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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Frontispiece from "What Will People Say?"

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Taylor, H. Weston
Description: Cover art for the novel "What Will People Say?" A man and woman are shown.

Fruit District, Creston, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the fruit distict in Creston, B.C. Some farm fields are shown.

Fruit District, Creston, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: An aerial view of the fruit district in Creston, B.C. Some mountains in the background are shown.

Fruit Farm Chilliwack BC.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A fruit farm in Chilliwack, B.C. A dwelling is shown on the farm.

Fruit Farms, Hatzic, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of some fruit farms in Hatzic, B.C. A lake and surrounding mountains are shown in the distance.

Fruit Ranch, Summerland B.C.

Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of a fruit ranch in Summerland, B.C.

Fruit Ranches, Penticton B.C.

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Date: 1912
Description: View of numerous fruit orchards in Penticton, B.C.

Fruit-Growing in British Columbia

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Four different images of fruit-growing scenes in British Columbia.

Ft. Steele and Rockies

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Fort Steele, B.C. and the Rocky Mountains.

G.W.V.A. Building - 901 Dunsmuir St - Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: 1924
Description: Great War Veterans Association building in Vancouver, B.C.

Games Room-Red Cross Lodge, Shaughnessy Hospital, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Numerous men in the games room at the Red Cross Lodge at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver, B.C.

Garden at C.P.R. Station, Cranbrook, B.C.

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Date: 1946
Description: A man standing in the garden at the Candian Pacific Railway station in Cranbrook, B.C.

Garden Ave. Looking North Cranbrook B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Looking north down Garden Avenue in Cranbrook, B.C. Some utility poles are shown lining the street.

Garden Scene, Union Bay, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A garden and fountain in Union Bay, B.C.

Gardens Queen Park, New Westminster, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Queens Park in New Westminster, B.C. A woman with a baby carriage is shown.