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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[Rows of soldiers marching in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Rows of soldiers marching in an unknown location. Each soldier shown holding a rifle.

[Sailors and soldiers standing in a large group in Esquimalt, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Sailors and soldiers standing in a large group in Esquimalt, B.C. The men are all shown holding some papers and looking down at them.

[Seaforth Highlander walking in a procession with two girls in an unknown location]

Date: 1914
Description: Seaforth Highlander walking in a procession with two girls in an unknown location. Numerous other girls are shown in the procession.

[Seaforth Highlanders lined up on a street in front of the Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Seaforth Highlanders lined up on a street in front of the Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C.

[Seaforth Highlanders marching band walking down a street in an unknown location during a parade or procession]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Seaforth Highlanders marching band walking down a street in an unknown location during a parade or procession. Some spectators are shown in the foreground.

[Several birds and a person in a small boat on a lake or bay in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several birds and a person in a small boat on a lake or bay in an unknown location.

[Several buildings in a Doukhobor village in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several buildings in a Doukhobor village in an unknown location. Some people are shown in the foreground and a small distance away.

[Several buildings near the bank of a river in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several buildings near the bank of a river in an unknown location.

[Several construction workers standing on the second level of a covered porch of an asylum under construction in Essondale, B.C.]

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Date: 1912
Description: Several construction workers standing on the second level of a covered porch of an asylum under construction in Essondale, B.C.

[Several different groups of people walking down a street during a parade or procession in an unknown location]

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Date: 1925
Description: Several groups of people walking down a street during a parade or procession in an unknown location. Spectators are shown on either side of the street.

[Several different images in remembrance of Peter Verigin]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several different images in remembrance of Peter Verigin.

[Several Doukhobor men and women on stage at the Jubilee Fiftieth Anniversary Doukhobors in Canada]

Date: 1949
Description: Several Doukhobor men and women on stage at the Jubilee Fiftieth Anniversary Doukhobors in Canada.

[Several horse drawn wagons full of liquor lined up in a field in an unknown location]

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Date: 1921
Description: Several horse drawn wagons full of liquor lined up in a field in an unknown location.

[Several logs falling into the water]

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Date: 1944
Description: Several logs falling into the water in an unknown location.

[Several logs on a logging truck]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A Weyerhaeuser logging truck in an unknown location. Several large logs are shown on the truck.