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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[Five men standing in front of stacked bricks at a brick factory in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five men standing in front of stacked bricks at a brick factory in an unknown location.

[Five people standing in front of a building in Stewart, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five people standing in front of a building in Stewart, B.C.

[Five people underneath a brick archway]

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Date: 1913
Description: Five people sitting and standing underneath a brick archway in Kelowna, B.C.

[Flume running through a canyon]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A flume running through a canyon in an unknown location.

[Folk dancing at May Day celebration]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Children folk dancing at a May Day celebration in an unknown location.

[Four boys standing next to a water wheel in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four boys standing next to a water wheel in an unknown location.

[Four different images of geographical features in and around Golden, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four different images of geographical features in an around Golden, B.C.

[Four men and a women walking across a walkway in Victoria, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four men and a women walking across a walkway in Victoria, B.C. The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are shown in the background.

[Four men in front of a small cabin in Powell River, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four men in front of a small cabin in Powell River, B.C.

[Four men standing in the snow in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four men standing in the snow in front of some storefronts in an unknown location. The pile of snow next to the men is taller than them.

[Four men standing in the snow in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four men standing in the snow in front of some storefronts in an unknown location.

[Four people in a small boat on a lake or bay in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four people in a small boat on a lake or bay in an unknown location.

[Four rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders holding rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders holding firearms over their shoulders in an unknown location.

[Four women on a parade float during a parade in an unknown location]

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Date: 1924
Description: Four women on a parade float during a parade in an unknown location. A fish bowl with a small fountain in it is shown on the float.

[Fox's Store in Bevan, B.C.]

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Date: 1914
Description: Fox's Store in Bevan, B.C. Several men are shown outside of the store, two of which are chopping wood.