Coming up this fall at Vancouver Postcard Club meetings:
October 21st – Rein Stamm presents material from local photographers and postcard publishers, circa 1900 – 1920.
November 18th – Fred Hume will show highlights of his 30 plus years of postcard collecting, featuring two sports themes.
Vancouver Postcard Club meetings are held from noon to 2 pm at the Hastings Community Centre, 3096 E. Hastings St Vancouver, BC. See the Club website for more information on activities and membership.
This Sunday, Sept 16, from noon – 2:00 pm, Vancouver Postcard Club presents a talk by Art Davies on postcards of Britannia Beach – mines and community.
Britannia Beach was a ‘company town’ 50 kms north of Vancouver. At one time it was the largest Copper producing mine in the British Empire; it operated until 1974. Beset by landslides and other tragedies throughout its history, it is now a National Historic Site and enjoying the success of the refurbished Britannia Mine Museum.
This talk will be at the Hastings Community Centre in Vancouver, 3096 East Hastings St., V5K 2A3.
Vancouver Postcard Club: http://www.vancouverpostcardclub.ca
Coming up this weekend – the Vancouver Postcard Club‘s annual Postcard Show, Sunday 27th May, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Hastings Community Centre, 3096 East Hastings St., Vancouver V5K 2A3.
This theme this year is “Vancouver 1912 – 100 years ago in postcards”. Many dealers will be in attendance with postcards from all over the world; some will bring other ephemera for sale as well. There will be displays by members, and refreshments too.
M. Diane Rogers, club member and Past President of the British Columbia Genealogical Society, will be the guest speaker on Sunday, April 15th, noon – 2 pm.
Diane’s presentation will be on War Memorials and related subjects on postcards.
Across Canada, community cenotaphs, most built from the 1920s to honour the dead of World War I, are seen in small towns and big cities alike, but other types of war memorials from university gyms to high school tennis courts may also be found. Many of these have been commemorated on postcards, like this one showing the cenotaph in Chilliwack, BC, and believed to have been photographed and produced by Alexander Wilson in the 1930s. Margaret Waddington’s biography of Alexander and Hilda Wilson appeared in Postview, February 2011, published by the Vancouver Postcard Club.
Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Cenotaph. Postcard; private collection.
What is undoubtedly the largest collection of picture postcards In the world Is the property of the Prince of Wales’ eldest son. The collection includes cards from every country In the world, and Is now growing almost too bulky for convenient handling, there being more than 10,000 cards. One of the most Interesting albums Is that containing the cards sent him by his parents during their recent trip around the world.
Victoria Daily Colonist, Saturday, 6 October, 1906, page 4.
This collection surely must have included at least a few postcards of Canada. Here on the Official Website of the British Monarchy is a bit about the British Royal Stamp collections, which include stamps collected by George V and his son, Edward VIII. Nothing about postcards…perhaps auctioned long ago?