Postcards with Story

The date on this postcard is 1911 and by that date several large homes and summer cottages already existed on Erie Rest, the area west...

There is no date on this postcard but judging by the appearance of the car heading south as it approaches what is today Port Stanley’s...

According to Agnes Hepburn in her Historical Sketch of the Village of Port Stanley, published by Port Stanley Women’s Institute in 1952, the Port Stanley...

There are other postcards on this website which talk about the three different coal car carrying ferries which were called the Marquette and Bessemer and...

This postcard shows Port Stanley’s Christ Church. More information about this church, built in 1845, can be found with other postcards of the building on...

This postcard bears a postmark of May 26,1911 and shows Port Stanley’s Anglican Church which bears the name of Christ Church. The church still stands...

While many of the postcards on this website date from an earlier era, this one is postmarked 1937. The view looks east along what was...

There is no date on this postcard but in the early 1900s there were several small ship building operations in Port Stanley. The framework of...

In this view of Invererie Heights it is interesting to see how much land existed 115 years ago (the postcard is postmarked 1913) south of the...

This view of Invererie Heights is entitled, on the postcard which displays it, “Lover’s Lane, Fraser Heights, Port Stanley, Canada”. This surrounding area was originally called...

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