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Berman was an avid collector of historical Winnipeg postcards, amassing more than 5,000 of them. The public library has scanned them all and is in the process of adding them to the PastForward ...
He travelled a lot and he left me a box of postcards from his travels around the world and mixed in with those were about 15 old Winnipeg cards,” Milosevic said. Greetings from old Winnipeg ...
A Winnipeg woman has a collection of old postcards sent between members of a family in Belgium. She wants to get them to a descendant, but first needs to find someone to translate the words into ...
O’Hagan doesn’t know if any of the postcards came out of Manitoba PoW camps. There were 28 internment camps in Canada — the prison-like facilities with barbed-wire fencing and watch towers.
winnipeg, canada Pamla J. Eisenberg, Flickr // CC BY-SA 2.0 This postcard, postmarked from the 1905 World’s Fair, shows Manitoba’s capital from the viewpoint of City Hall.
The “Prairie Postcard Project” chronicles that leg of her trip and the people she met along the way. Visit her blog for the whole story. Click the postcard images to enlarge.] Dearest This: It’s ...
A treasure trove of historical postcards of Winnipeg is now available to the public. The Martin Berman postcard collection, donated to the city by Berman's family, has been added to PastForward, the ...