The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, a 2010 souvenir sheet of 2 stamps from Canada.

 

Canada Post is issuing this souvenir sheet to celebrate the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, when sports fans and top athletes from around the world will have the chance to embrace the Vancouver area’s rich cultural heritage and discover its natural splendors.

The Coast Salish people were the first to discover the breathtaking abundance of the Pacific Northwest thousands of years ago, when they settled in the Lower Mainland of what would become British Columbia. Much later, in 1792, Captain George Vancouver put the region on the map when he wrote of “innumerable pleasing landscapes” along the shores of the city that would later bear his name. With venues stretching from the cosmopolitan streets of Metro Vancouver to the world-class Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, visitors will get a taste of both the urban appeal and panoramic land and seascapes for which this bustling multicultural metropolis is famous.

The Sea-to-Sky theme is extended on to this souvenir sheet, where the two stamps are positioned between a totem pole, grounded in the land, and an orca whale in the sea. The stamps are set against a photograph of an inukshuk, located at the peak of Whistler Mountain.