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Snowmobile and Crevasse
At Columbia Rockfield in the Canadian Rockies, but the card was mailed from Winnipeg (definitely not the Rockies) in 1969 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 2
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Vancouver, Chinatown Gates
Issued in 2013 by Canada Post, with pre-printed international postage matching the design (maximum card style, but not a true maximum card), mailed in 2013 with extensive postmarking, and orange postal barcoding on bottom front. Grade: 3
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Vancouver, Richmond Olympic Oval
Mailed in 2013, the card has its stamp, blue Airmail label, large long postmark, and address label taped. Grade: 4
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Royal Canadian Mounted Police
This 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ card was mailed with four different stamps and full postmark. Grade: 2
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Titanic
Issued by Canada Post in 2012, with large pre-printed international postage in the same style as this photo. The card measures about 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ and was mailed in 2013. Grade: 1
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Dawson City, Yukon
The RCMP at work, on this unused card. Grade: 1
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Halifax, Soldiers Monument, Province Buildings Square
Vintage Valentine & Sons card, mailed in what might be 1910 but two overlapping postmarks make that hard to read. The stamp is still there. Grade: 3
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Cape Rouge, Cape Breton Highlands National Park
The Cabot Trail, on a Petley card 13097 mailed in 1970, with stamp and partial postmark. Grade: 2
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Toronto, Replica open TRC car 327
You might wonder, why “replica”? The caption explains everything, including that this was built in 1934 to original 1893 plans. As for the card, mailed from USA (not Toronto) in 2013 with round “Global Forever” stamp and readable postmark. Creasing on lower right corner. Grade: 4
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Duncan, Vancouver Island, Orca Totem
Unusual horizontal totem pictured on an unused card. Grade: 1
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CPR Train #322
The front of this card is OK. The sender somehow felt it useful to attach a computer-printed subway transfer ticket on the back, like a photo would be put into an album. There’s a stamp but no legible postmark. Grade: 5
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Did You Know? Deer
From this famous series, a Canadian card with five stamps (three of them uncancelled) and postmark. Grade: 1
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London (Ontario), Eldon House
Unused, aged Plastichrome card P42815. Grade: 1
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Jasper National Park, Mt. Edith Cavell Tea Room
Unused Dexter Press card 67458, rounded corners, beginning to show its age. Grade: 2
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London (Ontario), Eldon House, south-east bedroom
Unused Plastichrome card P43121. The house was built in 1834. Grade: 2
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Vancouver (BC), Point Atkinson Light House
Really as typical of lighthouse postcards as you’ll find, mailed in 1952 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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The “Rock Cat” and Lighthouse at Cap Chat, P.O.
Unused card 39086, made by H.V. Henderson of West Bathurst, N.B. Grade: 1
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Toronto, SkyDome
Mailed in 2013 with three stamps and wordless postmark, along with blue bilingual Air Mail sticker. Grade: 2
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Down North on the Labrador Coast
“Sold for the benefit of Sir Wilfred Grenfell’s work in Labrador and Northern Newfoundland,” this Tuck’s Post Card of The Dock, St. Anthony, was mailed in 1954 with stamp, partial postmark, and some postmark ink transfer on the front. Grade: 3
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Toronto, University Avenue
Linen card, mailed in 1953 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Lake of Bays (Ontario), Bigwin Inn
This was apparently quite the place in the 1920s-30s until one source calling it “a number of years of mismanagement and neglect” caused it to be abandoned in 1970. But … can’t keep a good resort down! It’s back, better than ever. We hope a Google search will lead to this card and that someone there will grab it as a souvenir. Mailed in 1940, with stamp and partial postmark, by someone who was liking the visit. Grade: 2
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Banff (Alberta), Mount Temple and Paradise Valley
This was about as generic an old real-photo card as one could find, but a little search engine work places the location in Banff. Unused, faded old card printed by Gowen Sutton in Vancouver. Grade: 1
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Toronto, Mary Pickford’s home, University Avenue
Think Pickford, think Pickfair, but clearly there was another home in the mix and here it is. Or was. Card mailed in 1938 with stamp and full postmark. Grade: 1
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Grand Pre (NS), Evangeline’s Well and Willow
Unused, Novelty Manufacturing & Art Co. Ltd. (Montreal) card. Grade: 1
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Maple Leaf
Pseudo-flag on this card mailed in 2013 with stamp and postmark. Grade: 1
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Toronto, Chinatown Gates
Compare this with our 20102347 — different city. Issued by Canada Post in 2013, pre-printed maximum-card-style postage on the reverse, and mailed in 2013 with legible postmark and bilingual Par Avion. Grade: 1
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Toronto, Provincial Parliament Building
“A breathtaking sight as seen all aglow” on this unused, slightly aging Traveltime card S-1251. Grade: 1
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Barkerville (BC), The Wake-Up Jake
The caption on this unused card calls this “one of the earliest coffee saloons in Barkerville,” leading us to wonder how many there are. Traveltime card S-2056A. Grade: 2
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Stuck on Canada
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Toronto, Chinatown
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Canada 2014 Calendar
Unused card. Grade: 1
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Titanic 1912-2012
An unusual entry among Titanic postcards, issued by Canada Post in 2012 with really a very large stamp of the vessel pre-printed on the reverse. Mailed in 2012 with postmark, and there is faintly visible orange postal barcoding on the front. Grade: 3
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London (ON), Eldon House
Unused, aging Plastichrome card P42816. Grade: 2
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Blind River (ON), J.J. McFadden Lumber Co., Ltd.
Unused Plastichrome card P18199. Grade: 2
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Langley (BC), Fort Langley National Historic Park
Unused Traveltime card SS-2884 showing fur trade equipment in the old Hudson’s Bay Company Store. Grade: 1
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Greetings, Did You Know, Raccoon
For those of you collecting “Did You Know” postcards, here’s a nice one mailed in 2013 with three different stamps and postmark. Grade: 1
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Montreal River Dam
Mailed in 1972 but the stamp is gone along with most of the postmark. Only if you are really into dam postcards. Grade: 4
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Montreal, Place Des Arts (sic)
The bilingual caption calls this “the most modern cultural complex in the world,” a claim we suppose would be true of any cultural complex at the instant it opened. Unused fully Canadian card 785R, aging. Grade: 2
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“The Canadian”
From Canadian Pacific Railways, their “all Stainless Steel Scenic Dome Streamliner” in the Canadian Rockies. The postcard went further than the train did, having been mailed from the Czech Republic in 2013 with two different stamps, and partial postmark. Grade: 3
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West Prince (PEI), West Point Lighthouse
Nice 4-5/8″ x 6-3/4″ card, though mailed from Ireland (with stamp and postmark) and not from Canada. Grade: 3