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"Home of the Westervelt School - Y.M.C.A. London, Ont. - Bookkeeping - Shorthand - Typewriting". Posted 9 December 1916 to Miss Annie Talbot of R.R. 5, London, this Novelty Manufacturing & Art Printing Co. card bears a stamped message reading: "Winter Term begins Jan. 2nd". The

"C.P.R. Hotel, Banff", posted 17 August 1909. This is a Trueman's Studio card with the same (if differently cropped) image that appears on the Banff Springs Hotel's website. historichotels.org/hotels-resorts… The card is postmarked with a C. & V. R.P.O. cancel, which is the Calgary &

"C. P. R. Depot, Portage la Prairie, Man." An excellent collotype of the PLP station with horses and carriages meeting the arriving train. No publisher takes credit for the card - always a bit frustrating for the collector. It was posted 11 October 1912 to Miss Minna Wallace of

1900s: a game for children to play as a postman. There's everything from facsimiles of stamps and telegrams to name a few. Visit the Toy Museum in Moirans-en-Montagne 🇫🇷, in the Jura region. The last 2 photos are of toys from my 1970s and 1980s era 😉: Starsky & Hutch car,

Cancellation Friday ... ST VITAL MAN, my hometown, OC 17 93, split ring with raised "T" in "St". tying 3c Queen Victoria 37b stamp. The St Vital post office opened 1 September 1873 but this cancel is actually a few months earlier than the ERD (earliest recorded date) on the PHSC

A pretty good postcard for summer - "You May Catch'em on the Fly!", an exaggeration card by Ashton-Potter Ltd. Postmarked at Westport - which like Newboro is on Big Rideau Lake - on 17 September 1945, as the world unwound from the war that had ended just weeks before. The sender,

"The Penetanguishene", Warwick Bros. & Rutter no. 1444. This is the messiest card I've posted for a while. 120 years ago, in the summer of 1905, it visited three resort communities, beginning with Penetanguishene, Ontario on Georgian Bay, where it was posted on 17 August to Miss

"Esquimault Church and Royal Roads, B.C.", by T. N. Hibben & Co. of Victoria, British Columbia. Postmarked Victoria, B.C., 19 August 1903. An attractive and early (for Canada) colour lithographed view. This card was addressed to Miss L. M. Williamson of Griggsville, Illinois by

"Water Front, Toronto". W. G. MacFarlane I.109, posted 27 August 1907 to Miss Minnie Mortimore, Fairy Port, Huntsville, Ontario. "Fairy Port" may have referred to the Fairyport Inn on Fairy Lake near Huntsville: vitacollections.ca/muskokadigital… The scene in the harbour is rather

"Quebec", by the Illustrated Post Card Co. of Montreal. Embossed and unused. A nice and not-too-common card with the Quebec crest and flags of Quebec, France, the U.K. and Ireland (the cláirseach or Irish harp flag), representing the various settlers of the province.

"C.P.R. Garden, Broadview", a Pugh Manufacturing Co. gold-frame card posted 26 May 1908 at Broadview, Saskatchewan. Addressed to Mrs. Down, 43 Wesborough Road, St Jude's, Plymouth, Devonshire, England, with a note from Ivy to Grandma: "mother will write a nice *long* letter in a

"Happy Memories: 'An Interrupted Pic-Nic'", posted 7 December 1908. Valentine & Sons no. 102,380, likely a Canadian scene. There were likely six scenes in this scarce set. Five are known and this is the first of those I recall seeing. It was sent to Miss A. Hill of 213 Beverley

Not a Postcard Friday ... From my collection, a Marie Studholme cigarette card for Ogden's Guinea Gold Cigarettes. Marie Studholme (1872-1930) was a star of the Edwardian stage who left a vast legacy of promotional imagery, primarily (but, as this shows, not entirely) in the form

"Stump Puller" advertisement, A. J. Kirstin Canadian Co., Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Advertising postcard, circa 1910 (?). Truly the most amazing stump puller on the market. Turns a few pounds of force on the handle into tons of force on the stump. It pulls "big, little, green,

"Ox Teams - Showing N. S. Head Yoke", Kemptville, Nova Scotia. Unused, very early postcard by Davis Souvenir Postcards of Yarmouth. The shop is Prosser Bros., a general store. What is being shown here is the Nova Scotian preference for the "head yoke" as opposed to other types,

"My Symphony", William Henry Channing (1810-84), on a Sheahan postcard from 1908. "To let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common." This outlook seems commendable but, at the same time, bespeaks a passiveness that might not be such a good thing. I

"Quebec. Champlain Monument / Dufferin Terrace and Chateau". Posted 7 July 1905 from aboard the S.S. Victorian, the world's first turbine-powered steamship. The ship's maiden voyage departed Liverpool 23 March 1905, so this Montreal-Liverpool journey in July was one of her

"Victoria Street, Fort William, Ont.", W. G. MacFarlane, I.737, unused. Looks like a patriotic parade - maybe Dominion Day or maybe Orangemen's Day. We see a cigar shop at left and "The Star", a men's furnishings store, at right. Down the street, on the right, is the St. Louis

"Dominion Penitentiary, Kingston, Ont., Canada", Valentine & Sons, no. 101,129. This late V&S card - circa 1950, though the underlying image is likely older - has mellow watercolour colouring that seems rather at odds with its harsh subject. (Not that I know that from personal