(2024-01-26) Beeton, ON
This stamp cancel is super cute! I love that the outer circle has been dashed to represent the path of the two little bees.
BEETON PO
60 MAIN ST W
BEETON ON, L0G 1A0
An earlier version of this pictorial cancel is dated 2002-09-23, though this version was released in 2016 I believe.
Some fun facts about Beeton:
> the town name was changed to Beeton in 1874 or 1878, perhaps after David Allanson Jones, who was both a postmaster and "Bee King of Canada"
> the "Bee King of Canada" was Canada's first commercial beekeeper and, in 1880, was producing 70,000 lbs of honey from 400 colonies. He had grown to 1,000 colonies by 1890.
Read more!
> Alan Skeoch, “JONES, DAVID ALLANSON,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 13, 2024, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/jones_david_allanson_13E.html.
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