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!
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 scarce 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 15th – ‘Hotels and Motels’, a sharing meeting.