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Highlighting in vintage postcards the history of towns and townships in the greater Lake Nipissing and Lake Temagami areas of Northern Ontario, Canada, including the Nipissing District and portions of the Parry Sound district which are in the “Blue Sky Region.” These Canadian postcards are shown in digital, virtual museum format for educational purposes. If you have images or historical information which you’d like to share with our virtual museum, feel free to do so. To navigate these pages, mouse over the top navigation bar. Drop-down menus will appear of the areas of interest. Click on the thumbnails for larger images. Close the larger image before opening another thumbnail. The occasional duplicates for sale can be found using the search box on the main (home) page of VintagePostcards.org. This is an ongoing project; comments and questions to the webmaster at webmaster - at sign - vintagepostcards.org are welcome.
Below are Canadian resources which we have found interesting, some of which can also be used to research postcard history. See our other postcard collecting reference page, and our Northern Ontario Postcard Photographers’ checklist.
Canadian Postal Archives - Includes information on postal markings and cancellations and Canadian postage stamp artists
Library and Archives Canada: Post Offices and Postmasters - Search data base for post offices open and closed (DPO) and postmasters in all 10 Canadian provinces and territories
Philatis, searchable illustrated database of all Canadian stamps issued since 1851
Historic Preservation and Architectural History Resources:
Building Canada, an introduction to Canadian architectural history at McGill University
Canada’s Historic Places, a searchable database of buildings and sites on the Canadian Register of Historic Places
Doors Open, an annual province-wide initiative showcasing Ontario’s heritage treasures
Past Forward Heritage Limited, writers and publishers of social and oral history and the repository for author Doug Mackey’s well-known “Heritage Perspectives” newspaper columns
Mike Smith Books - Spectacular documentation of Canada’s early postcard history and postcard publishers, including the Canadian Patriotic Postcard Checklist, 1898-1928 as well as many other titles.
In Search of Your Canadian Past: The Canadian county atlas digital project featuring a searchable database of property owners’ names which appear on township maps in county atlases. Township maps, portraits and properties have been scanned
Ontario Abandoned Places — Ontario’s largest ghost town website, also including non-ghost town related locations such as mines, factories and urban exploration
West Nipissing Ouest: Our History. A searchable photographic database of West Nipissing areas including Cache Bay, Crystal Falls, Desaulniers, Field, Kipling, Lavigne, North Monetville, River Valley, Sturgeon Falls and Verner.
Plant Shutdown Stories, an oral history project documenting the deindustrialization of Sturgeon Falls, as seen through the eyes of displaced paper workers
Sturgeon River House, a museum portraying the Hudson’s Bay Company’s fur trapping and trading activities
For collectors of vintage postcards, old postcards and the antique postcard. Deltiology, the hobby of collecting vintage postcards, is one of the fastest-growing collectibles hobbies. Old postcard collections interest collectors of antiques, memorabilia and ephemera; collectables such as old vintage postcards are used by museums and historians to document what was.
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