A very rare pioneer patriotic J.C. Wilson & Co. card with the Rule Britannia design, mailed January 30, 1899 from Chatham, Ontario to Timaru, New Zealand.
A very rare pioneer patriotic J.C. Wilson & Co. card with the Soldiers of the Queen Type I design, mailed April 17, 1902 to Honolulu, Hawaii, bearing a Honolulu receiving cancellation dated May 7, 1902.
The reverse of the card exhorts “Canada is getting ready another contingent for South Africa. If there’s any patriotic Britishers in Honolulu they had better come here and join.” The card was written 2 days after recruiting began for the dispatch of the final battalions of the Canadian Contingent to the Boer War.
The reverse of the card exhorts “Canada is getting ready another contingent for South Africa. If there’s any patriotic Britishers in Honolulu they had better come here and join.” The card was written 2 days after recruiting began for the dispatch of the final battalions of the Canadian Contingent to the Boer War.
This W.G. MacFarlane postcard shows a View from Grand Hotel, Yarmouth, N.S., mailed September 1903 to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
A Canadian Photo Engraving postcard mailed from Port Sydney, Ontario to Victoria, Australia, on August 2, 1904, with a San Francisco transit cancel dated August 10, 1904.
The W.G. MacFarlane Series 7 postcard showing Notre Dame des Victoire Church, Quebec, mailed on October 13, 1904 to New Zealand.
The W.G. MacFarlane Series 16 postcard showing Salmon Running in the Fraser River, mailed on October 13, 1904 to New Zealand.