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For broadcast on CBS Radio Network stations February 26-27, 2005:

Honouring A Jazz Living Legend

The Stamp Collecting Report, I'm Lloyd de Vries. 

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Canada this year will honour jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, whose 80th birthday is in August. 
It's hoped he'll participate in the ceremony.

Canada has different rules than the U-S about putting living people on stamps, but up until 
now, it's done it as part of a larger picture -- Canadian astronauts to honour its space 
program, for example.

The Peterson stamp will be the first time a living person has been honoured on a Canadian 
stamp for an individual body of work. A prominent Canadian collector tells me a stamp for 
Ellen Fairclough, Canada's first woman cabinet minister and a former postmaster general, had 
also been planned for this year, on her hundredth birthday....but she passed away a few 
months ago. Her stamp, however, will still come out in June.

A postal spokesman says he's convinced that honouring outstanding Canadians who are still 
with us for a lifetime of achievement is something the public will support.

And that's Stamp Collecting this week. 

I'm Lloyd de Vries, CBS News. 

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