This novelty postcard was addressed to Mrs. R.S. Hoag, Yorkton, Saskatchewan from her niece Kathleen Barker of Vancouver in 1903. The message: 鈥淲ishing you a bright and Happy New Year.鈥� Postcards in the early part of the twentieth century were used to carry greetings and brief messages to friends and family living in other parts of Canada or in other countries. Sending postcards permitted messages of only a few words - an advantage when the sender had little to say, or was not given to writing letters. Even a short message brought happiness to the recipient. The card was looked at many times, kept in a souvenir box to be viewed again over the passing years. Source: L. Hodge Fonds City of Yorkton Archives.
This History Corner originally ran in the Dec. 30, 2009 edition of Yorkton This Week.
