These gates guard the eight largest Chinatowns in Canada and this stamp shows the one in Mississauga, a city just west of Toronto. It was built in 1987 using only timber and no nails — only wooden studs — based on traditional Chinese building techniques. It is 43 feet tall. The stamp was designed by Albert Ng for the 2013 Gates of Chinatown series. The other gates are in Victoria, Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.
For Sunday Stamps - the colour RED
2 comments:
This is a lovely stamp. I think I have seen more Canadian Chinatown gates on stamps. And, many years ago, I even saw one in person: Montreal.
Here you can see my red stamps.
Fascinating constructions and a great theme for a stamp set especially as Canada has so many of them to show and delight.
My Red theme is here
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