floods on the Red River near Winnipeg that year.