The Ed and Mickey Richardson Award is awarded to the exhibit that best represents the collecting and exhibiting interests of the late Ed Richardson, OTB:

• Originality
• Innovativeness
• Research
• High standard of presentation

Any exhibit in any of the competitive classes at BNAPEX is eligible to win the award.

The award was established in 1983 by the Prairie Beaver Regional Group on the occasion of the 50th wedding anniversary of Ed and Mickey Richardson, and is sponsored by the Group. The award recognizes the extensive contributions of Ed and Mickey to BNA philately, BNAPS, and to members of the Regional Group.

Ed was a president of BNAPS, a two-time BNAPEX Grand Award winner, the chairman of two BNAPEX conventions, and a frequent BNAPEX jury member. In addition, he undertook extensive research in many areas of BNA philately and published numerous articles and handbooks to share his findings.

2024	Douglas Irwin	1950 King George VI Definitive Issue of Canada: Original Design
2023	Doreen Fitzgerald	The Story of Kaulbach Island Local Carriage Service
2022	Leopold Beaudet	The Philatelic Scene during the Admiral Era
2021	John Hall	Rates and Usages of the Canadian National Parks Stamps
2020	No award. The convention was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2019	Barry Millman	Mail Labels from the Inter-University Transit System (IUTS)
2018	Richard Judge	The Chemistry of the War Time Admiral
2017	David Bartlet	Vended Postage Automation
2016	Gary Steele	Ottawa Dead Letter Office Handstamps 1872 to 1950
2015	Peter Motson	E. R. Krippner – from Saxony to San Francisco
2014	Colin Banfield	Canada Postal Stationery Letter Cards of the Victorian Period, 1893 - 1899
2013	Tony Shaman	Delivering Joy to Children
2012	Robert J. Elias	Canadian Wilding and Associated High-Value Definitives
2011	P. Charles Livermore	Toronto – a Philatelic Adventure
2010	Brian Stalker	Coastal Labrador Mail Steamer Services
2009	Hank Narbonne	Postal Service in the Bathurst District of Upper Canada
2008	Brian T. Stalker	Newfoundland’s South Coast Traveling Post offices: Routes, Postmarks, Steamships and Mail Clerks: 1888 – 1968
2007	Peter Jacobi	The Historic Kootenays
2006	Earle Covert	Private Order Special Letter Envelopes
2005	Susan Sheffield	Inside Out: German Prisoner-of-War Camp 20 Gravenhurst
2004	Jon Johnson	Canadian Military Hospitals at Sea
2003	Barry Brown	Canadian Revenues For War: World War I & World War II
2002	Earle Covert	Permits
2001	Brian Murphy	Routes, Rates & Regulations - International Mail 1874-8
2000	Earle L. Covert	War Excise & Tax Paid
1999	Peter Jacobi	Mining B.C.'s Heritage
1998	Earle L. Covert	Canadian Postal Notes and Money Orders
1997	Terrace R. Harris	Newfoundland Tobacco Stamp
1996	Horace Harrison	Express Company Operations, Competing with the Post Office in Quebec & Ontario
1995	John Frith	Canadian Expeditionary Force 1914-1917, Canadian Army Medical Corps Hospitals and Field Units
1994	Jeff Switt	General Delivery Mail of Canada
1993	John Frith	The 1st Contingent, C.O.E.F.
1992	Jeff Switt	Canada Mourning Covers
1991	John S. Keenlyside	3c Small Queen perf. 12 1/2
1990	Jeffrey Switt	Postal Operations of the Foreign Exchange Control Board 1939-1945
1989	Earle L. Covert	Stationery used in the Priority Postal System
1988	Roger Grigson	Post Office Directional Markings 1870-1899
1987	No award - all exhibits were by invitation only
1986	Harry W. Lussey	5 Cent Registration Stamp, Plate #2
1985	Henry Lubke	Four Ring Numeral Cancels of Canada after July 1, 1859
1984	Larry Paige	Flag Cancellations on Cover