Events and Activities
The Ottawa Regional Association of Philatelic Exhibitions
ORAPEX 2026 activities will be listed here when they are finalized. The following is a list of ORAPEX 2025 activities.
Saturday, May 3 2025
| 10:00 | Show opens | Main Hall |
| 12:00-13:30 | Ukrainian Philatelic and Numismatic Society Annual General Meeting | Hall C |
| 13:00-14:00 | BNAPS Newfoundland Study Group: Blair Ashford The Dead Letter Office of St John’s Newfoundland: its operations, markings and significance | Hall D |
| 14:00-15:30 | BNAPS St. Lawrence Regional Group: Michael Powell Civil Censorship of the Mails in Canada during the Great War Era | Hall C |
| 14:00-15:00 | OPS, Canada Study Group: Tim Aston Canadian World War II Blackout Cancellations | Hall D |
| 15:00-15:30 | Beavers: Nature’s Engineers Court of Honour | Main Hall |
| 16:00-17:00 | ATA Presentation: Gerhard Peters How to get started collecting Topicals | Hall C |
| 18:00 | Show closes | |
| 18:15-19:15 | Reception with cash bar East India Co. Restaurant (1993 Robertson Rd) | |
| 19:15-21:15 | Awards Dinner (East Indian and Canadian food) Tickets at the Welcome Desk – $50 subject to availability. East India Co. Restaurant (1993 Robertson Rd) |
Sunday, May 4 2025
| 10:00 | Show opens | Main Hall |
| 10:00-11:00 | PSSC Presentation: Gilles Morel “Canada Post Official Autographed Hockey Stamps” | Hall C |
| 11:00-12:00 | Three presentations by Gilles Morel, Jim Jung and Ron Majors BNAPS Pence-Cents Study Group | Hall D |
| 11:30-13:00 | Judges’ Feedback Session | Hall C |
| 11:30-14:00 | 60ième Anniversaire de la FQP | Main Hall |
| 12:00-13:00 | Show and tell for anyone interested in Canadian Christmas materials BNAPS Christmas Study Group | Hall D |
| 13:00-14:00 | Amicale des philatélistes de l’Outaouais: Francois Grenier Vendre sur internet | Hall C |
| 13:00-14:00 | BNAPS Elizabethan II Study Group: Bob Elias From Canada to Uncommon Destinations, 1952-1966 | Hall D |
| 14:00-15:30 | Canadian Aerophilatelic Society AGM | Hall C |
| 14:00-15:00 | BNAPS Fancy Cancel and Miscellaneous Markings Study Group Group meeting, presentation on fancy cancel and show and tell | Hall D |
| 15:00-16:00 | Postal History Society of Canada “The Pence Beaver and Canadian Postal History” and “Expertization Session” | Hall D |
| 15:00-15:45 | Meet the exhibitors at their frames | Main Hall |
| 16:00 | Show closes |
