Carnegie-Canada | library-postcards

Canadian Carnegie Libraries

Alberta

Calgary

1912 Carnegie building, still in use as a library. Renovated in 2020. AKA Memorial Park Library.

(L) 'SceneOchroM' brand card, made in Canada by the Gowen, Sutton Co. of Vancouver.
(R) Self-framed card published in Saxony by the Pacific Novelty Company of San Francisco. Mailed in 1913.

Edmonton

1913 grant, built in 1923, demolished in 1968. Carnegie also funded the Old Strathcona library, which houses a branch library, with much renovation.

The attractive postcard was printed by the Photo Gelatine Engraving Company, and was never mailed.

British Columbia

New Westminster

Two very different treatments of the same subject.

(L) Heliotype brand card.

(R) Tinted card printed in Great Britain and mailed in 1909.

1902 Carnegie grant. Built in 1905 and closed in 1958.

Vancouver

Edwards Brothers card, printed in Germany.

1901 grant.
The building is now the Carnegie Center, but has a reading room for those without ID and borrowing privileges.

Victoria

The Romanesque building has been one of Canada's Historic Places since 1979.

(L) Early Souvenir Post Card.

(R) Valentine and Sons Souvenir Post Card printed in Great Britain and mailed in the States.

Manitoba

Winnipeg

Winnipeg received sufficient 1905 Carnegie grant monies to provide three library buildings. If the card shown is of the Williams Avenue Branch, it has been demolished.

The W.J. Gage postcard was mailed in 1906.

New Brunswick

Saint John

Logo of PE CO in a maple leaf. 1950s 4 cent QE II stamp, but never mailed. However, the card looks much older, probably from the 1920s.

1904 building, replaced in 1983, now houses the Saint John Arts Centre.

There are Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan Carnegie libraries, but none for Quebec.

Ontario has its own pages because of the number of cards in my collection.