Toronto Named and Numbered Post Offices
 First Branch Offices
EAST . . NORTH . . WEST

HISTORY
Opened: 1881 - 1886 The first sub-offices were based on their geographic location in the City of Toronto. They were later assigned other names: North - became Carleton Street
East - became Queen Street East
West - became Bleecker Street


1881
First hammers - intaglio duplexes N E and W in the canceller not in the dater hub. Only dates seen are 1881

East - Nov 2, 1881 [1]

North - May 23, xxxx [1]
Cover

West - Apr 22, 1881 [1]

1882-1886

Directional indications, East, West, North appear in dater hubs (spelled out) as well as canceller.

23mm Aug 1, 1883 [1]
Cover

Cover

23mm Dec 25, 1883 [1]
Cover

The following hammers are proof strikes of what appear to be CDS cancels. However, they have not been seen on cover. At first I suspected these may have been the dater portion of duplex hammers as illustrated above. On closer examination I noted that the proof strikes have dotes rather than dashes separating the location from BRANCH OFFICE. So - do these CDS cancels exist on cover?


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Information here is based primarily on the collections of W. Walton(named offices) and C. Livermore (numbered offices). Original material is copyrighted but may be used for personal purposes.

Updated information may be sent to: C. Livermore at:

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