British Columbia Postcards Collection

This is an historically significant collection of over 6,000 B.C. postcards that visually and vividly capture a wide array of places, people, events, industries, geographic landmarks, architectural highlights, modes of transportation – all associated with British Columbia. Many are from the "golden age" of postcards, 1900 to 1920, as well as the period from 1920 until WW2. Many of the cards are in excellent condition and a large percentage contain personal messages useful in documentation. This online collection contains a subset of the print collection.

This is an historically significant collection of over 6,000 B.C. postcards that visually and vividly capture a wide array of places, people, events, industries, geographic landmarks, architectural highlights, modes of transportation – all associated with British Columbia. Many are from the "golden age" of postcards, 1900 to 1920, as well as the period from 1920 until WW2. Many of the cards are in excellent condition and a large percentage contain personal messages useful in documentation. This online collection contains a subset of the print collection.

License and Usage Permissions

This collection contains many items for which copyright has expired in Canada. For items still under copyright protection, Simon Fraser University is not able to grant permission for their reuse. We encourage the appropriate use of images from this collection for educational and other not-for-profit purposes. Attribution/citation should be provided as follows: Image [insert image number here, eg. MSC130-2144-01] courtesy of the British Columbia Postcards Collection, a digital initiative of Simon Fraser University Library. Please include the website url when images are used in an offline or print-based context.

Simon Fraser University wishes to hear from any copyright owner, or their representative, who believes that this project has not properly attributed their work, or has used it without authorization. Please contact copy@sfu.ca and include the URL of the digital image in your message.

Acknowledgements

SFU Special Collections and Rare Books gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre's "BC History Digitization Program" and the SFU Library's Scholarly Digitization Fund to make this collection available online.

Contributed by Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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"Arbutus Isle," Sproat Lake, V.I.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: View of a small island on Sproat Lake, B.C. Some mountains are shown in the background.

"Bambi"-Miracle Beach, V.I., B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A deer at Miracle Beach, B.C.

"Benvenuto," The Butchart Gardens near Victoria, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A pond at the Butchart Gardens near Victoria, B.C. A small statue is shown near the pond.

"Benvenuto," The Butchart Gardens, V.I.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: The Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, B.C. A building is shown.

"Benvenuto," The Butchart Gardens, V.I.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A section of the Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, B.C. Some flowers are shown in the foreground.

"Benvenuto," The Butchart Gardens, V.I.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: View of the ocean from the Butchart Gardens on Vancouver Island, B.C. An island is shown in the distance.

"Benvenuto," Tod Inlet, V.I.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: View looking out at the water from Tod Inlet, Vancouver Island, B.C. A small island is shown in the distance.

"Biddy" the 172nd Mascot

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Vernon Photo Co.
Description: Bear named "Biddy" standing up while on a leash in Vernon, B.C.

"Blind Pigs" Seized at Tete Jaune Cache B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Seven pig skins filled with alcohol bottles in front of a building in T�te Jaune Cache, B.C.

"Brandewine Falls" B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): [illegible]
Description: Brandywine Falls, B.C.

"Camp" near Chilliwack

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Date: 1910
Description: A camp set up near Chilliwack, B.C.

"Early Days in Barkerville, B.C."

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two men and several horses on a street in Barkerville, B.C. An older man is shown standing on the porch of a storefront.

"Elk Falls" Campbell River Vancouver Island, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A partial view of Elk Falls in Campbell River, B.C. from behind a few trees.

"Empress of China," Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: 1905
Description: Empress of China ocean liner going through Vancouver, B.C.

"Evening" English Bay

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of English Bay in Vancouver, B.C. in the evening. A gazebo is shown in the foreground to the left of the image.