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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[Three men and two boys standing next to bricks on racks at a brick factory in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men and two boys standing next to bricks on racks at a brick factory in an unknown location.

[Three men around an automobile in Creston, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men standing around an automobile in Creston, B.C. A storefront is shown in the background.

[Three men by the water in an unknown location]

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Date: 1923
Description: Three men standing by the water in at Sproat Lake. A small wooden boat is shown behind them.

[Three men doing some type of construction work in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men doing some type of construction work in an unknown location.

[Three men in an automobile that has run down a hillside in an unknown location]

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Date: 1915
Description: Three men in an automobile that has run down a hillside in an unknown location.

[Three men in front of a large tree]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men standing in front of a large tree in an uknown location. One man is holding a firearm.

[Three men in the Seaforth Highlanders during some sort of shooting practice in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men in the Seaforth Highlanders during some sort of shooting practice in an unknown location.

[Three men in the Seaforth Highlanders in front of 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: Three men in the Seaforth Highlanders in front of a tent at a camp in an unknown location.

[Three men in the Seaforth Highlanders on horseback in an unknown location]

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

[Three men in the Seaforth Highlanders on horseback in an unknown location]

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

[Three men inside a Canadian Pacific Railway dining car]

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Date: 1908
Description: Three men inside a Canadian Pacific Railway dining car for Christmas dinner in 1908. A long table set with dishes and food is shown.

[Three men loading supplies onto a small wooden barge in Tête Jaune Cache, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men loading supplies onto a small wooden barge in Tête Jaune Cache, B.C.

[Three men on a wooden sidewalk beside a building in Brilliant, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Three men standing on a wooden sidewalk beside a building in Brilliant, B.C.

[Three men standing in front of a storefront in Golden, B.C.]

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Date: 1915
Description: Three men standing in front of a storefront in Golden, B.C.

[Three men standing on a small stage surrounded by a crowd of people in an unknown location]

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Date: 1924
Description: Three men (Premier John Oliver, Mayor Reginald Hayward) standing on a small stage surrounded by people at the opening ceremony of the Johnson street Bridge. A train is shown in the background.