Below is the schedule of past and current speakers. Contact Ken Lemke to book your date for 2020.
(Any spots reading "tba" are still available for the taking.)
2020 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
December 9, 2020 | PSSC members | Single Frame Competition | PSSC MEETING | |
November 18, 2020 | David McLaughlin | 1957 Ottawa UPU Conference | PSSC MEETING | |
October 21, 2020 | David K. Foot | Postal History of Norfolk Island | PSSC MEETING | |
September 16, 2020 | Derwin Mak | Superman, Stamps, Covers and Postmarks of the Man of Steel! | PSSC MEETING | |
August 19, 2020 | PSCS Members | Show and Tell | PSSC MEETING | |
July 15, 2020 | Michael Madesker | Atlantic and Family | PSSC MEETING | |
June 17, 2020 | Simon Claughton | Canada’s one cent first flight air mail. | PSSC MEETING | |
May 20, 2020 | George Vanderburgh | CFPO 5005 South Vietnam 1973 and Kenya 1993 | PSSC MEETING | |
April 15, 2020 | PSSC members | Show & Tell | PSSC MEETING | |
March 18, 2020 | David Foot | Postal History of Norfolk Island | PSSC MEETING | |
February 19, 2020 | Sam Chiu | Colours and Appearance in Philately | PSSC MEETING | |
January 15, 2020 | Chris Ellis | Canadian Postal Stationery Card Advertising | PSSC MEETING |
2019 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
December 11, 2019 | PSSC MEMBERS | Annual Single Frame Competition | PSSC MEETING | |
November 20, 2019 | Ken Snelson | British Underpaid Intercontinental Air Mail to WWII | PSSC MEETING | |
October 23, 2019 | Patrick Durbano | Canadian Official Perfins | PSSC MEETING | |
October 19, 2019 | PSSC Meet and Greet at CAPEX 2019 | PSSC MEETING | ||
September 28, 2019 | Gray Scrimgeour | Andy Morod and the Nootka Sound Region. | PSSC MEETING | |
September 18, 2019 | Garfield Portch | Postal History of Toronto | PSSC MEETING | |
August 31, 2019 | Ron Majors | Cross Border Use of U.S. Civil War Patriotic Covers. | PSSC MEETING | |
August 21, 2019 | PSSC MEMBERS | Show & Tell | PSSC MEETING | |
July 20, 2019 | Alec Globe | Two Ring Numeral Cancels | PSSC MEETING | |
July 17, 2019 | Charles Livermore | Military Toronto | PSSC MEETING | |
June 19, 2019 | Jerry Piotrowski | Austro-Hungarian censor marks on mail from Poland 1914-1918 | PSSC MEETING | |
May 15, 2019 | Bob Vogel | A Definitive Study of the First Day Covers of the Canada Envelope Company. | PSSC MEETING | |
May 5, 2019 | Robin Harris | Lowe Martin – Coil Die Cutting | PSSC Event | |
April 17, 2019 | PSSC Members | Show and Tell | PSSC MEETING | |
March 23, 2019 | David Bartlet | The Evolution of Kiosk Stamps | PSSC Event | |
March 20, 2019 | David K. Foot | Pitcairn Postal History | PSSC MEETING | |
February 20, 2019 | Ian Robertson | How an Ontario Mill Town was Renamed after a Mexican General. | PSSC MEETING | |
January 16, 2019 | Michael Croy | The History of Canadian Aviation and Pioneer Mail 1906-1934. | PSSC MEETING |
2018 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
December 12, 2018 | Various members | Competitive single frame exhibits. | PSSC MEETING | |
November 21, 2018 | Michèle Cartier | The French Revolution from the Ancien Regime to the end of the First Republic, 1789-1804. | PSSC MEETING | |
October 19, 2018 | Mary Pugh | GB Commemoratives of the GV Era. | Annual Banquet | |
October 17, 2018 | Chris Green | The Mulready Stationery and its Caricatures. | PSSC MEETING | |
October 13, 2018 | MEET & GREET | MEET & GREET | PSSC MEETING | |
October 6, 2018 | Ian Kimmerly | Shortpaid Mail To & From Solomon Islands. | PSSC MEETING | |
September 23, 2018 | Dr. Mark Berner | Preferential Rates Across the St Lawrence River at Quebec – Mystery Solved. | PSSC MEETING | |
September 22, 2018 | David McLaughlin | Householder Mail during the inaugural meeting of the Lower Canada Regional Group. | PSSC MEETING | |
September 19, 2018 | Jim Hudson | British Africa | PSSC MEETING | |
September 15, 2018 | Hugh Rathbun | Nova Scotia Pictorial Postmarks | PSSC MEETING | |
August 15, 2018 | Various members | Show and Tell | PSSC MEETING | |
July 18, 2018 | Bob Anderson | Early Brant County Postmarks | PSSC MEETING | |
June 20, 2018 | Leigh Hogg | The wreck of the SS Labrador – 1899. Story and Postal Survivors. | PSSC MEETING | |
May 16, 2018 | Dick McIntosh | Roessler’s Canadian Aerophilately | PSSC MEETING | |
April 18, 2018 | Various members | Show and Tell | PSSC MEETING | |
March 21, 2018 | George Pepall | The USA Second Bureau Series (1902 -1908) | PSSC MEETING | |
February 21, 2018 | Josh Hodgson | Why I collect Poland | PSSC MEETING | |
January 17, 2018 | Ken Snelson | United Kingdom Taxe marks and their Offices and Uses in the Centimes era | PSSC MEETING |
2017 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
December 13, 2017 | Various members | AGM & Competitive single frame exhibits | Regular PSSC meeting | |
November 15, 2017 | Leon Matthys | The Great Halifax Explosion of 1917 | Regualr PSSC Meeting | |
November 10, 2017 | UKRAINEPEX | Old Mill Hotel, Toronto | ||
October 20, 2017 | David Lank | Every Stamp a Story | Annual Banquet & lecture at the Old Mill, Toronto | |
October 18, 2017 | David McLaughlin | Archival Material – Maple Leaf Issue of Canada 1897-1898 | Regular PSSC meeting | |
October 14, 2017 | N/A | PSSC Meet & Greet | CANPEX National Philatelic Exhibition at the Hellenic Community Centre London, Ontario. See minutes for details. | |
September 23, 2017 | Chris and Birthe King | RPSL Meeting at VGG | Non-RPSL members welcome. See the Greene website for details: http://www.greenefoundation.ca/ | |
September 22, 2017 | Chris King | Is Postal History, History? | Sutherland Philatelic Lecture at the Rosedale Golf Club. See the Greene website for details: http://www.greenefoundation.ca/ | |
September 20, 2017 | David Hobden | In Defence of the Border – Canadian Military Mails 1628-1885 Collection Highlights | Regular PSSC meeting | |
August 16, 2017 | Show and Tell | Bring or send in scans of your latest interests or acquisitions | ||
July 22, 2017 | Lawrence Pinkney | Methods to Expertize a Cover | at the PSSC Breakfast at the PHSC Symposium, Hamilton | |
July 21, 2017 | Jean Wang | The Story of Blood, Myth to Medicine | ||
July 19, 2017 | Chris Hargreaves | Development of Canada-U.S. Airmails 1928-1945 | ||
July 8, 2017 | A Philatelic Celebration of the Sesquicentennial of Canada’s Confederation | During an open Saturday at the Greene Foundation all members are invited to display one page representing one of Canada’s 151 years. For more information click here. | ||
May 28, 2017 | Michèle Cartier | The Republic of Venice | Royale*2017*Boucherville, breakfast and lecture. Contact Robert Carswell for tickets | |
May 17, 2017 | Ken Lemke | Grand Trunk Railway Pictorial Postcards | ||
May 7, 2017 | Christiane Faucher & Jacques Poitras | Topic: Christiane: “Official mail at the time of Confederation”, Jacques: “Favored letters in early Canada” | ORAPEX breakfast and lectures. SOLD OUT | |
April 19, 2017 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
March 15, 2017 | Joe Trauzzi | Canada - 1939 Royal Visit | ||
February 15, 2017 | Ingo Nessel & John Wilson | Hong Kong Registration & AR | ||
January 18, 2017 | Charles Verge | Patricia Airways and Exploration Limited- A. J. Algate’s Airmail Semi-Officials, From Concept to First Usages, 1926-1927 |
2016 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 14, 2016 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (5 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 16, 2016 | Sam Chiu | Care Force C in Hong Kong | ||
Oct 19, 2016 | Ken Pugh | Fakes and Forgeries | ||
Sep 21, 2016 | Sam Chiu, Ed Kroft & Rod Paige | Proposed Changes to the Guidelines to Judging and Exhibiting in 2017 | ||
Aug 17, 2016 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
July 20, 2016 | Alan Hanks | The Microcosmos and a Closer Look at Thematics | ||
Jun 15, 2016 | Mark Stelmacovich | Ukrainian Provisionals | ||
May 18, 2016 | Andrew Chung & Bob Vogel | EFOs on First Day Covers | ||
Apr 20, 2016 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
Mar 16, 2016 | Ed Kroft | The Postal History of the Holy Land, beginning in 1948 (the Transitional Period of three government administrations) | ||
Feb 17, 2016 | Michael Croy | The History of Canadian Aviation and Airmail, 1906 to 1934 | ||
Jan 20, 2016 | Ted Nixon | The Expertizing of the Two Cent Large Queen on Laid Paper - A Forensic to Analytical Concept in Philately |
2015 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 9, 2015 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (5 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 18, 2015 | Robert Carswell | The History of the Ionian Islands | ||
Oct 21, 2015 | Ken Snelson | Researching The Return Letter Office - Process & Progress | ||
Sep 16, 2015 | Sam Chiu | Chinese Labour Corps | ||
Aug 19, 2015 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
Jul 15, 2015 | Michael Behm | Perfins: The Hole Story | ||
Jun 17, 2015 | Michael Madesker | Pneumatic Post - Paris - Poste Pneumatic | ||
May 20, 2015 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | NOTE: MOVED FROM APRIL | |
Apr 15, 2015 | Ed Kroft | Palestine & Aero-Philately | ||
Mar 18, 2015 | Ken Snelson | UK Postal Union Postage Due Mail - Not Double Deficiency | ||
Feb 18, 2015 | Barry Millman | The Greatest Forgery Operation Ever - KZSachsenhausen to Toplitzsee | ||
Jan 21, 2015 | Mattia Guida | The Stamps of Sicily |
2014 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 10, 2014 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 19, 2014 | David Hobden | Upper Canada Dispatch Riders 1812-1814 | ||
Oct 15, 2014 | Owen White | Inter-University Transit System | ||
Sep 17, 2014 | Peter Butler | Canada Post’s Picture Postage, Personalized Picture Postage and Social Philately | ||
Aug 20, 2014 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
July 16, 2014 | John Wilson | Reform in the Hong Kong Post Office, 1912 to 1934 | ||
Jun 18, 2014 | Michael Madesker | Sign Language | ||
May 21, 2014 | Peter McCarthy | Caricatures & Landscapes | ||
Apr 16, 2014 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
Mar 19, 2014 | David Foot | Australian Stamp Shows: A History of Organized Philately in Australia | ||
Feb 19, 2014 | Ted Nixon | Postal History from Paris, France, Featuring the Paris Star Cancels | ||
Jan 15, 2014 | Bill Longley | Early Cuban Postal History |
2013 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 11, 2013 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 20, 2013 | Owen White | Canadian 'Y' Force in Jamaica During WWII | ||
Oct 16, 2013 | Shirley Griff-Coates | Mourning Covers | ||
Sep 18, 2013 | Peter McCarthy | Mail by Rail, The Early Years 1853-59 | ||
Aug 21, 2013 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
July 17, 2013 | Fred Smallbone | Downey Heads, An Explanation | ||
Jun 19, 2013 | Michael Madesker | The Eye | ||
May 15, 2013 | Derek Smith | Transatlantic Stampless Mail - Ship Letters to 1840 | ||
Apr 17, 2013 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
Mar 20, 2013 | Dave Hanes | Camp Borden - 97 Years of Postal History | ||
Feb 20, 2013 | Ken Snelson | Postage Due Mail Between the UK and Southern Africa | ||
Jan 16, 2013 | Michael Millar | "The Perfin Travel Planner" |
2012 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 12, 2012 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 21, 2012 | David Oberholtzer | Canada's Barrel Postmarks 1955-1962 | ||
Oct 17, 2012 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
Sep 19, 2012 | Charles Verge & Garfield Portch | Security Features in Stamp Printing Using the VSC6000, A Case Study | ||
Aug 15, 2012 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
July 18, 2012 | (Rod Paige for) Michael Peach | Postal Stationery Cut-Outs and Philatelic Mail, Great Britain | ||
Jun 20, 2012 | John Reginald Hooper | The 125th Anniversary of Organized Philately in Canada | ||
May 16, 2012 | Ken Snelson | Undeliverable Mail and the Dead Letter Office Prior to Post Office Reform | ||
Apr 18, 2012 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)! | ||
Mar 21, 2012 | David Foot | Western Australia: Confederation to Centenary (1901-29) | ||
Feb 15, 2012 | Michael Madesker | A Philatelic Narration of a Human Life | ||
Jan 18, 2012 | Nick Poppenk | Postal Codes |
2011 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 14, 2011 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 16, 2011 | Dr. Ijaz A. Qureshi | Early Obliterator Subtypes Used in the Punjab and Sind, 1854-1865 | ||
Oct 19, 2011 | Bob Vogel | An Admiral Rate Study, Kitchener, Ontario 1916-1927 | ||
Sep 21, 2011 | Robert Pinet | Montreal Advertising Covers of the Victorian Period (Printing Techniques, Research and Exhibiting Challenges) | ||
Aug 17, 2011 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | ||
July 20, 2011 | Owen White & Andrew Chung | 100 Years of Reply Coupons | ||
Jun 15, 2011 | Ken Snelson | The Detained for Postage Notices of the British Post Office 1790-c1875 | ||
May 18, 2011 | Charles Verge | The Documentary Revenues of Haiti | ||
Apr 20, 2011 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | ||
Mar 16, 2011 | David Foot | Western Australia: The First 100 Years (1829-1929) | ||
Feb 16, 2011 | Ted Nixon | The Small Queens of Canada | ||
Jan 19, 2011 | Stuart Reddington | Great Britain 1840 Line-Engraved Issue |
2010 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 8, 2010 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 17, 2010 | Murray Heifetz | Dirigibles and the Canadian Connection | ||
Oct 20, 2010 | Michael Millar | Railway Sub-Office Postmarks of Great Britain | ||
Sep 15, 2010 | David Hobden | Canadian Military Mails 1667-1885, Part III: Militia, Rebellions, Fenians & Louis | ||
Aug 18, 2010 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | ||
July 21, 2010 | Garfield Portch | Pardon Me, Your Slip Is Showing | ||
Jun 16, 2010 | John Wilson | Postman's Beat Chops to 1962 (Hong Kong) | ||
May 19, 2010 | Peter Spencer | The Court Fee and Revenue Stamps and Stamped Paper of the Princely States of Kathiawar | ||
Apr 21, 2010 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | ||
Mar 17, 2010 | David Foot | Thursday Island | ||
Feb 17, 2010 | David Hobden | Canadian Military Mails 1667-1885, Part II: The War of 1812 | ||
Jan 20, 2010 | Charles Verge | The St. Lawrence Seaway | Charles' new book on The Seaway available HERE |
2009 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 9, 2009 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 18, 2009 | David Hopper | Queensland Traveling Post Offices | ||
Oct 21, 2009 | David Hobden | Canadian Military Mail, Part 1: French vs English & The Revolutionary War 1667-1811 | ||
Sep 16, 2009 | Neil Hunter | Trans-Atlantic Airmails 1939-1941 | ||
Aug 19, 2009 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | ||
July 15, 2009 | Victor Potter | Egypt, The Sphinx & Pyramid Issues | ||
Jun 17, 2009 | James Taylor | St. Pierre Miquelon Stamp shortage 1926 | ||
May 20, 2009 | Rodney Paige | From Cross to Duplex | ||
Apr 15, 2009 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | ||
Mar 18, 2009 | Ken Snelson | Underpaid Mail Between Australia & The UK | PowerPoint Presentation will soon be available for Download | |
Feb 18, 2009 | Jack Forbes | Shades of Canada's 8 Cents Small Queens | ||
Jan 21, 2009 | Charles Verge | First Day Cover Collecting |
2008 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 10, 2008 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 19, 2008 | Steve Johnson | Yukon Airways | ||
Oct 15, 2008 | John Van Der Ven | Australian FDC Cachet Makers Before 1958 | ||
Sep 17, 2008 | Charles LaBlonde & John Tyacke | Postal History of WWII Mail Between Canada and Switzerland | ||
Aug 20, 2008 | Joey Yuan | Olympic Philately | ||
July 16, 2008 | Michael Madesker | The Medium is the Message | ||
Jun 18, 2008 | Dave Hanes | Airmail Labels & Airmail Markings on Canadian Mail | ||
May 21, 2008 | John Tyacke | Boer War POWs in India | ||
Apr 16, 2008 | Herb McNaught | 1897 Diamond Jubilees | ||
Mar 19, 2008 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | ||
Feb 20, 2008 | Charles Verge | The Brown Brothers Nursery 1885-1926 | ||
Jan 16, 2008 | Hugh Laurence | Coin & Currency in Pre-Dominion Days |
2007 |
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Date | Speaker | Topic | Comments | |
Dec 12, 2007 | Single-Frame Exhibits | Competitive (3 Minutes Each) | Must be a new exhibit created especially for this meeting. | |
Nov 21, 2007 | Ozzie Osborne | The Russian Rural Post 1865-1917 | ||
Oct 17, 2007 | Owen White | German Military Mail in China 1900 - 1905 | ||
Sep 19, 2007 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | Bring your latest find(s)! | |
Aug 15, 2007 | Ingo Nessel | Hong Kong | ||
July 18, 2007 | Single-Page Exhibits | Competitive & Non-Competitive (to be determined) | This will be a new experiment we will try for 2007. | |
Jun 20, 2007 | David Foot | Eclipse Philately | ||
May 16, 2007 | Herb McNaught | The Half Cent Small Queen | ||
Apr 18, 2007 | Michael Madesker | WWI Prisoner of War Mail | ||
Mar 21, 2007 | Show & Tell | Non-Competitive | Bring your latest find(s)! | |
Feb 21, 2007 | Ted Wright | Flying Mercury of Greece 1901-1912 | ||
Jan 17, 2007 | Garfield Portch | A Small Queen Overview |