Canada Post Celebrates 2010 Winter Games, Milestones, Wildlife... and so Much More

OTTAWA, ONTARIO, May 19 (MARKET WIRE) --
Several exciting events and important anniversaries take place in 2010,
including the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Canada
Post today announced that it will join in the festivities by issuing
commemorative stamps marking these milestones and celebrating many other
subjects of interest.

"Next year will definitely be a banner year for marvelous stamp
subjects," said Robert Waite, Chairman of the Stamp Advisory Committee
and Senior vice president of Corporate Social Responsibility at Canada
Post. "There was a very diverse and impressive number of topics to choose
from, which made final selection challenging. But in the end I believe we
have created an outstanding stamp program, one which Canadians will
embrace with pride."

Four commemorative stamps for the 2010 Winter Games, for whom Canada Post
is an Official Supplier, follow the popular definitive stamps issued this
year in celebration of Canada's hosting this much anticipated athletic
and cultural event. In addition, Canada Post will release two stamps in
the popular Lunar New Year series, featuring the Year of the Tiger.

Three stamps will celebrate marine wildlife. The first two are part of a
joint issue with Sweden Post and will feature sea mammals indigenous to
the waters of Canada and Sweden, the Sea Otter and Harbour Porpoise. The
third is a $10 high-value, engraved definitive stamp depicting the Blue
Whale.

To welcome spring in 2010, the popular African Violet will grace two
commemorative domestic rate stamps.

Canada Post will also be commemorating the Girl Guides of Canada, Rotary
International in Canada, and the Canadian Navy, all of whom are
recognizing 100-year anniversaries. Another commemorative stamp will
honour the 400th anniversary of the community of Cupids, Newfoundland and
Labrador, the first English settlement in what would become Canada and
the second in North America.

Four stamps will showcase famous portraits of each of the Four Mohawk
Kings, often referred to as Four Indian Kings, to celebrate the
tricentennial of their diplomatic visit to Queen Anne in 1710. A stamp
honouring Nova Scotian-born war hero William Hall will be issued for
Black History Month in February. The Art Canada series continues with two
stamps featuring works by Prudence Heward of Montreal, who made a name
for herself as a figure painter. A stamp in memory of the many Home
Children sent from the poorest parts of Britain to the British colonies
also appears during the year.

Canada's natural beauty attracts travelers from around the globe. There
are many eye-catching and whimsical attractions to make our travels that
much more enjoyable and Canada Post will issue the second set of stamps
celebrating Roadside Attractions. These four domestic stamps will feature
some of our country's eccentric yet beloved landmarks: Davidson
Saskatchewan's gigantic Coffee Pot and Cup, Gladstone Manitoba's Happy
Rock, the Wawa Ontario Goose and Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan Quebec's Puffin.

Monarchs have always had their place in Canada Post's definitive stamp
program and this year is no different with a domestic rate stamp
featuring a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II taken during her 2005 Royal
visit to Canada. Five new definitive stamps will feature the Canadian
flag over historic mills: Old Stone Mill National Historic Site (Delta
ON), Keremeos Grist Mill (Keremeos BC), Cornell Mill (Stanbridge East
QC), Watson's Mill (Manotick ON), Riordon Grist Mill (Acadian Historic
Village Caraquet NB) and Canada Post will issue definitive stamps
featuring Wild Orchids.

To celebrate the Christmas season, Canada Post will issue one domestic
rate stamp depicting the Nativity and three stamps featuring Christmas
Ornaments.

Canada Post will also release three Commemorative Envelopes to celebrate
centennaries: St. Thomas University (New Brunswick), University of Regina
(Saskatchewan) and Le Devoir, an independant French newspaper in Quebec
first published in 1910.

2010 Canada Post Stamp Program

Definitives: Queen, Flag over Historic Mills, and Orchids

African Violets
Art Canada: Prudence Heward
Blue Whale: High Value Definitive ($10)
Canadian Navy (100th anniversary)
Christmas Ornaments and Christmas Nativity
Cupids (400th anniversary)
Girl Guides of Canada (100th anniversary)
Four Mohawk Kings
Home Children
Lunar New Year: Year of the Tiger
Marine Wildlife: Sea Otter and Harbour Porpoise
Roadside Attractions, part 2 of 3
Rotary International, in Canada (100th anniversary)
Vancouver 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games
William Hall in celebration of Black History Month

2010 Commemorative Envelopes
University of Regina (100th anniversary)
St. Thomas University (100th anniversary)
Le Devoir (100th anniversary)

Contacts:
Canada Post
Nicole Lemire
613-734-8888
nicole.lemire@canadapost.ca

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