CANADA 1916 2c+1c Brown KGVI Admiral on cover FORT WILLIAM - HAMILTON JUL 8 1918

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 1916 (August change of color from Red to Brown) 2cT1c Brown KGVI Admiral posted from FORT WILLIAM.ONT. on JUL 8 1918 to H A Bruce & Co., Lead Merchants, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in good condition.

A good piece of century old (103 years old) postal history for any historian who are interested in the study of postal routes related to Ontario, Canada. 

Fort William was a city in Ontario, Canada, located on the Kaministiquia River, at its entrance to Lake Superior. It amalgamated with Port Arthur and the townships of Neebing and McIntyre to form the city of Thunder Bay in January 1970. Since then it has been the largest city in Northwestern Ontario. The city's Latin motto was A posse ad esse (From a possibility to an actuality), featured on its coat of arms designed in 1900 by town officials, "On one side of the shield stands an Indian dressed in the paint and feathers of the early days; on the other side is a French voyageur; the center contains an [grain] elevator, a steamship and a locomotive, while the beaver surmounts the whole

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, the town of Hamilton became the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe. Hamilton is home to the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, the Bruce Trail, McMaster University, Redeemer University College and Mohawk College.

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