Vancouver B.C.
with the inscription “All Rights Reserved, The Province Publishing Coy. Ltd.”

This Province Publishing Company Ltd. postcard, with a 2¢ QV Numeral stamp postmarked November 8, 1899, has been sent to Le Havre, France, and has a Le Havre receiving cancel. The card shows two views, “Vancouver From Mount Pleasant” and “In Stanley Park” and is part of a series of post cards from that company.

Below, reverse of card with partial Vancouver postmark and Le Havre receiver dated November 26, 1899

Vancouver B.C.
with the inscription “All Rights Reserved, The Province Publishing Coy. Ltd.”

This Province Publishing Company Ltd. postcard, with a 2¢ QV Numeral stamp postmarked December 30, 1899, has been sent to Surrey, England, as a New Year’s greeting. The card shows a view of “Rustic Bridge, Stanley Park” and is part of a series of post cards from that company.

Below, reverse of card with Vancouver postmark, mailed to England via New York because of the winter conditions on Canada’s east coast.

Vancouver B.C.
with the inscription The Province Publishing Coy Ltd
Vancouver B.C.

This postcard is part of a series of post card designs from The Province Publishing Coy. Ltd., however, in this case, the design has been printed on a piece of Canadian government-issued postal stationery. It resembles a PADPOST (Pictorial ADvertising on POstal STationery), although the card was not really advertising anything, but was a picture postcard, in a similar style to the company’s picture postcard series.

The card was postmarked July 8, 1901, but was uprated with a 1¢ QV Numeral stamp to pay postage to Germany. The postcard bears a July 26, 1901 receiving cancel from Kattowitz, Germany. District Kattowitz was created in 1873 within the Kingdom of Prussia. On 1 April 1899, the city of Kattowitz was separated from the district, becoming an independent city. In 1922, after the Silesian Uprisings, Kattowitz and its surrounding district were ceded to the Second Polish Republic.

The B.C. Printing & Engr. Corp. Ltd. arose from a name change in 1899 from the The Province Publishing Coy. Ltd. While this card was postally used in 1901, it was printing in 1899 or earlier under the former entity known as The Province Publishing Coy. Ltd. Canadian postal regulations permitted cards of this nature from December 9, 1897 onwards.

Below, reverse of card, written in German

Vancouver, B.C.
English Bay and the Pavilions
In Stanley Park
with the inscription “BC Print’g & Engr. Corp. Ltd. Vancouver.”

This postcard, with stamp removed, with a partial postmark remaining dated [September] 23, 1901, has been sent to Belgium, and bears a Belgian receiving cancel dated October 9, 1901.

British Columbia
with the inscription “BC Print’g & Engr. Corp. Ltd. Vancouver.”

This postcard, with a 1¢ QV Numeral stamp postmarked June 2, 1903, has been sent to Massachusetts USA. The card shows two unnamed views, one of farmers harvesting hay, another of a scene from a farm in the BC interior.

British Columbia
with the inscription “BC Print’g & Engr. Corp. Ltd. Vancouver.”

This postcard, unposted, with the caption “Kootenay Lake”, was addressed to California.