Indigenous

Mbukushu from South West Africa (Namibia)

Xhosa from Transkei (South Africa)

Mohawk leader from Canada

some native women for Sunday Stamps

conical hats

The iconic conical hats, worn by school girls in Ho Chi Minh City are known as non la. 
A perfect protection from the sun and rain.

kiss the cod

fisherman from Trinity Bay NFLD
photo taken almost 50 years ago of three fishermen

Sunday Stamps - A

The front of the stamp booklet and the First Day Cover for Black History Month 2019

Stamp illustrated by Ron Dollecamp and designed by Andrew Perro

Albert Jackson is shown here wearing a circa 1890 uniform as he delivers mail on his route.

He is thought to have been the first Black letter carrier in Canada in 1882. Born into slavery in the US, he was brought to Canada via the Underground Railroad as an infant.  His position as a letter carrier was threatened when his [white] co-workers refused to train him and he was pushed into a porter's position.. When word spread about the way he was treated, political pressure, especially from the Black community, and intervention from the Prime Minister had him reinstated as a carrier delivering his route in Harbord Village, where a laneway has been named in his honour.

for the letter A - Albert Jackson

Sunday Stamps C

2014, Czech Republic, My Own Stamps 

Z = international rate

designers:  Jaroslav and  Michal Weigel

Jara Cimrman ... creator of the world's first round stamp 

according to Ceska Post:

As a teacher in the Galician village of Nipple, Jara Cimrman met a local postmaster's daughter, Erika, T. who soon became his girlfriend and also the recorder of his ideas and principles.  We know from Erika T's records that Jara Cimrman presented to the Austrian Imperial and Royal Post Office his plan of using field artillery for delivery of express mail.  This innovative plan had the benefit of delivery within seconds to a given address.  The disadvantage was that it also reduced the number of addresses.  The plan was cancelled at the request of the Galician people. Inspired by the round postmark, Cimrman also designed a round postage stamp for these express consignments.

This is obviously not true as Jara Cimrman is a fictional character who spent his life in tireless pursuit of many disciplines. He is described as a "universal genius, inventor, sportsman, philosopher, criminologist, writer and philosopher". He first made an appearance on a radio show in 1966 and  became an immensely popular Czech national hero.

His wikipedia page (which records some of his exploits) is here

for the letter C - Czech Republic, Cimrman

Sunday Stamps II - A

2018, Canada, Olympic
Female Athletes

Clara Hughes is the most decorated female Canadian Olympian and competed in both Summer (cycling) - Atlanta ('96), Sydney ('00) Salt Lake City ('02) London ('12) and Winter Games (long-track speed skating) - Salt Lake City ('02), Turin ('06) and Vancouver ('10)

Sonja Gaudet was the first wheelchair curler to win multiple Paralympic gold medals at Turin ('06), Vancouver ('10) and Sochi ('14)

Nancy Green won gold and silver at downhill skiing in Grenoble ('68) and was named Canadian female athlete of the century in 1999.

Shirley and Sharon Firth were twins who are the only female Canadian (cross country) skiers who competed in four consecutive Olympics (Sapporo ('72), Innsbruck ('76), Lake Placid ('80) and Sarajevo ('84)

for our new round of stamps by alphabet
A - athletes

Sunday Stamps II - 41

France
1981 EUROPA stamp for folklore and feasts
designed and engraved by Jean Delpech

for folk costumes

Sunday Stamps II - 26

issued 1973,
featuring instruments and musicians for the series of Musical Instruments of Central and West Africa

book seller

received 2015, (from Postcrosser Femke, studying in Egypt)
Cairo (1925)

manned wheelbarrow

received 2014
Manned wheelbarrow (1875)

sandy beach

sent Jul 22, 1910 Norfolk, Virginia to Paris, Ontario

Out for a time 
while enjoying the sun and we are thinking of you.
Uncle Sam and Aunt Alice

No-one here is going to get sunburnt shoulders.

There are plenty of people wearing black, which seems an odd choice for a hot summer's day!

The Ocean View Resort on Chesapeake Bay is about eight miles from the city. It had a good hotel, fine bathing and fishing, and many thousands frequented it between May and September. Little open car trains ran back and forth every hour from the city during the season.

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Quints

These five sisters, born during the Depression, were the first quintuplets to survive infancy. The girls were taken from their poor French Canadian family by the government who feared exploitation but then exploited them anyway. They soon became a huge tourist attraction and thousands of people travelled to the Northern Ontario town of Callander to see them playing through a one way screen at the hospital across the road from their family home. Meticulous records were kept of their progress as they were studied, tested and examined over the nine years they lived in the hospital. Although they themselves had limited exposure to the outside world, the girls were featured on anything and everything that could have their image plastered on it. Only two of the Dionne sisters - Annette and Cécile - are still living and will be 80 years old on May 28th.

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