Events

**CANCELLED**

The next Best Western Stamp Show will take place in the Best Western Hotel’s Niagara Room in St. Catharines, Ont., from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The show is sponsored by Roy’s Stamps, which is owned by long-time St. Catharines dealer Roy Houtby, who specializes in the stamps and covers of Canada and the British Commonwealth.  Free parking and free appraisals at the show. For more details, contact Houtby at the contact information to the right.

**CANCELLED**

Orapex 2021, planned for May 2-3, 2021, in the nation’s capital, has been cancelled due to COVID-19. The planning committee is working towards an open and safe show with a full complement of dealers and exhibitors in 2022.

The next Best Western Stamp Show will take place in the Best Western Hotel’s Niagara Room in St. Catharines, Ont., from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The show is sponsored by Roy’s Stamps, which is owned by long-time St. Catharines dealer Roy Houtby, who specializes in the stamps and covers of Canada and the British Commonwealth.  Free parking and free appraisals at the show. For more details, contact Houtby at the contact information to the right.

**IN-PERSON CONVENTION CANCELLED, VIRTUAL EVENTS PLANNED**

Royal*2021*Royale, the 93rd convention of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, was originally slated to take place in Peterborough, Ont., in June 2021.

**IN-PERSON SHOW CANCELLED, VIRTUAL EVENTS PLANNED**

In light of the pandemic, this year’s in-person PHSC Symposium – July 16-18 – has been cancelled and will be replaced with a one-day virtual event featuring Zoom seminars on July 17.

Sponsored by the Kitchener-Waterloo Philatelic Society (founded in 1933), the show will be open from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and is expected to mark the first show of the new season!

The show is COVID-19 sensitive, with controlled access, masking, food trucks outside and a limited (and physically distanced) dealer bourse, junior collector and new collector’s booth featuring the “Sea of Stamps,” plus educational seminars. The event will be subject to all municipal and provincial health regulations, including attendance ID for contact tracing. Please bring a current Ontario photo ID, driver’s license or valid passport.

Meet your friends again and continue enhancing your collecting while physically distancing! Parking is free.

**IN-PERSON SHOW CANCELLED, VIRTUAL EVENTS PLANNED**

BNAPEX 2021 is slated for Winnipeg, Man., this September. It will be sponsored by the Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario Regional Group and hosted by the Winnipeg Philatelic Society.

While last year’s 72nd annual BNAPEX was cancelled due to COVID-19, the yearly convention typically boasts a 160-frame British North America competitive exhibition plus a 20-dealer bourse and more than 15 study group meetings and seminars. Admission is free for each of the three days, but registration is required for the awards banquet and various social events.

March 2021 update: Ron Majors, BNAPS president, and Mark Berner, chairman of the board of directors, wish to advise people that because of COVID-19 considerations, it has become necessary to cancel BNAPEX 2021 WINNIPEX, which was scheduled to take place on the Labour Day weekend in Winnipeg.

Not wanting to run two years without a major BNAPS event, the society has since announced BNAPEX 2021 VIRTUAL. The virtual convention will include an online exhibition of single- and multi-frame exhibits to be judged by a qualified jury, Study Group meetings and seminars, the BNAPS annual general meeting, social sessions and, if at all possible, a virtual bourse to allow members and dealers to interact online. Planning is underway, and more details will be provided soon.

Presented by Canadian Coin News and Canadian Stamp News, the National Postage Stamp and Coin Show features 50-plus professional coin and stamp dealers from across Canada. Highlights include a two-day live “Premier Auction” by Colonial Acres; various seminars; and the Young Collectors discounted sales table and popular free youth auction on Sunday.

Admission is $5 on Saturday and $2 on Sunday. Families are free on Sunday. The show is open on Saturday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Parking is free. For show updates, visit stampandcoinshow.com.

Sponsored by the Troyak Club, the Mississauga Coin and Stamp Show will be open from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., with 60 tables and more than 30 dealers. There’s something for everyone, with Canadian and world coins, stamps, paper money, tokens, medals, trade dollars, official mint products, hobby supplies, reference books and more. Free evaluations plus buying, selling and trading. Admission is $5 (children under the age of 16 are free), and parking is free.