It is a member of the Fédération Internationale de Philatélie (F.I.P.)

The Patron of the society is Mary Simon, the Governor General of Canada.

[1] The society received permission to adopt the "Royal" title in 1959.

[1] Despite name changes and periods of inactivity on a national scale, many of the same individuals are to be found in the different societies, and the 1925 yearbook of the CPS shows Henry Hechler and Ernest Frederick Würtele to be members, both of whom had been members of the original Canadian Philatelic Association.

[1] The society's journal, The Canadian Philatelist is published every two months and past issues are available to view on the society web site free of charge together with all the predecessors to the journal.