2025 awards won by BNAPS members

To acknowledge the philatelic endeavours of BNAPS members and their success in exhibiting BNA material, we list the awards they have won.

The listing covers exhibit awards for BNA exhibits and BNA literature at National exhibitions in Canada and the United States and FIP-sponsored International exhibitions. It also covers non-exhibit awards that recognize the philatelic achievements of members.

Many exhibitions use a points-based system to evaluate exhibits. A number after a medal is the number of points the exhibit was awarded.

If you think we've missed any, let us know. Contact Adri Veenstra (email: a.veenstra@chello.nl) who compiled the listings.

2025 BNAPS member awards, Part II - Apr.-June

Royal Philatelic Society of Canada, Annual General Meeting (Zoom), 8 June 2025

Non-exhibit Awards
Award Member Notes
RPSC Geldert medal Paul Young Best article in The Canadian Philatelist in 2024: “Early 20th-Century Covers Trace the Canadian Banking Career of Halifax’s Fritz Hechler” (published in Vol. 75, No. 1, Jan.-Feb. 2024, pp. 32-38)
     

NAPEX 2025, McLean, VA, 6-8 June 2025

Multi-frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold/90 Ronald Majors Canadian Postal History: A Rate Study using Decimal-Franked and -Stampless Covers (1859-1868)
     

EuroPhilEx Birmingham 2025, Birmingham, UK, 7-11 May 2025

Literature
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Vermeil/80 Graham Searle Editor, Maple Leaves, journal of the Canadian Philatelic Society of Great Britain
     

ORAPEX 2025, Ottawa, ON, 3-4 May 2025

Court of Honour (non-competitive)
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold Terry Wilson The Three Pence Beaver
     
Multi-frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold, Grand Award, BNAPS Best BNA Exhibit, Herbert L. McNaught Best Canadian Traditional, John D. Arn White Queen Award Douglas Irwin The Centennial Definitives of Canada, 1967 to 1974, Booklet Stamps and their Usages
Large Gold, Reserve Grand Award, BNAPS Best BNA 2 to 4 Frame Exhibit, PHSC Best BNA Postal History Exhibit John Cooper New Brunswick Postal History, the Pence Era 1851 - 1860
Large Gold, AAPE Award of Excellence - Treatment Bryan Dunne Sperati's Techniques and Forgeries
Large Gold, RPSC Excellence - Material Danny Cantor The Admiral Issues of Canada
Large Gold, BNAPS Best Researched BNA Exhibit, PHSC E.R. Toop Best Military Postal History Exhibit, APS Award of Excellence (1940-1980) Sam Chiu Canada's C-Force in Hong Kong and its Forerunners, 1940 - 1945
Large Gold, RPSC Excellence - Title Page / Synopsis John Hall Marketing the Canadian War Savings Stamps and Certificates of World War II
Gold Blair Ashford The Sub-Post Offices of St John's 1877-1949
Large Vermeil, CAS Best Airmail Exhibit Dave Bartlet Canadian and Newfoundland Pioneer Airmail Flights of 1918-1919
Large Vermeil Rick Baxter The Quebec Tercentenary
Large Vermeil Peter Macdonald Canada's 1969 Christmas Issue
Vermeil, APO Best Show Theme Robert Carswell The Three Pence Beaver and Five Cent Beaver Stamps Issued by the Province of Canada
Large Silver Ray Villeneuve Mail to and from Russell County: 1851 - 1961
     
Single Frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold, BNAPS Best BNA One-Frame Exhibit, RPSC Excellence - Presentation Jean Wang Smokes for the Troops: British and Canadian Tobacco Funds in WWI
Large Gold Sébastien Crête Uses and Rating of the 1¢ Queen Victoria Stamp in the Decimal Era 1859 - 1868
Gold Robert Elias Postage Due Charged for Canadian 6 Cent UPU Letters Prepaid 5 Cent
Large Vermeil John McEntyre The Postmaster-General Publicity Letters Sent Abroad in Replacement FDCs
Large Vermeil Blair Ashford Save for Security. Newfoundland's War Time Slogan
Vermeil, AAPE Gold Award of Honor J. Michael Powell Conflict and Captives: Over Two Centuries of Prisoner of War Mail
Large Silver J. Fred Pritchard Joseph Wyman's Overland Mail Service to Pontiac County, Quebec (1853-1889)
     

ROYALE * 2025 * FILEX, Montréal, QC, 25-26 April 2025

Multi-frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold/95, Reserve Grand Award, RPSC Excellence Material, BNAPS Best BNA Exhibit Richard Gratton Les épreuves de planche et les essais de couleur de la Province du Canada. 1851-1864
Large Gold/93, SHPQ Meilleure recherche en histoire postale Yan Turmine Courrier transfrontalier entre le Bas-Canada et les États-Unis jusqu'en 1851
Gold/85, APS Best Research, BNAPS Best BNA Research David Schurman The Supreme Court Revenue Stamps of Canada - 150th Anniversary
Large Vermeil/83, AAPE Gold Award of Honor, BNAPS Best BNA 2-4 Frame Exhibit Blair Ashford The Sub-Post Offices of St. John's. 1877-1949
Large Vermeil/80, RPSC Excellence Title page/Synopsis, APS Excellence Post-1980, John D. Arn White Queen Award John Hall The Canadian National Parks Stamps. Rates, Fees, Usages. 1979-1990.
Vermeil/78 Alexandre Fortier Les marques postales duplex de type 'chiffré' et 'lettré' de Montréal
     
Single Frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold/91, PHSC Best BNA postal history exhibit, BNAPS Best BNA One Frame Cimon Morin Cantons de l'Est - Les premiers bureaux et marques postales
Large Gold/90, RPSC Excellence Novice Sébastien Crête Uses and Rating of the 1cent Queen Victoria Stamp in the Decimal Era (1859-1868)
Gold/87, RPSC Excellence Presentation, PSSC Best Research James P. André Re-entries and Plate Flaws on Newfoundland's Second Cents Issue's 3c Queen Victoria
Gold/85 Blair Ashford Save for Security. Newfoundland's War Time Slogan.
     
Non-exhibit Awards
Award Member Notes
Elected Fellow of the RPSC Jean Wang
Elected Fellow of the RPSC John Wilson
     
2025 BNAPS member awards, Part I - Jan.-Mar.

2025 Spring National Stamp Show, Edmonton, AB, 29-30 March 2025

Multi-frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold/93, APS Award of Excellence 1900-1040, BNAPS Best BNA Exhibit, PHSC Best BNA Postal History Exhibit Kevin O'Reilly Yukon Postal History before World War II
Large Gold/92, BNAPS Best Researched BNA Exhibit, American Philatelic and Postal History Congress Postal History Medal David McLaughlin Householder Mail in Canada, 1889-1989
Large Gold/90, APS Award for Research Sam Chiu Canada’s C-Force in Hong Kong and its Fore-runners, 1940-1945
Gold/86, PSSC Specialization Award Mark Boyce Emerging Wildlife Management in Alberta
Gold/86, RPSC Award for Excellence Synopsis/Title page, APS Award of Excellence 1940-1980 Steven Friedenthal Postage Meters at War: Canada World War II Patriotic Postage Meter Slogans
Gold/85, American Air Mail Society Gold Medal Kevin O'Reilly The 1929 Mackenzie River Airmails
Large Vermeil/83, AAPE Exhibiting Excellence Ed Dykstra 3-Cent Cartier Issue: A Single Stamp Study
Large Vermeil/82 Hal Kellett How Japan’s Quest for Power Prior to and During World War II Affected Canada’s Military and Civilians 1940-1945
Large Vermeil/81, BNAPS Best BNA 2 to 4 Frame Exhibit, Canadian Aerophilatelic Society Award David Bartlet Canadian Pioneer Airmail Flight of 1918 – 1919
Vermeil/78, AAPE Creativity Award Earle Covert Tobacco Duty Paids – 1973 to 2011
Vermeil/78 Hal Kellett The Raid on Dieppe 19 August 1942
Vermeil/78 Hal Kellett Canadian Military Personnel Missing/Prisoner of War/Killed in Action during World War II
     
Single Frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Large Gold/93, BNAPS Best BNA One-Frame Exhibit Jean Wang The Toronto Hospital for Sick Children’s Christmas Appeals to 1926: The Sweetest of All Charities
Large Gold/93, AAPE Excellence of Treatment Jean Wang A Call to Arms: Canadian Red Cross Blood Donor Appeals in World War II
Large Gold/90, AAPE Exhibiting Excellence Donna Trathen Canada’s First RCMP Stamp 1935
     

BNAPS 2025 Virtual, 1 March 2025

Multi-frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Gold Brian D. Murphy Canada's External Mail, 1873-24 December 1898
Vermeil Christopher J. Ellis Canadian Pacific Railway "Green View" Pictorial Cards
Vermeil Steven H. Friedenthal Canadian Postage Meters at War: World War II Patriotic Postage Meter Slogans
Vermeil Ian McMahon Envelopes and Postcards of Canada
Vermeil Jerry H. Miller Canada's Postmark 'Golden Age' 1896-1902
Silver Earle L. Covert Tobacco Duty Paids - 1973 to 2011
Silver John A. Hall Canada's Inspection of Electricity Meters 1894 - 1950s
Silver Peter J. McCarthy Mail to and from Canadian Naval Personnel Serving in Shore Bases and Auxiliary Vessels during World War II
Silver Richard Wilson Half-cent Small Queen Issue 1882 - 1897
Silver-Bronze James D. Graham Postal History of Some Aspects of the Department of Munitions and Supply 1940-1945
     
Single Frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Gold John G. McEntyre CANADA 1906 & 1915 Weights and Measures Revenue Issues
Vermeil James P. André Re-entries and Plate Flaws on Newfoundland's Second Cents Issue's 3c Queen Victoria
Silver William G. Burden Admiral Plate Flaws: Scratching the Surface
Silver J. Fred Pritchard Joseph Wyman's Overland Mail Service to Pontiac County, Quebec (1853-1889)
Bronze Mark Oakley History BC NW Coast
     

FIP World Stamp Exhibition Uruguay 2025, Punta del Este, Uruguay, 17-22 February 2025

Multi-frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Gold/90 David McLaughlin Householder Mail in Canada, 1889-1989
     
Single Frame
Award Exhibitor Exhibit
Gold/91 John McEntyre 1855-59 10 pence. Canada's First Trans-Atlantic Rate Stamp
Large Vermeil/85 John McEntyre The Development of Official Canadian Airmail Routes 1928-42
     
Non-exhibit Awards
Award Member Comment
FIP Medal of Appreciation for Exceptional Jury Service Charles Verge
     

Notes

AAPE = American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors

APO = Amicale des philatélistes de l'Outaouais

CAS = Canadian Aerophilatelic Society

FIP = Fédération Internationale de Philatélie

PSSC = Philatelic Specialists Society of Canada

The John D. Arn White Queen Award is sponsored by the BNAPS Elizabethan II Study Group

The Herbert L. McNaught Best Canadian Traditional Award is sponsored by the Herbert L. McNaught family


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