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PHSC Auction SUNDAY, March 23, 2014

Toronto, March 23, 2014. Our Annual Auction is coming this Sunday, March 23, 2014 at the Royal Canadian Legion 101 in Long Branch. We are constantly improving the event to make it run smoother and and effectively for both buyers … Continue reading

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Newsletter 13-9

Toronto, February 15, 2014. Editor David Bridge has been up late crafting the latest of his pdf newsletter, another 12 page colourful extravaganza. Click the picture below to read this latest issue.

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Blake Chorley visits the Rockies

  Toronto, February 11, 2014. Our January speaker was photographer Blake Chorley. Blake embarked last summer (2013) on a driving vacation in the Canadian Rockies with a big difference. Blake took along a huge 11 x 14 view camera, two … Continue reading

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Auction March 23, 2014

Toronto, February 3, 2014. Doug Napier announces the next PHSC auction this coming March 23rd, 2014 at the Legion Hall in Long Branch just west of the foot of Brown’s Line (Highway 27). This is a very popular auction featuring … Continue reading

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To the moon, Alice

Toronto, February 2, 2014. For those of you who watch television these days, many of the old serials run on some channels. Ralph Kramden and his wife Alice (Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows) were favourites as the Honeymooners when I … Continue reading

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Photographic Canadiana 39-4

Toronto, January 31, 2014. It’s coming, it’s coming. Editor Bob Lansdale has completed the last issue before our 40th anniversary year begins (how time flies…) and will have it ready to mail shortly.

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Report on December 2013 Show and Tell

I was a bit late arriving at the December meeting but I had an enjoyable evening. Doug Napier’s wife provided some home baked cookies – delicious! Oscar Li attended to the coffee machine in the absence of Bob Wilson and … Continue reading

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Newsletter 13-8

Toronto, January 12, 2014. Happy New Year everyone. Editor David Bridge has done another superb job on the January edition of our popular newsletter. In the nine page letter is a notice on our January Speaker and his modern 11×14 tintypes of the … Continue reading

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Joe A. Bailey 1929 – 2013

Rochester: December 22, 2013. We sadly report the passing of Dr Bailey. I met Joe in May of 1996 when he spoke with us at a Toronto meeting on “Little Known Things about Unknown People – the history of the 35 … Continue reading

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Tintypes in the Rockies

NEXT TORONTO MEETING: Wed, January 15, 2014. TINTYPES IN THE ROCKIES: Blake Chorley.  Blake Chorley bought an old 11×14 view camera and decided to go out to the Rockies and photograph like the 1850s wet plate photographers once did, lugging … Continue reading

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