More Challenging Used Stamp Sets For Your Stamp Collection

Postally used millennium stamps from yet another country are also very difficult to collect - the Canada commemorative stamps that were issued in 1999 and 2000.

In 1999 Canada Post released three small souvenir sheets or miniature sheets that each contained one stamp. One stamp celebrates the past, one the present, and the third is a magnificent holographic image of a dove in flight.

This was followed (in 1999 and 2000) by 17 souvenir sheets or mini sheets that each contained four stamps, for a total of 68 stamps, for a grand total of 71 Canadian millennium stamps.

Each of the 17 souvenir sheets features a different theme relevant to Canada and Canadians.

Used copies of any of these stamps (much less a complete set) are very difficult to find, as they were not often used on mail. In fact, the first three souvenir sheets were only issued as a "millennium keepsake" contained in a silver-colored box along with a coin. And it seems that most Canadians took the keepsake concept literally - keeping these stamps rather than using them in the mail.