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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[Entrance sign to Central Park]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Entrance sign to Central Park in an unknown location.

[Entrance to a stream in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Entrance to a stream in an unknown location. A bridge is shown in the distance crossing the stream.

[Family in a horse drawn carriage in Stewart, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Family in a horse drawn carriage in Stewart, B.C.

[Family on front porch of a building in Chase, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A family standing on the front porch of a building in Chase, B.C.

[Family standing on their property in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Family standing on their property in an unknown location. A farmhouse is shown behind the family.

[Farm house in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Farm house in an unknown location.

[Farmhouse Inn on Galiano Island, B.C.]

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Date: 1928
Description: The Farmhouse Inn on Galiano Island, B.C. Two people are shown playing tennis to the right of the image.

[Fernie, B.C. and mountains]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Fernie, B.C. and surrounding mountains. A train is shown on the railroad tracks.

[Fernie, B.C. and Three Sisters]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Fernie, B.C. with the Three Sisters mountain in the background.

[Firing of cannons at an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: The firing of cannons at an unknown location. Some spectators are shown.

[First Nations camp in the Rocky Mountains]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Some tipis at a First Nations camp in the Rocky Mountains near Cranbrook, B.C.

[First Nations man on a horse in Vancouver, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A First Nations man on a horse in Vancouver, B.C. A dog is shown sitting on the street by the horse.

[Five men and two women standing up watching some sort of procession or event in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five men and two women standing up watching some sort of procession or event in an unknown location. Some benches and chairs are shown around them.

[Five men in the Seaforth Highlanders in front of a tent at a camp in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five men in the Seaforth Highlanders in front of a tent at a camp in an unknown location.

[Five men in the Seaforth Highlanders sitting in front of a tent at a camp in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five men in the Seaforth Highlanders sitting in front of a tent at a camp in an unknown location. The men are shown with two drums in front of them.