The Vancouver Postcard Club Annual General Meeting and Christmas Party is December 8, 2019, at the Hastings Community Centre, Room 9.

Please note the time is noon to 2 pm. 

Bring your items for the Club’s Annual Auction, and/or postcards to sell or trade. There will be cake, coffee and tea. And we’ll have our annual Club photo taken.

Bring a friend! All interested in postcards and our local and national history are welcome to attend.

Hastings Community Centre
3096 E. Hastings St., Room 9, Vancouver, BC

You may join or renew at the meeting or by mail by filling out and sending in the renewal form on the website.

Shown above is the front of an embossed Christmas postcard – sent to Vancouver in 1912 from the United States.

This shows a little girl who was waiting, but now is asleep – and Santa hovering nearby with a bag full of toys. Sent to Mr E C Shaughnessy, Vancouver, BC.

The 1912 Henderson’s Directory (page 1186) shows Mr. E. C. Shaughnessy at 48 1/2 Cordova East in Vancouver.  Likely this was Edward Charles Shaughnessy (1879-1946), variously described in records as a Vancouver waiter, caterer and restaurant keeper, born in Ontario, who later married Lulu Ross (known as Gladys?) in New Westminster, 1916. Private collection.