Toronto Postcard Club (TPC)

Club Meetings

UPCOMING MEETINGS
Thurs. April 15, 7:00pm at the OHS office, details below.
Postcard Sleuth – Part II
A continuation of our recent workshop on how to date a postcard in the absence of a postmark or sender’s notation. How do you identify the location – or the event – on that wonderful Real Photo (or other) card? In this session we’ll move away from postal history and look at other identification aids. Bring your questions, contributions, and your mystery postcards!

Thurs. May 13, 7:00pm , at the Toronto Reference Library 789 Yonge St. at Bloor.
A guided tour of the ‘Postcard Collection’. With over 50,000 early 20th century postcards, we are sure to find some treasures here! Our library guide will educate us about the origins of the collection, it’s care and how it can be accessed by researchers, historians and deltiologists. Time permitting, we will also be introduced to the library’s ‘picture collection’.
Link to Library web-site.

ANNUAL FIELD TRIP – SCARBOROUGH HISTORY MUSEUM
Thurs. June 17, 7:00pm Join us at the Scarborough History Museum for the story of this community’s rural roots and two centuries of immigration. Located in beautiful Thomson Memorial Park just north of Lawrence Ave. on Brimley Road, the museum is situated on property first granted to David and Mary Thomson, who settled in Scarborough about 1798. Historic buildings include Cornell House, c. 1914, McCowan Log House, circa 1850, and the Hough Carriage Works. More infomation can be found on their web-site here.

Parking on the grounds is free. The Museum’s telephone number is 416-338-8807. For those using the TTC, take the Brimley # 21 bus from Kennedy Subway Station. The bus stops outside the park entrance. For planning purposes, please E-mail your intention to attend to info at torontopostcardclub.com.

***MEETING LOCATION***

The ONTARIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY OFFICE at 34 Parkview Avenue in Willowdale is our new meeting location.  See map here.

This elegant, refurbished c.1913 house is in a residential area with free on-street parking after 6:00pm.  Accessible by TTC, from the ‘North York Centre’ stop on the Yonge line.  Cross to the east side of Yonge and walk 2 blocks north to Parkview Ave., then one block east on Parkview. Cross Doris Ave. to the big red house on the corner by the park.  There’s a blue Ontario Heritage plaque out front.
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Club meetings are held in April, June, September, and December. In June, the last meeting before our summer break, we enjoy a field trip to a local venue that has a postcard or historical relevance to the club. In December we celebrate the season at our holiday dinner get-together.

The first half hour is for the exchange of postcard chat, a free coffee and browsing through materials brought for the evening presentation. A presentation by a member of the club or a guest speaker on a topic of interest to history buffs and postcard collectors follows. From time to time, one of our Dealer members is also present offering a selection of postcards for sale before the meeting begins.  ________________________________________________________________________
SHOW AND TELL FROM A DISTANCE! (for out-of-town Members)

Take a look at the up-coming meeting schedule. If you have a great card or a handful of great cards about a meeting topic that you feel other TPC members might enjoy seeing and hearing, scan or photocopy the cards and tell us a little bit about them. Scan the cards at 300dpi -in colour – and email as a jpeg attachment to editor at torontopostcardclub.com. If sending colour laser photocopies, send by snail-mail to John Sayers (his address is in the TPC Roster).

In your email or letter please mention which the meeting for which you’re sending the cards.  We’ll show them at the appropriate meeting and read what you’ve written. You might even see your name and cards shown in Card Talk and/or on the TPC website!

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