CANADA UNLISTED OFFICIAL SEAL, METER STAMP on card BURNED in TERRORIST ATTACK?!

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Country

Canada

Catalog Number

OX1

Stamp Format

Single

Year of Issue

1976

Item Description

CANADA: Post Card DAMAGED IN LETTERBOX FIRE, possible Terrorism, card is water height survey card, franked with Return Postage Prepaid Meter Stamp (INTERNATIONAL MSC #EA6a - see scan for close up), mailed in PORT ALBERT BRITISH COLUMBIA, this part of the survey was for NEARBY SPROAT LAKE, MUST HAVE BEEN PLACED IN A BOX THAT WAS ATTACKED WITH FIRE, UNUSUAL OFFICIAL SEAL ADDED WITH MS VANDALISM - FIRE IN BOX, VF STRIKE OF PORT ALBERT POSTMASTER MARKING (see scan) WHICH JUST TIES LABEL, ADDR VANCOUVER B.C, INFORMATION IS SURPRISING INTACT, BURNED ON EDGE, THIS WAS THE TIME OF THE APPROACHING OLYMPICS AND THERE ARE ARTICLES ON-LINE ABOUT TERRORISM AND FEARS OF TERRORISM IN THE UPCOMING MONTHS DURING THE PREPARATIONS FOR THIS EVENT (THE PREVIOUS SUMMER OLYMPICS WERE THE INFAMOUS MUNICH OLYMPICS), FINE-VF!

The irony of it being a "water" card but damaged by "fire" cannot be overlooked.

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