Below is the schedule of past and current speakers. Contact Ken Lemke to book your date for 2021.
(Any spots reading "tba" are still available for the taking.)
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| December 8, 2021 | PSSC Members | AGM and annual one frame competition |
| November 17, 2021 | Peter McCarthy | His Majesty’s Canadian Ship. |
| October 20, 2021 | Earle Covert | Illustrated permit mail by religious groups |
| September 15, 2021 | Darin Cherniwchan | Genealogy and Philately |
| August 18, 2021 | Show & Tell | Show & Tell |
| July 21, 2021 | Ron Smith | Fredericton Post Office and its postmarks pre-1900 |
| June 16, 2021 | Derek Smith | Derek Smith Postal History of the New Brunswick Cents Issue of 1860 |
| May 19, 2021 | Ed Kroft | Some uncommon Destinations for mail sent from Palestine: December 1917 to May 1948 |
| April 21, 2021 | PSSC members | Show and Tell |
| March 17, 2021 | Eldon Godfrey | Foreign Control Board Canada. The role of Canada Post 1939-1951 |
| February 17, 2021 | Simon Claughton | Canada's One Cent First Flight Air Mail |
| January 20, 2021 | David Hopper | Queensland – A Philatelic Miscellany |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| December 9, 2020 | PSSC members | Single Frame Competition Zoom |
| November 18, 2020 | David McLaughlin | 1957 Ottawa UPU Conference Zoom |
| October 21, 2020 | David K. Foot | Postal History of Norfolk Island Zoom |
| September 16, 2020 | Derwin Mak | Superman, Stamps, Covers and Postmarks of the Man of Steel! Zoom |
| March 1, 2020 | March 2020 - August 2020 Meetings suspended due to COVID-19 | |
| February 19, 2020 | Sam Chiu | Colours and Appearance in Philately |
| January 15, 2020 | Chris Ellis | Canadian Postal Stationery Card Advertising |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| December 11, 2019 | PSSC MEMBERS | Annual Single Frame Competition |
| November 20, 2019 | Ken Snelson | British Underpaid Intercontinental Air Mail to WWII |
| October 23, 2019 | Patrick Durbano | Canadian Official Perfins |
| October 19, 2019 | PSSC Meet and Greet at CAPEX 2019 | |
| September 28, 2019 | Gray Scrimgeour | Andy Morod and the Nootka Sound Region. |
| September 18, 2019 | Garfield Portch | Postal History of Toronto |
| August 31, 2019 | Ron Majors | Cross Border Use of U.S. Civil War Patriotic Covers. |
| August 21, 2019 | PSSC MEMBERS | Show & Tell |
| July 20, 2019 | Alec Globe | Two Ring Numeral Cancels |
| July 17, 2019 | Charles Livermore | Military Toronto |
| June 19, 2019 | Jerry Piotrowski | Austro-Hungarian censor marks on mail from Poland 1914-1918 |
| May 15, 2019 | Bob Vogel | A Definitive Study of the First Day Covers of the Canada Envelope Company. |
| May 5, 2019 | Robin Harris | Lowe Martin – Coil Die Cutting PSSC Event |
| April 17, 2019 | PSSC Members | Show and Tell |
| March 23, 2019 | David Bartlet | The Evolution of Kiosk Stamps PSSC Event |
| March 20, 2019 | David K. Foot | Pitcairn Postal History |
| February 20, 2019 | Ian Robertson | How an Ontario Mill Town was Renamed after a Mexican General. |
| January 16, 2019 | Michael Croy | The History of Canadian Aviation and Pioneer Mail 1906-1934. |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| December 12, 2018 | Various members | Competitive single frame exhibits. |
| November 21, 2018 | Michèle Cartier | The French Revolution from the Ancien Regime to the end of the First Republic, 1789-1804. |
| October 19, 2018 | Mary Pugh | GB Commemoratives of the GV Era. Annual Banquet |
| October 17, 2018 | Chris Green | The Mulready Stationery and its Caricatures. |
| October 13, 2018 | MEET & GREET | MEET & GREET |
| October 6, 2018 | Ian Kimmerly | Shortpaid Mail To & From Solomon Islands. |
| September 23, 2018 | Dr. Mark Berner | Preferential Rates Across the St Lawrence River at Quebec – Mystery Solved. |
| September 22, 2018 | David McLaughlin | Householder Mail during the inaugural meeting of the Lower Canada Regional Group. |
| September 19, 2018 | Jim Hudson | British Africa |
| September 15, 2018 | Hugh Rathbun | Nova Scotia Pictorial Postmarks |
| August 15, 2018 | Various members | Show and Tell |
| July 18, 2018 | Bob Anderson | Early Brant County Postmarks |
| June 20, 2018 | Leigh Hogg | The wreck of the SS Labrador – 1899. Story and Postal Survivors. |
| May 16, 2018 | Dick McIntosh | Roessler’s Canadian Aerophilately |
| April 18, 2018 | Various members | Show and Tell |
| March 21, 2018 | George Pepall | The USA Second Bureau Series (1902 -1908) |
| February 21, 2018 | Josh Hodgson | Why I collect Poland |
| January 17, 2018 | Ken Snelson | United Kingdom Taxe marks and their Offices and Uses in the Centimes era |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| December 13, 2017 | Various members | AGM & Competitive single frame exhibits |
| November 15, 2017 | Leon Matthys | The Great Halifax Explosion of 1917 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| August 16, 2017 | Show and Tell | Bring or send in scans of your latest interests or acquisitions
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| 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
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| July 19, 2017 | Chris Hargreaves | Development of Canada-U.S. Airmails 1928-1945
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| 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
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| May 7, 2017 | Christiane Faucher & Jacques Poitras | Topic: Christiane: “Official mail at the time of Confederation”, Jacques: “Favored letters in early Canada”
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| April 19, 2017 | Show & Tell | Bring your latest find(s)!
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| March 15, 2017 | Joe Trauzzi | Canada - 1939 Royal Visit
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| February 15, 2017 | Ingo Nessel & John Wilson | Hong Kong Registration & AR
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| January 18, 2017 | Charles Verge | Patricia Airways and Exploration Limited- A. J. Algate’s Airmail Semi-Officials, From Concept to First Usages, 1926-1927
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| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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" |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Date | Speaker | Topic & Additional Information |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |