PREFACE.
The principal object of this little work is the dissemination of information in regard to the Canadian Postal Service. It is published with the kind permission of the Postmaster General, and it is hoped will be useful to the public as well as conducive to the interests of the Post Office.
The short and imperfect sketch of the progress of the post office in Canada, which has been compiled from authentic sources, will be found interesting. It extends over a period of one hundred years, and serves to mark a rapidity of improvement which, in a country purely agricultural, has seldom been surpassed.
As the regulations of the post office are subject to constant change, it is proposed to issue new editions of the Canadian Postal Guide, revised and corrected to the latest date, half-yearly, or yearly, as circumstances may appear to require.
Toronto, January, 1863.
CONTENTS.
| Page | |
| A Few Facts about the Post Office in Canada | 9 |
| Chief Officers of the Department at Quebec | 15 |
| Post Office Inspectors | 15 |
| Postal Divisions | 16 |
| RULES AND REGULATIONS: | |
| Officers | 17 |
| Post Office | 17 |
| Office Hours | 18 |
| Mails | 18 |
| Rates of Postage on Letters | 19 |
| Soldiers' and Seamen's Letters | 20 |
| Rates of Postage on Newspapers | 21 |
| Periodical Publications | 24 |
| Book Post | 25 |
| Printed Papers, Prices Current, Hand Bills, &c. | 26 |
| Printed Votes and Proceedings of the Imperial Parliament | |
| and Colonial Legislatures | 27 |
| Parcel Post | 27 |
| Franking and Free Letters | 28 |
| Abating and Refunding Postage | 28 |
| Undelivered and Dead Letters | 29 |
| Registration | 30 |
| Postage Stamps | 30 |
| Money Orders | 31 |
| General Regulations | 33 |
| Suggestions to the Public | 34 |
| Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies and Foreign | |
| Countries, by Canadian Ocean Steamers | 36 |
| Rates of Postage from Canada to British Colonies, &c., by | |
| Cunard Steamers | 39 |
| Do. do. do. by the United States | 40 |