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Mail service in early colonial British North America was a sporadic, expensive event. Post offices were rare in the rural communities; the larger communities received mail deliveries on irregular schedules and pioneers travelled many miles to pick up their letters. “As late as 1835, for example, the settlers at Barrie, on Lake Simcoe, had to travel forty miles to the nearest post-office, at Newmarket,” said Marionopolis College's Quebec History Encyclopedia in “History of the Postal System of Canada.”

Early Mail Service Expensive and Inefficient

At a cost of nine pence to send a single sheet of paper, postage was expensive, and the price to mail a second page was outrageous at “four times as great,” noted the Quebec History Encyclopedia. There were no stamps, and the carrier could claim the fee had not been paid. The letters would not be delivered. The system was highly unsatisfactory. It was time for change.

In 1850, the British transferred operation of postal affairs to the United Province of Canada. Instituting the Post Office Act, the government named James Morris as Canada’s first Postmaster General on February 22, 1851. The right man for the challenge, Morris took on the position with great interest and enthusiasm.