page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of New Brunswick
section_title: First stamps
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of New Brunswick / First stamps
caption_attribution_description: English: 5 cents postage stamps of New Brunswick (Canada) with Queen and Charles Connell, 1860 Русский: Почтовые марки Нью-Брансуика (Канада) с портретами королевы Виктории и Чарльза Коннелла, 5 центов, 1860 год
context_page_description: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of New Brunswick.
context_section_description: A total of eleven stamps were issued by New Brunswick. The first stamps of New Brunswick were issued in 1851. This set of three diamond-shaped issues continued until 1860 when the next and final issue was released.
  Commissioned by the postmaster of New Brunswick Charles Connell, the colony's second issue is notable in several ways. First, it is believed to include the first train ever shown on a postage stamp (relating to the European and North American Railway, of which Mr. Connell was a director), and second because it contained the first commemorative stamp, a 17 cent stamp featuring an image of a youthful Prince of Wales (King Edward VII) wearing highland dress, issued because the Prince of Wales was scheduled to visit the colony in 1860. The most notable aspect of the issue, however, was the fact that the postmaster chose to include his own image on the five cent issue. This caused such a political uproar in the colony that Connell resigned, but not after destroying most of the stamps. The five cent stamp was replaced by one featuring the reigning monarch, Victoria.
  New Brunswick stamps were superseded by those of the Canada when the colony became part of the Dominion on July 1, 1867.
caption: The Chalon head which replaced the initial five cent issue featuring the postmaster's portrait
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