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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[Large crowd of Doukhobors at Peter Verigin's funeral in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of Doukhobors at Peter Verigin's funeral in an unknown location.

[Large crowd of Doukhobors in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of Doukhobors standing in an unknown location.

[Large crowd of Doukhobors in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of Doukhobors standing in an unknown location.

[Large crowd of Doukhobors in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of Doukhobors standing in an unknown location. The women are shown wearing long skirts and scarves on their heads.

[Large crowd of Doukhobors in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of Doukhobors standing in an unknown location. The women are shown wearing long skirts and scarves on their heads.

[Large crowd of people at the 50th Year Jubilee in Grand Forks, B.C.]

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Date: 1949
Description: Large crowd of people at the 50th Year Jubilee in Grand Forks, B.C.

[Large crowd of people in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of people in an unknown location.

[Large crowd of people in Victoria, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of people on the street in front of the Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C.

[Large crowd of people near the Inner Harbour in Victoria, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of people near the Inner Harbour in Victoria, B.C. Many soldiers are shown in the crowd.

[Large crowd of people on the steps of the British Columbia Parliament buildings in Victoria, B.C. during some type of event]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of people on the steps of the British Columbia Parliament buildings in Victoria, B.C. during some type of event.

[Large crowd of people on the steps of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A large crowd of people standing on the steps of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings in Victoria, B.C.

[Large crowd of people standing in a large church corridor in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large crowd of people standing in a large church corridor in an unknown location. Large stone pillars are shown lining the corridor.

[Large crowd of people standing on some type of wharf in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A large crowd of people standing on some type of wharf in an unknown location.

[Large crowd of people standing on some type of wharf in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A large crowd of people standing on some type of wharf in an unknown location.

[Large Doukhobor dwelling in an unknown location]

Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Large Doukhobor dwelling in an unknown location.