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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Argyle Street, Looking North, Port Alberni, V.I., B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Looking north down Argyle Street in Port Alberni, B.C. Some buildings and mountains in the distance are shown.

Argyle Street, Port Alberni, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Argyle Street in Port Alberni, B.C. Some storefronts, automobiles and mountains in the distance are shown.

Argyle Street, Port Alberni, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Argyle Street in Port Alberni, B.C. Some storefronts and automobiles are shown. A body of water is shown in the background.

Argyle Street, Port Alberni, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Argyle Street in Port Alberni, B.C. Some automobiles, storefronts and the Macdonald Pharmacy are shown.

Armoury Victoria, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: A military facility in Victoria, B.C.

Armstrong 1912

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Date: 1912
Description: Some type of aircraft flying in Armstrong, B.C. A few spectators are shown in the foreground to the left of the image.

Armstrong, Dominion Exhibition, New Westminster, 1905

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Date: 1905
Description: The Armstrong, B.C. merchandise display at the Dominion Exhibition in New Westminster, B.C.

Arrival of Cariboo Stage March 1910, Al. D. Young Driver

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Date: 1910
Description: Cariboo stage coach arriving in Quesnel, B.C. James Reid Ltd General Merchants store is shown.

Arrival of Prince Albert of Connaught at Vancouver, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Arrival of Prince Arthur of Connaught at a waterfront area in Vancouver, B.C. Numerous people and horse drawn carriages are shown at the waterfront.

Arrival of S.S. Selma, Sechelt, B.C. Aug 10 - 1913

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Date: 1913
Description: Crowd of people on a wharf in Sechelt, B.C. for the arrival of the S.S. Selma. The boat is shown just coming up to the wharf.

Arrow Creek Near Creston, B.C.

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Date: 1957
Name(s): Buckna
Description: An aerial view of Arrow Creek near Creston, B.C. Surrounding mountains are shown.

Arrow Lakes Hotel Edgewood, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: The Arrow Lakes Hotel in Edgewood, B.C. Several people are shown around the hotel.

Arrowhead, B.C.

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Date: 1909
Description: View of Arrowhead, B.C. A large boat is shown at the waterfront.

Arrowhead, B.C. 1905

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Date: 1905
Description: View of Arrowhead, B.C.

Ascending the Illecillawaet Glacier, B.C.

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Date: Unknown year in the century of the 1900s (year uncertain)
Description: Five people ascending the Illecillewaet Glacer. Each person is shown holding an ice pick.