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The Journal (July/August 2014) RCNA Junior Auction Encan des Juniors de l'ARNC Visit to Black Creek Pioneer Village Printing Ship Visite à l’imprimerie de Black Creek Pioneer Village Serge Pelletier interviews RCM Engraver Matthew Bowen Pelletier en entrevue avec graveur Matthew Bowen de la MRC RCNA 2014 Convention a Big Success! Congrès de 2014 de l’ARNC un grand succès! The Journal is a publication of the Ottawa Le Journal est une publication de la Société Numismatic Society. Published every two numismatique d’Ottawa. Publié aux deux mois, il months, it aims to promote money collecting and vise à promouvoir la collection de monnaie et la numismatics in Canada’s National Capital Region. numismatique dans la Région de la capitale The publication is available to paid members and nationale. Cette publication est disponible aux the general public through the ONS website. membres, ainsi qu’au grand public, à travers le site Back issues of ONS publications are available on web de la SNO. Les numéros antérieurs sont line to read or download. disponibles en ligne; prêts à être lus ou téléchargé. Contact Information Pour nous contacter The Ottawa Numismatic Society La Société numismatique d’Ottawa P.O. Box 11086, Station H C.P. 11086, succursale H Ottawa, ON K2H 7T8 CANADA Ottawa (Ontario) K2H 7T8 CANADA E-mail: [email protected] Courriel : [email protected] Website: http://www.ons-sno.ca Site Web : http://www.ons-sno.ca The society meets every month, usually on the La société se réunit habituellement le quatrième fourth Monday. Doors open at 7:00 pm and the lundi de chaque mois. Les portes ouvrent à 19 h et meetings begin at 7:30 pm in the Theatre (on the la réunion débute à 19 h 30 dans le théâtre (au 3rd floor) of the Heron Road Multi-Service Centre, 3e étage) du Heron Road Multi-Service Centre, 1480 Heron Rd, Ottawa. 1480 chemin Heron, Ottawa. Annual dues: $12.00 Frais d’adhésion annuels : 12,00 $ Executive Committee Conseil d’administration President: Steve Woodland Président : Steve Woodland Vice President: Serge Pelletier Vice-président : Serge Pelletier Secretary: Rod MacDonald Secrétaire : Rod MacDonald Treasurer: Wilf Lauber Trésorier : Wilf Lauber Key positions Postes clés Journal Editor: David Bergeron Rédacteur en chef du Journal : David Bergeron WebMaster: Mark Dennis Webmestre : Mark Dennis Greeter/Prizes: Kim Zbitnew Accueil/Prix : Kim Zbitnew Next Meetings: Prochaines rencontres : August Août Date: Monday, August 25 2014 Date : Lundi, 25 août 2014 Speaker: to be announced Invité d’honneur : à suivre Topic: to be announced Objet : à suivre September Septembre Date: Monday, September 22, 2014 Date : Lundi, 22 septembre 2014 Speaker: to be announced Invité d’honneur : à suivre Topic: to be announced Objet : à suivre Table of Contents Table des matières President’s Word ...................................................page 3 Le mot du président................................................ page 3 Editor’s Message ....................................................page 4 Le mot du rédacteur en chef ............................... page 4 Minutes of the ONS Meetings ...........................page 4 Résumé des assemblées de la SNO ................... page 4 100-franc Commemorative Coins of the 5th 100-franc Commemorative Coins of the 5th Republic (Part 1) by Wilf Lauber ……… .page 5 Republic (Part 1) par Wilf Lauber ............ page 5 An Ottawa Ferry: The Steamer Mansfield An Ottawa Ferry: The Steamer Mansfield by Chris Faulkner............................................page 10 by Chris Faulkner ............................................. page10 | P a g e 2 A Word from the President Le mot du Président The two big events of this past summer were Les deux grands événements de cet été, le the American Numismatic Association show congrès de l’American Numismatic in Chicago and the Royal Canadian Association à Chicago et le congrès de Numismatic Association convention in l'Association royale canadienne de Mississauga. In my mind, both were huge numismatique du Canada à Mississauga, ont successes, particularly for the ONS. été des grands succès, en particulier pour la Our previous newsletter, moneta, and its SNO. intrepid editor, Serge Pelletier, took 1st place Notre bulletin précédent, moneta, et son in the ANA’s Outstanding Local Club rédacteur en chef intrépide, Serge Pelletier, Publication Award and 1st place in the RCNA’s ont remporté la 1ère place du prix Outstanding Best Local Club Newsletter Award. This was Local Club Publication de l'ANA et la 1ère place the third top spot in four years for moneta in du prix Meilleur bulletin d’un club. C'était la each award and the second year in a row troisième fois, en quatre ans, que moneta where the ONS publication has won both the remportait chacun de ces prix et c’est la ANA and RCNA awards. Congratulations to deuxième année consécutive où notre you and your team Serge! publication a remporté les deux. Félicitations Continuing on the numismatic writing theme, à toi et à ton équipe Serge! ONS member Ron Cheek proved his skills Poursuivant le domaine des prix littéraires, with the pen, winning both the Guy Potter l’un de nos membres, Ron Cheek a également Award for the best article published in The remporté un doublé soit prix Guy Potter pour Canadian Numismatic Journal and the Jérôme le meilleur article publié dans le Journal H. Remick III Literary Award (his 3rd) for the canadien de numismatique et le prix littéraire best article published in a local club Jérôme H. Remick III (son 3ème) pour le newsletter. This is the first time the same meilleur article publié dans un bulletin de author has won both awards in a single year. club local. C'est la première fois que le même Well done Ron! auteur remporte ces deux prix en une même année. Bravo Ron! Finally, our member from Kingston, Sandy Lipin, along with your humble President, Enfin, notre membre de Kingston, Sandy each received a RCNA President’s Award, for Lipin, et votre humble serviteur, ont reçu un their work behind the scenes supporting the Prix du président de l’ARNC pour leur travail RCNA. dans les coulisses à l’appui de l’ARNC. All in all, it was a great summer, and I Dans l'ensemble, c'était un très bel été, et look forward to an exceptional autumn! j'ai hâte à un automne exceptionnel! Steve Steve | P a g e 3 From the Editor Le mot du rédacteur en chef As I write this brief editorial, I am getting ready Tout en écrivant le mot du rédacteur en chef, je to attend the 2014 RCNA Convention in me prépare pour aller au congrès de l’ARNC Mississauga. Because the convention is so late 2014 à Mississauga. Puisque le congrès a lier in the summer this year, you probably will not plus tard dans l’été, peut-être vous ne recevrez receive this issue of the ONS Journal until only pas ce numéro du journal de la SNO que a few days (maybe even a few hours!) before quelques jours, voire même quelques heures!, the August meeting. Part of the reason for the avant la réunion du mois d’août. Une raison delay will be that President Steve will want to pour le retard, c’est que le président Steve publish a report on the convention in this issue. voudra publier son rapport sur le congrès dès So after we’re back on August 17th, Steve will son retour. Malheureusement, Steve n’aura only have a couple of days to write and submit qu’une couple de jours pour préparer et me his report. Fortunately on my end I have soumettre son rapport. De mon côté, j’ai déjà already revised and laid out the articles for this faite la révision et la mise-en-page des articles issue. Thanks to Chris Faulkner and Wilf pour ce numéro. Je tiens à remercier Chris Lauber for submitting two interesting articles, Faulkner et Wilf Lauber pour leurs articles the former about the Ottawa steamer intéressants, le premier sur le bateau-à-vapeur Mansfield, the latter about 100-franc outaouais Mansfield, et le dernier sur les pièces commemorative coins of the Fifth Republic. commémoratives de 100 francs de la 5e république française. David David Meeting summary – June & July Résumé des rencontres – juin et juillet June's meeting was well attended with Chris La réunion de juin a été bien suivie avec Chris Lasalle speaking on Anchor money. This coinage Lasalle parlant de la monnaie « Anchor ». Cette occasionally found in pre-Confederation hoards monnaie, trouvé parfois dans des hordes d'avant was minted for the British colonies in the la Confédération, a été frappée pour les colonies Caribbean. britanniques des Caraïbes. July's meeting was more quiet, with some La réunion de juillet a été plus calme, avec members being on holidays and travelling. John quelques membres étant en vacances et les Deyell gave the second part of his presentation voyages. John Deyell a donné la deuxième partie on foreign bank and coin museums. Thanks to de son exposé sur les banques étrangères et de John and Chris who are regular speakers at the pièces de musées. Merci à John et Chris qui sont club. des locuteurs réguliers au club. Just a reminder that the silent auction and Juste un rappel que l'encan silencieux et la table dealer’s table are great ways for members to sell de revendeur sont d'excellents moyens pour les items from their collection to other club membres de vendre des articles de leur collection members. à d'autres membres du club. Rod Rod | P a g e 4 100-Franc Commemorative Coins of the 5th Republic by Wilfred Lauber In previous articles published in Moneta and the ONS Journal, I discussed the historical significance of the special circulation commemorative 1, 2 and 5-franc coins issued by the French Mint in the final years of the Franc as France’s currency unit before the conversion to Euros.
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