BNAPS Centennial Definitives Study Group

Overview

The Centennial Definitives Study Group was established in 1980 by Murray H. Freedman and Douglas Irwin. Initially the group consisted of Toronto area collectors who exchanged information about the 1967 Centennial issue. As a result of articles in BNA Topics, collectors outside the Toronto area expressed interest in joining. As a result, the founders decided to publish a newsletter, the first issue of which was dated June 1981. The Study Group held its first BNAPEX convention meeting at BNAPEX 1981 in Ottawa on 26 September. More than 20 people attended. Among them was J. Paul Hughes, who did pioneering research on the Centennials, and co-authored with Fred W. L. Keane the first book on the issue, Canada The 1967-73 Definitive Issue, published in 1975.

Doug Irwin became sole editor of the newsletter in 1982, and continued in that role until 1989. The following year, John Aitken became editor. He resigned in 1993, and Leonard Kruczynski took over.

In 2010, the Centennial Definitives Study Group merged with the Elizabethan II Study Group, which until that point had covered the entire Elizabethan period except the 1967-1973 Centennial definitives.

Newsletter

Newsletter Editors

From To Editor
1981 1981 Murray H. Freedman and Douglas Irwin
1982 1989 Douglas Irwin
1990 1993 John Aitken
1993 2010 Leonard Kruczynski

Newsletters

The issues are in PDF format. File sizes vary from 0.3 to 11.3 MB.
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1981 No 1 No 2 No 3
1982 No 4 No 5 No 6 No 7 No 8 No 9
1983 No 10 No 11 No 12 No 13 No 14 No 15
1984 No 16 No 17 No 18 No 19 No 20 No 21

1985 No 22 No 23 No 24 No 25 No 26 No 27
1986 No 28 No 29 No 30 No 31 No 32 No 33
1987 No 34 No 35 No 36 No 37
1988 No 38 No 39 No 40 No 41
1989 No 42 No 43 No 44 No 45

1990 No 46 No 47 No 48 Nos 49-50
1991 No 51 No 52 No 53
1992 No 54 No 55 No 56
1993 No 57 No 58
1994 No 59 No 60 No 61 No 62

1995 No 63 No 64 No 65
1996 No 66 No 67 No 68
1997 No 69 No 70 No 71
1998 No 72 No 73
1999

2000 No 74 No 75 No 76
2001 No 77 No 78
2002
2003 No 79
2004 No 80

2005
2006
2007 No 81
2008 No 82
2009

2010 No 83

No. 76 contains an index to Nos. 1 to 75.


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