Tag Archives: membership

a collection like no other

Posted on February 3, 2025 by Robert

Toronto. Do you know we Canadians have a national collection of papers, photos, and physical objects in Ottawa’s National Museum of Science and Technology (now named Ingenium)? Or that the Museum is a member of the PHSC? The image at … Continue reading →

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of collectors and columns

Posted on December 10, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. When Ev became editor of Photographic Canadiana, he began changes that pushed our journal into the area of a true magazine. Each issue had an index of contents. Small items of interest to collectors peppered his column “Editor’s Notebook“. … Continue reading →

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have muscles, can use an Auto Graflex …

Posted on July 20, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. Back in late 1986, the late Larry Boccioletti (co-founder and past president of the PHSC) wrote in the “Treasures from my Collection” column about his amazing find of a near perfect ‘Auto Graflex’ camera originally purchased (perhaps used) by … Continue reading →

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making a woodie that works

Posted on May 30, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. While teaching at Humber College, PHSC member (and speaker) Neil Fox taught photography. He had his students construct their own ‘woodie’ to learn the art from the ground up. In the 1800s, skill in carpentry and bellows layout allowed … Continue reading →

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Executive Meeting No 45 via ZOOM

Posted on March 11, 2024 by Robert

Toronto. March is heading into hot weather – we held our 45th ZOOM executive meeting last Wednesday of which this a brief recap. The latest PHSC newsletter by editor Katrin Faridani is due out in March. For any viewer wishing … Continue reading →

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a 2-4 meeting on ZOOM

Posted on March 4, 2022 by Robert

Toronto. Wow! we held  our  twenty-fourth executive meeting via ZOOM last Wednesday. Behind the scenes (some of) your executive have been very busy searching out alternative places/dates for this year’s fairs, shows, and auctions. As mentioned last month, we will … Continue reading →

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23 skid-ZOOM

Posted on February 4, 2022 by Robert

Toronto. Well our  twenty-third executive meeting via ZOOM was held last Wednesday and we did decide a few things of note: Most importantly, our spring fair location will be taken over by Elections Ontario for 2022 so we are busy sourcing … Continue reading →

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Photographic Canadiana Vol 47-3

Posted on October 31, 2021 by Robert

Toronto. Sadly, we lost our editor,  Bob Lansdale, this past summer. Bob left much of this material to help our interim editors, David Bridge and Louise Freyburger who ably stepped up to the challenge of producing this issue. Members WITH … Continue reading →

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PHSC News 16-4

Posted on September 19, 2016 by Robert

Toronto. Our brand new redesigned and retitled newsletter “PHSC News” was sent Saturday night to our members and others on our mail list at MailChimp. Hats off to editor David Bridge for a new delightful newsletter. The details of the … Continue reading →

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