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Updated Sept. 19, 2007

Times
Friday, October 12, 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 13, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, Ocotber 14, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

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$5.00 per day
$10.00 for three days
Children under 16 Free

This exciting, memorable event is weeks away so plan now to attend. Information will be regularly added. Show Covers and cancels

Additional Information about The ROYAL*2007*ROYALE

This year’s ROYAL*2007*ROYAL Convention and Philatelic Exhibition will be organized by the Greater Toronto Area Philatelic Alliance (GTAPA). The dealer’s bourse will be organized by the Canadian Stamp Dealer’s Association (CSDA). These two organizations, along with The Royal Philatelic Society of Canada (RPSC), are the hosts for this year’s extravaganza. And a wonderful event it promises to be. Planning is coming together nicely but as always, a little slower that the organizers had hoped. Here are several “happenings” that will be held at this year’s ROYAL.

• The Official Opening of ROYAL* 2007* ROYAL will be held on the Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. with the traditional continental breakfast. The introduction of special guests and stamp celebration of a new set of definitives will begin at 9:!5 a.m. This event is free to everyone and will precede the doors being opened to the bourse and exhibition.

• Court of Honour: We are pleased to announce that this show’s Court of Honour will be a spectacular display of 40 frames of great Canadian, award-winning collections:
Doug Lingard’s exhibit, The 1939 Royal Train Postal Markings and Their Majesties’ Tour of N.A., Fred Fawn’s exhibit of Canada’s Large Queens and Doug Irwin’s exhibits on Canada’s Centennial Isssue and Niagara Fall’s Postal History.

• Exhibition Judges: The RPSC’s Judging Coordinator, David Piercey, has recently announced the jury for the ROYAL. The chief judge will be Doug Lingard of Ottawa. Under the reciprocity agreement with the Australian Philatelic Federation, Paul Barsdell will be joining the jury from Australia. The USA judge will be Tom Fortunato from Rochester. He is also the American Commissioner. Canadian judges will be: Rodney Paige of Thorold, Ontario and Sam Chiu of Toronto, Ontario. Apprentice will be John Wilson also of Toronto.

• “Society Row”: Societies, other philatelic organizations and special interest groups, are being given the opportunity to bring their passion and special programs to the ROYAL. Groups will include RPSC, BNAPS, GTAPA, GRVPA, Scouts on Stamps and FQP (Royal*2008*Royale) are on board to display their materials at their own booths and distribute or sell their products to aid collectors. The RPSC will have a booth to encourage new memberships and subscriptions to The Canadian Philatelist and the Quebec delegation for advertising the 2008 ROYALE will have details of their event at their own booth. More information about this initiative can be found on the (www.rpsc.org) website.

• Dealer Bourse: There will be over 50 dealers committed to the ROYAL bourse, including UK and US dealers as well as Canada Post.

• Youth Program: Plans are to have three special programs for the young collector at the ROYAL. Friday will be Beginner’s Day. Invited schools groups of beginners will attend full-day workshops with our great staff of volunteers. Saturday will be called Hockey Thematic Day and will have experienced young stamp collectors attend sessions on thematic collecting and exhibiting. A trip is planned to the Hockey Hall of Fame to take a tour of the displays. This activity will require registration. Sunday will be a Family Stamp Day with more opportunities to learn about the hobby and receive free philatelic material. Of course the traditional Youth Booth run by Betty Emms (Beddoes) and sponsored by the CSDA, will be open all three days to assist children and provide materials.

• Special Presentations: The schedule of presentations for collectors is posted on the websites. At present, Canada Post’s Yves Piche will be involved as will representation from BNAPS. Many specialty groups will also present and the usual judging seminar and the Judges’ Critique will join in with sessions on thematic collecting, exhibiting, postal history, to round out the schedule.

• President’s Reception and Award’s Banquet: These events will take place on the Saturday, in the show hotel, The Radisson Admiral Hotel at Harbourfront. The President’s Reception (tickets at $15.00) will be held at 5:30 p.m. and the Award’s Banquet (tickets at $75.00) at 7:00 p.m. Tickets may be purchased by using the Registration Form or on the Friday morning at the show. Please register for tickets as soon as possible.

• Main Entrance to the Queen Elizabeth Building: Previous stamp shows at the QE Building have used the side doors as an entrance. The ROYAL will use the main entrance at the front of the building. With the new BMO Soccer Stadium immediately adjacent to the east side of the building and the special opening procedures of the ROYAL necessitate the change in the entrance way. Also, our registration and admissions tables will be easily accessed from the main entrance.

• Show Covers and Cancellations: (Images) As always, special cachet covers and show cancellations will be available for collectors. The GTAPA’s series of postcards of Toronto’s historic districts will be available as will special special covers prepared by our resident cover designer and producer, Harvey Shuter and others. Four pictorial cancellers (Images) will also be available for collectors to use on their personally prepared covers.

• Show Cover Ordering Information: Collectors not able to attend the ROYAL*2007*ROYALE show in Toronto may wish to obtain one or more of the show covers for their collections. Covers can be purchased by sending a cheque made out to GTAPA to:

ROYAL Covers C/O GTAPA,
Box 45,
260 Adelaide Street East,
Toronto ON M5A 1N1.

Orders must be postmarked no later than October 28th.

• Pictorial Cancellations available: # 1 Lady Bugs (Insects), # 2 The Scout’s 100th anniversary, # 3 RPSC Medallion, # 4 CN Tower

• Covers available: # 1 – Beneficial Insects, # 2 - Scouts 100th Anniversary, # 3 - The 40th Anniversary of the Centennials, # 4 - The postcard of The Beach District.
Please Note: The cancellation #’s correspond to the Cover #’s, unless you wish to give other instructions to the cover maker (e.g. Beach postcard will have the CN Tower cancellation)
Covers # 1 & 2 will have the strip of insect stamps (1, 3, 5, 10, 25 cent stamps from the souvenir sheet at $ 0.44) and the Scout commemorative stamp from July ’07, ($0.52) respectively. Cover # 3 (Centennial issue) will have the 6¢ orange, the 6¢ black or the 7¢ green overprinted Centennial stamp ($0.50). Cover # 4 Beach postcard will have a current $0.52 stamp.

All four covers will sell for $2.00 each. Shipping & Postage for two covers - $1.00, for three to four covers - $1.50, and for five to eight covers - $2.00

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Please mark down the dates now, October 12 to 14. Make your overnight plans soon because Toronto is a very busy place with conventions in October. (The rooms are blocked but not reserved.) Don’t be disappointed. This ROYAL will be the biggest meeting of RPSC delegates, collectors, dealers and exhibitors in Canada in over a decade.