The Northerner. Editor: Gray Scrimgeour, # Douglas Street, Victoria, B.C. V8V 2P1

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1 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, # 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 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 [See p. 260 in Elder.]

2 The Northerner 2712 Item 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, 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.]

3 The Northerner 2713 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, According to Kern Elder (pp ) 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.

4 The Northerner 2714 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, 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 The YOOP male fraternity home page at says: The Order was organized on December 1 st, 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.

5 The Northerner 2715 Here s a colour litho card published by the Portland Post Card Co., Portland, Ore., and Seattle, Wash. Printed in Germany. No : 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).

6 The Northerner 2716 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 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.

7 The Northerner 2717 Item 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.

8 The Northerner 2718 The next five cards are from Dauphin, Manitoba. First is a View of Dauphin, Manitoba. mailed December 12, Next is A Favorite Drive, near Dauphin. This card was mailed to Norwich, England at Gladstone on May 22, 1905.

9 The Northerner 2719 Public Schools, Dauphin was used November 9, 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.

10 The Northerner 2720 Here is the last of the Dauphin cards, The Beach, Lake Dauphin. It was written at Moose Jaw on June 30, Next in the Beautiful Manitoba series is The Souris River at Souris. This card is unused.

11 The Northerner 2721 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.

12 The Northerner 2722 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, All 15 of these Lang cards have this simple undivided back that says Private Post Card.

13 The Northerner 2723 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, 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.

14 The Northerner 2724 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, The other Barrowclough card is titled Indian Mode of Travel, N.W.T., Canada.

15 The Northerner 2725 Item 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 Sheep Scene, Bonanza Creek. Don Stewart supplied this card. Entitled Sheep Scene, Bonanza Creek, Dawson, it is Portland Post card Company s No This coloured halftone was printed in Germany. [See Elder, page 243.]

16 The Northerner 2726 Item Steam Points, Alaska and Yukon. Here is another Portland Post Card item, No , titled Steam Points Driven in Ground to Thaw Ground, Alaska and Yukon Territories from John Cheramy. Item 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.

17 The Northerner 2727 Item 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, E3 (or Aklavik East Three, later called New Aklavik, then Inuvik) was a new site to which the town was moved in Item 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.

18 The Northerner 2728 The next two cards are in a series of collotype cards printed for Zaccarelli by W.G. MacFarlane of Toronto. They are: No A Klondykers Home Sweet Home. No Str. Dawson entering Lake La Barge. Both cards are listed on p. 162 of Elder.

19 The Northerner 2729 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 Although the printer is not known, some cards with exactly this lettering style have the words Made in Gt Britain.

20 The Northerner 2730 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, Both are collotypes.

21 The Northerner 2731 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, 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.

22 The Northerner 2732 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 According to Camera Workers, his business address first was in Whitehorse (1901) and later in Dawson.

23 The Northerner 2733 Item 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 Administration Building, Dawson, Yukon Ter. Unused Governor s Residence, Dawson, Yukon Ter. Unused A Self Dumper. Improved Hoisting Method. A Yukon Mining Scene. Mailed at Dawson on May 12, 1908.

24 The Northerner 2734 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, I don t know who published this card.

25 The Northerner 2735 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 Post Office, Macdonald, Manitoba. Macdonald is northwest of Portage La Prairie. Its post office was called Drumconnor until 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.

26 The Northerner 2736 Item 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, Response to Item 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.