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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North Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of North Vancouver, B.C. showing the waterfront area. An ocean liner is shown approaching the waterfront.

Nurses' Residence Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The nurses' residence at Royal Columbian Hospital.

Oak Bay Hotel

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: The Oak Bay Hotel viewed from a small distance.

Oak Bay Hotel

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: The Oak Bay Hotel viewed from the water. A beach is shown in front of the hotel.

Oak Bay Hotel

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Trio
Description: The Oak Bay Hotel viewed from the water. A beach is shown in front of the hotel. Two people are shown in a canoe in the foreground.

Oak Bay Hotel, Victoria, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The Oak Bay Hotel in Victoria, B.C. A driveway is shown leading up to the hotel.

Oak Bay, Victoria B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several small boats parked on the water in Oak Bay, B.C.

Observation Mountain, Grand Forks, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Observation Mountain at Grand Forks, B.C. Some buildings are shown in the foreground.

Ocean Beach Hotel, White Rock, B.C.

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Date: 1951
Description: The Ocean Beach Hotel in White Rock, B.C. Some people and automobiles are shown out front of the hotel.

Ocean Docks, Victoria, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two large ships at the ocean docks in Victoria, B.C.

Ocean Falls

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Wrathall, J.
Description: Several buildings in Ocean Falls, B.C.

Ocean Falls

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of some buildings and surrounding mountains in the snow in Ocean Falls, B.C. from the water.

Ocean Falls Company

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A scene at the Ocean Falls Company facility in an unknown location.

Ocean Falls, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A street and several dwellings in Ocean Falls, B.C. Two people are shown walking down the street in the opposite direction.

Office of the Crow's Nest Coal Co., Fernie, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The office of the Crow's Nest Coal Company in Fernie, B.C. Some mountains are shown in the background.