The Northerner

Number 88 Late Spring 2013

Newsletter of the Northern Canada Study Group

NWT Yukon Labrador Early Manitoba, Northern Ontario, & BC

A Study Group of the Postal History Society of Canada

Editor: Gray Scrimgeour, #570 - 188 Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C. V8V 2P1

This issue is all picture post cards. There will be postal history in Issue 89 this summer. I have a

small amount already entered in that file. In the mean time, enjoy some photographs from our

collecting region.

Yukon cards are checked against entries in Ken Elders A History and Directory of Yukon

Postcards 1897‒1942. I try to show only cards that have not previously been in The Northerner. I

sometimes include them a second time if they have not been shown in colour, or if I forget.

John Cheramy supplied this scan of the Northern Navigation Company’s Yukon River Packet

“Sarah”―a coloured halftone published by Curt Teich Co., Chicago. The Sarah was built in

1898 for the Alaska Commercial Company and transferred to the Northern Navigation Co. in

1901 and to the White Pass in 1914. [See p. 260 in Elder.]

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Item 1974. Northern Post Cards.

Here are some more Northern picture

post cards from John Cheramy. The

first is a lithograph of the Canadian

Customs House, White Pass, B.C. It

was published by W.A. Harmon,

White Pass, Alaska and mailed at

Skagway on March 9, 1910. The

message includes the comment that,

“Here is another card of the summit.

Yesterday it was 2 below zero with a

strong north wind.” This card is not on

Elder’s short list of Harmon cards (p.

211).

The second (below) is a Gowen,

Sutton Co. view of the S.S. Whitehorse

in Five Finger Rapids. Yukon River.

[p. 203, Elder.]

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Here’s another view of the Steamer

Whitehorse in Five Finger Rapids. It’s a

real photo taken by Draper & Co.

written at White Horse June 6, 1910.

According to Kern Elder (pp. 198–199)

Draper & Co. were in Skagway, Alaska.

The card below is B.N. (Bennett

News) Co. No. 21., a divided-back

collotype of the Steamer “Selkirk”. Not

listed on p. 33 of Elder.

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Here are two more real photo cards from the Yukon. The card on the left says: “Look

Pleasant.” and when you get to “White Horse” look for Hamacher’s Picture Gallery.

The card on the right was mailed at Dawson on August 12, 1948. There is no indication of

the name of the photographer or the distributor.

The view is of the Yukon Order of Pioneer’s Hall, Dawson, Y.T., erected 1898. The YOOP

male fraternity home page at

http://www.yukon-seniors-and-elders.org/yukonorder/yukonorder.home.htm says:

The Order was organized on December 1st, 1894 at 40 Mile, YT, Canada, before any law

organization existed in the Yukon Valley and as a substitute the first Pioneers adopted this

rule which became the Motto of the Order: "Do unto others as you would be done by".

Over the years various Lodges existed on different places and died off again as miners

moved to other discoveries.

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Here’s a colour litho card published by the Portland Post Card Co., Portland, Ore., and

Seattle, Wash. Printed in Germany. No. 90702: Electric Dredges of The Yukon Gold Co., on

Bonanza Creek, Dawson. [p. 243, Elder.]

This real photo (unused and undated) is a View of the Slide, Dawson, Yukon. CKC photo

paper (used 1910 to 1962).

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Here’s the last of the Yukon cards, for now―a view of the Matthew Watson General Store

in Carcross. It’s not dated and the publisher/photographer is not identified. Probably Watson

published this card himself (see p-. 276 of Elder).

The last of John’s northern Canada cards bears the message “A herd of Reindeer some

[seen?] when in the N.W.T.” CKC photo paper; undated.

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Item 1975. Early Manitoba Picture Post Cards.

Don Kaye has lent me 15 early Manitoba [actually, three are from the N.W.T.] post cards for

scans for The Northerner. Eleven of them are halftones that were published by Russell, Lang &

Co., Booksellers, Winnipeg and nine of these are in the Beautiful Manitoba Series.

The first two cards show scenes on the Boyne River, near Carman.

The upper card was mailed on May 8, 1911, and the lower card on October 11, 1906.

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The next five cards are from Dauphin, Manitoba. First is a “View of Dauphin, Manitoba.”

mailed December 12, 1910.

Next is “A Favorite Drive, near Dauphin.” This card was mailed to Norwich, England at

Gladstone on May 22, 1905.

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“Public Schools, Dauphin” was used November 9, 1908.

“A Suburban Road at Dauphin” was used on August 8 (year not known). It was mailed in

Carlyle, Saskatchewan, which helps explain the message, “Have not seen this part of Manitoba.”

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Here is the last of the Dauphin cards, “The Beach, Lake Dauphin.” It was written at Moose

Jaw on June 30, 1905.

Next in the Beautiful Manitoba series is “The Souris River at Souris.” This card is unused.

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Don’s last card in the Beautiful Manitoba Series shows Kennedy Street, Winnipeg. It is

unused.

The next two Lang & Co. cards have a similar format to those above but do not have the

designation “Beautiful Manitoba Series.” The first shows “The Stock Parade, Winnipeg

Exhibition.”

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The final Lang card is entitled, “A Horse Ranch on the Prairies, N.W.T., Canada”. The

photo therefore was not taken in Manitoba. The card was mailed at Banff, Alberta on July 1,

1905.

All 15 of these Lang cards have this simple undivided back that says Private Post Card.

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The next two pioneer Manitoba cards were published by Warner’s Book Store of Brandon,

Manitoba. Both were mailed at Woodlea, Manitoba on December 9, 1904. The upper card was

printed on pale blue cardstock.

The next card is on regular cardstock.

Here is the reverse of the lower card, showing the undivided back.

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The last two of Don’s early western Canada cards were published by G.A. Barrowclough

when he lived in Winnipeg. Both are undivided Souvenir Mailing Cards. The upper card shows

an Indian Tepee in the N.W.T. It was mailed at High River, Alberta on November 1, 1904.

The other Barrowclough card is titled “Indian Mode of Travel, N.W.T., Canada.”

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Item 1976. Atlin Southern Railway.

We have previously shown several picture post cards of the Atlin Southern Railway. Here is an

Albertype card, published by C.R. Bourne of Atlin, B.C.

Item 1977. Sheep Scene, Bonanza Creek.

Don Stewart supplied this card. Entitled “Sheep Scene, Bonanza Creek, Dawson”, it is Portland

Post card Company’s No. 90701. This coloured halftone was printed in Germany. [See Elder,

page 243.]

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Item 1978. Steam Points, Alaska and Yukon.

Here is another Portland Post Card item, No. 90663, titled “Steam Points Driven in Ground to

Thaw Ground, Alaska and Yukon Territories” ― from John Cheramy.

Item 1979. Dawson’s Ferry.

John also lent me this sepia collotype, “Dawson’s Ferry, crossing the Yukon, Y.T.” It was

printed for Zaccarelli’s Book, Fruit & Stationery Store by Suhling & Koehn Co. (Chicago and

Germany). [Suhling & Koehn were publishers who used German printers.] Noris No. 2032; see

p. 165 in Elder.

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Item 1980. Airview of Aklavik E3.

John Cheramy provided this real photo entitled “Airview of AKLAVIK E3 by Photographic

Survey Corporation. It was mailed at Inuvik on January 30, 1960. E3 (or Aklavik East Three,

later called New Aklavik, then Inuvik) was a new site to which the town was moved in

1956‒1961.

Item 1981. Zaccarelli Cards.

John Cheramy lent me 11 recently acquired cards published by Zaccarelli of Dawson. Ken

Elders directory has a long section about John Zaccarelli, pages 145 to 175. It is fascinating

reading as well as a good list of Zaccarelli cards. The first card is a coloured halftone printed by

The Rose Co. of Philadelphia (p. 163, Elder). “All is not Gold that Glitters”.

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The next two cards are in a series of collotype cards printed for Zaccarelli by W.G.

MacFarlane of Toronto. They are:

No. 112. A Klondykers “Home Sweet Home”.

No. 117. Str. Dawson entering Lake La Barge.

Both cards are listed on p. 162 of Elder.

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The next card is a coloured halftone published by Zaccarelli and ordered from wholesaler

Stedman Bros. of Brantford, Ontario. Elder lists Stedman Bros. as the printer for this card (No.

110) but the style of the address side is one used by a British printer.

DRILL NO. 2 AND DREDGE AT BEAR CREEK, Y.T.

The fancy lettering of PRIVATE POST CARD was classed as Typeface 1 by Maggie Toms

in her article in Card Talk, Vol. 30, No. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 14‒17. Although the printer is not

known, some cards with exactly this lettering style have the words “Made in Gt Britain”.

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These two Zaccarelli cards were

printed in Great Britain by Valentine &

Sons. The card at the right is No. 802

(Valentine 403,472) titled “Tomato

Plant, 10 ft. high, The Golden Gate

Garden, Dawson City, Y.T. (see p. 167

in Elder).

The lower card is No. 319 (Valentine

400,533) and is entitled “Front Street in

Dawson, 1898”. Both are collotypes.

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Here are three more

Valentine-printed cards.

All are collotypes. The

first (No. 826; Valentine

403,496) shows “Black

Fox Skins, Value

$600,000, caught up

White River, Y.T.” The

writer has crossed out the

$600,000 and penciled in

$7,000.00.

No. 848 (Valentine

403,518) is a Bird’s Eye

View of Klondyke Island

and Part of Dawson City,

Y.T.

No. 838 (Valentine

403,508) illustrates “First

Herd of Sheep to arrive in

Dawson, Y.T.”

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These two rather crude coloured Zaccarelli collotypes both have photographs taken by Jerry

Doody. Their numbers are 356 (left) and 359 (see p. 172 in Elder).

“A days Hunts in the Yukon”. The printer of

these cards is not known.

“Cariboo up the Klondyke river Y.T.”

Photographer Jeremiah Doody went north in the rush of 1898. According to Camera Workers,

his business address first was in Whitehorse (1901) and later in Dawson.

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Item 1982. John’s Other Yukon Cards.

The next three cards were published by the Japanese Bazaar, Dawson. Ken Elder devotes pp. 70

to 93 to Yasutaro Kawakami, his brother Shuzaburo, and the Japanese Bazaar in Dawson. On

p. 93, Ken has a list of 16 collotype post cards published by the Japanese Bazaar and printed by

Adolph Selige Pub. Co., St. Louis, Missouri. Here are three of them.

5860. Administration

Building, Dawson, Yukon

Ter.

Unused.

5862. Governor’s

Residence, Dawson,

Yukon Ter.

Unused.

5872. “A Self Dumper.”

Improved Hoisting

Method. A Yukon Mining

Scene.

Mailed at Dawson on May

12, 1908.

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Here are two more Yukon real photos from John. The first is “Street Scene – Whitehorse,

Y.T.” It is unused and the view is printed on AZO squares paper.

The second real photo shows “Front Street Carcross Yukon Canada”. It is also on

AZO squares paper, and was mailed at Carcross on July 9, 1927. I don’t know who

published this card.

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Here is another Dawson card from John. The card below is an Albertype (collotype)

published by Landahl’s Emporium of Dawson. “White Mountain Sheep from Upper

Klondyke.” [See p. 114 in Elder.]

Item 1983. Post Office, Macdonald, Manitoba.

Macdonald is northwest of Portage La Prairie. Its post office was called Drumconnor

until 1895. Don Kaye supplied this scan of a real photograph street scene that shows the

Macdonald post office on the left. The card is numbered BATES, 14. There is no

photographer named Bates in Glen Phillips’s book The Western Canada Photographers.

The card was printed on AZO small squares paper, and it is unused.

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Item 1984. Winnipeg – Post Office and Merchants Bank.

Shown here is a W.G. Macfarlane (Toronto) halftone card of the Post Office and

Merchants Bank, Winnipeg. It is No. 73 in a large series. The card was mailed in

Calgary on September 4, 1903.

Response to Item 1975. Beautiful Manitoba Series.

I’ll end this issue with a Beautiful Manitoba (Russell, Lang) card of “A Pleasing View of

the Boyne River, Carman.” Bought on eBay recently. Mailed at Winnipeg Aug. 12/04.