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BNAPS Regional Groups

Throughout the United States and Canada, BNAPS members have formed regional groups (listed below) that meet one or more times a year. 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.

Vice President Regional Groups
Upcoming Regional Group Events

26 Apr 2026

Golden Horseshoe

GHRG will have a meeting at 2PM EST on Sunday April 26.

The content of the meeting will be members' show and tell, an opportunity for you all to bring topics and items of interest to you, to the attention of your GHRG colleagues. Join in, and learn what others are finding interesting as well.


2PM announcements
215PM two featured presentations, as follows:

Golden Horseshoe Regional Group
Time: April 26, 2026 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84763664250?pwd=OazO63bbKRRPVwqcBNhNbLZbeVVcl6.1
If attending by telephone:
Meeting ID: 847 6366 4250
Passcode: 737389
https://us06web.zoom.us/meetings/84763664250/invitations?signature=Hp6UgjQ7Ka2Jrn_15EtfxLtufXR5W_Xxw0V4yOMKSJw

Golden Horseshoe Regional pages


2 May 2026
Details updated: 9 Apr 2026

St. Lawrence Seaway

The semi-annual meeting at ORAPEX will be a show-and-tell presentation by Regional Group members: “A favourite from my collection”. It takes place on Saturday, 2 May, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM.

Email a scan of one or two items from your collection to Chris Anstead acropolis@superaje.com. Items may be wonderful, weird, or puzzling.

Preferred format is jpeg, 200dpi for covers, 600 dpi for stamps or postmarks. Chris will prepare your submission for electronic presentation at the meeting. You will have a chance to introduce your selection. If you are unable to attend, you can still participate by sending a short description along with your scan(s).

St. Lawrence Seaway Regional Group web pages


13 May 2026

Alberta

The Alberta Regional Group has a Zoom meeting on Wednesday 13 May starting at 7PM Mountain time - 9PM Eastern,
Subject Admiral Scroll and Medallion in your Collection
Starts 7PM Mountain
7PM - Administration
715PM - Presentations
9PM - Meeting end

Everyone is welcome to join in.

Visit Alberta Regional pages


7 Jun 2026
Details updated: 16 Apr 2026

Lower Canada / Bas Canada

BNAPS members are invited to the BNAPS Lower Canada Regional Group breakfast-seminar on 7 June 2026 starting at 8 AM. The seminar will take place in the Laurier Room at the Travelodge Hotel in Québec City during the 5th Québec City Stamp & Old Paper Show.

Ingo Nessel of the Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation (VGG), will give a presentation on the expertise at the VGG using the Foster + Freeman VSC 8000.

The cost of the breakfast is $21, payable on site. Reservations are required and must be made by contacting Grégoire at: gteyssier@videotron.ca.

In addition, BNAPS members are invited to enter an exhibit in the “One or Two Pages” national exhibition. You can get the exhibit entry form at https://svpq.ca/.

We look forward to seeing you at the show in Quebec City for this special occasion.

Kind regards,
Grégoire Teyssier & Sébastien Crête
Co-Chairs BNAPS Lower Canada Regional Group

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Le groupe régional du Bas-Canada de la BNAPS a le plaisir d’inviter les membres de la BNAPS à un déjeuner-conférence qui aura lieu le 7 juin 2026 à compter de 8 h, dans la salle « Laurier » de l’hôtel Travelodge à Québec, en marge du 5e Salon du timbre et du vieux papier de Québec.

À cette occasion, M. Ingo Nessel, représentant la Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Research Foundation (VGG), présentera les services d’expertise offerts par la Fondation, grâce au système Foster + Freeman VSC 8000.

Le coût du petit-déjeuner est de 21 $ net, payable sur place. La réservation est obligatoire et doit être effectuée auprès de Grégoire à l’adresse suivante : gteyssier@videotron.ca.

De plus, tous les membres de la BNAPS intéressés à participer à l’exposition nationale « Une à deux pages » sont invités à nous envoyer leur formulaire d’inscription qui se trouve sur le site du salon : https://svpq.ca/.

Nous espérons avoir le plaisir de vous accueillir nombreux à Québec pour cet événement spécial.

Cordialement,
Grégoire Teyssier et Sébastien Crête
Coprésidents, Groupe régional du Bas-Canada de la BNAPS

Lower Canada Regional Group / Groupe régional du Bas-Canada

Regional Groups

Alberta


Alberta, Saskatchewan
  • Chairman: Dave Bartlet email
  • Secretary: Jon Johnson email

Regional Group web page

Atlantic Provinces


NS, NB, PEI, Newfoundland & Labrador
  • Chairman: John A. Hall email
  • Coordinator: Gary W. Steele email

Events and meeting reports

Dixie Beavers


Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
  • Chairman: Dennis R. Amos email

Events and meeting reports

Golden Horseshoe


Southern Ontario, western New York, eastern Michigan and northern Ohio
  • Chairman: Nicholas Poppenk email
  • Secretary: Wayne Schnarr email

Events and meetings

Golden West


California, Arizona, Nevada

Events and meeting reports

Lower Canada / Bas Canada


Quebec
  • Co-chairman: Gregoire Teyssier email
  • Co-chairman: Sebastien Crete email

Events and meeting reports

Manitoba-Northwestern Ontario


Manitoba, northern Ontario, Minnesota, North and South Dakota
  • Chair: Ben-Zvi S. Cohen email

Group History | Meetings

Mid-Atlantic


Virginia, West Virginia, DC, Delaware, Maryland

Report of August 2010 meeting of this group

Midwest


Indiana, western Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kansas, Iowa, and Nebraska

Northeastern


Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, Massachusetts
  • Chair: Joan Harmer email

Group info and meetings

Pacific Northwest


British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Yukon
  • Chairman: Mark Oakley email

Events, reports, newsletters

Prairie Beaver


Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana
  • Chairman: George B. Dresser email
  • Newsletter editor: Victor Willson email

Events, reports, newsletters

St. Lawrence Seaway


Eastern Ontario, western Quebec
  • Co-chairman: Christopher J. Anstead email
  • Co-chairman: Peter R. MacDonald email

Meetings

Inactive Regional Groups

The following regional groups are inactive.

Calgary

The Calgary and Edmonton Regional Groups merged in June 2024 to form the Alberta Regional Group

Info, events, meeting reports | Calgary covers

Edmonton

The Edmonton and Calgary Regional Groups merged in June 2024 to form the Alberta Regional Group

Group information and meeting reports


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