Canada A-R Card SHAUNAVON to ORMEAUX November 20, 1924, with ADMIRAL 10 cents blue #117

ORMEAUX seems to be the reciver cancel, you be the judge. If it this is a RARE cancel, that post office in 1924 sold 59.63 during that year.

SHAUNAVON Population April 1924 was 1,366
The town of Shaunavon rapidly grew in population during its first year. In January 1913, the area that would become Shaunavon had a population of zero; by January of the following year, 750 people resided in the town. The area surrounding Shaunavon consisted mostly of Anglo Saxon, Scandinavian, French Canadian, and Finnish homesteads.[80] The pioneers of Shaunavon were much the same, emigrating from all parts of Europe and the United States. In 1916, Shaunavon experienced a minor drop in population, before experiencing a steady growth in residence over the following 12 years.

With the arrival of the Great Depression, the boomtown’s population decreased, from 1,896 residents in 1928, to a low of 1,571 residents in 1941. »