Name: Sidney Stamp Club Meeting
Start: 2024-10-12
End: 2024-10-12
Location: Vancouver Island Public Library

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New Meeting Place and Date

Effective October 3, 2024 the Victoria Stamp Club will meet in a new place and on a different date for the first meeting of each month. The meeting schedule will change from the 2nd Friday to the 1st Thursday of each month. The meeting times (7:00 pm to 9:00 pm) will not change. The new…
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RPSC – PHSC Joint Symposium on Postal History

Please join us for The RPSC-PHSC Joint Symposium on Postal History Saturday, November 9, 2024 12:00 noon to 5:00 pm EST (All times Eastern) This free Symposium will feature three concurrent streams presenting material which is designed to interest beginner, intermediate and advanced collectors of postal history. Join in as many as you like. See…
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Cable Repair in the Pacific: 1937–1942

This article by Gray Scrimgeour and Ian Kimmerley describes mailed items from an extensive correspondence (1937–1942) involving Henry Porter, a trans-Pacific cable repair worker based in Victoria, British Columbia. Most of the correspondence is between Porter while he was travelling and his family in Victoria. There also are some cable-work related covers. Most of Porter’s…
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RPSC Journal Reviews Larry Margetish Book

Back in January 2024, VSC member Larry Margetish published his new book, “The Story Behind Canada’s Caricature and Landscape Issues.” The book was recently reviewed by Tony Shaman for The Canadian Philatelist, journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada. You can read Tony’s review below. The book is published by the British North America…
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Garden City Announces First Auction

The inaugural sale of Garden City Philatelic Auctions sale has just been posted on the Stamp Auction Network where you will find 1,146 lots in many stamp and postal history categories. The live sale will be conducted at their Victoria location over two days, each starting at 8:00 am Pacific time: Saturday, September 28: Lots…
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Royal *2024* Royale National Stamp Exhibition

It’s a long way to travel for those of us on the west coast, but if you are going to be down east in September, Canada’s annual premier exhibition is happening on the other side of the country this year. For only the second time ever, the annual convention of The Royal Philatelic Society of…
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