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.

Search within Collection

Displaying 4216 - 4230 of 5988

Parliament Buildings Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-3316-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: 1909
Name(s): Shaw & Co.
Description: View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings from a small distance. Several pedestrians are shown on the street in the foreground.

Parliament Buildings Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-3287-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. showing the Inner Harbour in the foreground. Several small boats are shown in the harbour.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria B.C

MSC130-3324-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. Some automobiles are shown parked on a street in the foreground.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-2808-001-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. The Inner Harbour is shown in the foreground.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-3302-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. viewed from a street in front of the buildings.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-3326-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-4425-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: 1909
Description: View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. The Inner Harbour is shown in the foreground.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-3315-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings showing the Inner Harbour in the foreground. Two small boats are shown in the harbour.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-3291-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: 1908
Description: View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. showing the Inner Harbour in the foreground. Several small boats are shown in the harbour.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-1633-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Howard, J.
Description: Parliament Buildings, Victoria B.C.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

MSC130-1493-1-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: 1907
Description: View of the parliament buildings in Victoria, B.C. from across the harbour.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C. Canada

MSC130-3460-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C.

Parliament Buildings, Victoria, British Columbia

MSC130-3290-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C. showing the Inner Harbour in the foreground. Several small boats are shown in the harbour.

Part o Interior Mills Port Alice

MSC130-2662-01-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The interior of a mill in Port Alice, B.C. A man is shown sitting against some type of equipment.

Part of Atlin, B.C.

MSC130-2023-1-Thumbnail Image.jpg
Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Taylor
Description: A man standing on a street with three dogs in Atlin, B.C. Some storefronts are shown in the background.