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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A Street in Armstrong, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A street in Armstrong, B.C. Some storefronts are shown. Some people are shown standing in front of a building.

A Thrilling Ride Behind the Huskies Grouse Mountain Vancouver B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A pack of sled dogs at Grouse Mountain. Three people are shown in the sled and one person is shown standing behind the sled.

A Trainload of Logs

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Date: 1924
Description: A train pulling a load of logs in an unknown location. Two men are shown on top of one of the piles of logs.

A Typical Saw Mill in British Columbia

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of the Vancouver Lumber Company Limited sawmill.

A Vancouver Island 60 lb. Beauty

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A man holding a 60 pound fish on Vancouver Island, B.C.

A Vancouver Island 60 lb. Beauty

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A man holding a large fish on Vancouver Island, B.C.

A View Near Ucluelet B C

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of numerous boats in a bay near Ucluelet, B.C. Some people are shown at the shore.

A View of Campbell Lake from Forbes Landing Hotel

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: View of Campbell Lake, B.C. from Forbes Landing Hotel. An automobile is shown to the right of the image.

A view of the harbor, Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: 1931
Description: Two large ships at the waterfront in Vancouver, B.C. A separate image of an Oldsmobile Business Coupe is shown in the bottom right corner of the image.

A Western Canada Lumbering Scene

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Numerous piles of logs in an unknown location. Several men are shown sitting on one of the log piles.

A Western Canada Saw-mill

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A western Canadian Sawmill in an unknown location.

A Winter Scene, Atlin, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Two men standing by some cabins in the snow in Atlin, B.C.

A Winter Scene, Hauling Railway Ties, Cranbrook, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Several piles of railway ties being hauled by horses in Cranbrook, B.C. Some men are shown on top of the piles of railway ties.

A.H. Hoffer Station Master Kingsgate BC

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Date: 1909
Description: Photograph of A.H. Hoffer and a separate image of a cheque made out to A.H. Hoffer.

A.P.L. Lumber Mills, Port Alberni, V.I., B.C.

Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Alberni Pacific Lumber Company's lumber mill in Port Alberni, B.C.