The Sam Nickle Award (Est. 1994) is an award created to honor the memory of Sam Nickle. Funded by Rosemary Nickle, the award is presented to the best postal history exhibit at a BNAPEX.
2011 – Henrrik Burgers – Canadians in Russia 1918-1920 The Last Contingent of World War I
2010 – William G. Robinson – Canadian Participation in the Anglo-Boer War
2009 - Hendrik Burgers – Canadians in Russia. The Last Contingent of WWI
2008 - David Hobden In Defense of the Border – Canadian Military Mails 1667 – 1885
2007 - W.G. Robinson Canadian Military Presence in Siberia 1918-1920
2006 - Colin Pomfret - Canadian Airmen in the Great War
2005 - Pete Gray - Canadian Internment Camps in WWII
2004 - Dwight D. Gray - Canadian Internment Camps in World War II
2003 - no award
2002 - John Powell --- Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force "D"
2001 - no award
2000 - no award
1999 - no award
1998 - no award
1997 - Kevin O'Reilly - Postal History of Labrador
1996 - Horace Harrison - Express Company Operations, Competing with the Post Office in Quebec & Ontario
1995 - Robert Parsons - Steamboat Mail in Eastern Canada
1994 - Vic Willson - Canadian Rates and Routes to North American Destinations 1859-1914
