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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Nakusp, B.C.

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Date: 1923
Description: View of Nakusp, B.C. Some mountains are shown in the background. A large boat is shown on the water to the right of the image.

Nakusp, B.C.

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

Nanaimo

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Canadian Pacific Railway marine terminal in Nanaimo, B.C. Some automobiles are shown.

Nanaimo B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Malaspina Hotel in Nanaimo, B.C.

Nanaimo B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A totem pole at a small park next to a street in Nanaimo, B.C. Some storefronts and automobiles are shown.

Nanaimo B.C.

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Date: 1931
Description: Malaspina Hotel in Nanaimo, B.C. Numerous automobiles are shown parked on the street in front of the hotel. Some pedestrians are also shown.

Nanaimo B.C.

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Date: 1930
Description: Malaspina Hotel in Nanaimo, B.C. Numerous automobiles are shown parked on the street in front of the hotel. Some pedestrians are also shown.

Nanaimo B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the Malaspina Hotel in Nanaimo, B.C. Some automobiles are shown on the street to the right of the image.

Nanaimo B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Schwarze
Description: View of Nanaimo, B.C. Some dwellings are shown in the foreground.

Nanaimo B.C.

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Date: 1936
Description: Numerous boats in the water at Nanaimo, B.C. A small floating dock is shown to the right of the image.

Nanaimo Bastion & Harbour, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the Nanaimo, B.C. harbour showing a bastion to the right of the image. Three ships are shown in the harbour.

Nanaimo BC.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Malaspina Hotel in Nanaimo, B.C. Some automobiles are shown parked in front of the hotel.

Nanaimo Docks Nanaimo Bastioned Harbor

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two different images of the Nanaimo, B.C. harbour.

Nanaimo Firs Yachting in Nanaimo Harbor

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two different images in Nanaimo, B.C. One image shows several Nanaimo, B.C. Fir trees and the other image shows a yacht out in the Nanaimo, B.C. harbour.

Nanaimo From Hospital Hill

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Nanaimo, B.C. from Hospital Hill.