Released December 2006 BNAPS is pleased to announce that Colin Lewis' NEWFOUNDLAND POSTAL HISTORY
1857 1899 becomes the 42nd volume in the series and John Walsh's
NEWFOUNDLAND 1897 ROYAL FAMILY, DEAD LETTER SEAL AND MAP STAMPS is the 43rd. Colin Lewis was introduced to philately as a 5-year old in World War II Wales,
and to Newfoundland philately a few years later when his cousin and her husband,
a Newfoundlander who had served in the Royal Navy, responded to his request for
stamps with a package that contained lots of beautiful stamps from the Colony. Figuring out the postal history of
Newfoundland in the period of the exhibit was no easy task. Although in 1856
the British Government authorised the issue of Newfoundland postage stamps,
stamps were slow to become popular and many continued to send letters
unpaid, the recipient paying upon delivery. Alternatively, postage could
still be fully paid or part paid in cash, with the amount paid normally
endorsed on the item in red crayon together with a paid handstamp. Newfoundland Postal History
1857 1899 is divided into four sections: 1) The Pence period - 1857 to 6 April 1865; With encouragement from his father, John Walsh began collecting Newfoundland
stamps in the 1950s. His intent was to own each of the stamps issued by his
birthplace, Newfoundland, and of his country, Canada. As school progressed his
stamp interest waned until the 1970s when his interest was renewed. Deciding to
one day exhibit what he collected, he went through several stages of
development, learning through experience a style of collecting that was able to
withstand the vigour of competitive exhibiting and going down that path. Along
the way he researched and wrote about his findings in philatelic journals such
as BNA Topics, journal of the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS),
and the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada's Canadian Philatelist. Encouragement from a group of distinguished philatelist at CAPEX '87 spurred him
on and with his friend, the late John Butt, he published The Newfoundland
Specialized Stamp Catalogue. Early in 2006 he published the catalogue's 6th
Edition, now grown to almost 500 pages with the inclusion of the stamps of
Classic Canada to 1951, and the Colonies before Confederation. For all values are shown proofs, issued stamps, and errors where they are known.
The exhibit is strong in postally used covers mailed to seven general
destinations: Newfoundland Local; Newfoundland Inland; Canada; the United
States; the United Kingdom; British Empire and Foreign. Many of the illustrated
rates were very difficult to find due to both their rarity and not often being
available on the philatelic market. Notable are multiple weight rate covers as
well those that feature registration with multiple weight rates. A particular
favourite is a spectacular cover with the Dead Letter Seal used for its intended
purpose. Newfoundland 1897 Royal Family, Dead Letter Seal and Map Stamps is being
published simultaneously with Colin Lewis's Newfoundland Postal History 1857
1899, providing Newfoundland collectors and collectors in general a broad view
of Newfoundland philately. Published November 2006
Plating Studies on Prince Edward Island Stamps I.
The Two Pence Issue - Scott #1 and #5, 2006, by Kenneth A. Kershaw. In Plating Studies on Prince Edward Island Stamps I.
The Two Pence Issue - Scott #1 and #5 Ken Kershaw continues his phenomenal
output of plating information and new discoveries, expanding his work beyond
the plating of Canada's Half Cent Maple Leaf and Christmas Map Stamps to the
Pence issues of Prince Edward Island. As outlined in an article in the
Second Quarter 2006 issue of BNA Topics, while working on the Two Pence
stamp Ken discovered that a major variety, previously believed to be
constant, did not in fact appear in all sheets. In the process he discovered
a significant previously unreported variety in the adjacent stamp. This newest book is the first of at least five Ken
plans for the PEI Pence issues. Two more are very near completion, and the
fourth is well along. He promises that in the next volume he will reveal a
most interesting discovery relating to the very structure of the plate
material and how this affects the stamps printed from the plates. Ken Kershaw was born in England and became
fascinated by plants at an early age. He graduated from Manchester
University with a B Sc degree in Botany in 1952. After military service he
went on to a Ph. D. degree working on pattern in vegetation, and was
appointed lecturer in Plant Ecology at Imperial College London in 1957. He
was seconded to Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria for two years.
On his return to Imperial College he became involved with lichen ecology,
particularly in alpine and arctic areas, in addition to his work on computer
modeling and data analysis. He obtained his D Sc in 1965 and was appointed
Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton in 1969. His research was then
devoted heavily to the ecology of the Canadian low arctic and northern
boreal forest areas, and in 1982 he was elected a fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada. He is the author of several university texts. Ken's passion for wild plants has been transferred
to Canadian philately. He sees his plating work simply as the "taxonomy of
bits of paper" and after a lifetime of plant taxonomy finds it a fairly
straightforward and fascinating hobby. Published August 2006
When people think of the end of World War I they
usually recall that the war ended on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
But it didn't! Although the Armistice in Western Europe took effect on that
day and at that time, it did not end the fighting in the east, in Russia,
where the Bolshevik forces of Vladimir Lenin were still trying to take over
the vast country. Canada was asked to send forces to assist the British Army
units still active in Russia. A few Canadians went to Russia early in 1918 but the
majority were not sent until much later that year. The main tasks of the
Canadian Expeditionary Force (Siberia) [CEF(S)] were to protect the
Czechoslovak Legion from the Bolsheviks and to guard the 700,000 tons of
allied military supplies which had been stockpiled in Vladivostok. The first units of the CEF(S) reached Vladivostok in
October 1918 and eventually grew to 3,800 officers and men (and one Nursing
Sister). The last members of the Canadian units were repatriated from
Siberia by 5 June 1919, and from Northern Russia (Murmansk) by 12 October
1919. Henk Burgers' career with the Royal Canadian
Engineers (RCE) and the post-1967 Canadian Military Engineers (CME) took him
on assignments as far apart as Alert, NWT, Germany with NATO forces, and
Egypt with the United Nations Emergency Force. Upon retirement from the
military in 1984 he was able to resume his childhood philatelic hobby, with
an added interest in military postal history, and was Editor of the
Newsletter of the BNAPS Military Mail Study Group. While looking for
material for his collection Henk was fortunate to come across the Keene and
Fennell military correspondences, which were previously unknown. Covers and
postcards from these finds are being published here for the first time and
form the major part of the volume. 'Canadians in Russia: the Last Contingent of World
War I' is an important addition to the field of Canadian Military Postal
History.
The BNAPS Catalogue of Canadian Military Mail
Markings, Volume 3 From Victory in 1945 to Afghanistan; by C. Douglas
Sayles (Editor). 2006. Spiral bound, 314 pp. 8.5 x 11. ISBN
0-919854-91-5 Stock # B4h025.3. C$47.95 The result of several years of hard work by Doug
Sayles, Volume 3 of the new 'BNAPS Catalogue of Canadian Military Mail
Markings' is a complete reworking and updating of the previous catalogues
published by the late W.J. Bailey and E.R. Toop (B&T). The reworking
consists of a completely new numbering system built around keeping
cancellations from individual military locations (by era or type) in a
single group, and ordering them by marking shape and size. Each new
catalogue number is cross referenced to a B&T number if one existed, and in
the Appendices there is a reverse cross reference from B&T numbers to the
new 'BNAPS' numbers. The spiral binding and heavy paper used in the
Sayles' catalogue are intended to allow collectors to use it to record and
annotate their holdings and, with luck, find new and previously unreported
items. Because the military postal markings of the
post-World War II era formed the smallest part of the B&T catalogues, Doug
decided to start with them and to name this Volume 3. All cancellations,
both those previously recorded and the more than 650 new cancellations
unknown to B&T, have been reproduced in excellent illustrations. Volumes 1
and 2, covering military activity in Canada from the 1800s through 1945,
will be published in due course and will follow the style and format of
Volume 3. SPECIAL OFFER to members: Buy 'The BNAPS Catalogue
of Canadian Military Mail Markings, Volume 3 From Victory in 1945 to
Afghanistan' at the members' price and you may also purchase the two volume
'Canadian Military Postal Markings' by Bailey and Toop' (Stock # B4h429.0),
at a special net price for members of C$ 45.00. The books will be mailed
together to minimize postage costs.
The BNAPS Book Department is pleased to announce the
release of the newest BNAPS handbook: The Post Office in Canada: A Chronology of Facts,
Feats, and Firsts from the French Regime to 1981, Second edition; by
Thomas A. Hillman and E. R. Toop. 2006. Spiral Bound, 166pp, 8.5 x 11. Many
colour illustrations. 'The Post Office in Canada: A Chronology of Facts,
Feats, and Firsts' presents the reader with a series of small, varied
and even eclectic encyclopaedia format notes. Every entry has a full citation
to the source of the information; a primary source, if possible, or a
reputable secondary source. Much more than an annotated time line, this
history of the Canadian Post Office Department's operation, from the French
Regime in the 17th Century to 'privatization' in 1981, is a 'good read' and
should be of interest to all collectors of the philately of Canada and the
provinces before Confederation. Tom Hillman retired after a thirty year career at
the Public Archives of Canada, later the National Archives of Canada, now
Library and Archives Canada. As an archivist, he was responsible for the
Records of the Post Office Department. One of his major tasks was to prepare
a new inventory description for all of the Post Office textual records
(Record Group 3) held by the Public Archives of Canada, which was published
in 1985. Tom also oversaw the preparation of the electronic version of the
postal history record cards which provide data on the names of post offices
and tenure dates of postmasters for all post offices in Canada from earliest
times to the mid-1980s. His first BNAPS book, 'The Post Office Department
and the Parliamentary Record in Canada', published in 1993, catalogued
references to many aspects of Post Office operation found in records of
parliamentary debates as well as the laws and regulations passed by
Parliament. After retiring from the Royal Canadian Air Force as
a Major (Squadron Leader), the late E.R. 'Ritch' Toop worked from 1972 to
1985 as Special Projects Officer and then Philatelic Research Officer at the
National Postal Museum. A regular participant at exhibitions and
conventions, Ritch also wrote numerous articles on a wide variety of
subjects and co-authored six authoritative handbooks concerning Canada's
military postal history, most notably, with W.J. Bailey, the two-volume
'Canadian Military Postal Markings', which was published in 1996. Originally published in 2003 by Auxano Philatelic
Services, the second edition of 'The Post Office in Canada: A Chronology of
Facts, Feats, and Firsts from the French Regime to 1981' is the latest BNAPS
handbook. The second edition, which includes several corrections, has been
prepared with improved images and a revised layout to permit printing of
illustrations in colour where required at a lower cost than the first
edition. SPECIAL OFFER to members: Buy 'The Post Office in
Canada: A Chronology of Facts, Feats, and Firsts from the French Regime to
1981, Second edition' at the members' price and you may also purchase Tom
Hillman's previous book, 'The Post Office Department and the
Parliamentary Record in Canada' (Stock # B4h717.0), at a special net
price for members of C$6.50. The books will be mailed together to minimize
postage costs.
The Dead Letter Office in Canada 1830-2002, An
illustrated postal history, Second Edition'; 2006; Brian C. Plain. Spiral
Bound, 156pp, 8.5 x 11. Shortly after embarking on a personal study of items
of undelivered Canadian mail, Brian Plain discovered that there was no
comprehensive reference dealing with the Dead Letter Office in Canada. What
little information was available consisted of a few articles in philatelic
journals and the occasional mention in a book. Only after several years
spent combing through dealers' stock, tracking auction sales, and
researching material did a clear picture of this rather obscure postal
service finally emerge. At the prompting of philatelic friends Brian decided
to collate his findings in a book, The Dead Letter Office in Canada
1830-2002, published in 2003 by Auxano Publishing. More than 100 pages of
Dead Letter Office history were illustrated in colour by many covers, some
unique, and complemented by the first ever identification of DLO handstamps
by type as well as 23 pages of tables listing known DLO cancellations. BNAPS
is pleased to present the second edition. Not only have the listings been
expanded by seven pages but the numbering system has also been completely
revised so that it can be used for future reference in articles, books and
catalogues. The primary purpose of 'The Dead Letter Office in
Canada 1830-2002' is to make collectors aware of the history and operation
of the Dead Letter Office. Students of BNA postal history should find the
information provided will assist them to more clearly define the travels of
a mailed item. For town cancel specialists, the databases provided will help
identify markings they might wish to pursue for their own collections. The author hopes that his small contribution to the
philatelic literature of Canada will be of benefit to a wide range of
collectors, and that it might serve to stimulate more interest in collecting
'back of the book' material. 29 July 2006 - Due to continuing sales, the BNAPS
Book Department has been pleased to reprint eight books. Unfortunately costs
for printing, binding and a higher grade of paper have risen since these
were first produced, and the retail price of three titles must be increased
effective immediately. They are: B4h923.16 - The Broken Circle Postmarks of Canada,
by Gray Scrimgeour, BNAPS Exhibit Book #16, from C$27.95 to C$32.95 B4h923.3 - British Columbia Express Covers from 1858
to 1900 by Robert Carr, OTB BNAPS Exhibit Book #1, from C$19.95 to C$21.95 B4h014.0 - British Columbia Hotel Covers, 1880 To
1920 by Ken Ellison, OTB from C$84.00 to C$92.00 The BNAPS Book Department regrets that any changes
are needed, but trusts members understand that costs for many goods and
services are rising.
The
BNAPS Book Department is pleased to announce that it has acquired the
copyrights to and remaining stock of all four volumes of THE CANADIAN
CHRISTMAS MAP STAMP OF 1898, A DEFINITIVE PLATING STUDY by Kenneth A.
Kershaw and Roger Boisclair. Using todays computer technology to its
fullest extent, plating of the ever popular Map Stamp has been taken to a
new level undreamed of by the pioneers in the field. The series was produced
between 2002 and 2004. RETAIL PRICES FOR ALL BOOKS IN THE SERIES HAVE BEEN
LOWERED, AND THE 40% DISCOUNT FOR BNAPS MEMBERS WILL ALSO NOW APPLY. The
books available are: B4h023.0 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 1-4, 2004, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. and
Boisclair, Roger. The complete set of four books on plating the Map Stamp,
together in one volume. Black and white version, 8.5 x 11, 3-ring binder,
374 pp. C$61.95 B4h023.11 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 1-4, 2004, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. and
Boisclair, Roger. The complete set of four books on plating the Map Stamp,
together in one volume. Colour version, 8.5 x 11, 3-ring binder, 374 pp.
C$235.00 B4h023.21 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 1, 2002, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. Map Stamp
re-entries, right-hand and lower cable changes are demonstrated in highly
magnified images. Colour version, 8.5 x 11, Cerlox (metal) bound, 74 pp.
C$70.00 B4h023.31 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 2, 2002, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. Highly
magnified images help the collector plate Map Stamps from Plates 1-3. Colour
version, 8.5 x 11, Cerlox (plastic) bound, 100 pp. C$90.00 B4h023.41 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 3, 2003, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. Highly
magnified images help the collector plate Map Stamps from Plate 5. Colour
version, 8.5 x 11, Cerlox (metal) bound, 100 pp. C$90.00 B4h023.51 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 4, 2004, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. and Boisclair,
Roger. Highly magnified images help the collector plate Map Stamps from
Plate 4. Colour version, 8.5 x 11, Cerlox (plastic) bound, 100 pp. C$90.00 B4h023.71 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 1, 2004, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. and Boisclair,
Roger. The complete set of four books on plating the Map Stamp together in
one volume, colour version, 8.5 x 11, 3-ring binder, 374 pp. Special
printed on one side only, 1 copy only - C$189.00 B4h023.8 The Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A
Definitive Plating Study, Vol. 1, 2004, by Kershaw, Kenneth A. and Boisclair,
Roger. The complete set of four books on plating the Map Stamp together in
one volume, black and white version, 8.5 x 11, 3-ring binder, 374 pp.
Special printed on one side only, 1 copy only - C$50.00 Published July 2006
One Hundred Years over the Waters, Mail by Ship in
and around Nova Scotia from Mid-18th to Mid-19th Century; J.J. MacDonald, 2006.
Spiral Bound, 86pp, 8.5 x 11 BNAPS Exhibit Series #40. ISBN: 0-919854-83-4
(colour), 0-919854-84-2 (b&W). J.J. MacDonald, a true Nova Scotian, was the
pre-eminent postal historian of his native province and author of The Nova
Scotia Post: Its Officers, Masters and Marks, 17001867 (Unitrade, 1985). In
addition to describing the development and organisation of the postal system
in Nova Scotia, the book had the primary objective of presenting a complete
listing, with accurate illustrations, of all Nova Scotia postal markings. J.J. viewed his exhibit, One Hundred Years over the
Waters, Mail by Ship in and around Nova Scotia from Mid-18th to Mid19th
Century, as a fun project. Gems from a lifetime of collecting are used
to illustrate how mail was carried by sea to and from Nova Scotia, as well
as within Nova Scotia, from the mid-1700s to the time Nova Scotia entered
Confederation. During this era, prepaid letters replaced collection of
postage on delivery; towards the end of the period steam ships were
replacing sailing ships. Features of the exhibit include letters from the
1750s and 1760s, scarce ship letter markings, covers bearing the name of the
ship that would transport them, one salvaged from a shipwreck and others
that had a gratuity paid to the ship's captain for transport on a private
vessel, an example carried by a friend as a Letter of favour, and unusual
rates. Nova Scotia changed from sterling to decimal currency on October 1,
1860. One of the covers, used on October 2, 1860, is the only recorded cover
franked with both sterling and decimal stamps. There are also two genuine bisects: an 1857 cover
from Parrsborough to Liverpool, UK has a bisected 3d Nova Scotia stamp, and
a 1865 cover from Halifax to St. John's has a bisected 2’ stamp. One Hundred Years over the Waters will be of
interest not only to postal historians, but to anyone interested in the
history of Nova Scotia itself.
The BNAPS Book
Department is pleased to announce the release of the newest BNAPS handbook
A Canadian Postal History 1897-1911: The Maple Leaf, Numeral, and King
Edward Era, by George B. Arfken and William S. Pawluk Details: 2006; 320 pp, 8.5 x 11. ISBN: 0-919854-71-0
(colour edition, spiral); 0-919854-72-9 (b&w edition, spiral); 0919854- 85-0
(colour edition, hardbound). Retail Prices: A Canadian Postal History, 1897-1911 is a wonderful
and amazing book, even if the authors don't mind saying so themselves.
Modesty aside, it should be 'The' definitive book on this period for decades
to come. This is postal history; rates, routes and postal
markings of the latter part of the reign of Queen Victoria and that of
Edward VII, illustrated by almost 400 covers in beautiful colour. Unusual
routes such as Indochina via Vancouver, Shanghai and Hong Kong are noted. Postal markings such as the encircled T/15 are
discussed, second to fifth class mail explained, and unusual uses such as a
registered post card shown. This was a period of change. Numerous new
regulations, new stamps and new services came into being. Among the new
stamps were the Jubilees, Numerals, Maple Leaves, Imperial Penny Postage and
the Edwards, not to mention the first ever special delivery and postage due
stamps issued by Canada. One denomination disappeared: no more 1/2 cent
stamps! Why did the Canadian domestic rate drop to 2 cents
per half ounce on January 1, 1899? Why were postage due stamps issued? Why
was a post card charged as a letter? These and many other questions are
raised and answered in terms of regulations of Canada or the Universal
Postal Union, and often in terms of what lay behind the scene. The three new
services special delivery, insurance of registered mail and Acknowledgment
of Receipt (AR) are covered in detail. The earliest- known date use of each
definitive stamp is provided. Among the covers are many rare examples of a
single stamp used to pay a correct rate. A Canadian Postal History, 1897-1911, the work of
two dedicated authors with contributions from 18 collectors and four
dealers, is a treasure chest filled with rarities, some never before shown
publicly, that transcends any individual collection. It may be a long time before there is a second
binding, if ever. The hardbound price given above is valid only for the
first binding. MEMBERS WISHING A HARDBOUND COPY MUST PLACE THEIR
ORDERS WITH IAN KIMMERLY BY 24 JULY 2006. Published May 2006
Peter Jacobi's national level Gold award winning exhibit 'Mining - British Columbia's Heritage' was originally printed as the 11th volume in the BNAPS Exhibit Series. It has now been completely revised using scanned colour images, with more than 60 pages of new material added.
A Metallurgical Engineer, Peter began a career in the mining industry with summer jobs in Flin-Flon and Thompson, Manitoba. After graduation as he worked in the Dominican Republic and Saskatchewan before joining Cominco Ltd., where assignments took him to Pine Point, North West Territories, Kimberly and Trail, British Columbia and then to Vancouver. Now retired Pete lives with his wife, a retired teacher, in the White Rock area of Surrey, B.C. The Jacobi's spend a large part of each summer at their cabin in Montana. Pete took over as the Secretary of BNAPS after Alex Unwin's untimely death in February 2000. He also served as Chairman of VANPEX from 2001 to 2004.
After assembling reasonable collections of the stamps of both Germany and Canada, Pete credits Bill Robinson for getting him hooked on covers, postmarks and postal history at a local stamp show in Castlegar in 1984. His mining background and newfound love of postal history made creating
'Mining - British Columbia's Heritage' a natural choice. The exhibit shows in a philatelic setting the socio-economic impact of the mining & smelting industry on the early development of the province of British Columbia. The exhibit is organized with separate sections on the Mines, the Smelters, the Financial Side of Mining and a look at the continuation of the industry into the 21st Century.
The British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS) is pleased to announce the release of JAPANESE INTERNMENT IN CANADA 1941 - 1946 - A POSTAL HISTORY, Ken Ellison's study of an offshoot of Canadian Military Postal History of the Second World War. Ken has been developing the exhibit for several years; most recently, at BNAPEX 2005 in Edmonton, it was awarded a vermeil medal.
JAPANESE INTERNMENT IN CANADA 1941 - 1946 - A POSTAL HISTORY; Ken Ellison, 2006, Spiral Bound, 86 pages, 8.5 x 11 - BNAPS Exhibit Series #39. ISBN: 0-919854-78-8 (Colour), 0-919854-79-6 (B&W).
In December of 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Manila in the Philippines, 22,000 persons of Japanese origin were living on Canada's West Coast. Within a few months every one of them, whether Canadian born, naturalized citizen or new immigrant, were stripped of all civil rights and removed from the Coastal
Defence Zone to at least 100 miles inland. Here they were interned in camps, or allowed to go to farms in the interior of British Columbia or the rest of Canada.
During this period, no person of Japanese origin ever committed, or was accused of committing, a single act of espionage or sabotage, yet their farms, homes, stores and fishing boats were confiscated and they were banned from the British Columbia Coastal area.
Mail from these internees was deposited at the local post offices, where it was segregated and sent directly to the censor, usually in Vancouver but sometimes in Ottawa. Censorship of mails began in Vancouver on September 8, 1939 when the war with Germany began, and was stepped up on Japan's entry two years later. Censorship ended with the cessation of hostilities with Japan on August 16, 1945.
JAPANESE INTERNMENT IN CANADA 1941 - 1946 - A POSTAL HISTORY tells the postal and censoring story through a selection of mail from Japanese internees during their period of incarceration in various Canadian locations, and includes other related items.
Ken Ellison is the author/exhibitor of three recent BNAPS books - British Columbia Agricultural Exhibitions (2003), British Columbia Hotel Covers, 1880 to 1920 (2004) and Force 'C' - The Canadian Army's Hong Kong Story 1941-1945 (revised in colour, 2005). He has also written or co-edited several local histories, including Price Ellison - History Of An Okanagan Pioneer Family (1988), Valley Of Dreams, an illustrated history of Vernon, BC - 1992), Irrigation Is King! (the story of water/irrigation in Oyama, BC - 2000) and A Family Album (an Ellison family pictorial history - 2001).
Ken Kershaw's Plating the More Distinctive
Re-entries in the Half Cent Maple Leaf Stamp II. Plating Criteria and
Detailed Descriptions of the Third and Fourth Printings is the latest
BNAPS handbook. Volume I (January 2006) treated the first and second
printings. In Volume II, the author describes his very surprising conclusion
about the third printing, and then illustrates key findings from both the
third and fourth printings using today's technology to the utmost. Both
volumes on the Half Cent Maple Leaf stamp follow closely on Ken Kershaw's
previous major effort (with Roger Boisclair), the four-book series The
Canadian Christmas Map Stamp of 1898, A Definitive Plating Study. Ken Kershaw was born in England and became
fascinated by plants at an early age. He graduated from Manchester
University with a BSc degree in Botany in 1952. After military service, he
went on to a PhD, working on pattern in vegetation, and was appointed
lecturer in Plant Ecology at Imperial College London in 1957. He was
seconded to Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria for two years. On
his return to Imperial College he became involved with lichen ecology,
particularly in alpine and arctic areas, in addition to his work on computer
modelling and data analysis. He obtained his DSc in 1965 and was appointed
Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton, in 1969. His research was then
devoted heavily to the ecology of the Canadian low arctic and northern
boreal forest areas, and in 1982 he was elected a fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada. He is the author of several university texts. Ken's passion for wild plants has been transferred
to Canadian philately. He sees his plating work simply as the "taxonomy of
bits of paper", and after a lifetime of plant taxonomy finds it a fairly
straightforward and fascinating hobby.
The Wearing of the Green: Plates and States of the Canada 1898 One Cent Numeral Issue follows closely on the 2005 release of Peter Spencer's Pretty in Pink: The Plates and States of the Canada 1898 Two Cent Numeral Issue. Again using today's technology to great advantage, the author has closely examined the One-cent value of the Queen Victoria Numeral Issue to advise readers how to determine the plate of individual copies of the first stamp in this popular set.
The Wearing of the Green, the first major plating study of this issue, should form an excellent basis for further studies of this stamp and possible discoveries which readers may make as they examine their holdings. This volume contains a ten-page major study of the renowned "10 cent on 1 cent foreign entry" with a well-illustrated startling new discovery that there are actually three of these, not one or two as previously believed. If you are looking for something intriguing on which to spend your free philatelic time, this book may point the way.
Since their introduction into Canada's postal system in 1992, Inkjet or Spray-on cancellations have provided collectors with several new specialty areas to enhance their collecting interests. For those interested in postal mechanization these cancels provide a great deal to study, ranging from the types of inkjet printers put into use to their association with Multi Line Optical Character Reader machines used for the sorting and
cancelling of mail and the arrangement of the printing heads themselves.
For postal history collectors, the introduction of new inkjet printer cancellations provides additional opportunities to record early and late dates of usage and the movement of MLOCR machines within the postal system. For about ten years Canada Post used an array of slogan cancellations that re-vitalized interest in this collecting specialty. The ease with which inkjet cancellations are programmed has led to a myriad of spelling, date and composition errors that are eagerly sought by collectors. Certainly there are many more yet to be discovered. The ease with which errors occurred and the potential embarrassment to Canada Post resulted in the termination of local slogans as well as national slogans except for a HOHOHO Santa slogan used during the Christmas season and a few Canada Post service slogans. Those interested in the hunt have found inkjet collecting a fascinating specialty.
This 3rd edition of the Canadian Inkjet catalogue lists over 2300 distinct varieties along with thousands of minor variations. This is an increase of about 900 cancels since the 2001 edition. It provides the collector with the most complete listing of these cancels available. It is the work of many collectors across Canada who have provided information included in the catalogue. An excellent introduction to the catalogue by William Topping provides an understanding of the role of inkjets in mechanized mail sorting and the evolution of the equipment used by the post office.
After his 'Canada Special Delivery Issues' was published (BNAPS Exhibit Series #28) in 2003, Kimber A. Wald was attracted to the 1927 Historical and Confederation stamp issues. It was appealing to identify a 20th century field that had all the features of earlier Canadian stamps - much specialized material on offer including proofs and imperforates, with a broad spectrum of associated postal history available - but not the high price tags of 19th century material. Five-hole perfins provided a delightful sideline of the collection. Kimber felt the two issues had a lot to offer philatelically and had never been explored to any extent by earlier philatelists. The significance of the nine stamps, focusing as they did on Canada's Confederation, also appealed to the long-time history buff. The collection, which has now been published as BNAPS Exhibit Series #38, won many awards including the Grand Award at Royal*2005*Royale 2004 in London, Ontario and Golds at BNAPEX/BALLPEX 2004 in Baltimore.
Kimber Wald was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After ten years in the insurance industry Kimber went to work for a friend, the new Mayor of Cleveland, as Purchasing Commissioner and later Director of the Office of Budget & Management. From 1971 to 1978 he was Deputy Insurance Commissioner for Consumer Protection of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 1978 he moved to Greater Washington, DC to begin a 25-year career with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, overseeing National Flood Insurance Program contracts. Upon retiring in 2004 he began volunteering at a nursing home, catching up on his reading and working on his stamp collection.
Ken Kershaw's Plating The More Distinctive Re-entries In The Half Cent Maple Leaf
Stamp I. Plating Criteria And Detailed Descriptions Of The First And
Second Printings is the latest BNAPS handbook. In this first of three volumes the author has used today's technology to the utmost to continue the BNAPS tradition of providing information freely to collectors. Ken's work on the Half Cent Leaf follows closely on his previous major effort (with Roger Boisclair), the four book series 'Plating The Canadian Xmas Stamp Of 1898'.
Ken Kershaw was born in England and became fascinated by plants at an early age. He graduated from Manchester University with a B Sc degree in Botany in 1952. After military service he went on to a Ph. D. degree working on pattern in vegetation, and was appointed lecturer in Plant Ecology at Imperial College London in 1957. He was seconded to Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria for two years. On his return to Imperial College he became involved with lichen ecology, particularly in alpine and arctic areas, in addition to his work on computer
modelling and data analysis. He obtained his D Sc in 1965 and was appointed Professor at McMaster University, Hamilton in 1969. His research was then devoted heavily to the ecology of the Canadian low arctic and northern boreal forest areas, and in 1982 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is the author of several university texts. Ken's passion for wild plants has been transferred to Canadian philately. He sees his plating work simply as the "taxonomy of bits of paper" and after a lifetime of plant taxonomy finds it a fairly straightforward and fascinating hobby.
Also available from BNAPS books - January 2006
In 2001 Sammy Whaley and other knowledgeable Newfoundland postal history collectors agreed that since the publication of Robert H. Pratt's exceptional study of the postal history of the Newfoundland First Cents period in 1989 many additional covers and much new information had been discovered. Sammy undertook the huge task of updating Pratt's work. He obtained details of nearly 1000 covers, all of which are recorded in this new volume. More than 700 are illustrated, many of them in colour. Commenting on Sammy's new book, collector Colin Lewis said, "Sammy's study has increased the number of recorded covers from the First Cents period by almost fifty percent. Benefits to present and future students of Newfoundland postal history will be immense."
b) Royal Canadian Navy Postal History. The BNAPS Book Department is pleased to announce that it has acquired the copyrights to and remaining stock of all five volumes of THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY POSTAL HISTORY 1939-1945 by Maurice Hampson and the late Percy Colbeck. The series was produced between 1993 and 2003.
Volume 2: RCN shore establishment details and markings; named Ship rubber hand stamps; list of covers without DB/N, censor's marks. 8.5x11, Cirulox Bound, 64pp.
Volume 3 (Supp. I): Additional, information and updates on Naval Mail censorship, FMO and Ship censor, numbers, cancellations, photos and covers. 8.5x11, Cirulox Bound, 66pp.
Volume 4 (Supp. II): Naval Base maps and info; list of all Canadian warships with commissioning and decommissioning dates; updates of: censor stamp numbers, cancellations, black-out cancels, registered & miscellaneous covers and labels. 8.5x11, Spiral Bound, 138pp.
Volume 5 (Supp. III): Camp Norway - Lunenburg, bases overseas, ship photos, updates of: censor stamp numbers, cancellations, black-out cancels, registered & miscellaneous covers and labels. 8.5x11, Spiral, Bound, 71pp.
The complete set of five volumes of this extensive study is available as Stock # B4h340.0 at a special price of
C$165.00.
BNAPS BOOK DEPARTMENT - PUBLISHING RELEASE NOTES - 2006
NEWFOUNDLAND POSTAL HISTORY 1857 1899, by Colin D. Lewis FCPS.
Spiral bound, 146pp, 8.5 x 11, colour. BNAPS Exhibit Series #42.
ISBN 0-919854-95-8 (B&W), 0-919854-94-X (Colour);
Stock # B4h923.42 (B&W) C$35.95, B4h923.421 (Colour) C$100.00
2) The Cents period to pre-UPU membership - 7 April 1865 to 1878;
3) The post UPU period -1879 to 1899;
4) Significant items that do not form part of the main exhibit.
Newfoundland Postal History 1857 1899 is being published simultaneously
with John Walsh's Newfoundland 1897 Royal Family, Dead Letter Seal and Map
Stamps, which looks primarily at Newfoundland's stamps and postal history
post-1899, providing Newfoundland collectors and collectors in general a
broad view of Newfoundland philately.
Newfoundland 1897 Royal Family, Dead Letter Seal and Map Stamps, by John M.
Walsh.
Spiral bound, 122pp, 8.5 x 11, colour.
BNAPS Exhibit Series #43. ISBN
0-919854-97-4 (B&W), 0-919854-96-6 (Colour);
Stock #B4h923.43 (B&W) C$33.95, B4h923.431 (Colour) C$90.00
Spiral bound, 158pp, 8.5 x 11, colour
ISBN 0-919854-89-3 (Colour)
Stock # B4h026.1 C$105.00
The
BNAPS Book Department is pleased to announce the release of: Canadians in
Russia: the Last Contingent of World War I; by Hendrik (Henk) Burgers.
2006. Spiral bound, 98pp. 8.5 x 11 - BNAPS Exhibit Series No. 41.
ISBN 0-919854-93-1 (B&W)
ISBN 0-919854-92-3 (Colour)
Stock # B4h923.41 (B&W) C$30.95
Stock # B4h923.411 (Colour) C$74.00
The
BNAPS Book Department is pleased to announce the release of its newest
publication:
ISBN: 0-919854-90-7
Stock # B4h024.1 C$55.95
The
BNAPS Book Department is pleased to announce the release of the newest BNAPS
handbook, 'The Dead Letter Office in Canada 1830-2002, An illustrated
postal history, Second Edition' by Brian C. Plain.
Stock # B4h022.11 (colour) C$91.00;
Stock # B4h022.1 (b&w)C$35.95.
BNAPS
is pleased to announce the publication of the fortieth book in its exhibit
series, J.J. MacDonald's 'One Hundred Years Over the Waters'.
Stock # B4h923.401 (colour); C$52.00
Stock # B4h923.40 (b&w) C$27.95 
Stock # B4h021.11 (colour, spiral) C$160.00
Stock # B4h021.11HB (colour, hardbound) C$225.00
Stock # B4h021.1 (b&w, spiral) C$49.95
MINING - BRITISH COLUMBIA'S HERITAGE; Peter Jacobi, 2006. BNAPS Exhibit Series #11 (Revised). Spiral Bound, 226 pages, 8.5 x 11 - ISBN: 0-919854-81-8 (B&W). ISBN: 0-919854-80-X (Colour).
Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS).
Black and white - Stock # B4h923.11 Retail Price: C$47.95
Colour - Stock # B4h923.111 Retail Price: C$140.00 (see below for ordering information).
Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS).
Stock # B4h923.391 (Colour Version) - C$70.00
Stock # B4h923.39 (Black & White Version) - C$29.95 
Plating the More Distinctive Re-entries in
the Half Cent Maple Leaf Stamp II. Plating Criteria and Detailed
Descriptions of the Third and Fourth Printings, Ken Kershaw, 2006.
Spiral Bound, 224 pages, 8.5 x 11 ISBN: 0-919854-82-6 (B&W only).
Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS).
Stock # B4h020.0 Retail Price: C$41.95
The Wearing of the Green: Plates and States of the Canada 1898 One Cent Numeral Issue; Peter Spencer, 2006. Spiral Bound, 108 pages, 8.5 x 11, colour. ISBN: 0-919854-76-1.
Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS).
Stock # B4h019.1; C$80.00
Canada Inkjet (Jet Spray) Cancels 1992-2005 (3rd Edition); Joel Weiner, 2006. Spiral Bound, 220 pages, 8.5x11, black and white. ISBN: 0-919854-77-X.
Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS).
Stock #B4h503.2;
C$41.95
Canada: The 1927 Historical and Confederation Anniversary Issues; Kimber Wald, 2006. BNAPS Exhibit Series #38. Spiral Bound, 156 pages, 8.5x11. ISBN: 0-919854-75-3 (black & white), 0-919854-74-5 (colour). Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS).
Stock # B4h923.38 -
C$36.95 (black and white)
Stock # B4h923.381 - C$102.00 (Colour)
Plating The More Distinctive Re-entries In The Half Cent Maple Leaf
Stamp I. Plating Criteria And Detailed Descriptions Of The First And
Second Printings; Ken Kershaw, 2006, Spiral Bound, 136 pages, 8.5 x 11 - ISBN: 0-919854-73-7 (B&W only). Published by the British North America Philatelic Society (BNAPS).
Stock # B4h018.0 Retail Price:
C$34.95 
a) Newfoundland First Cents Cover Study. The BNAPS Book Department is pleased to announce that it is now acting as the distributor for: NEWFOUNDLAND 1865-1879, THE NEW YORK PRINTINGS, A COVER STUDY; Sammy Whaley, 2005, Tape Bound, 284 pages, 8.5 X 11.
Published by Sammy Whaley.
BNAPS Stock # B4h006.0 Retail Price:
C$83.00
Volume 1: DB/N Naval Censorship numbers, at Fleet Mail Offices and aboard ships; Fleet mail numbers; NPO numbers; Shore establishments; blackout and other cancellations and markings. 8.5x11, Cirulox Bound, 82pp.
Stock # B4h340.1
C$37.95
Stock # B4h340.2
C$37.95
Stock # B4h340.3
C$37.95
C$49.95
Stock # B4h340.5 C$42.95