CBC Stamp Club visits ailing kids
Broadcast Date: Oct. 21, 1950
"We welcome you to the CBC Stamp Club," says club president Doug Patrick at Toronto's Daughters of the Empire Hospital for Convalescent Children. This 1950 episode of CBC Stamp Club is being broadcast from the hospital, a "junior sanatorium caring for children with active tuberculosis." Many of the kids here are fervent stamp collectors. One little girl is proud to announce she already has a whopping 2,288 stamps. Another girl has just one stamp so far – but she just started her collection today.CBC Stamp Club visits ailing kids
• The world's first postage stamp was created in England in 1840. Known as the "Penny Black," it cost once cent and featured a portrait of Queen Victoria.• By 1860, more than 70 other countries had begun using postage stamps as well. The hobby of stamp collecting began soon after that, but it wasn't until the 1920s that stamp collecting really took off as a widespread pastime.
• Today there are millions of enthusiastic stamp collectors around the world.
• CBC Stamp Club aired on CBC Radio on Saturdays from 1950 to 1971. A 1969 Globe and Mail article remarked on its popularity: "Not one day has gone by when there has not been some mail response to the program. It started in 1950 as a children's program, but adults soon showed an interest too and now (host Doug Patrick) estimates members are about half and half." By 1969, the club had about 60,000 members.
• For more information on tuberculosis and its history, please see the CBC Digital Archives topic Tuberculosis: Old Disease, Continuing Threat.
CBC Stamp Club visits ailing kids
Medium: Radio
Program: CBC Stamp Club
Broadcast Date: Oct. 21, 1950
Guest(s): Lorraine Corbett, Helen Cossack, Spurgeon Edgar, Elizabeth Hoy, Jane Hutton, Donald Ithcon, Vivian Lambert, Anita Lepage, Florence McKinley, Lois Netty, Jackie Parkinson, Marion Rumack, Cecile Sequin, Violet Sollin, Miss Taylor
Host: Doug Patrick
Duration: 14:01
From CD with Your Good Neighbour on it
IN: 0:24 "Welcome once again"
OUT: 14:26 "1950 edition"
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While cleaning up today - I found a file folder with tons of stamps - and - a copy of "CBC Stamp Club - How to Start a Stamp Collection" membership # 19132 (handwritten of course). Memories!
Submitted by: W. Hugh Chatfield I.S.P.