Recherche dans la collection - Frank Staff collection [philatelic material, graphic material]

Many of the postal covers in this collection were acquired from the late Senator James Calder, a Canadian philatelist, writer, and postal historian. The rest of the collection was accumulated by Frank Staff when be was posted in Ottawa during World War II., The 90 unusual and rare stampless postal covers, 1788-1853, on album pages (also including the five photographs) were on permanent loan to the National Postal Museum by Mr. Staff with the agreement that upon his death ownership would be transferred to the Museum. The material was transferred from the Postal Museum to the Canadian Postal Archives in 1988. With Mr. Staff's passing in 1994, ownership was transferred to the National Archives of Canada.