Bitter Grounds Header

Bitter Grounds is now ad free

Consider a donation to help cover the costs of research and writing.

Buy me a coffee offers single donations + modest subscriptions.
You can also choose to pay using Stripe for a secure donation.

It’s a wrap! Canada’s 2021 Lunar New Year Stamps

by | Jan 8, 2021

Canada’s 2021 Lunar New Year stamps will wrap up the New Year’s series that started in 2009. This last issue in the cycle goes on sale January 15, 2021 and is available for pre-sale orders now at Canada Post’s online store Latest stamps | New in store | Canada Post. This set beautifully ties the complete collection together.  In one souvenir sheet, the collector can see 12 years’ worth of stamp designs.

Canada’s 2021 Lunar New Year stamps

All years are displayed – rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig. It’s a terrific way to end a long running series.

Scan of Canada 2021 Lunar New Year Stamps showing 12 years worth of stamps

Canada 2021 Lunar New Year Stamps

Booklet format and single permanent stamps.

Canada Post's Lunar New Year stamps

Lunar New Year cycle wraps up

 

Canada’s 2021 Lunar New Year stamps designed by Paprika Design

Paprika Design created this retrospective issue. Their work should be familiar to Canadian stamp collectors. They are behind 9 previous designs including the 2018 QEII 65th anniversary stamps, the 2017 Year of the Rooster and 2014 Year of the Horse.

The Lunar New Year stamp series uses artwork from by Albert Ng and Associates (rat, monkey, pig), Helene L’Heureux (ram), HM&E Design (rabbit), Louis Fishauf (dragon), MIX Design Group (snake), Paprika (horse, rooster), Subplot Design Inc. (dog), Taylor/Sprules Corp. (ox), and Wilco Design (tiger).

Are you interested in seeing all Canada’s upcoming stamps for 2021?  Check out the post below for more information.

Awesome 2021 Canadian stamps

 

 

Support = more content & frequent updates

There are two ways you can support Bitter Grounds

a donation via Buy me a Coffee

or

You can also buy some fun t-shirts, stickers, magnets and totes at my Merchandise Emporium
Among the philately related images you can buy are unique Cinderella airmails I’ve been creating.

 

3 Comments

  1. By God I have never seen such a beautiful set of stamps in my life as that of set issued at annual lunar year.

    Reply
    • They are stunning this year, aren’t they?

      Reply
  2. Truly speaking, the set of stamps issued at the occasion of Annual lunar year is the most beautiful set I saw ever during my 22 years stay in canada.
    Beautiful colors,excellent paper,marvelous shine increased attraction. Canada post should print more copies because it will be sold like hot cakes.

    Reply

Submit a Comment

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Copyright
© 2025
Bitter Grounds Magazine
All Right Reserved

You can usually find me lurking on Bluesky along with a large number of great stamp lovers. 

Just look for Catpaw!

‪@bittergrounds.bsky.social‬ 

Diversity is a strength.

For everyone hanging in there with me.

I want to thank everyone who has dropped me a note and still visited the site, despite the lack of fun content. It's been a bit of a hard slog on this end and the double vision really makes things a bit rough. However, it looks like a diagnosis is on the horizon which means treatment. 

In the meantime, I'm going to try and write. If I get things a little wonky, just sigh with me. Its hard to take life seriously when everything is blurry and doubled. 

Thank you. Thank you so much. 
Catpaw

This will close in 30 seconds