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Born on this Day - Hugh - 23-10-2025

Born today, on October 23 in Brantford, Ontario ... Lawren Stewart Harris (1885-1970) a Canadian artist and one of the founding members of the Group of Seven.

One of his landscape paintings, Bylot Island, was featured on one of the stamps in Canada's 1967 Centennial Series.

Stamp: Canada
Centennial Definitives - High Value
Bylot Island
Issued on December 9, 1969
15c, Dull purple, W2B Tagging
Sc. 463p

Cancel: CDS
Based on the S on the bottom strike, with what seems to be P.[Q.] and the last four letters DEON on the top one, I'm assuming this is from St. Gédéon, PQ ... written in capital letters without accents. Happy to be corrected. I can't find anything else that fits.

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