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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Having his Picture taken at the Big Tree, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A deer standing in front of a large hollow tree at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

Hazelton B.C

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Date: 1951
Name(s): W.W.W.
Description: View of Hazelton, B.C.

Hazelton B.C.

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Date: 1911
Name(s): W.W.W.
Description: View of Hazelton, B.C.

Hazelton, B.C

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

Hazelton, B.C.

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

Hazelton, Skeena River, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Hazelton, B.C. and the Skeena River.

Head of the Arm Victoria, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several people canoeing down the head of the Arm at Victoria, B.C. The reflection of some of the surrounding trees are shown on the water.

Headquarters for Royal Worcester Victoria, British Columbia

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Front window of the headquarters of Royal Worcester in Victoria, B.C. A display of different porcelain objects is shown in the window.

Heffley Creek B.C. Highway Bridge After the Flood/48

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Date: 1948
Description: The bridge crossing Heffley Creek in British Columbia shown after the flood of 1948.

Helmcken House Victoria British Columbia

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Goodall, Edward
Description: Pencil sketch of Helmcken House in Victoria, B.C. The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are shown in the distance.

Henri's

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several people around the buffet at Henri's Grill and Smorgasbord in Vancouver, B.C. People are shown taking food and putting it on their plates.

Henri's Grill and Smorgasbord

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Henri's Grill and Smorgasbord in Vancouver, B.C. The buffet is shown.

Heriot Bay Hotel, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Twidle, H.
Description: The Heriot Bay Hotel.

Heriot Bay Hotel, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Twidle, H.
Description: Heriot Bay Hotel in Heriot Bay, B.C.

High School and Bank of Montreal, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A high school and the Bank of Montreal in Vancouver, B.C.