Number by catalogue:  Yvert: C 2190 (II)   Scott: 2139a  

Perforation: No  

Subject:

2 the same series of stamps contained canadian flag and views of Country: New Glasgow on Prince Edward Island, bridge from Bouctouche, Wind farm from Pincher Creek, Lower Fort Garry in Manitoba and Dogsled from Yukon territory

Size (of sheet, booklet) mm: 107x43

Topics: Wind turbines

Number by catalogue:  Yvert: 2192   Scott: 2137  

Perforation: No  

Subject:

51 cents. Canadian flag and Wind turbines of Pincher Creek*

Additional:

*In 1868 a group of Montana prospectors camped along a creek north of the border. They left behind a pair of pincers, tools essential for shoeing horses, in the creek when they rode out for the Kootenay gold fields.
In 1874 the Northwest Mounted Police marched west from Manitoba to bring peace to Western Canada. On their patrols they discovered the rusting pincers in the creek,and hence forth it became known as Pincher Creek.
Four years later, the Mounties established a large horse ranch at Pincher Creek to raise mounts for their patrols.The good grass attracted other ranchers and the police detachment grew into a settlement named Pincher Creek. In 1906 the settlement was incorporated as a Town.
Pincher Creek, nestled against the Rockies in Southwestern Alberta, enjoys the warm Chinook winds that compress and warm as they rush down the eastern slopes. This wind regime has been mapped to record areas where wind-plants can be most economically sited.
This non-polluting source of renewable energy is fed into the provincial electrical grid that powers Southern Alberta industries and residences.
Calgary's public transit system purchases this green energy for the C-Trains that speed transit riders across the city. Enmax, a major electrical utility company also purchases green power, as do towns and municipalities that are supplied by the Alberta grid.

The information has been taken from Pincher Creek oficial site

Topics: Wind turbines