Celebrate the life of the Right Honourable John Napier Wyndham Turner, Canada’s 17th prime minister, with this booklet of 10 Permanent™ domestic stamps. The stamp features a family photo of Turner on a sailing trip with friends through Haida Gwaii, an archipelago off British Columbia’s west coast, in 1985.

Turner (1929-2020) devoted much of his life to public service. Born in England and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, and British Columbia, he was a Rhodes Scholar who earned his law degree at Oxford and studied at the Sorbonne.

First elected to the House of Commons in 1962, he entered Cabinet in 1965 under then Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson and was appointed minister of consumer and corporate affairs in 1967. He served as minister of justice (1968-72) and minister of finance (1972-75) under then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau before returning to work as a lawyer. After Trudeau’s resignation, Turner won the Liberal leadership and became prime minister on June 30, 1984.

Following the next election, he remained as leader of the Official Opposition until 1990, retiring from politics in 1993. A Companion of the Order of Canada, he is remembered as a humble and dedicated public servant who had a strong social conscience.

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John Turner: Permanent™ domestic rate stamps - booklet of 10