Editing Canada Post (section)

===Establishment===
[[File:Royal Mail - Ottawa Electric Railway.jpg|thumb|A streetcar used by Royal Mail Canada in Ottawa, {{circa|1890s}}]]
It was in 1867 that the newly formed [[Dominion of Canada]] created the Post Office Department as a federal government department (The ''Act for the Regulation of the Postal Service'') headed by a [[Canadian Cabinet|Cabinet]] minister, the [[Postmaster General of Canada]]. The Act took effect on April 1, 1868, providing a uniform postal service throughout the newly established [[dominion]]. The Canadian post office was designed around the British service as created by [[Rowland Hill (postal reformer)|Sir Rowland Hill]], who introduced the concept of charging mail by weight and not destination along with creating the concept of the [[postage stamp]]. The new service traded under the name The Royal Mail Canada. It joined the [[Universal Postal Union]] in 1878.

Several historical sites related to the history of the Post Office Department of Canada can be visited today. In [[Ontario]], the [[first Toronto Post Office]] is still in operation. The site of [[Scotiabank Arena]] was once the Canada Post Delivery Building. Also notable are the Vancouver Main Post Office<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120306014330/http://www.discovervancouver.com/GVB/vancouver-post-office.asp Vancouver Main Post Office]</ref> and the Dawson, Yukon, Post Office,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070208183933/http://www.pc.gc.ca/lhn-nhs/yt/dawson/natcul/natcul3_e.asp Dawson, Yukon, Post Office]</ref> a [[National Historic Site of Canada]]. In [[Peggys Cove|Peggy's Cove]], Nova Scotia, a nineteenth-century lighthouse acts as a seasonal post office for the tiny coastal community.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071010124112/http://www.peggys-cove.com/photos6.html Peggy's Cove lighthouse]</ref>