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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[Two creameries in Chilliwack, B.C.]

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Date: 1907
Description: Two different creameries in Chilliwack, B.C.

[Two Doukhobor men with a horse drawn plow in a cleared area in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two Doukhobor men with a horse drawn plow in a cleared area in an unknown location.

[Two Doukhobor women and a boy next to Peter Verigin's open casket in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two Doukhobor women and a boy next to Peter Verigin's open casket in an unknown location.

[Two Doukhobor women and a man next to Peter Verigin's open casket in an unknown location]

Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two Doukhobor women and a man next to Peter Verigin's open casket in an unknown location.

[Two Doukhobor women standing in a garden in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two Doukhobor women standing in a garden in an unknown location.

[Two dwellings in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Name(s): Elite Studio
Description: Two dwellings in an unknown location.

[Two farm houses in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two farm houses in an unknown location.

[Two horses pulling a large pile of logs in Waldo, B.C.]

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Date: 1908
Description: Two horses pulling a large pile of logs in Waldo, B.C. A man is shown sitting on top of the logs.

[Two hunting scenes near Nanaimo, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two different images of hunting scenes near Nanaimo, B.C.

[Two men at Prospect Point at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two men at Prospect Point at Stanley Park in Vancouver, B.C.

[Two men in front of Bath's barber shop in Athalmer, B.C.]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two men in front of Bath's barber shop in Athalmer, B.C.

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

[Two men kayaking with a bear carcass in an unknown location]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two men kayaking with a bear carcass on the kayak in an unknown location. One man is shown holding a firearm.

[Two men lifting a piece of lumber at a sawmill]

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two men lifting a piece of lumber at a sawmill in an unknown location.

[Two men snowshoeing in the forest]

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Date: 1908
Description: Two men snowshoeing in the forest in Fernie, B.C.