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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[Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders holding rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders holding rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location.

[Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders holding rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders holding firearms over their shoulders in an unknown location.

[Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders in an unknown location.

[Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders marching and holding rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders marching and holding rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location.

[Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders standing in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders standing in an unknown location.

[Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders with rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several rows of men in the Seaforth Highlanders with rifles over their shoulders in an unknown location. Several other men are shown walking up and down the rows.

[Several small boats in the Victoria, B.C. Inner Harbour]

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Date: 1905
Description: Several small boats in the Victoria, B.C. Inner Harbour. The British Columbia Parliament Buildings are shown in the distance.

[Several stacks of logs]

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Date: 1910
Description: Several stacks of logs in a logging area in Wycliffe, B.C. Two men are shown beside the logs.

[Several swans in a pond at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several swans in a pond at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

[Several women hammering nails into a log during a game in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several women hammering nails into a log during a game in an unknown location. Spectators are shown watching.

[Several women in an orchard in Armstrong, B.C.]

Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several women in an orchard in Armstrong, B.C.

[Ship at a dry dock in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A ship at a dry dock in an unknown location.

[Shoal Bay Tea Rooms parade float in an unknown location]

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Date: 1924
Description: Shoal Bay Tea Rooms parade float during a parade in an unknown location. Two women are shown at a small table on the float.

[Six boats under construction in Vancouver, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Six boats under construction in Vancouver, B.C.

[Six men in the Seaforth Highlanders beside a tent at a camp in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Six men in the Seaforth Highlanders beside a tent at a camp in an unknown location.