More than 50 Philatelic Specialist Society of Canada members and guests recently celebrated the national hobby organization’s 70th anniversary at a special dinner. “For me it’s been a learning experience,” Bob Vogel, the PSSC president.since 2019, said in an interview before the event at the landmark Old Mill restaurant in Toronto on October 16. “There’s such a diversity in the membership collecting interests and their expertise.” Continue reading →
The Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada celebrated its 70th Anniversary Banquet in memorable fashion with special guest speaker Daniel A. Piazza, Chief Curator of Philately at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C. More than 50 attendees gathered at Toronto’s Old Mill Restaurant on Oct. 16 to enjoy Piazza’s captivating presentation, “UPU Specimen Stamps and the World’s Postal Museums: An Accidental History.” This milestone event honored the Society’s first meeting, which took place 70 years ago at the King Edward Sheraton. For more pictures of this historic celebration, see page 10. (Photo by Mike Walsh)
