Pacific Northwest Regional Group of BNAPS The PNWRG of BNAPS has announced that their spring meeting will be held at the Fairmont Hot Springs Resort May 10 and 11. The group plans a no host dinner on May 10 and philatelic events on the forenoon of both May 10 and 11. The group will spend the afternoons of May 10 and 11 with their partners in tours of Ft. Steele and the second to the Railway Museum.PNWRG Announces Spring Meeting Venue
This Kootney based resort is also a spa and partners can subject themselves to being boiled in oil, having cucumber slices placed on their eyes and hot rocks on their backs while the other half enjoys a philatelic meeting. The golf course will be open and the Fairmont has lots of classy RV parking.
Because of it's location the PNWRG hopes many of their Alberta based counterparts will join them for the meeting.
Registration is through PNWRG Chairman Pete Jacobi or Editor John Burnett. Email Pete at pjacobi@shaw.ca or John at jb45855@aol.com and they will see you get registration material. Registration will also include an Italian buffet on Saturday evening and a really neat after dinner speaker.
PNWRG Holds Semi Annual Weekend Meeting at White Rock BC PHOTOS: Ken Pugh giving talk on forgeries, Tim Woodland speaking., John Burnett re Small Queens., Tracy Cooper in mail clerk regalia, Pete Jacobi praying at bourseOver the weekend of October 13 - 15, 2006, the PNWRG held its semi annual regional meeting at the Pacific Inn near White Rock BC. The meeting started on Friday evening with a two dealer bourse and an honor bar in our hospitality suite. We sure hope our dealers made some money from the event. I can attest to doing my share!
The regional meeting on Saturday had two distinct parts, the first a day excursion for the non collecting partners and the second a philatelic day for the members.
The partners excursion was led by Eileen Jacobi who took the spouses on a short tour of the coastal city of White Rock and then onto Steveston, on Lulu Island for a tour of the Gulf of Georgia Cannery. My wife tells me it was cold in the cannery, but the tour was great. The group then had a no host lunch in Steveston.
Arline Burnett persuaded the majority of spouses to join her at "Dave's Fish and Chips". I was raised on Lulu Island and believe Dave's makes the best fish and chips on the west coast, this seemed to be borne out from the comments I heard later in the evening. The group then headed to a wine tasting at "Domaine de Chabertin" a winery in Langley BC.
The philatelic program was a gem. We had five speakers each taking about one hour.
Ken Pugh spoke on forgeries of the Ottawa (Senate) and the Victoria and Esquimalt crown cancels. It is amazing just how many forgeries there are on these cancels. Ken has a new book in process and I can't wait to get my hands on one. We also welcomed Ken as a new BNAPS member. It is conceivable that he is the shortest tenured member to address BNAPS, having been a member for only a few minutes before he spoke.
Tracy Cooper put up a marvelous exhibit of advertising covers of Vancouver. I'm a native of Vancouver and was amazed at how many memories he brought back for me. I guess I'm getting old when someone puts up exhibit material from places I used to frequent as a youth.
Peter Jacobi showed a great collection of covers from the Arrow Lake Routes from Revelstoke to Robson. Some of these cancels are extremely rare as some of these towns were drowned with the damming of the river to form the lake and it was a pleasure to see them. John Burnett showed an overhead view of his small queen collection and told some stories that were tied to a number of the acquisitions. The philatelic day ended with another new BNAPSer, Tim Woodland spoke on the lumber industry post offices of the British Columbia coast. Again, another great presentation just full of information.
In the evening we met for a catered dinner and a guest speaker. Roy Strang spoke to the group on an area in Surrey British Columbia known as "Sunnyside Acres" an area of 120 hectares set aside in Surrey to remain an untouched forest. This feat of putting aside the last remaining transition woods on the lower mainland was a very difficult thing to accomplish. Just think of the value of this property to developers, yet this man along with other volunteers got the law changed to protect this property in perpetuity, well don Roy! Sunday morning saw us join and have a neat breakfast and say our farewells for another six months.
- John Burnett, event reporter
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