A ‘rebus’ puzzle on a leather postcard. Postmarked 1907.
Zoom meetings allow us to connect our Canada-wide & USA members. We enjoy presentations or a ‘show-and-tell’ discussion around a topic each month, usually on the 3rd Sunday of the month at 2:00pm Toronto time.
Want to know more about membership in the TPC including our 3 times a year, 24 page ‘magazine’ ‘CARD TALK’ with stories about vintage postcards? Have a look here.
UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
December 15th, 2024 2:00pm – ‘A Salute to the Season’. A sharing meeting of a postcard from your collection that says ‘winter’ to you: a picture, a poem, a memory that the postcard recalls. Scan it and share the story with us!
January 19th – 2:00pm – Annual General Meeting on ZOOM
February 16th, 2:00pm ‘W.S. Louson‘ – A presentation by TPC Member #1711 Chris Ellis about this important P.E.I. photographer. Using ‘padposts’ (a.k.a. postals) and postcards from his collection, Chris will relate Louson’s interesting story.
March 16th, 2:00pm – ‘Misprints, Mislabelled & Mistakes’, From your collection, look for those flawed oddities that made it out into the world. Scan it and share it with us all.
April 27th, 2:00pm – Concrete or Cement? Both are ubiquitous, as common as water. TPC Member #917 Clarissa Ferraris will illustrate their history and story with postcards from her collection.
May 25th, 2:00pm – ‘A Railway History of Niagara-on-the-Lake 1854-1859’ Stories about the early Upper Canada steam railway, the NS&T electric transit line and WWI support activities by N-O-L railways told to us by guest speaker, historian and author Peter Mulcaster.
June 22nd, 2:00pm – 
‘Hotels and Motels’, a sharing meeting. Hopefully your collection has a hotel or motel postcard that has a story to go with it. Scan it to show and share the story with us!