The venerable Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the country’s oldest continuously operating national public broadcasting network, once had a stamp club. Established 88 years ago, in November 1936, the CBC includes distinct English-and French-language service units known as CBC and Radio-Canada, respectively, reflecting Canada’s official languages. Canadian officials based their Crown corporation on the British model, in which that government had recently reformed a private company into a statutory cor-poration to create the British Broadcasting Corporation. Today, CBC and Radio-Canada also offer their programming ineight Indigenous languages (Dehcho Dene Yati, Chipewyan, Eastern Cree, Gwich’in, Inuktitut, Inuvialuktun, Sahtu Got’ine Godi and Tlicho) plus five international languages (Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Punjabi and Tagalog) through Radio Canada International. Continue reading →
The CBC Stamp Club partnered with Trans-Canada Airlines (now Air Canada) to produce first-day covers featuring four stamps issued in 1951, in conjunction with CAPEX, to commemorate the centenary of Canadian postage stamps.
