Captain E. Barnett

J. H. Bastide

     J. H. Bastide was the chief engineer of Nova Scotia in the middle of the 18th century. The map on the stamp is of Alderney in the English Channel.

Jacques Nicholas Bellin

     Jacques Nicholas Bellin (1703-72) was the senior hydrographic engineer to Louis XV of France at the Depot de la Marine. On the basis of his access to current information  he drafted many maps of both Europe and the western hemisphere. Two maps have been used in the design of stamps.

     Carte reduite de l'Isle de Cuba, 1762,  from his Hydrographie Francaise, 1756-1765

     Carte Particuliere des Isles des Vierges, in his Description Geograhique des Isles Antilles, Paris, 1758.