Welcome to the website of the PHSC
Here's what's new!
July 2010 |
• Did you know? That arrow icon that is always present on the ride side
of the page header (beside the Log In/Out link) is used to toggle the sidebar in and out of view. It's especially useful when using and modifying
searches of the on-line databases. Try it out! You can find other tips in the How-to area.
• A monograph by David Handelman entitled "Soldiers' Letters to or from Canada 1802-1841" is now available
in the Library section.
• The International machine database of the IMCRSC is now available. This can be accessed either by navigating to the IMCRSC Study Group
or by looking in the Postmarks section, under Machines. See the main IMCRSC page for instructions on how to access the data. A primer on
the International machines is also available there.
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June 2010 |
• The Spring 2010 issue of the PHSC Journal is now available. See the Library.
• The first sixty-five back-issues of the Northern Study Group newsletter The Northerner are now
available to all PHSC members! There's lots of interesting material here for postmark, postcard, etc. collectors.
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May 2010 |
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• Repairing an inadvertent omission, a webpage describing a Saskatchewan Post Cards project
is now available from the Northern Study Group.
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• A Significant Anniversary!
Maggie Toms, PHSC member #66, has been a member of the Society since 1972, the year of its founding as the
Postal History Society of Ontario. On May 18, 2010 she will be celebrating her 100th birthday.
The Society wishes her well on this memorable occasion.
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April 2010 |
• Posted a new exhibit titled "District of Athabaska" by Gray Scrimgeour in the Allan Steinhart Memorial exhibits area.
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March 2010 |
• Some minor work on the Coutts slogan database has been completed -- repaired a systematic problem with earliest and latest dates.
• Spring break has offered more time to get things done! The Library section of
the website has been overhauled and re-organized. We have introduced the Allan Steinhart Memorial Exhibit Project, with
the intention of showing exhibits related to Canadian postal history. The first exhibits that have been prepared are
"Hamilton Bickerdikes" by Stéphane Cloutier and "Small-town Ontario Post Offices" by Bob Smith.
• The on-line edition of Issue 140 of the PHSC Journal is now available.
• much new work has been done on the Manitoba broken circles.
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February 2010 |
• Allan Steinhart's CSN articles, in the Library/Research area
• the complete database of slogan cancels developed and previously published
by Cecil Coutts. Fully searchable and customizable, including early and late dates of use. Find this in the Postmarks/Machines area.
• a new on-line PHSC publication written by Bob Smith on the barrel postmarks of Canada. Find it
in the Study Groups/Barrel area.
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January 2010 |
• a new database of the early 2-ring and 4-ring numeral cancels of Canada. Find this in the
Postmarks/Numeral area.
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December 2009 |
• a listing of the 1902 Montreal Experimental machines, with a time-line of recorded usage.
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