The senior regional group of the British North America Philatelic Society - formed 1956,
still meets regularly
- this page updated: April 14, 2006.
Except for special occasions, BNAPS Calgary meets 10 times per year, on the second Wednesday of each month, September through June.
NEW MEETING PLACE Cardel Theatre 6010 - 12 Avenue S. E. Time: Doors open 6:30 PM, Program starts 7:00 PM contact Jon Johnson 39 Hillgrove Cresc. SW, Calgary, AB T2V 3K8, Canada; 403-253-8411; e-mail |
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Program Information
February, 2007 Meeting
The Group will meet Wednesday, February 14, 2007, at 6:30 pm (doors open), 7:00 pm (meeting begins); at Cardel board room (upstairs), 6010 - 12th Street SE, Calgary.
Speaker Eldon Godfrey will address us on the topic: King George VI Mufti Issue, 1937 - 42.
Please bring along any item for which you have a tender spot, for show and tell. Or something that you have a question about and would like help from other members.
We have until the March meeting, March 14, to put together 15 one page exhibits. So for those of you who are energetic, it might be a good idea to get your one page exhibit started right away. Then we could have an advance peek at them during the February meeting. Maybe you could use a particular stamp in the one page exhibit that you can not locate. No one else knows what you are looking for and some one else in the group may have one. Should you happen to be lucky enough to have two ideas for one page exhibits, write up both!!
Our fifteen (hopefully) one page exhibits will be mounted in a single frame at the Edmonton National, March 23 - 25, at the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton. The expectation is that both the Edmonton Stamp Club and Calgary Philatelic Society will each have a frame as well. If we can keep up to both of them we will be doing really well.
Our plans for BNAPEX 2007 CALTAPEX are progressing well. I expect that there will be lots of news of the show details in the next month and a half. Block out Aug 31 - Sept 1/2 on your calendars.
December, 2006 Meeting
The regular meeting of the Calgary BNAPS Group was celebrated as a Christmas party and a one page exhibit by members and guests. 24 participated in a fun evening at the Danish Canadian Club. Chairman Jon Johnson welcomed everyone and after a libation or two the dinner was a buffet and following the dinner, Bill Wilson circulated 6 Skill testing Christmas contests for fun prizes. Members and guests displayed their one page exhibits as examples of the single page/one frame Club competition that is growing in popularity with each page being judged on the following 5 factors.
(o) - Objective (s) Subjective
Points are awarded as follows: One each for Title and Story, Three for elements,
Two for Knowlege and Creativity and Three for Creativity and presentation.
Award Levels are 5-6 points Bronze,
7-8 points Silver,
9-10 points Gold.
For the evening Three judges were selected from the non collectors present and after due diligence awards were made to the various competitors. The object of the one page exhibit is to get more people into the exhibiting process at stamp shows and the pages are put into a one frame exhibit and clubs can compete with each other at this level, in a fun activity.The evening concluded with best wishes for the New Year.
June 14, 2006 Meeting
The final meeting the BNAPS-Calgary Group for the 2005-2006 season took place on Wednesday the 14th of June . Jim Taylor acted as Chairman as Jon Johnson was away. Ed Harris was able to attend with his right wrist in a cast. It is healing slowly. 14 members attended. Jim attended the American Philatelic show in Washington and reported on the terrific attendance and the great exhibits.He announced that BNAPEX will take place in Calgary in 2007 on the Labour Day weekend, and in 2008 in Halifax. Ameripex in Riverside California will have a five frame exhibit from our membership.
Speaker of the day was Dr. Earle Covert, former President of BNAPS. He addressed on the special envelopes, both from the Post Office and from other provincial government services. These were designed to replace the Special Delivery mail. The anomalies present in the various printings provide for varieties galore and make for an interesting collection area.
Following the presentation and a question and answer session, members circulated various items from their collections .
An election took place and Jon Johnson was acclaimed chairman for the coming year.
BNAPS Calgary-Group held it's regular monthly meeting at the Cardell Centre with 14 members in attendance. Chairman Jon Johnson outlined a number of upcoming shows, starting with the Calgary Philatelic Society Spring Show April 29 & 30. There will be a limited non-competitive exhibition. Mention was made of Orapezx in Ottawa, Pipex in Spokane, BNAPEX in Sudbury September 1 -3, VANPEX, and Royal-Royale 2006 in Calgary September 29 to October 1st. with a section of the Queen Elizabeth Collection of Canadian material, much never shown before. Well in advance for planning, he announced that the BNAPS Christmas party will be held at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on December 8th.
A lively inter-change took place when members provided some interesting circulation of show and tell material.Topics covered included e-bay, new material regarding nurses during world War II in many locales throughout the world, some very interesting double perfs on coils from the Centennial era, Booklet panes with missing perfs, Zepplin Covers to and from Canada, a look at some Large and Small Queen stamps, an item from the Quebec Tercentenary and a letter by a ships captain in the Arctic to a young school boy in New York State explaining what work they were doing prior to returning south for refit.
The evening program was presented by Dr. Don Thompson on theft of stamp collections, including his own, a numnber of years ago, and the convoluted approach by police forces to apprehend the thieves. He outlined the bargaining away of prosecution in exchange for a long list of thefts of other material. It took years for some of the items to turn up and then to establish provenance, with catalogues and photographs. It was a riveting description and then the indication that less than 5% of stolen material (stamps etc.) is recovered. The duplicity was astounding and the main thief who trained accomplices, and married one so she couldn't give evidence against him. He was convicted on minor items but while in prison trained inmates to come out and work for him. He still operates and travels the world, robbing hotel rooms, apartments, houses and condominiums. He is out of jail at present and living the high life. His name is Darryl Vincent and the press in parts of Canada have made him an icon of sorts. Keep your eyes peeled for him he could move in next door or compromise your security by buying off the man who is supposed to protect you and your property. He dresses like a millionaire and is very polite all the time.
March 8, 2006
Seventeen members of BNAPS Calgary Group attended the regular monthly meeting at the Cardel Centre on Wednesday March 8, 2006. Chairman Jon Johnson announced some upcoming shows of interest, in particular the Pacific North West Regional Group holding their spring meeting in Kelowna on April 8th. A number of members will be attending. The same goes for the Edmonton Spring Show which runs at the end of March. He also outlined The Royal 2006 Show sponsored by the Calgary Philatelic Society September 29 - October 1, featuring a portion of Queen Elizabeth II 's BNA Collection as selected by President Charles Verge of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada. This is the first time that much of the material will be shown to the public, the curator will bring the selections from England. The members of Calgary BNAPS will perform duties of Docents during the three days. The collection has been amassed over the years by King George V and VI as well as the Queen. A major contribution by an anonymous donor of $25,000 has helped defray the expenses to move the collection to and from Canada.
Jon also outlined plans to hold a joint BNAPEX/CALTAPEX SHOW, Aug31- September 2, 2007 at the Westin Hotel in Calgary.
Following the Business meeting, Bill Pawluk made a presentation on the Numeral Issue of 1898. Drawing on his years of study, Bill revealed a tremendous knowledge of a complex stamp issue. There were rate changes that took place in this issue over it's short span, and wet printing that produced both narrow and wide printings. Indeed, following the death of Queen Victoria and while Edward VII was at the start of his reign, a new stamp in the series with the Queens image was realeased to meet a rate change. Bill also circulated black and White print proofs of much of the Series.
Following his presentation, show and tell presented a number of interesting items including Hans Steinbock showing a page on Zepplin mail into and from Canada. These will be entered in the Edmonton Show. Several other items were also circulated.
February 8th
BNAPS, Calgary Group had 17 members in attendance at our Wednesday, February 8th meeting. A very full agenda lasted two hours. Jon Johnson the Chairman announced a number of shows that may interest our members, including the Spring Show for Edmonton in March, the Pacific Northwest Group April 8th, with Ameri Stamp Expo in Toronto on the same weekend. Five members are putting together one frame exhibits never before shown in special categories that normally would not be exhibited.
Also he announced that the American Philatelic Society show is May 27 to June 4th in Washington DC. BNAPEX will be Labour Day weekend in Sudbury, Ontario and the Royal will be held in Calgary Sept. 29 to October 1st with a portion of Queen Eliabeth's personal collection inherited from her father and grandfather, and with items never seen on display. At the show Charles Verge who visited Buckingham Palace and picked out the items to be shown will address the BNAPS Breakfast at the Royal to explain his choices. Calgary BNAPS will act as Docents for the Exhibition to take people on tours of the Queen's Exhibit.
The Calgary group voted to bid for the 2007 BNAPEX and to combine the show with the Calgary Philatelic Society and their fall CALTAPEX show. The chairman will convene a meeting with members to delegate people to help plan the show. The last time it was held in Calgary was in 1985.
Ed Harris and Hugh Delaney circulated the new book of the BNAPS-Calgary Group, "Letters from the Far West." Orders were taken and discussions ensued re arrangements to sell books at various shows . Alex Price an ex BNAPS Calgary Group member and an outstanding BNA Collector and Exhibitor sent a letter about the book and commended everyone for their work, as authors and for the quality of the book overall. Gray Scrimgeour also reviewed the book for BNAPS and the Postal History Society and recommended the book for all BNAPS collectors. The BNAPS Web Site also carries Gray's comments.
The evening's speaker was Julius Szekrenyes who presented a slide show of Calgary post cards which provided a tremendous historical look at the growth of the City from the early 1880's to the present Day. Following his presentation, members circulated some items that they could share with everyon including some that tied into Julius's talk and others showed some new finds in their areas of interest. Welcomed back after several years away was founding member Gordon Hill.
The meeting adjourned at 8:55 pm.
April 12, 2006
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