In Memoriam – Dr. Frederick George Bard – 1908–1989

William Rowan and Canada’s 5¢ Whooping Crane stamp: the proposal and a Saskatchewan photograph

“…Bard and Lahrman saw Whooping Cranes again. The photograph of the birds in flight, on which the stamp's design was based, was taken by Fred Lahrman, a field worker, artist and photographer at the RSM who, with then director, Fred G. Bard 32,33 , had extended Bradshaw's efforts to monitor the species' migration through Saskatchewan. The photograph was taken at a body of water near Herbert, Saskatchewan, on the 5th of November, 1953 24 , not on the 3rd, as stated on a framed copy of the photograph archived in the RSM (Figure 6).…”