www.canadianstampnews.ca An essential resource for the CANADIAN advanced and beginning collector Like us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/canadianstampnews Follow us on Twitter @trajanpublisher STAMP NEWS Follow us on Instagram @trajan_csn Volume 44 • Number 06 July 9 - 22, 2019 $4.50 After a century of growth, Ottawa printer continues to push boundaries By Jesse Robitaille they’re about to witness firsthand the This is the first story in a four-part se- inner workings of a modern printing ries highlighting a private tour of operation. Some are here to research a Lowe-Martin, an Ottawa-based secu- specific stamp while others are hoping rity printer of Canadian and worldwide to confirm a single detail about a spe- stamps, as part of Orapex 2019. cific production process. As I walk into the lobby of “You are the bread and butter of our Lowe-Martin, one of three security business, and it’s great to have you printers contracted by Canada Post, I’m here,” said Ian Hetherington, director of met with a formidable showroom of stamp production at Lowe-Martin, dur- printer’s paraphernalia. ing the May 3 tour. Among the display is a cabinet full of Continued on page 3 old letterpress printer’s blocks, monotype specimen books and several awards for past jobs well done. Also nearby are about 15 Lee Ann Stewart (left) is taking over as executive assistant of The Royal philatelists – attendees of Ora- Philatelic Society of Canada and Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic pex in Ottawa, where Research Foundation after Margaret Schulzke’s retirement on July 1. Lowe-Martin is located – and Now known as the ‘Acart Long-time RPSC, Greene Foundation Building,’ 171 Nepean St. was purpose-built under executive assistant retires the direction of Lowe- Martin after the company’s By Jesse Robitaille Held by Schulzke since 2006 and previous plant was struck fter 13 years as executive assistant 2001, respectively, the positions will be by fire in February 1913. of The Royal Philatelic Society of taken over by Lee Ann Stewart, who has CanadaA (RPSC) plus another five with spent 20 years as the senior executive the Vincent Graves Greene Philatelic Re- assistant to the CEO of the Alzheimer search Foundation, Margaret Schulzke Society of Ontario. Difficult to evaluate, postcards has retired from her roles effective July 1. “I decided to move forward into re- tirement so that I can give more time to are finding their place in exhibits the major values and interests in my Publications Registration Mail No. 09136 Agreement No. 40069699 No. 09136 Agreement Mail No. Registration Publications life,” said Schulzke, who’s also a Fellow By Jesse Robitaille At Orapex last May, Sam Chiu’s of The RPSC, adding “there’s always a This is the first story in a two-part five-frame postcard exhibit, this on need for volunteers; perhaps I’ll still be series exploring deltiology exhibits in Chinese picture postcards from Yantai able to give a little help along the way.” Canada. (formerly known as Chefoo) in 1898- Born in Kent, England, Schulzke be- In a sign of the changing landscape 1911, earned 96 points plus the sec- gan a career as a legal secretary before of philatelic exhibiting, the first Re- ond-highest honour. It’s a “shocking” spending a year in Toronto – an experi- serve Grand ever awarded to a post- revelation, Chiu said, for deltiology in ence that changed the trajectory of her card exhibit at a Canadian national- Canada. life. level show was recently handed out in Continued on page 3 Staying in Canada, she later applied Ottawa. for a part-time position at the Greene A five-frame postcard Foundation. After an interview with exhibit by Sam Chiu then-RPSC Secretary Harry Sutherland on picture postcards and Kenneth Rowe, she was hired in produced from 1898- 2001. 1911 in Yantai, China, Five years later, when The RPSC’s ad- earned 96 points and the ministrative work was brought in- first Reserve Grand ever house, Schulzke “offered to work an awarded to a postcard extra day each week” to take on that exhibit at a Canadian role in addition to her position with the national-level show at Greene Foundation. Orapex this May. Continued on page 23 FIND DEALERS YOU CAN TRUST! 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