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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Displaying 1921 - 1935 of 5988

City of New Westminster, B.C., from River

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of New Westminster, B.C. from the Fraser River.

City of Vernon B.C.

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Date: 1909
Name(s): V.P.Co
Description: View of Vernon, B.C.

City of Vernon, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Vernon, B.C.

City of Victoria, B.C. Looking South

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): B.C. Airways Ltd.
Description: Aerial view of Victoria, B.C. looking south. The Inner Harbour is shown.

Clearing Camp, Port Mann, B.C. 1911

Date: 1911
Description: Clearing Camp in Port Mann, B.C.

Cleveland Dam in Capilano Canyon

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The top of the Cleveland Dam at Capilano Canyon. Capilano Lake is shown behind the dam.

Cleveland Dam Spillway

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The Cleveland Dam spillway in North Vancouver, B.C.

clever capture

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two men standing in a forested area in Tête Jaune Cache, B.C. One man is shown holding up the back of the other man's jacket revealing two containers used for bootlegging suspended over his shoulders.

Cliffe Avenue, Courtenay, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Cliffe Avenue in Courtenay, B.C. Some storefronts and automobiles are shown.

Climbing the Rockies

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several people around a train at a train station in the Rocky Mountains.

Clinton B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The New Cariboo Lodge in Clinton, B.C.

Clinton, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Clinton, B.C.

Clover Point, Ross Bay and Shoal Bay Victoria, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Clover Point, Ross Bay and Shoal Bay in Victoria, B.C.

Cloverdale B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Parade taking place on a street in Cloverdale, B.C.

Cloverdale B.C.

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Date: 1908
Description: Hotel Columbia in Cloverdale, B.C.