c. 1913 Valentine & Sons' Postcard (#109,770) - View of the Vancouver Block Building, Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Located near the busy intersection of Georgia and Granville Streets, the Vancouver Block is a striking fifteen-storey Edwardian Commercial building topped by a large clock tower and finished with ornamental terra cotta.
Constructed between 1910 and 1912 on the highest point of land in downtown Vancouver, the building is valued as an example of the city’s pre-war economic expansion and building boom. Rapid population growth during this period stimulated widespread construction in Vancouver. In the late 1890s, Canadian Pacific Railway executives encouraged business leaders to settle on company land, putting its stamp on Granville Street as the most prestigious location in the city for commercial buildings. As the centre of city activity shifted from Pender and Hastings Streets to Granville Street, the Vancouver Block helped to establish the intersection at Georgia and Granville as the commercial core of early Vancouver.
Pre-war construction changed the face of downtown Vancouver through the erection of several landmark buildings, among which the Vancouver Block was prominent due to its height, white terra cotta cladding and central clock tower. As well as reflecting the confidence of the Edwardian era, the building is associated with one of the pioneer businessmen of the time. Dominic Burns, part of the Burns meat packing establishment, managed to weather the financial depression of the decades after 1913 and possessed one of the largest estates left by pre-1914 business leaders upon his death in 1933. The building has had continuous use over time as a retail establishment on the ground level and offices on the floors above. LINK to the complete article - www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10821...
The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine & Sons were uncoloured collotypes of scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains. Typically, Valentine postcards have a 6-digit serial number (###,###) on the view side with the initials “J.V.” in a circle adjacent to that number. The main series of numbering begins with a Halifax card as no. 100,000 and ends (as far as we know) with a postcard of Toronto as no. 115,981. There are also two short runs of numbers in the 400,000 range that are found on some cards from the Yukon Territory and a longer run of views from various parts of Canada that begins at 600,000 and continues past 602,000.
108,000 – 1912 (August)*
109,000 – 1913 (January)
110,000 – 1913 (October)
Link to everything you wanted to know about the - Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. - torontopostcardclub.com/canadian-postcard-publishers/vale...
c. 1913 Valentine & Sons' Postcard (#109,770) - View of the Vancouver Block Building, Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C.
Located near the busy intersection of Georgia and Granville Streets, the Vancouver Block is a striking fifteen-storey Edwardian Commercial building topped by a large clock tower and finished with ornamental terra cotta.
Constructed between 1910 and 1912 on the highest point of land in downtown Vancouver, the building is valued as an example of the city’s pre-war economic expansion and building boom. Rapid population growth during this period stimulated widespread construction in Vancouver. In the late 1890s, Canadian Pacific Railway executives encouraged business leaders to settle on company land, putting its stamp on Granville Street as the most prestigious location in the city for commercial buildings. As the centre of city activity shifted from Pender and Hastings Streets to Granville Street, the Vancouver Block helped to establish the intersection at Georgia and Granville as the commercial core of early Vancouver.
Pre-war construction changed the face of downtown Vancouver through the erection of several landmark buildings, among which the Vancouver Block was prominent due to its height, white terra cotta cladding and central clock tower. As well as reflecting the confidence of the Edwardian era, the building is associated with one of the pioneer businessmen of the time. Dominic Burns, part of the Burns meat packing establishment, managed to weather the financial depression of the decades after 1913 and possessed one of the largest estates left by pre-1914 business leaders upon his death in 1933. The building has had continuous use over time as a retail establishment on the ground level and offices on the floors above. LINK to the complete article - www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=10821...
The earliest Canadian postcards published by Valentine & Sons were uncoloured collotypes of scenery along the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway north of Lake Superior and in the Rocky Mountains. Typically, Valentine postcards have a 6-digit serial number (###,###) on the view side with the initials “J.V.” in a circle adjacent to that number. The main series of numbering begins with a Halifax card as no. 100,000 and ends (as far as we know) with a postcard of Toronto as no. 115,981. There are also two short runs of numbers in the 400,000 range that are found on some cards from the Yukon Territory and a longer run of views from various parts of Canada that begins at 600,000 and continues past 602,000.
108,000 – 1912 (August)*
109,000 – 1913 (January)
110,000 – 1913 (October)
Link to everything you wanted to know about the - Valentine & Sons Publishing Co. - torontopostcardclub.com/canadian-postcard-publishers/vale...