Celebrate the life of the Right Honourable John Napier Wyndham Turner, Canada’s 17^th prime minister, with this Official First Day Cover. The stamp is cancelled in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Turner lived for several periods of his life, and the cancellation postmark features his signature.

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, John Turner 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: Official First Day Cover