Regard sur Royal*2019*Royal : 21-23 juin 2019, Mississauga, Ontario

Rapport du président,

Par Ed Kroft

L’exposition de Mississauga a été très réussie. Je tiens à remercier le Bramalea Stamp Club, le West Toronto Stamp Club et Canadian Stamp News d’avoir tenu Royal*2019*Royale au Hilton de Mississauga. La Royale de cette année comportait deux thèmes.

Servir en tant que président dans le cadre du 60e anniversaire de la désignation ROYALE accordée à la Canadian Philatelic Association par Sa Majesté, la reine Elizabeth II est un honneur. Le second thème « C’est votre Royale » rend à juste titre hommage à tous les membres de La Société royale de philatélie du Canada (SRPC) et au rôle important que chacun joue pour l’enrichissement de notre loisir pour les collectionneurs de tous âges et de tous niveaux. C’est l’un des thèmes que j’ai abordés à l’assemblée générale annuelle du 22 juin 2019.

Je remercie également Joe Trauzzi, Rod Paige, Stewart Keeley, Mike Walsh et bien d’autres, y compris les marchands, les bénévoles, les conférenciers, le conseil d’administration de La SRPC, Robin Harris, notre webmaître, les fellows de La SRPC ainsi que d’autres qui ont fait de cet évènement un succès mémorable. J’ai été heureux de rencontrer un fellow chevronné de La SRPC, Michael Madesker, qui a assisté aux trois jours d’exposition et qui y a aussi exposé ses collections. Bonne santé et meilleurs vœux, Michael!

Nous avons également pu exprimer nos meilleurs vœux et bien des remerciements à Margaret Schulzke, qui a été extrêmement utile à La SRPC pendant tant d’années. Nous lui souhaitons tous une bonne retraite! Merci à vous tous qui m’avez parlé de certains aspects de La SRPC et qui m’avez donné des idées d’amélioration. S’il vous plaît, continuez d’exprimer vos idées!

Nouveau Programme de reconnaissance des bénévoles – continuez à suggérer des candidatures!

À l’AGA, nous avons reconnu 22 personnes de partout au Canada pour leur contribution à notre loisir. S’il vous plaît, continuez à nous faire parvenir vos candidatures afin que nous puissions augmenter le nombre de bénévoles reconnus à la réunion de l’année prochaine, à Fredericton, au Nouveau-Brunswick.

Activités du conseil d’administration de La SRPC

La plus récente réunion du conseil d’administration a eu lieu le 22 juin 2019, en personne et par téléconférence. Le conseil et d’autres bénévoles dévoués ont discuté d’une variété de sujets, notamment, de divers aspects du plan stratégique. Une fois approuvés, les procès-verbaux des réunions sont affichés dans le site Web de La Société, www.rpsc.org. La prochaine réunion du conseil est prévue à la fin de septembre 2019.

Le philatéliste canadien est à la recherche d’articles  

Voulez-vous transmettre vos connaissances philatéliques à d’autres? S’il vous plaît, songez à prendre un peu de votre temps pour écrire un article informatif ou érudit pour la publication phare de La SRPC, Le philatéliste canadien, également appelée Le philatéliste. Veuillez prendre contact avec notre nouveau rédacteur en chef, Robin Harris, ou avec un membre de notre talentueux comité de rédaction : Gray Scrimgeour, Richard Gratton, Rob Timberg et François Brisse. Nous invitons ceux qui aimeraient soumettre un ou des articles pour publication à s’adresser à Robin à editor@rpsc.org.

Si vous désirez écrire un article pour l’infolettre de La SRPC, veuillez prendre contact avec moi par courriel, à l’adresse indiquée plus bas, ou avec Mike Walsh à l’adresse électronique suivante – mwalsh@vaxxine.com

Nous souhaitons également publier des articles ayant déjà paru dans l’infolettre des clubs locaux. Nous vous invitons à communiquer vos connaissances à d’autres collectionneurs.

Activités des sections de clubs – que se passe-t-il à vos réunions?

De nombreuses sections de clubs sont affiliées à La SRPC. Je sais que les collectionneurs aiment assister aux réunions et profiter de la camaraderie qui règne entre les gens qui ont des intérêts communs. En mai 2018, j’ai lu un article très intéressant dans Linn’s Stamp News sur les activités des clubs.

Voici une liste d’activités (que j’ai modifiée) parue dans cet article et que vous aimeriez peut-être adopter, si elles ne sont pas déjà dans la vôtre : livres des circuits de vente, présentation de diapositives, encans, collections démontées pour en vendre le contenu aux membres, voyages en autocar à des expositions philatéliques, infolettres de club, achat, vente, échange, échange de livres, de vieux catalogues et d’articles, fêtes célébrées au club, exposition de collections au club et pour l’admission à d’autres expositions, présentations formelles, conférences données par un invité, organisation d’expositions philatéliques, présentation de l’histoire postale à divers évènements non philatéliques, représentants de marchands aux réunions, soirées de méli-mélo philatélique, tombola, séances d’expression libre, notamment sur nos articles favoris et nos achats récents, réunions portant sur un thème et ateliers sur divers aspects de la philatélie. Communiquez-nous d’autres idées que je n’ai pas mises dans cette liste!

S’il vous plaît, devenez bénévoles et aidez La SRPC

Dans chaque numéro, je fais le même appel. Nous aimons tous notre loisir et y consacrons tout le temps que nous pouvons, et ce, de bien des façons. Je demande à ceux qui ne sont affiliés à aucun club de se joindre à un club local et à La SRPC. Je lance également un appel aux membres de La SRPC afin qu’ils nous aident de toutes les façons possibles. Sans bénévoles, votre société et votre loisir ne peuvent prospérer.

 

 

Calgary club tops 2019 CSN Cover Contest

After a month of voting, the second annual CSN Cover Contest has come to a close with the Calgary Philatelic Society (CPS) taking top honours in the club category.

One of seven clubs to mail a cover to CSN to mark October’s National Stamp Collecting Month, the CPS was announced as the winner on Nov. 1. The club’s cover, which earned 112 votes, celebrates National Stamp Collecting Month alongside the club’s annual fall show – Caltapex – which is also held in October.

“The CPS is proud and happy to have won the contest,” says CPS member and cover designer Dave Bartlet.

“All hobbies these days often need to promote what they do as there is a lot of competition for the attention of people in the market.”

Inspired by the Calgary Zoo’s ongoing panda exhibit, CPS members decided to frank their cover with a customized Picture Postage stamp. After voting at the club’s monthly meeting this September, members chose one photograph for the stamp while two runners-up were chosen for the cachet.

“We felt the theme of pandas for the show was something that is attractive to all generations, young collectors and older collectors alike,” adds Bartlet.

The cover’s stamp is also cancelled by an “Airways RPO” postmark dated Sept. 23, 2019.

For taking the top spot in the club category, the CPS wins $100 from CSN.

“We were late in the game to create our cover this year since our show was not until the third week of October, but seeing your promotion in the electronic Canadian Stamp News and remembering last year when Kathy Hartley (librarian of the Harry Sutherland Philatelic Library) asked why we didn’t do an entry got me to rush this into production,” adds Bartlet, who aimed to create “a cover that put out the right message for the month in combination with our show.”

“We will be more aware to do something similar next year for the promotion. It is the local clubs that are the grassroots and need to do the footwork for Stamp Collecting Month.”

SECOND PLACE,

CLUB CATEGORY

The second-place prize – worth $50 – was won by the Waterloo Region Stamp Club, whose cover earned 61 votes in the club category.

It’s franked by Canada Post’s 2019 West Montrose Covered Bridge stamp. To the left, the cover depicts an old colour postcard featuring St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church on 54 Queen St. N., in nearby Kitchener, Ont.

The club’s logo is also shown at the top of the cover, which includes a Waterloo Post Office postmark dated Sept. 25, 2019.

THIRD PLACE,

CLUB CATEGORY

The third-place prize, which is worth $25, went to the Kelowna and District Stamp Club, whose cover earned 52 votes in the club category.

It includes a new “stamp-on-a-stamp” version of the club’s Ogopogo-themed Picture Postage stamp. The original Ogopogo stamp was franked on the club’s submission in last year’s inaugural CSN Cover Contest, which it won.

On this year’s cover, the stamp is cancelled with a Sept. 17, 2019-dated Ogopogo postmark from Kelowna, B.C.’s Town Centre Post Office. The commemorative cancel, which is also dated Sept. 17, references National Stamp Collecting Month and covers the image of the “stamp-on-a-stamp” version.

The cover’s cachet also includes an image of the 2019 “stamp-on-a-stamp” version alongside the club’s first Ogopogo stamp, which was printed 29 years ago.

TOP INDIVIDUAL COVER

In the individual category, Toronto’s Harvey Shuter won the first-place prize and takes home $50.

Shuter’s cover celebrates National Stamp Collecting Month by encouraging people to not only collect stamps but also join a stamp club – both noble endeavours also endorsed by CSN.

The cover is franked with a customized Picture Postage stamp featuring a local post office. It’s cancelled by a Stamp Collecting Month postmark dated Oct. 1, 2019, while a stylized stamp design is featured to the left of the cachet.

NEXT YEAR

Details for the third annual CSN Cover Contest will be announced in January 2020.

For more information, visit canadianstampnews.com/2019covercontest.

Management changes at Toronto’s Greene Foundation

The Toronto-based Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation announced the retirement of its long-time chairman and president Ted Nixon, plus the election of a new executive, effective Oct. 30.

Ted Nixon has been at the helm of the Greene Foundation since the passing of Harry Sutherland in 2006. He joined the board of directors on April 28, 1998, and served as vice-chair from 2002-06. Over the years, he has also served as treasurer and secretary.

“During his tenure, the Greene Foundation has become a world-class organization which has expanded its outreach to Canada and the world, built an exceptional British North America philatelic library and introduced technology and mechanization to both the library and the expert committee,” said Charles Verge, the Greene Foundation’s longest-serving director.

A Fellow of The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC), Nixon was appointed as chairman emeritus by the Greene Foundation’s board of directors this October. He’s only the second person to hold this position since the foundation was formed in 1975.

Nixon will also continue in his role as chairman of the expert committee.

He will update and streamline the committee’s processes so it can better serve its collector and dealer clients,” reads a statement issued by the Greene Foundation on Oct. 31.

“Additionally, it is planned that the expert committee will make public some of its important findings and work closely with catalogue editors to adjust catalogue listings based on the committee’s discoveries.”

A NEW EXECUTIVE

On Oct. 30, the Greene Foundation’s board of directors met to elect a new executive, whose members include:

  • Chair and President Garfield Portch, who’s a Fellow of The RPSC;
  • Vice-Chair and Vice-President Charles Verge, who’s a Fellow of The RPSC and Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL); and
  • Corporate Secretary and Treasurer Ingo Nessel, who’s also the current president of the Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada and a Fellow of both The RPSC and RPSL.

“The board feels that the time has come for the Greene Foundation to have a more formal structure that will allow us to better plan the long-term growth and future of the Greene Foundation,” said Portch.

This October, the board also appointed Lee Ann Stewart as recording secretary and executive assistant and reappointed Sheila Moll as chief librarian.

The Greene Foundation’s primary mandates are providing expert services, maintaining a comprehensive library and archives and publishing monographs and studies on British North American philately. It also shares the common responsibility of promoting the hobby with the rest of the philatelic community.

Looking back at Royal *2019* Royale

RPSC President’s Message

By Ed Kroft

The show in Mississauga was very successful. I Wish to extend thanks to the Bramalea Stamp Club, West Toronto Stamp Club and Canadian Stamp News for hosting Royal *2019* Royale at the Hilton Mississauga.

This year’s Royal had two special themes. It is an honour to serve as President for the 60th Anniversary of the Canadian Philatelic Association receiving its ROYAL designation from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The second theme, ‘It’s Your Royal,’ appropriately paid tribute to all members of the RPSC and the important role that everyone plays in enhancing our hobby for collectors of all ages and levels. This was one of the themes that I spoke of at the AGM on June 22, 2019. I wish to extend my thanks to Joe Trauzzi, Rod Paige, Stewart Keeley, Mike Walsh and many others, including the dealers, volunteers, speakers, the board of the RPSC, Robin Harris our editor and webmaster, the Fellows of the RPSC, and others who made this event successful and memorable.

I was pleased to see and visit with the senior Fellow of the RPSC, Michael Madesker, who attended all three days of the show and exhibited as well. Good health and best wishes Michael! We all were also able to extend best wishes and many thanks to Margaret Schulzke who was so valuable to us at the RPSC for so many years. We all wish her well in retirement! Thanks to all of you who talked to me at the show about aspects of the RPSC and who provided ideas as to how to improve things . Please keep all your ideas coming!

New Volunteer Recognition Programme- Keep the nominations coming!

At the AGM, we recognize 22 individuals from across Canada and their contributions to our hobby. Please keep your nominations coming in so we can increase the number of recognized volunteers at next years AGM in Fredericton.

RPSC Board Activities

Our most recent meeting of the Board was held on June 22, 2019 in person and by teleconference . The Board and other dedicated volunteers discussed a variety of topics, including various aspects of the strategic plan. Once approved, minutes of Board meetings are posted on the RPSC website. http://www.rpsc.org. The next Board meeting is expected to be in late September 2019.

Articles Are Needed for The Canadian Philatelist

Do you wish to share your knowledge of philately with others? Please consider taking your time to write an informative and scholarly piece for the RPSC’s flagship publication, the Canadian Philatelist , also known as TCP. Please contact our new editor , Robin Harris, or a member of our talented editorial board: Gray Scrimgeour, Richard Gratton , Rob Timberg and Francois Brisse. Those wishing to submit articles for publication are encouraged to contact Robin at editor@rpsc.org.

If you wish to write a piece on stamp collecting for the RPSC Newsletter, please contact me at the email address below or Mike Walsh – mwalsh@vaxxine.com

We are also interested in printing articles that have already appeared in the newsletters of local clubs. Please share your knowledge with your fellow collectors.

Chapter Activities -What Happens at Your Meetings?

Many chapters are affiliates of the RPSC. I know that Collectors enjoy attending meetings and the camaraderie of spending time with like-minded people. In May 2018, I read a very interesting article in Linn’s magazine about stamp club activities . The following is a list of activities(with my modifications )shown in that article which you might wish to adopt, assuming these are not already on your list: sales circuit books, slide shows, auctions, breaking down collections for sales to members, bus trips to stamp shows, club newsletter, buying/selling and trading, exchanges of books, old catalogues and articles , club holiday parties, club exhibits within the club and for entry into shows, formal presentations, guest speakers, host stamp shows, local display of postal history at non-Philatelic events, dealer representative at meetings, philatelic trivia night, raffles, show and tell sessions, favourite item and recent purchases show and tell, themed meetings, and workshops on aspects of philately. Share others that I may not have listed!

Please Volunteer and Help the RPSC

In every issue, I make the same plea. We all love our hobby and dedicate as much time as we can to it in many ways. I am asking you those of you who are unaffiliated with a local club to join a club and the RPSC . To RPSC members, I appeal for your help in any way you can. Without volunteers your Society and the hobby cannot prosper .

Best Regards

Ed