According to the wikipedia page on Canada Post, Pedro da Silva was the first employee of what would eventually become our national mail service, originally hired in 1693 to deliver mail between Quebec City and Montreal.
This image is apparently a stamp that was issued to commemorate Mr. da Silva.
Ummm... so, why does it look like a photo? I realize that it's wikipedia, and you can only trust what you find there with a big grain of salt.
Does anyone have any information on this? I'm just curious, that's all...
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P.S. Sorry for the weird formatting in the post, but blogger is acting strangely today.
P.S. Sorry for the weird formatting in the post, but blogger is acting strangely today.
... as you can plainly see...
is it colbert who tells his viewers to go on wikipedia and mess w/ the entries? or is it rick mercer?
anyway, i've come across some doozies. for e.g., i once learned on wikipedia that pompeii was crispy but really good with rocky road ice cream.
the really controversial ones (holocaust, for e.g., or gw bush) aren't able to be edited by anyone other than wiki staff.
Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics once advocated (through his character "T-Rex" that all vandalism on Wikipedia should be confined to the entry on chickens, leaving the rest of the site free of vandalism. To quote from T-Rex:
"Ladies and gentleman: I have solved the Wikipedia Problem!
The solution is as brilliant as it is awesome: instead of vandalizing the ENTIRE encyclopedia, we all just agree to vandalize one article, leaving the other ones alone! That article is the one about chickens. Why? It's pretty obvious. DUDES ALREADY KNOW ABOUT CHICKENS. In conceding that one TINY article to the vandals, Wikipedia wins! Their victory: a FULLY ACCURATE encyclopedia that covers every topic in the universe, 'cept chickens."
... and now, the picture is of a stamp. So anyone who didn't see this before, will be thinking:
"Huh?"
Thank you, wikipedia. Why didn't you listen to T-Rex?
that's hilarious. i wonder who that random dude was...?
Greetings,
I know this is an old post - and I'm not quite sure if the author is actually interested in Da Silva or just having fun - but here's a link to my blog and references proving that the stamp does exist.
If this is all in jest - please excuse my nerdiness!
Evelyn in Montreal
http://acanadianfamily.com
Da Silva Post -
http://acanadianfamily.com/2009/02/05/pedro-da-silva…ouvelle-france/
Evelyn - the stamp that is currently displayed in wikipedia was *not* the image that was there when I posted this entry, but rather what was clearly a *photo* of someone, and obviously not Mr. Da Silva, as cameras did not exist that long ago!
But thank you for the info! I never doubted his existence, only that he was the person pictured - which was clearly not the case.
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