This cover comes from St. Louis Saskatchewan and features the St. Louis Ghost Train. The cancel is in a series of cancels produced by Canada Post for the release of the Haunted Canada Stamps. In addition to the hand cancel, it was also machine cancelled. The postmark is dated June 30, 2014
Saskatchewan's St. Louis Ghost Train: Believers say a ghostly glowing light is a CNR (Canadian National Rail) conductor who lost his head to a passing train in the 1920s (From Canada Post)
I was also hoping to get a copy of their other pictorial cancel with the bison and the bridge, but it is no longer available. Here is what it would have looked like:
Have you heard how long the Haunted cancels will be in use for?
ReplyDeletenope, but I'm sure that they'lll be used indefinitely. The main post office in Edmonton still has the Chinatown Gates cancel and still uses it if you ask them
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