Canada
can-19731017-s-008
page = 1

Stamp picture
Click here for higher resolution image		First day of issue: October 17, 1973
Width: 20 mm
Height: 25 mm
Perforation: Imperforate on bottom 12.00 x 12.50
Printing method: Engraved
Printer: Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited, Ottawa, Canada
Creative team:
     David Annesley, Designer
Catalog number:
     Unitrade 591vii
Location: Ice Hockey Volume VIII
Stamp ID = 6240

This stamp has one straight edge on the bottom and comes from the booklet can-19731017-v-011

From the Wikiepedia entry for Lester Pearson

The award for the best National Hockey League player as voted by members of the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) was known as the Lester B. Pearson Award from its inception in 1971 to 2010, when its name was changed to the Ted Lindsay Award to honour one of the union's pioneers.

Pearson attended Oxford University and while there he played hockey and was even on the Oxford team that won the very first Spengler Cup in 1923. From the Wikiepedia entry on the Oxford University Ice Hockey Club

With the introduction of the Rhodes Scholarship, the top Canadian players at the University of Oxford formed the Oxford Canadians, but after World War I, the University of Oxford team included Rhodes Scholars. Such players included Lester B. Pearson, Roland Michener, George F.G. Stanley, Clarence Campbell, Allan Blakeney, Ronald Martland and Otto Lang. Thus strengthened, it won the Spengler Cup in 1923, 1925 and 1931.



Stamp shows Lester Pearson
From Linn's "Stamp Issuing Entities Of The World" page

Canada (1851-)
Stamp-issuing status: active; Population: 29,123,194. An independent state within the British Commonwealth, occupying the northern part of North America.