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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Cedar Tree 60 Ft in circumference Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five men in an automobile inside a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Cedar tree 60 ft. Circumference, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Group portrait of three men in a horse drawn carriage inside a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Cedar tree 60 ft. in Circumference Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five men in an automobile inside a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Cedar Tree 60 Ft. in circumference, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of five men in an automobile inside a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Cedar tree 60 ft. in Circumference, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men in a horse drawn carriage inside a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Cedar Tree, 60 ft. in circumference, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Group portrait of three men in a horse drawn carriage inside a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Cedar Tree, 61 feet circumference, Stanley Park

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Group portrait of five people in an automobile inside a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Cedar tree, 61 feet circumference, Stanley Park.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Group portrait of four people in an automobile inside a hollow tree at Stanley Park, B.C

Cement Plant, Princeton B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Cement plant in Princeton, B.C.

Cemetary Alert Bay, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A First Nations cemetary in Alert Bay, B.C.

Cenotaph, Fernie, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The cenotaph in Fernie, B.C. The Three Sisters are shown in the background.

Central Park Auto Tourists Grounds, Vancouver Canada

Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Central Park auto tourist grounds in Vancouver, B.C. Two men are shown next to an automobile.

Central School, New Westminster, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Central School in New Westminster, B.C.

Centre Street, Prince Rupert, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several people walking on Centre Street in Prince Rupert, B.C. Some storefronts and buildings are shown.

Ceremonial Mask, "Eagle Clan"

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A Tsimshian first nations ceremonial mask from the City Museum in Vancouver, B.C.