A little ways down on this subforum, "colonialtokens" brought up the subject of how to retrieve archived posts.
For archived posts in THIS subforum of "Canadian Coins and Colonial Tokens", you just go to the above the threads and type in what you are looking for in the "search this forum" and you'll get everything here.
Most folks have a separate link/bookmark for each of the subforums they want to scan (I have 3 here in the CCF Canadian forums). If you go back to the CCF homepage where all the CCF forums are listed (US, Canadian, foreign, etc) you have the same search engine for ALL the subforums, plus you have an "archive" icon marked with a "Block A" on the far right of every subforum. Nothing should ever get lost. And you can search for posts in a thread that was not on topic; ie you will be able to read a 5 year old post of a token mentioned in an "error & variety" or "grading" subforum.