In the spirit of the holiday season, enjoy these wintery images from Open Collections.
Check out these beautiful photographs of a snowy UBC campus, from the UBC Archives Photograph collection:
Photograph by Leonard Frank, UBC 1.1/1299 Sundial in Botanical gardens in the snow, 1926.
UBC 23.1/67. UBC Library in the snow, [1948?].
UBC 1.1/2047. UBC campus snow scene, 1969.
From the Chung Collection, this 1928 Canadian Pacific Railway Company menu advertises various winter sports in Banff:
Canadian Pacific Railway Company. Winter sports at Banff, 1928.
Also, check out this ski holidays poster from 1941:
Ewart, Peter. Banff-Lake Louise region Canadian Rockies via Canadian Pacific, 1941.
The Tremaine Arkley Croquet collection features retro Christmas cards:
[Christmas card depicting children playing croquet], [between 1910 and 1919?].
Bright and happy be your Christmas, [between 1890 and 1899?].
These photos from the Uno Langmann Family Collection of British Columbia Photographs show Vancouver and North Vancouver covered in snow:
Granville St., Vancouver, B.C., Jan 13 ’09, 1909.
Barrowclough, George Alfred. Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C. after fall of snow, [not before 1910].
Suspension Bridge, First Capilano Canyon, Vancouver, B.C., Length 450 Feet, [between 1924 and 1949?].
Wardlaw, John. Winter sports, Grouse Mountain Park, North Vancouver, B.C., [between 1922 and 1941?].
Barrowclough, George Alfred. A Winter Sunset on English Bay, Vancouver, B.C., [between 1910 and 1920?].
Finally, we hope you’re a bit warmer than these two today:
Bullock-Webster, Harry. 45° below zero–and he’s lost the matches, 1880.
