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Fall 2015 Newsletter www.kingstonstampclub.ca of 15 Pages

Kingston Stamp Club Chapter 49 of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada Volume #10, Issue #1 Whole Number 37 Fall 2015 Issue 1932-2016 Our 84th Anniversary Year Table of Contents

1. President’s Message 2. Editor’s Comments 3. Canada Postal Rates for 2016 4. Quebec Tercentenary Issue 5. Famous Canadians 6. British Colonies 7. Locomotives 8. Stamps of Lundy Island 9. Historic Napanee Post Office 10. Stamp Festival 2015

Upcoming Meeting Listing for the Balance of Calendar 2015 September 14 Meeting Night September 28 Auction Night October 24 Kingston Stamp Festival October 26 Auction Night November 9 Meeting Night November 23 Auction Night December 14 Exhibition, Awards Night and Christmas Party 1) President’s Message Your Executive Committee met on Monday August 24,2015 to discuss various topics as outlined below: October 24,2015 Stamp Festival is in the final stages of planning. Room layout, tables,

dealers all are in place for this annual event. Advertising has already gone out to the unpaid advertisers and Val Mayers has flyers for us to distribute at our next club meeting September 14,2015. Club Consignments will follow the same structure as last year: bring them to Val Mayers at our Sept 14 or 28th meeting and they will be at the Festival. Our two Consignors will not take material at the day of the Stamp Festival as they are too busy. More details will be presented at our two September meetings. Peter Kasserra, Val Mayers and myself have been working over the summer on four more collections and will be presented at the Stamp Festival. One of those collections is the remainder of the stamp dealers material we have presented to the club in the spring. In an effort to have more club members attend our festival event, we are opening the doors to our club members at 9:30am for an early start to the 10:00 am event opening. We hope to see you there! Ongwanada Room Rental - Ongwanada has advised Ron Barrett (Treasurer) that your room rental is going up Jan 01,2016 from $15.00 per meeting to $65.00 per meeting. Ted Luhtala's wife has been looking for rental space for her club in the Kingston area to meet and costs are from $100 to $200 per night.


Our club has been enjoying very nominal rent for the last seven years and the rental increase still keeps us at 50% approx of current market rates. Your Executive Committee voted and all agreed to cover this increase in costs as follows: Membership Fee is increased from $15 per club year (Sept to May) to $20 per club year effective September, 2015. Family is $25. Stamp Festival will not use any paid advertising, all will be done on an unpaid basis. Ron Barrett (Treasurer) and Mel Campbell (VP and Festival Manager) agree with the budget as presented and this shows a $535 profit. Raffle Draw - We are starting a 50 / 50 Raffle with Bill Lafferty (Secretary) to coordinate this meeting draw. Who knows, you could win your membership fee!! Consignment Table Fee for our club meetings and our Annual Stamp Festival has increased from 10% to 15% effective September 2015 onwards. Your executive committee is confident that with these measures in place, the club members receive the smallest impact in the increased costs and financially this generates the least financial impact as well. We look for your continued support. Richard Weigand Richard Weigand, President 218 Richmond Street, Sandhurst, ON K0H 1G0 Tel 613-352-8775, Email [email protected]

2) Editor’s Comments Current Issue We are pleased to present the first part of a four-part series this club year: Quebec Tercentenary Issue of 1908

Famous Canadians

British Colonies

Locomotives

As your editor, I want to take this opportunity to thank Don Mann for editing, he provides a valuable and much appreciated support to the final polish on these newsletters. Over the summer your editor will be working on these four new, four - part series ! Enjoy! Editor – Richard Weigand 3) Canada Post Raises Postal Rates for 2016 Source: Toronto Star July 9,2015 Canada Post wants to hike domestic postage rates next year to 90 cents, blaming a steep slide in letter volumes. The crown corporation is formally posting a notice this week that it will raise the price of domestic stamps from 85 cents to 90 cents on Jan. 11, 2016. Stamps to the United States would increase from $1.20 to $1.25, and stamps for other countries would go from $2.50 to $2.60. “We need to do everything we can to secure the future of the business,” said Canada Post spokesman Jon Hamilton. “We saw in 2015 some of the steepest declines in mail volumes.” He said mail volumes dropped 8.4 per cent in the first quarter of this year, compared to the same period a year earlier. In 2014, Canada Post says it only handled 3.6 billion letters, down from 5 billion in 2006.


However, Canada Post estimates the average Canadian household buys fewer than two stamps a month, while the typical small business purchases fewer than 20 per month or 250 stamps per year. Even though mail volumes continue to fall, Canada Post says its cost of doing business continues to rise as more addresses are added. The post office is also phasing out door-to-door home delivery and switch residents to community mailboxes. Some towns and cities have already been switched over, but some of Toronto’s dense neighbourhoods will be among the last to change. And some downtown areas will get to keep delivery at the door because it is impractical to switch to community mailboxes. Bitter battles have been wage in some communities that included a court battle in Hamilton, which tried to restrict locations for the boxes. Canada Post won and expects to begin the switchover in Hamilton later this month. Editor – Richard Weigand 4) Quebec Tercentenary Issue This Celebration was performed in Canada and in many other countries as well. Post Master General Lemieux Announces:

The year 1908 marked the three hundredth anniversary of the first permanent settlement in Canada, made by Champlain at Quebec in 1608, and plans were formed to celebrate the event in a fitting manner by means of fêtes, historical pageants, etc. In fact, the occasion was considered of such importance that the then Prince and Princess of Wales, (now King George V of England and his Royal Consort), were invited to be present at the festivities, and they made a special journey in one of Britain's most formidable battleships.

Quite early it was rumoured that the Post Office Department would mark the event, as in the Diamond Jubilee year, by the issue of a series of special stamps, and though in March the Hon. Rudolphe Lemieux, who was then Postmaster-General, announced that such an issue would assuredly be made, the Department exercised the greatest reticence as to what values would be included in the series, and what subjects would form the designs. Naturally, the Department was inundated with all sorts of suggestions, more or less appropriate to the occasion, but, apparently, the “powers that be” had their plans already made and it was not until a few days before the stamps were ready for use that any information was made public regarding the series. The Toronto Globe for July 4th printed the following dispatch from its Ottawa correspondent:—

Postmaster-General Lemieux has given instructions to issue a series of postage stamps commemorating the tercentenary. They are eight in number. Four of them bear portraits of persons dear to Canada, or whose names recall great events.

The first represents the Prince and Princess of Wales; the second the King and Queen. Next come Cartier and Champlain, and then, in connection with the battlefields park scheme, Wolfe and Montcalm. The second part of the issue represents Cartier's arrival before Quebec. On the calm waters of the mighty St. Lawrence stand in bold relief three ships of the discoverer of Canada, flying the fleur-de-lys.


Ceremonies at the base of the Champlain Monument during Quebec's Tercentenary celebrations, 23 July 1908 (courtesy Library and Archives Canada / PA-023829).

This painting remembers the largest military parade prior to World War 1. Art Hider painted this large painting to commemorate the military parade on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City to commemorate the 400th Anniversary of the founding of Quebec and Canada. Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in the black top hat is talking to Sir Lord Strathcona. Taking the salute is the Prince of Wales, who will become George V in three years, in 1911.

In 1908 Canada celebrated its 300'th anniversary - the tercentenary of Champlain's founding of Quebec City. In two glorious weeks of parades, ceremonies, balls, and festivities, Canadians commemorated their history in a spectacle that would not be surpassed until the centennial of 1967. The climax of the 1908 celebration was an historical pageant in which 4,000 sumptuously costumed citizens re-enacted classic events in Canada's history. Canada's leading painters were also there to capture these memorable scenes for posterity. The past was being celebrated, but with the present and the future in mind.


In "The Art of Nation-Building", H.V. Nelles uses contemporary literary techniques to convey the scope, colour, and intensity of the tercentenary from various perspectives. Drawing on the intimate diaries and letters of leading social and political figures, he leads us behind the scenes, disclosing the politics of memory, the theatrics of history, and the making of a modern monarchy. Nelles reveals what we actually do when we commemorate, how we use the past, and the multi vocal character of mass celebration

This richly illustrated, thought-provoking interpretation of public celebrations offers a novel perspective on Quebec and on the upcoming celebration of the millennium.

This book was the winner of two prestigious prizes: the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (CHA) and the Prix Lionel-Groulx (IHAF).

5) Famous Canadians Honourable Thomas D'Arcy Mc Gee

Issue Date 29 June 1927 Scott No 146 5c Violet Printer - Canadian Bank Note Company Limited Issued in imperforate pairs both vertical and horizontal as well as single stamps with perforation 12. Issued 20,349,000

Historical Background for this series of three stamps - In response to a widespread feeling that a series of stamps depicting some of the principal Canadian statesmen should be brought out, the Department prepared, between February and July, 1926, issued three special postage stamps. The designs featured portraits of The Honourable Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Sir John A. Macdonald, Robert Baldwin, and Sir Louis Lafontaine. They were not issued, however, until the following year when the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation occurred. The stamps were released on 29th June, 1927, the same date as the Confederation series. Portrait of Hon. Thomas D'Arcy McGee. Born in Ireland in 1825, he emigrated early in life to the United States where he became a journalist. Later, he went to London as parliamentary correspondent. Although he had been intensely anti-British, he changed his opinions and advocated a staunch adherence to British rule. He came to Canada in 1857 and, in 1858, entered Parliament where he supported the union of the British provinces in North America. In 1862, he became a cabinet minister, and lived to see Confederation accomplished. He was assassinated on 6th April, 1868, on his return home from a session of the House of Commons in Ottawa.

Scott No 147 12 cent green Printer - Canadian Bank Note Company Limited.


Issued in imperforate pairs both vertical and horizontal as well as single stamps with perforation 12. Issued 5,273,000 Historic Background - Sir Wilfrid Laurier was born in 1841, in the village of St. Lin, Quebec. He entered the federal Parliament in 1874, and in 1877 became a member of the Dominion cabinet and prime minister in 1896. In 1897 Queen Victoria knighted him while he was attending the ceremonies in connection with the Diamond Jubilee of her accession to the throne. He died during the winter of 1919, and was buried in Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa. Sir John A. Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1815 and came to Canada in 1820. He entered Parliament in 1844 and, in 1864, he took part in the conference on the proposal to confederate the provinces of British North America. After the conference agreed upon a basis of union, a committee went to London in 1866 to co-operate with the British government in drafting the British North America Act. Subsequently the act came into force on 1st July, 1867. The day, since designated as Dominion Day, is annually observed as the birthday of Canada. Sir John became the first prime minister of the Dominion of Canada. He died in June, 1891, and was buried in Cataraqui Cemetery in Kingston, Ontario.

Scott No 148 - 20 cent red

Printer - Canadian Bank Note Company Limited. Issued in imperforate pairs both vertical and horizontal as well as single stamps with perforation 12. Issued 7,632,000 Historic Background - Baldwin and Lafontaine were leaders in Upper and Lower Canada, respectively, in the long struggle for representative government. They were advocates of constitutional methods of reform as opposed to armed force. Baldwin was born in the town of York, now Toronto, in 1804. At the age of twenty-five he entered the legislature for Upper Canada. He was a lawyer by profession, and a moderate reformer. After the union of Upper and Lower Canada, he became a member of the executive council and joined Lafontaine in the promotion of national unity. He died in 1858. Lafontaine was born in Boucherville, Quebec in 1807. He was admitted to the bar in 1829, then elected in the following year to the assembly in Lower Canada. At first he opposed the union of Upper and Lower Canada, but later favoured it. He was associated with Baldwin in the struggle for responsible government. In 1854, Queen Victoria knighted him; he died in 1864. Series Engraver - Elie Timothee Loizeaux

Elie Loizeaux, was born in 1873 to a French immigrant family in Vinton, Iowa. He became an apprentice at the American Bank Note Company in 1892 and was to work there for 53 years as a portrait engraver. His contemporaries included Alfred


Jones (engraver of the first Canadian stamps), Charles Skinner and Robert Savage. In his earliest years at the company, he took evening courses at the Art Students' League. During his career, he did stamp engravings for Canada, the Bahamas, the Belgium Congo, Newfoundland, and numerous Latin American countries. He also engraved portraits for bank notes for several countries worldwide. Loizeaux died in 1956. Following his death his family deeded his tools and progressive proofs to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The National Museum of American History displayed these tools on an engraver's desk, with a life-size photograph of Loizeaux. Series Photographer - William James Topley

William Topley, was born on February 13, 1845, in Montréal, Quebec. The Topleys later moved to an Aylmer farm. It was his mother who introduced her son to photography. During an annual trip to Montréal, in 1858, Mrs. Topley

purchased a camera for her son from William Notman (1826-1891), a well-known Canadian photographer of the 19th century, and he included 17 lessons with the purchase. Becoming proficient with photography, Topley eventually worked for Notman in Montréal. In 1867, Topley at the request of Notman, opened a studio in Ottawa, Ontario. He photographed many of the visiting celebrities, governors general, prime ministers, members of Parliament, senators, civil servants, residents of Ottawa, and numerous views of the city. In 1878, he was appointed the official photographer to Her Royal Highness

Princess Louise (fourth daughter of Queen Victoria), who was then in residence at Rideau Hall with her husband the Marquis of Lorne, the Governor General of Canada. He died in Vancouver on November 16, 1930. His funeral service took place in Ottawa and he was buried in Beechwood Cemetery. Letter Rates in 1927 Domestic, Local and USA 2 cents per ounce Postcard 2cents UK 3 cents per ounce Registration 10 cents Special Delivery 20 cents Bibliography - Library and Archives Canada - Canada Postal Archival Site

6) British Colonies -British Central Africa

Brief History The British Central Africa Protectorate (BCA) was a protectorate proclaimed in 1889 and ratified in 1891 that occupied the same area as present-day Malawi: it was renamed Nyasaland in 1907. British interest in the area arose from visits by David Livingstone from 1858 onward during his exploration of the Zambezi area. This encouraged missionary activity starting in the 1860s, followed by a small number of settlers. The Portuguese government attempted to claim much of this area, but their claims were disputed by the British government. To forestall a Portuguese expedition claiming effective occupation, a

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protectorate was proclaimed, first over the south of this area, then over the whole of it in 1889. After negotiations with the Portuguese and German governments on its boundaries, the protectorate was formally ratified by the British government in May, 1891.

Areas in light grey is BSCA (British South Africa Company) or known as Malawi.

Fishing Seaport on Lake Nyasa First Postage Stamp Issue The first postage stamps of the protectorate were issued in April 1891, produced by overprinting the Rhodesian stamps of the British South Africa Company with B.C.A. A number of new post offices opened during the year, including Blantyre, Zomba, Chiromo, Port Herald, Fort Mlange, Fort Johnston at the southern end of the lake, and Karonga at the northern end of the lake.

BCA Issues BCA stamps were necessary in 1892, 1893, and 1895. 1895 also saw the introduction of stamps printed for the protectorate, featuring the protectorate's coat of arms and inscribed BRITISH CENTRAL

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AFRICA. The 1895 issue was printed by De La Rue on unwatermarked paper, but from February 1896 on the paper had either the Crown over CC or Crown over CA watermarks. In August 1897 a new design was introduced, still using the coat of arms, but with a clear, instead of a lined, background.

In 1898 the supply of one-penny stamps ran out. Initially the 3-shilling postage stamp was surcharged, but on 11 March the government began to use embossed revenue stamps overprinted with INTERNAL / POSTAGE.

20th Century Issues In 1901, the 1d, 4d, and 6d values of the 1897 stamps were printed in different colours. In 1903 a new series of stamps was issued, featuring the profile of King Edward VII and inscribed BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA /

PROTECTORATE, with denominations from one penny to ten pounds. From 1908 stamps were issued by the Nyasaland Protectorate, and from 1964, Malawi.

Postal Stationary The first items of postal stationery, for the British Central Africa Protectorate, were registration envelopes in 1892. Between 1892 and 1895 a total of 14 different registration envelopes have been identified as having been produced by overprinting British South Africa Company registration envelopes with BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA ADMINISTRATION. During 1895 and 1896 three registration envelopes were designed and printed for the protectorate. In 1893 two different postcards were issued using British South Africa Company postcards overprinted BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA in an ornamental frame. New postcards designed for the protectorate were issued in 1896 (3 postcards), 1898 (2 postcards) and 1904 (2 postcards). One newspaper wrapper was made available for use in 1899. When the protectorate's name was changed to Nyasaland Protectorate all items of postal stationery continued to be valid.




A newspaper wrapper issued in 1899 overprinted SPECIMEN Bibliography; Wikipedia 7) Canadian Locomotives Issue Part 1 (1836-1860) Issue Date 3 October 1983

Scott No 999 - 32c multicoloured Title Toronto 4-4-0 Type The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century, encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal (December 1900). The notation counts the number of leading wheels, then the number of driving wheels, and finally the number of trailing wheels, groups of numbers being separated by dashes. The 4-4-0 was called the "American Eight Wheeler". This type of locomotive was built to haul very heavy cars a long distance at a steady speed of 12 mph.

Printer: Ashton Potter Limited. Tagged General Tagging 2 Bar. Perforation 12.5 by 13 9,000,000 issued (issued as a-se tenant pair with Scott No 1000).

Scott No 1000 32c multicoloured Title: Dorchester 0-4-0 Type The 0-4-0 represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. In normal circumstances, the wheels on each end of the axles are connected with coupling rods to form a single driven set. This is one of the earliest locomotive engines used in Canada. Printer: Ashton Potter Limited. Tagged General Tagging 2 Bar. Perforation 12.5 by 13 9,000,000 issued

Scott No 1001 37c multicoloured Title: Samson 0-6-0 Type This type was called "Six Coupled" and was used for hauling a very heavy load where speed was not essential. Printer: Ashton Potter Limited. Tagged General Tagging 2 Bar. Perforation 12.5 by 13 8,600,000 issued.

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Scott No 1002 64c multicoloured Title: Adam Brown 4-4-0 Type The 4-4-0 was called the "American Eight Wheeler". This type of locomotive was built to haul very heavy cars a long distance at a steady speed of 12 mph. Printer: Ashton Potter Limited. Tagged General Tagging 2 Bar. Perforation 12.5 by 13 8,200,000 issued. Historic Background - The mid-1980's marked the centennial of "The Last Spike" and the 150th anniversary of the first Canadian railway, the Canada Post Corporation will commence a series of train stamps. This stamp pair recall the days when the railroad was "an image of man, a tradition, a code of honour, a source of poetry, a nursery of boyhood desires, and the most solemn machine - next to the funeral hearse - that marks the epochs in a man's life". The first Canadian railroad, the Champlain and St. Lawrence, opened for business on 21 July 1836. On that date, the Dorchester, a locomotive imported from England, pulled two coaches from La Prairie to Dorchester (later St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu), and back. Like many early Canadian lines, the Champlain and St. Lawrence was a portage railway, a short cut between the Richelieu River and Montreal, saving ninety miles of river travel.

Mine railroads also gained prominence at this time. In 1838, the Samson, the first locomotive in the Maritimes, began running from the Frood coal mine to the Pictou wharf. By 1850, British North America boasted about sixty-six miles of railway. A construction boom over the next ten years raised the total to 2065 miles. By 1860, an uninterrupted stretch of track connected Sarnia, Montreal, and the Atlantic coast at Portland, Maine. Most contemporary Canadian railroads hoped to tap into the lucrative American market, but failed to do so. They depended heavily on government financing and foreign capital, lacked sufficient customers, and suffered financial headaches. Most locomotives, such as the Birkenhead-type Adam Brown, were still imported. Nevertheless, in the 1850's some Canadian railroads began building their own to meet North American conditions. Among these was the Toronto, the first locomotive manufactured in Canada West, built in Toronto in 1853.

Designer Ernst Roch -The locomotive stamps were designed by Ernst Roch of Montreal. The format chosen, which presents the locomotives in profile against a plain background colour, are ideal for presenting the mechanical complexity that makes locomotives so visually interesting.

The principal challenge of designing these stamps was to simplify the engines to make a sufficiently strong graphic statement at stamp size without sacrificing significant detail. Bibliography - Library and Archives Canada - Canada Postal Archival Site


8) The Stamps of Lundy Island The name Lundy is believed to come from the old Norse word for "puffin island" (Lundey), lundi being the Norse word for a puffin and ey, an island, although an alternative explanation has been suggested with Lund referring to a copse, or wooded area. Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel. It lies 12 miles (19 km) off the coast of Devon, England, about a third of the distance across the channel from Devon, England to south Wales. Lundy gives its name to a British sea area and is one of the islands of England. Lundy has been designated by Natural England as national character area 159, one of England's natural regions.

Lundy Jetty, light house and harbour. In 2007, Lundy had a resident population of 28 people, including volunteers. These include a warden, ranger, island manager, and farmer, as well as bar and house-keeping staff. Most live in and around the village at the south of the island. Most visitors are day-trippers, although there are 23 holiday properties and a camp site for staying visitors, mostly also around the south of the island. Story of the Lundy Island Stamps In 1925, the wealthy British business man, Martin Harman, purchased this tiny three mile island, called Lundy Island. So the thinking goes...if I own the island, I should be "King" and issue my own stamps and coinage. The stamps and coin picture the island's greatest inhabitants, the puffin.

Owing to a decline in population and lack of interest in the mail contract, the General Post Office of England ended its presence on Lundy at the end of 1927. For the next two years Martin Harman handled the mail to and from the island without charge. On 1 November, 1929, Martin Harman decided to offset the expense by issuing two postage stamps (1/2 puffin in pink and 1 puffin in blue). One puffin is equivalent to one English penny. The printing of Puffin stamps continues to this day and they are available at face value from the Lundy Post Office, located in the Lundy shop at the south end of the island. One used to have to stick Lundy stamps on the back of the envelope, but Royal Mail now allows their use on the front of the envelope, but placed on the left side, with the right side reserved for the Royal Mail postage stamp or stamps. Lundy stamps are cancelled by a circular Lundy hand stamp. The face value of the Lundy Island stamps covers the cost of postage of letters and postcards from the island to the Bideford Post Office on the mainland for onward delivery to their final destination anywhere in the world. A meter cancel is applied in Bideford.

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The Lundy Post Office gets a bulk rate discount for mailing letters and postcards from Bideford. Lundy Island stamps (sometimes called Puffins) are a type of postage stamp known to philatelists as "local carriage labels" or "local stamps". Issues of increasing value were made over the years, including air mail, featuring a variety of people. Many are now highly sought-after by collectors. The market value of the early issues has risen substantially over the years. For the many thousands of annual visitors Lundy stamps have become part of the collection of the many British Local Posts collectors.

At first all went well, but in 1931 the British government found out what was going on in this isolated piece of land on the coast of England. The result was that Martin Harman "King of Puffinland" was brought to court with a charge of issuing unlawful coinage. A Justice of the King's Bench took a dim view of this "King" and found himself fined 5 pounds and an injunction to stop issuing coinage, this was really a "Royal" prerogative ! Today Lundy remains part of the British Empire, Martin Harman remains a loyal subject. Cinderella Catalogue of Lundy Island Issues The first catalogues of these stamps included Gerald Rosen's 1970 Catalogue of British Local Stamps. Later, specialist catalogues include Stamps of Lundy Island by Stanley Newman, first published in 1984, Phillips Modern British Locals CD Catalogue, published since 2003, and Labe's Specialized

Guide to Lundy Island Stamps, published since 2005 and now in its 11th Edition. Labe's Guide is considered the gold standard of Lundy catalogues owing to its extensive approach to varieties, errors, specialized items and "fantasy" issues. There is a comprehensive collection of these stamps in the Chinchen Collection, donated by Barry Chinchen to the British Library Philatelic Collections in 1977, and now held by the British Library. This is also the home of the Landmark Trust Lundy Island Philatelic Archive which includes artwork, texts and essays as well as postmarking devices and issued stamps. 9) Historic Town of Napanee Post Office

This post office was built in 1888 in the Romanesque Style. The exterior is clad in red sandstone from the quarries on the Rideau River, just north of Kingston Mills. This


building was designed by Thomas Fuller, chief architect for the Federal Department of Public Works. Thomas Fuller was also the co designer of the Ottawa parliament buildings. Bibliography www.historicplaces.ca Historic Napanee Self- Guided Walking Tour Brochure 10) Stamp Festival 2015 Saturday October 24,2015 Christ Church Parish, 990 Sydenham Road, Kingston We had a wonderful stamp festival this day, and although the weather was cloudy and a cool fall day, there was no rain to dampen the spirits of the dealers, attendees or the club members. This was a successful show by any measure: a) 130 attendees (a record number), b) ten dealers ( they enjoyed the day and want to return), c) Consignment Table raised $2,100 ( the highest level yet!).

Our Consignment Area supervised by Ted Luhtala and Val Mayers. Val Mayers, Peter Kasserra and your editor spent the summer sorting and logging five collections.

Stamp Festival Cover for sale for $2.00 Each. Sold Out by 3pm!

Exhibits were well received and many attendees stopped and read through the material. We need to thank Roy Lingen, Robert


Barrett and Val Mayers for putting together these wonderful exhibits.

We had door prizes, a youth table and a representative from the Kingston Coin Club as well.

On a personal note, I want to thank Mel Campbell, VP for all the work that went into this festival. Don Mann, Membership, also deserves a vote of appreciation from all of us for coordinating the church location. Ron Barrett, Finance, who steered the Executive Committee on the budget side of this event, thank you.

In addition I want to thank the Executive Committee who helped to organize, support and help out on our festival day.

Finally, let me thank all those club members who helped setup and tear down, all part of a day's fun at our annual festival!

Christmas Season Wishes to ALL

On Behalf of the Executive Committee, we want to wish all of you, your family and friends a wonderful, peaceful, enjoyable time this Christmas season.

May Santa bring you lots of goodies !!

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