A new and exciting season has arrived and boy (and girl) has the stamp making machine been left on at Canada Post.

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1 WELCOME BACK!!! September 2014 Volume XLVIIV No. 1 A new and exciting season has arrived and boy (and girl) has the stamp making machine been left on at Canada Post. If your collecting mint Canadian and each and every format, reach really deep into your pockets because it is getting so expensive, it even makes a banker weep (no I work for a Credit Union). Let start backwards: On August 20th, The Canadian Human Rights Museum stamp was released.. A booklet containing 10 Permanent stamps was issued: $8.50. Next in reverse order are the country singers, Issued on July 31st: 5 booklets, a souvenier sheet, and postcards, first day covers, and more. PUBLICATION OF THE WINNIPEG PHILATELIC SOCIETY Western Canada's Oldest Stamp Club Mailto: Box 1425 Winnipeg, MB R3C 2Z1 Website: INSIDE THIS ISSUE Canada Post...1 Coming Events...2 Advertising & Adlets Canada Post Club Items....5 SCC Open House....6 Canada Post Word Search.8 Application form..8

2 WINNIPEG PHILATELIC SOCIETY Box 1425, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 2Z1 R.P.S.C. Chapter 86 A.P.S. Chapter 813 EXECUTIVE & DIRECTORS President: Al Wingate 1st Vice-President: Tess Fontaine 2nd Vice-President: Dave Dawes Past President: Russ Thompson Directors-at-Large: (2012) Len Kruczynski Linda Anderson (2011) Ken Kristjanson Mike Blande Treasurer: Mike Zacharias Recording Secretary: Judy Lipsey Membership Secretary: Debbie Birch Annual Dues Payable July 1st Each Year: Regular- $35.00 Senior- $25.00 Spouse - $20.00 Junior- $15.00 A spouse of a member may become a member with all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of membership, but does not receive The Buffalo. Application filed July to April Admission Fee Dues Total Regular $2.00 $35.00 $37.00 Senior $2.00 $25.00 $27.00 Others $2.00 $20.00 $22.00 Application filed April, May, June Regular $2.00 $40.00 $42.00* Senior $2.00 $30.00 $32.00 Others $2.00 $25.00 $27.00* * includes dues for following year LIFE MEMBERSHIPS $ RENEWALS Lapsed memberships or late renewals (paid after November 30th of each year) are charged a $1.00 reinstatement fee. All new applicants must undergo a 60-day orientation before receiving full membership privileges. The Buffalo is published monthly except in July and August. Deadline for article submissions and advertising copy is the 15th of each month preceding the month Sept 4 Sept 6 Calendar of Events Meeting & Auction Youth Club Meeting Sept 14 Red River Bourse Sept 18 Meeting & Presentation Sept 24 SCC Open House Oct 2 Meeting & Auction Oct 3-4 Grand Trunk Flea Market Oct 12 Oct 16 Nov 6 Nov 9 Red River Bourse Meeting & Presentation Meeting & Auction Red River Bourse Nov 20 Meeting & Presentation Nov Dec 4 FALL AUCTION Charity Auction Have something you wish to add to the Coming Events Drop a note to buffalo_editor@mymts.net DUTY OFFICERS Auctioneers: Ken Kristjanson Sid Kroker Al Wingate Buffalo Editor: Donald Bahuaud Buffalo Publisher : Vacant Buffalo Mail-List : Mike Zacharias Buffalo Mailing: Peter Bannerman Librarian: Robert Zacharias Program Chairman: Bill Pooley Exhibition Chairman: Al Wingate Sales Circuit Managers: Len Kruczynski Forbes Sharpe Name Badges: Mike Zacharias NB: Meetings start at 7:30pm Meetings are held at the Scandinavian Cultural Center 764 Erin Street Winnipeg, MB. Buffalo Advertising Rates -1/10 page (Approximately 2 1/4 x 2 3/4 $30 pa Members Adlets up to 30 words per word) 1 issue $ issues $ issues $3.00 (average of 5 characters Members may place two adlets a year at no charge Terms of Payment payable to Winnipeg Philatelic Society in a single payment at the time of the agreement. Sept/ WPS Buffalo / 2

3 Stamp Supplies Available: If you need supplies, we can get them. Available directly to you Stock books, Varo pages, world wide or country specific albums plus their supplementary pages, acid free exhibiting pages, mounts, tongs, perf. gauges, watermark fluid, red boxes big or small, Gibbons color gauge, stamp catalogues Scotts, Gibbons, Yverts and others much more! Ask Terry Shestko or Roger Fontaine to see our order Catalogue. Call Terry at or Roger at or Roger at: Post Cards Buy Sell Trade Call Wanted Well centered with center (SON) cancel stamps from the following: Canada 2001-Present, Germany 2011-Present. Call Guenther at Scandinavian Collectors Club Of Manitoba Meets 2nd & 4th Wednesdays 7pm-10pm Slide Shows, Show & Tell, Circuits, Speakers, etc. Visitors Welcome. Info: Roger NOTICE YOUTH CLUB MEETING The WPS Youth Club Currently meets Saturdays at St Luke s Anglican Church, 130 Nassau St N at Stradbrook Meeting Dates: PENDING For more information contact John Sept/ WPS Buffalo / 3

4 COLLECTION FOR SALE -Canada, 4 albums + loose on 1,000 stock cards -USA, 4 albums + loose on 1,000 stock cards -Barbados, 1 album + loose on few hundred stock cards -England, 1 album + loose on a few hundred stock cards -other countries available Please call FOR SALE World-wide Collection Contact Rick Loat WANTED George Green is looking for one (1) perfin from countries with names beginning with: K, O, W, X, Y, Z see him at any meeting GRAND TRUNK FLEA MARKET 200 TABLES ASSINIBOINE DOWNS Friday October 3rd 5pm 9pm Saturday October 4th 10am 4pm rmloat@inethome.ca The Country Singers Souvenier sheet $4.25 Next, only July 7th came the newest grouping of Canadian Photographers: 1 booklet of Permanent stamps; x 10 1 booklet of US rated $1.20 x 6, 1 booklet of International rated $2.50 x 6, a 4 stamp and a 3 stamp souvenier sheet Buffalo Bill & Sitting Bull Sept WPS Buffalo / 4

5 Buffalo Chips MOTION REGARDING ELECTIONS, presented at the Executive Meeting on August 24th, Bill Pulley presents to the general membership a motion: to approve the actions of the existing executive board and election of same in light of the fact that an election was not held at the appropriate time. Mike Bland 2nd. Carried. ************************************************************************************************ MEMBERSHIP DUES WELCOME BACK EVERYONE I would like to welcome everyone back and hope you had a great summer. Just a reminder to everyone that the membership fees are due in September and I am looking forward to seeing all of you. Thank you to everyone that has already paid their membership fees. The fees are $35 for everyone under 65 years young and $25 for those of you that are over 65 years young. If you have recently turned 65 please let me know and we will adjust your membership fees. If you can t it to a meeting you can always mail the fee to: Thanks again Debbie Birch, Membership Secretary WINNIPEG PHILATELIC SOCIETY Box 1425, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3C 2Z1 ************************************************************************************************ With sadness, we have received word from David Pritchard that Beverley Clark has passed away on Tuesday, August 26th. Beverley was a Past President of the Winnipeg Philatelic Society, but has not attended meetings since the 1990s. Our sympathies to her family and friends The October issue will have an article researched by Bev Barr and November will have an article by Ken Kristjanson Sept/ WPS Buffalo / 5

6 SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTORS CLUB OPEN HOUSE SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2014 The Scandinavian Collectors Club of Manitoba was formed on November 23 rd, 1988 and became Chapter 24 of the SCC, an international philatelic body on October 10 th, The objectives of the club are to foster the study of and research into the postal history and stamps of the Nordic countries of Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden and their present and former colonies. The club also provides the facilities for study and research and assists members in such study and research. Each year the club holds an open house at the start of the collecting year to provide a forum for interested parties to find out about our operation and to meet our members. This year the open house will be held on Wednesday, September 14 th at 7:30 p.m. in the upstairs hall of the Scandinavian Centre at 764 Erin Street. The doors will be open at 7 p.m. Our open house will feature free stamp giveaways, displays, a stamp quiz, as well as a guest speaker. A coffee break with Scandinavian delicacies will be offered to all who attend. The Club has been meeting at the Centre since its inception and is entering its 27 th year. If you would like more information about the club or its open house you may contact me at jsalmi5@shaw.ca. Left: 1996 Swedish booklet showing various rural abodes and to the right: the Club s 2014 Folklorama display. Sept/ WPS Buffalo / 6

7 More From Canada Post The International Rate and 4 stamp Souvenir Sheet The Permanent Rate 10 stamp Booklet. I ve lost count, but there still are the National Film Board and Haunted Canada stamps which have been issued since the last meeting of WPS. AND WAIT for the comedians Sept / WPS Buffalo / 7

8 Place mailing label in same direction as this text S H C A E B D N A R G L T Y L X H H D B C W O R H J E S T V L X M E J Z T N T I S S O F N F L R T I C E J L D X U A E R O L X R T R A V H E D D R L H L O U K L M T L X R P O S Q U P E G A V W M S A M X Q G A P A D H F F V H S V N P E A L D O I Y I F R N F C I H R E A C N T B D W W B S K I W R S R T E F J N M O I E E S V T D B L O E U R V A E U I F P H A Z I Q J Y V B O O S I E V W H B W I W C J T L T C L I B C R I A K N M M U M E H Z Z G O I E I Y W R A P L A V E S I E L D D V N C R B E L L L A K E B P G N E V D T S J A K P P Z E L H H M C Y Y G W B W Y B C O N P O O H Z O S O I J V R R O T Q C T I Z A O I P Y U E Y W O R K T F W O H E G A T I R E H V H J X I H K C L I G Z N O K E H H T J F X P D Z L Y V N W Q K E T T L E S T O N E S L L Z N F Y L J A V L X I O M E L P J T F S U G N R Q Z APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP IN THE WINNIPEG PHILATELIC SOCIETY Box 1425, Winnipeg, MB, R3C 2Z1 NAME ADDRESS CITY PROVINCE POSTAL CODE PHONE COLLECTING INTERESTS $35.00 $25.00 JUNIOR / $20.00 ( ADD A ONE-TIME $2.00 ADMISSION FEE) IF YOU HAVE A FRIEND, AQUAINTANCE OR FAMILY MEMBER, WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN OUR CLUB, PLEASE PASS THIS APPLICATION FORM ON TO THEM. WE WILL SUPPLY YOU WITH A REPLACEMENT BUFFALO. THANK YOU! WELCOME!! PROVINCIAL PARKS PART I BAKERS NARROWS Provincial BELL LAKE Provincial BIRDS HILL Provincial CARIBOU RIVER Provincial Wilderness DUFF ROBLIN Provincial GRAND BEACH Provincial HNAUSA BEACH Provincial KETTLE STONES Provincial LOCKPORT Provincial Heritage NOPIMING Provincial PEMBINA VALLEY Provincial PISEW FALLS Provincial RIVERS Provincial ST MALO Provincial STEPHENFIELD Provincial TRAPPIST Monastery Provincial Provincial HERITAGE WATCHORN Provincial WHITEMOUTH Provincial ZED LAKE Provincial Double Bolded & Capitalized names are to be considered as one. Sept / WPS Buffalo / 8