PHSC Study Groups

Associated with the Postal History Society of Canada are a number of study groups, devoted to detailed study of specialized aspects of postal history. These groups often produce periodical newsletters and maintain databases of relevant data. Newsletter articles are typically more narrowly focused than those that regularly appear in the PHSC Journal. Members of these Study Groups may have instant access to their current newsletters and databases at this web site. Back issues (often out of print) are in some cases available here too, and more will be added as time goes on. Study Groups help the PHSC span the whole spectrum of our hobby. Click on the Study Group names below to see more.

This group studies the postal and social history of four Ontario counties.

The IMCRSC studies the machine cancels produced by the International Postal Supply Co. used in Canada and Newfoundland from 1902 to 1919 and beyond.

This group studies Canadian machine cancels more generally, including the most modern spray-ons. The group website offers further information and copies of their newsletter.

MOOSE explores the wilderness of modern Canadian postal markings from money order office date stamps of the 1920s to present-day numbered markings, including the different office numbering systems used by Canada Post.

The Northerner, the newsletter of the Northern Canada Study Group, covers the postal history of northern British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories, northern Ontario and Quebec, and Labrador up to the present time. The Northern Canada Study Group also discusses early Manitoba (up to 1905) and the Provisional Districts of Alberta, Assiniboia, Athabaska, Saskatchewan, and Keewatin.

Canadian Meter Stamp Study Group

This study group, studying Canadian meter stamps, is inactive at the present time.