About Mozart

 

 

 

     Mozart, Saskatchewan is located south of the Quill Lakes, just north of Highway 16.
     Population of the hamlet is about 25. There is a Coop store and Post Office to serve the basic needs of the residents and a community hall to celebrate in.
     Quiet small town atmosphere and close proximity to a larger town for work and additional services are some of the reasons the residents of Mozart are happy to live here.

     Mozart is named after the great Austrian musician, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
     The streets here are named after classical musicians and the street signs have musical notes on them.

 

     Here is an aerial picture of Mozart looking south. The Coop Store is in on 1st Avenue, the street parallel to the railway, with the Post Office one block to the left (east). The community hall is the brown roof building two or three blocks to the southeast.

     The grain elevators were on the north side of the railway tracks.

     Can you find your house or where your relatives used to live?

     There are great birding opportunities at the Ducks Unlimited Little Quill Restriction/Campbell Site, located 6.4 km north of town.

     Mozart, Saskatchewan is well known in the stamp collecting world, envelopes bearing the Mozart postmark and the special Mozart postmaster’s stamp are highly valued.

     This is what former postmaster Jean Halldorson, had to say about her town and what the stamp collectors were interested in.

 

Mozart, Saskatchewan

2006

This tiny community is located in the East-Central part of the province, halfway between Saskatoon and Yorkton, on Highway # 16 - The Yellowhead.

This is a predominately mixed-farming area with spring wheat, barley, flax, canola and field peas being the main crops. Livestock enterprises consist of cattle, hogs and a few bison and elk ventures.

Cultural origins are mainly Icelandic, Ukrainian and Aboriginal First Nations.

Mozart's population has shrunk from appox. 70 people in the 1970's to the present count of 25 people.

The town still has a Co-op general store that offers grocery, hardware, agricultural supplies and fuel to farms and families in this area. Elfros-Mozart Credit Union is open 3 days/week in this location.

Social and recreational activities take place in the Mozart Centennial Hall. It hosts weddings, funerals, meetings and dances. A community gym on the lower level is available to interested community members. In 1991, the hall hosted the Regina Symphony's "Mozart in Mozart" concert.

The grain elevators that were once synonymous with the prairie landscape were withdrawn from service in 2000 and demolished in Aug., 2001.

The post office in Mozart was relocated into the Credit Union building in 1981. There are presently 52 postal boxes being utilized.

Self-addressed, stamped envelopes sent to Postmaster Jean Halldorson by philatelists and music-lovers, receive the collectable postmark and postmaster's cachet. Postcards featuring an artist's drawing of a former post office are also available for a cost of $ .50.

 

 

Jan. 27, 2006 marked the 250^th birthday of W. A. Mozart, the much-loved Austrian composer.

For the 23 years that Jean Halldorson has been the postmaster in the namesake-town of Mozart, Sask., philatelic collectors and music-lovers, alike, have requested the unique "marks" of that post office.

The postmaster's mark, a "cachet", and the steel hammer-cancel were first collected in the 1970's after the community's special relationship to the composer was identified by an American philatelist who chose "Mozart" as a theme in his own collection.

Jean "retired" her first cachet in Dec., 1991 after celebrating the bicentennial of Mozart's death with the Regina Symphony's performance of "Mozart in Mozart."

Now, Jean's second cachet, and the post office's pictorial cancellation introduced April, 2004, are the marks sought by enthusiasts from all over the world.

 

 

 

In excess of 1,000 cards and letters received careful attention for the January birthday. Each was handled 3 to 5 times to properly apply and dry the separately inked marks. (position and clarity are essential for serious collectors.)

SASE for these requests generate revenue for CPC elsewhere, but locally purchased stamps and IRC's contribute to Mozart's post office revenue