1941 Christmas card with unidentified Chinese man standing near waterfall. The back lists several Vancouver businesses: Tourist Confectionary, Holly Lodge Grocery, Belmont Confectionary and Columbia Confectionary.

Held by

Barkerville Historic Town via Chinese Canadian Artifacts Project (UVic)

Level

item

Scope & content

A black and white Christmas card. A Chinese man standing alongside a waterfall. Right side of cardboard reads: "1941, Best Wishes for a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year...", with designs, star and flowers. Reverse side reads: "Trouist, Trorist, Colnf (?) 204Main St. Vancouver. Belmont Confection, 999 Granville St. Vancouver, B.C., Holy Ladge Grocery, 1254 Mavie St., 105 Lardova(?) St., Van, By Columbia Conf. 292 Calumbia St. Van" Dimensions: 5.1 cm x 7.5 cm. Back of card has addresses of several businesses in Vancouver: Tourist Confectionary 204 Main Street; Belmont Confection 999 Granville Street; Holly Lodge Grocery 1254 Davie Street and 105 Cordova Street, and Columbia Confectionary 292 Columbia Street.

Places

Barkerville

Location

• Barkerville, BC · city · confidence 90% · city:geonames · found as “Barkerville”

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Genre / form

Graphic material

Harvested

2026-10-15T07:26:57Z · source datestamp n/a · ead

Digital objects at the source

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