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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

 

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18 Jun 2014
05:34:56pm
Can anyone explain the usage of these bank tags? Thanks!

They all have postage on one side


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18 Jun 2014
06:13:44pm
re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

These were used to send bags of cash to the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank. Paper money has a life cycle. Freshly printed paper money is sent from the Federal Reserve Bank to banks for use. Banks also cull torn/damaged bills from circulation and send them back to the Federal Reserve for disposal (getting credit in new bills to come in later shipments of course).

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18 Jun 2014
07:36:03pm
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Similar tags were used to transfer cash between banks and customers. Here are images of a tag that carried money for the "Chinese Payroll" at Woodfibre, BC, a small pulp mill town on Howe Sound north of Vancouver. It was posted by the Bank of Nova Scotia in Vancouver.

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This tag is proving to be difficult to learn about. I have determined that there were 144 Chinese workers at Woodfibre in 1944. Apparently, they were hired to replace Japanese workers who, with their families, had been interned in BC's interior in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Not only does the tag have an interesting history, but it's franked with stamps from my favourite Canadian set of stamps, the 1942-43 "War Issue".

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18 Jun 2014
08:26:41pm
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Fascinating, same thing in Canada! Thanks for the info, fellas! Very cool. I learn something every day. That's one of the neat things about philately - all the historical tidbits that we dig up.

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20 Jun 2014
04:01:33am
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I did not know that Canada also interned some of it's citizens based on their last names as the USA had done.
I guess fear and panic existed north of the border too.

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20 Jun 2014
12:05:11pm
re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

The situations were pretty much the same in both Canada and the U.S. Before the war, "Japantown" thrived in the area just west of East Hastings Street in Vancouver, next door to Chinatown. Japanese market gardens and fishing fleets supplied Vancouver with vegetables and seafood; some 700 Japanese were employed in coastal pulp and paper mills, living with their families in segregated communities. Within two months of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they were arrested and dispersed through the interior of British Columbia, and in some cases had to build their new homes from scratch. Eventually, after their internment in 1942, some Japanese-Canadian men were allowed to join the Royal Canadian Army and saw action in Europe. Participation in Canada's wars was not new for Japanese-Canadians; many fought for Canada in the First World War. Below is a privately produced maximum card showing the memorial in Stanley Park commemorating Japanese-Canadian participation in battles in Europe in the First World War.

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Today, while Chinatown remains a small but viable community near downtown Vancouver, Japantown exists only as a few buildings with a Japanese architectural features.

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22 Jun 2014
10:56:05am
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I love the Destroyer on Parcel tag, can't imagine it's very common. I love parcel tags bu they're kind of a pain to house.

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22 Jun 2014
11:40:01am
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Very cool!

As to housing - how about a clear Vario page - maybe 3 or 4 lines per sheet size? You could see both sides that way.

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22 Jun 2014
03:01:10pm
re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Further to earlier discussion about Japanese-Canadians, here's an interesting postcard in my collection. It shows a Japanese torii gate built on East Hasting's Street by Vancouver's Japanese community on the occasion of the 1912 visit of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Anyone would be hard pressed to say that the Vancouver's Japanese-Canadians weren't displaying a good deal of patriotism and support for the monarchy.

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Here's a scan of the postcard's message:

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At the time of the duke's visit, he was Governor General of Canada. (The "G.G." is the reigning monarch's official representative in Canada). In the First World War, the Duchess, Princess Patricia, lent her name and support to the raising of a new Canadian army regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the PPCLI, which most recently was in action in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2010. The "Princess Pats" suffered 48 KIAs in Afghanistan, including four who were killed when an American pilot mistakenly bombed their position in a training exercise.

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23 Jun 2014
03:55:24am
re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Deaths and injuries due to "friendly fire" are always regrettable and seem to be such a waste, however they do happen sometimes due to negligence, inattention and/or malfunction.

During the Vietnam Unpleasentness seven US Coast Guardsmen died due to various causes, the saddest and most avoidable occurred on a night in August, 1966, when a USAF F-105 on a night patrol discovered a small vessel that was lying close in to the shoreline with no lights showing. Assuming that it was a junk smuggling men and supplies south and not having any warning of a friendly cutter lying in wait in that area for just that type of smuggler, the pilot raked the vessel setting some fuel barrels afire. The crew franticly tried to use the radio to stop the shooting and managed to cast the drums of burning fuel overboard before the aircraft turned about and made a second strafing run, killing the Skipper, the helmsman and injuring three other crewmen as well as a journalist and a Vietnamese interpreter

The 82' CGC Point Welcome was beached and the survivors went into the water for safety. It was later recovered and repaIred, serving till the early 1970s. But that was on of the dangers men faced.

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23 Jun 2014
10:17:45am
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I learn so much from reading your posts, Charlie. You're a jewel. When are you coming back to Florida?

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23 Jun 2014
10:52:47am
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Stallzer said, "I love the Destroyer on Parcel tag, can't imagine it's very common."

It's certainly one of my favourite Canadian stamps. Wish I could afford a mint one! My tag isn't unique, but such usage is probably hard to find. I wasn't even looking for it when I noticed it in a dealer's offerings at VANPEX 2013. It wasn't cheap, but it fit well into my collecting interests, and gave me the idea for my Woodfibre web page (which is still a work in progress).

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23 Jun 2014
11:36:26am
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Isn't it just the BEST feeling when you stumble across a find like that? Congrats on your find!

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18 Jun 2014
05:34:56pm

Can anyone explain the usage of these bank tags? Thanks!

They all have postage on one side


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18 Jun 2014
06:13:44pm

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

These were used to send bags of cash to the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank. Paper money has a life cycle. Freshly printed paper money is sent from the Federal Reserve Bank to banks for use. Banks also cull torn/damaged bills from circulation and send them back to the Federal Reserve for disposal (getting credit in new bills to come in later shipments of course).

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18 Jun 2014
07:36:03pm

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Similar tags were used to transfer cash between banks and customers. Here are images of a tag that carried money for the "Chinese Payroll" at Woodfibre, BC, a small pulp mill town on Howe Sound north of Vancouver. It was posted by the Bank of Nova Scotia in Vancouver.

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This tag is proving to be difficult to learn about. I have determined that there were 144 Chinese workers at Woodfibre in 1944. Apparently, they were hired to replace Japanese workers who, with their families, had been interned in BC's interior in the wake of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Not only does the tag have an interesting history, but it's franked with stamps from my favourite Canadian set of stamps, the 1942-43 "War Issue".

Bob

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18 Jun 2014
08:26:41pm

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Fascinating, same thing in Canada! Thanks for the info, fellas! Very cool. I learn something every day. That's one of the neat things about philately - all the historical tidbits that we dig up.

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
20 Jun 2014
04:01:33am

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

I did not know that Canada also interned some of it's citizens based on their last names as the USA had done.
I guess fear and panic existed north of the border too.

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20 Jun 2014
12:05:11pm

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

The situations were pretty much the same in both Canada and the U.S. Before the war, "Japantown" thrived in the area just west of East Hastings Street in Vancouver, next door to Chinatown. Japanese market gardens and fishing fleets supplied Vancouver with vegetables and seafood; some 700 Japanese were employed in coastal pulp and paper mills, living with their families in segregated communities. Within two months of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they were arrested and dispersed through the interior of British Columbia, and in some cases had to build their new homes from scratch. Eventually, after their internment in 1942, some Japanese-Canadian men were allowed to join the Royal Canadian Army and saw action in Europe. Participation in Canada's wars was not new for Japanese-Canadians; many fought for Canada in the First World War. Below is a privately produced maximum card showing the memorial in Stanley Park commemorating Japanese-Canadian participation in battles in Europe in the First World War.

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Today, while Chinatown remains a small but viable community near downtown Vancouver, Japantown exists only as a few buildings with a Japanese architectural features.

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22 Jun 2014
10:56:05am

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

I love the Destroyer on Parcel tag, can't imagine it's very common. I love parcel tags bu they're kind of a pain to house.

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22 Jun 2014
11:40:01am

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Very cool!

As to housing - how about a clear Vario page - maybe 3 or 4 lines per sheet size? You could see both sides that way.

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22 Jun 2014
03:01:10pm

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Further to earlier discussion about Japanese-Canadians, here's an interesting postcard in my collection. It shows a Japanese torii gate built on East Hasting's Street by Vancouver's Japanese community on the occasion of the 1912 visit of the Duke and Duchess of Connaught. Anyone would be hard pressed to say that the Vancouver's Japanese-Canadians weren't displaying a good deal of patriotism and support for the monarchy.

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Here's a scan of the postcard's message:

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At the time of the duke's visit, he was Governor General of Canada. (The "G.G." is the reigning monarch's official representative in Canada). In the First World War, the Duchess, Princess Patricia, lent her name and support to the raising of a new Canadian army regiment, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, the PPCLI, which most recently was in action in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2010. The "Princess Pats" suffered 48 KIAs in Afghanistan, including four who were killed when an American pilot mistakenly bombed their position in a training exercise.

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23 Jun 2014
03:55:24am

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Deaths and injuries due to "friendly fire" are always regrettable and seem to be such a waste, however they do happen sometimes due to negligence, inattention and/or malfunction.

During the Vietnam Unpleasentness seven US Coast Guardsmen died due to various causes, the saddest and most avoidable occurred on a night in August, 1966, when a USAF F-105 on a night patrol discovered a small vessel that was lying close in to the shoreline with no lights showing. Assuming that it was a junk smuggling men and supplies south and not having any warning of a friendly cutter lying in wait in that area for just that type of smuggler, the pilot raked the vessel setting some fuel barrels afire. The crew franticly tried to use the radio to stop the shooting and managed to cast the drums of burning fuel overboard before the aircraft turned about and made a second strafing run, killing the Skipper, the helmsman and injuring three other crewmen as well as a journalist and a Vietnamese interpreter

The 82' CGC Point Welcome was beached and the survivors went into the water for safety. It was later recovered and repaIred, serving till the early 1970s. But that was on of the dangers men faced.

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23 Jun 2014
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I learn so much from reading your posts, Charlie. You're a jewel. When are you coming back to Florida?

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23 Jun 2014
10:52:47am

re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Stallzer said, "I love the Destroyer on Parcel tag, can't imagine it's very common."

It's certainly one of my favourite Canadian stamps. Wish I could afford a mint one! My tag isn't unique, but such usage is probably hard to find. I wasn't even looking for it when I noticed it in a dealer's offerings at VANPEX 2013. It wasn't cheap, but it fit well into my collecting interests, and gave me the idea for my Woodfibre web page (which is still a work in progress).

Bob

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23 Jun 2014
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re: Information about these bank tags requested - thanks!

Isn't it just the BEST feeling when you stumble across a find like that? Congrats on your find!

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