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Canada

Lunar New Year Cycle

15 January 2021

As spectacular as the celebration itself, Canada Post issued a special set of Lunar New Year stamps, ushering in the Year of the Ox with a retrospective collection of all 24 colourful stamp designs from 2009 - 2020.

The culmination of more than a decade of award-winning stamps, this retrospective brings together in a single issue all the stamps from Canada Post's most recent Lunar New Year series.

Sharing standardized elements, such as size, palette, perforations and special effects, the stamps feature creative portrayals of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, as imagined by the many designers who contributed to the series.

The Lunar New Year cycle showcased all of the animals in the Chinese zodiac: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig.