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:
November 17th, 2024 2:00pm – Military Camps, Parades and Farewells: The Road to War, 1914-18: A collaborative presentation by TPC Members #1473 John Aitken, #1424 Andrew Cunningham and #560 John Sayers. With postcard images from their collections, we take a glimpse of soldiers’ lives before the front. The training camps at London, Ontario’s Wolseley Barracks, Camp Hughes in Manitoba, and the Niagara Camp are the focus of this presentation, however TPC members with related postcard images are invited to share them following the presentation.
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!
2025 AGENDA
Sundays at 2:00p.m. Eastern Standard Time
January 19th – Annual General Meeting
February 16th – TPC Member #1711 Chris Ellis on ‘PEI Photographer W.S. Lousen’ using philatelic and postcard selections from his collection.
March 16th –‘Misprints, Mislabelled & Mistakes’, a sharing meeting.
April 27th – TPC Member #917 Clarissa Ferraris on her Postcard Collection about ‘Ubiquitous Concrete’.
May 25th – ‘A Railway History of Niagara-on-the-Lake 1854-1859′ by guest speaker, historian and author Peter Mulcaster.
June 15th – ‘Hotels and Motels’, a sharing meeting.