tions are being made and many plans laid for the fitting
celebration of the sixtieth year of Her Majesty's reign. In Canada
... a proposal has been made and an agitation started for the issue
of a commemorative set of postage stamps by the Dominion
government.... It has been suggested that the new stamps be made a
trifle larger than the present ones, that a somewhat recent picture
of Her Majesty replace the present one, and that the figures and
colors be made more pronounced.... The agitation for a new issue is
quite pronounced and is by no means confined to philatelists. There
appears to be a general desire on the part of the people to have a
change.

At first the intention seems to have been to issue only a 3 cent stamp
but, alas, this original intention was stifled like many other good
ideas and the Departmental officials, giving their enthusiasm free rein,
finally decided on a set to consist of sixteen denominations ranging all
the way from 1/2c to five dollars. The announcement of the forthcoming
issue of the stamps aroused so much general interest that the series
formed the subject of a question in Parliament and according to the
_Canadian Hansard_--the official and verbatim record of Parliamentary
proceedings--the Postmaster-General (Mr. Mulock) replied to his
interrogator as follows:--

It is the intention of the Government to issue a set of Jubilee
postage stamps. Such stamps will be put into public use by being
delivered to postmasters throughout Canada for sale to the public
in the same manner as ordinary postage stamps are sold. There will
be a limit to the quantity to be issued. The denominations of
Jubilee stamps, and the total number of such Jubilee stamps to be
issued, are set forth in the following schedule:

_Number to be issued._ _Denomination._
150,000 1/2c stamps.
8,000,000 1c "
2,500,000 2c "
20,000,000 3c "
750,000 5c "
75,000 6c "
200,000 8c "
150,000 10c "
100,000 15c "
100,000 20c "
100,000 50c "