Manitoba

Nice Government Agent card depicting Wawanesa, Manitoba. Postmarked at Meltham (Eng.), November 25, 1905 and sent to Miss C. Johnson, 4 Queen's Road, Jesmond, Newcastle on Tyne.

Unrecorded C. S. Co. card no. 607.

Barrowclough card "taken for Wilson" (as the Morden cards all are) -- addressed to Miss Flo Morehen, 6 Oak Villas, Archway Road, Highgate, London. Undivided back postmarked November 21, 1905. Squared circle "Morden, Man." cancel.

Posted September 6, 1911 at Winnipeg: "Arrived O.K. Didn't miss my train. Am enjoying every minute. Saw Ricahrds yesterday + was speaking to Mr. Black over the phone. Muriel M. Bliss" Addressed to P. Q. M. S. Carmen, Militia Dept., Ottawa, Ont. P.O.O.'s office. The image seems to show the houses and other buildings along Osborne Street North, behind the U of M building (in what is now Memorial Park). Valentine & Sons card no. 105,781. This event took place on October 7, 1909. The schools involved were: Aberdeen, Alexander, Argyle, Carlton, Dufferin, Gladstone, Isbister, Somerset, John M. King, King Edward, Lord Selkirk, Luxton, Machray, Mulvey, Norquay, Pinkham, Strathcona, Victoria and Wellington.

Number 15 in this Russell, Lang & Co. series. Dated Jan. 4, 1906 and mailed to Miss Sawdy, The Manse, Nayland, Colchester (Essex) England.

Lyall RPPC of Maison Chapelle in St. Boniface. Signed by a J. E. Fontaine of St. Boniface and addressed to France where it is receipt stamped on March 29, 1914.

Nice Ed Justement image of Main Street, showing the Palace Hotel. This is taken from the CPR Bridge, I expect. It is looking north from the subway. The receipt stamp is dated December 19, 1905 at Saintes-Charente-Inférieure, France. Here the Belgian printer seems to have believed that "Ed. Justement" stood for éditions Justement, which would mean "Justement Publishing (Co.)", and took it on itself to expand the abbreviation to "Edit." Of course it actually stood for "Edmond".

By Russell Photo Studio, Cor. Main St. & Pacific Ave., Winnipeg. Unused, no message. Presumably obtained and sent by "Syd". The names are legible.

Unused. Published for N. B. Henry of Glenboro.

This is what is known as Armstrongs Point, south west of the City. This is all frozen over now. Thermometer Reg[isters] 27 deg. of frost tonight. The Ice is about 18" thick; it will average 4 + 5 ft. You see the Cross on the picture. This is Miss Spence's house made fully modern this spring. We have done the painting. The picture shows the River fully 15 ft. above the ordinary level." This message is across the entire back so there is no indicate of sender's or recipient's names. On the front is noted, "These Photos were printed in England". No indication of the publisher. It is an undivided back card.

A rare Warwick Bros. & Rutter card, no. 6356, posted October 3, 1909 at Winnipeg to Miss E. H. L. Dowd, 4 Vergemount Hall, Clouskeagh, Dublin, Ireland (readdressed "at Traverslea, Glenageary"): "Dear Aunt Emma, We were glad to hear you were out in Kingstown -- I am sure you will be better for the change. I have been intending to write to you so I will very soon. Love from all + your affect. niece -- Eva."

Posted somewhere in Ontario in 1907 to Miss L. Sevett, c/o Miss Collins, Capliegh, Cross-in-Hand, Sussex, England, without a message. No indication of publisher. Here we get a good view of part of the pre-1912 Bankers' Row, with the Bank of Commerce, Bank of Nova Scotia, Merchants Bank, Eastern Townships Bank and Bank of Ottawa among the seven buildings shown.

Warwick Bros. & Rutter card no. 1012S, posted with a Levis & Montreal R.P.O. cancel on September 24, 1906 to Miss Effie White of Coaticook, P.Q.: "I was pleased to read on your last card "Don't forget to answer this." My memory is fine when *such warnings* are given and with pleasure do I yield to *such warnings*. Write once more and then I'll be in Coaticook. C."

An unused Nerlich & Co. card.

Valentine & Sons no. 109,515: "My Dearest Little Sister, What do you think of this for a fine district. Isn't it a dandy [triple underlined] spot. This City is certainly a dandy [triple underlined] place, especially during the summer from April to Nov 1st. Your Little Boy, Sidney xxxxxxxxxx" Same Sidney, with very dramatic (and hard to read) handwriting, that wrote the "Main Street Subway" message.

Bloom Bros., Winnipeg, no. 24 in the Maple Leaf For Ever series, marked "C T Photochrom" and numbered R-36566 (presumably a Curt Teich numbering). "Aug. 12th/13 Dearest Little Sweetheart Minx, This subway was about completed when I came here first in 1905, It's a busy subway ??? cars pass through same every minute. Your Little Boy, Sidney xxxxxxxx"

I've had this one for a long time but just happened to come across it for the first time in a long while. Note that, although it's a Stedman card (with Stedman being described as "Brantford & Winnipeg"), the framed view is one of the Pugh "1000" series (# 1000/14), evidently cut from a sheet of reductions of those cards as you can see another card's title along the bottom of this image: "C.P.R. Station and Hotel, Winnipeg, Man." (that card, which I have, is no. 23). In fact, you can see how they've made the reductions: they've placed cards side by side and photographed them from above (the lower right corner of the inset card here touches the corners of three other cards at the extreme lower right of the inset). Smith's Stedman book does list a pennant card of Winnipeg in this series, but the image is of Portage & Main, looking west. It looks like a Stedman image rather than another image from this Pugh series. I also have this one in the series, which doesn't seem to be a Pugh card either -- looks like a RPPC from someone else: www.ipernity.com/doc/wintorbos/23124689//in/album/447203

Stedman Bros. frame view, posted May 21, 1908 (??) at Kings Head, N.S. to Miss Alice E. Macdonald, 17 Temple Place, Boston, Mass. "Dear Alice, Why don't you ans. my letter. I am longing to hear from you. Are you coming home this summer. I think Aunt Bertha is coming. Agnes. All well."