REGIONAL GROUPS
Updated: Jan 15, 2012

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In several areas throughout the United States and Canada BNAPS members have formed regional groups (listed below) which meet two times a year, or more. Meetings are much like mini-conventions, some lasting the weekend, during which strong philatelic friendships flourish, and both knowledge and material are exchanged.

If you love BNA stamps and covers, and enjoy meeting others who share your enthusiasm, you are likely to find the benefits of a BNAPS regional group worth the Society dues alone.

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Vice-President, Regional Groups:

J. A. (Jack) Forbes Jr., P.O. Box 38205, Dartmouth, NS, B3B 1X2, Canada; 902-434-1960; e-mail.

For a report of the Regional Groups' meeting at BNAPEX in Kingston Sept 2009, please click HERE.

For a report of the Regional Groups' meeting at BNAPEX in Victoria Sept 2010, please click HERE.

The following list incorporates all known upcoming Regional Group Meetings. If yours is not listed please contact Jack Forbes.

  1. Jan 29, 2012 - Golden Horseshoe - Ted Nixon - Small Queens
  2. Feb 8, 2012 - Calgary - Bill Pawluk - TBA
  3. March 14, 2012 - Calgary - Bruce Caw - TBA
  4. March 25, 2012 - Golden Horseshoe - Peter McCarthy - Mail by Rail, The Early Years
  5. April 11, 2012 - Calgary
  6. May 5, 2012 - St Lawrence Seaway Regional Group at Orapex
  7. May 9, 2012 - Calgary
  8. May 27, 2012 - Golden Horseshoe - Larry Cherns - TBA
  9. June 3, 2012 - BNAPS Breakfast at Royal 2012 Edmonton
  10. June 13, 2012 - Calgary

Atlantic Provinces Regional Group:

(NS, NB, PEI, Newfoundland & Labrador) J. A. (Jack) Forbes Jr., P.O. Box 2010, Dartmouth, NS B2W 3X8, Canada; 902-434-1960; e-mail; another contact is secretary-treasurer Gary Steele. The Group's webpage is found HERE

British Isles:

Greg Spring - 25 Kirkstall Road, Sheffield, UK, S11 8XJ; email.

Calgary:

(Calgary and surroundings)

Much More Info!, NEW covers feature, Review of new Calgary RG book!.

Jon Johnson - 39 Hillgrove Cresc. SW, Calgary, AB T2V 3K8, Canada; 403-253-8411; e-mail

Dixie Beavers:

(Alabama, Georgia, Carolinas, Mississippi, Tennessee)

Sammy Whaley, P.O. Box 235, Opp, Alabama 36467 USA; phone: (334) 493-3405; email.

John Burnett email.

Edmonton:

(Edmonton and surroundings)

(meeting dates),

David Piercey, Phone: (780) 437-2771 , e-mail

Florida:

(State of Florida)

Formation Information,

Mark Issacs, PO Box 52453, Sarasota, FL, 34232. Phone: (941) 951-1419 ,

Golden Horseshoe :

(southern Ontario, NW New York, E. Michigan and N. Ohio)

Information about Golden Horseshoe meetings.

Contact: Peter McCarthy, 573 Griffith St., London, ON N6K 2S5, Canada; 519-473-6019; e-mail (BNAPS-GHRG@bnaps.org).

Golden West:

(California, Arizona, Nevada)

See Information on Golden West Meetings!. Joe Schlitt, P.O. Box 263, Knightsen, CA 94548 USA; 925-487-2838; e-mail.

Lower Canada / Bas Canada:

(Quebec)

Two contacts: Hugo Deshaye H.D. Philatelist, P.O. Box 1000 Station FORCES Box 444, Courcelette, Quebec, CANADA, G0A 4Z0; e-mail: and
Michael Rixon, c/o NDi Media, 1751 rue Richardson, Suite 7.509, Montreal, QC, H3K 1G6, Canada; Tel: 514-933-7126; e-mail.

Manitoba-Northwestern Ontario:

(Manitoba, Northern Ontario, Minnesota, Dakotas)

Group History

Meetings

Don Fraser, 1183 Warsaw Ave., Winnipeg, MB, R3M 1C5, Canada; Phone: (204) 453-1000 e-mail.

Midwest:

(Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana)

Mid-Atlantic:

(Virginia, West Virginia, DC, Delaware)

Jeff Arndt, 4121 Marble Lane, Fairfax, VA 22033 USA; (703) 378-2545; e-mail

Report of August, 2010 meeting of this group.

Northeastern :

(Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maryland, Massachusetts)

New website .

P. Charles Livermore, 100-08 Ascan Avenue, Forest Hills, NY 11375-6014 USA, phone: 718-544-5326, e-mail
(Meetings approximately first weekend in November, last weekend in May)

Pacific-Northwest:

(BC, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Yukon)

PNWRG web site     PNWR at VANPEX 2007.

Chairman and Newsletter Editor: Peter Fralick, P.O. Box 34, Hagensborg, BC, V0T 1H0, Canada; phone: (250-982-2474) e-mail.

Texas Prairie Beavers:

(Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana)

[newsletters: 32(3) (October, 2007); 33(3) (December, 2008)].

George B. Dresser, 501 Fairview Ave., College Station TX 77840-2933 USA; phone 979-696-4361, Email

St. Lawrence Seaway:

(Eastern Ontario)

Meetings

Geoff Newman, 13 Scott Cres, Perth ON K7H 3C5 Canada, Phone: (613) 264-1290,
e-mail, c/o Group Secretary, Chris Anstead.

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