Collection MCA-0116 - Carl Klenk collection

Mission City, B.C. Main Street Main Street Mission City, 1946. Mission, B.C. Mission Junction B.C. Berry pickers at work Old Mr. Abbott Bank of Commerce, Mission City, B.C. Fruit Farms. Hatzic, B.C. Hatzie B.C. near Mission City, B.C. Fruit Lands at Hatzic, B.C. Mr. Scott's blackberry field Changing the Mission bridge from wood to steel Draw Bridge on Fraser River Mission City B.C.  (SEE NOTES) The way to the States from Mission Jct. B.C. C.P.R. Bridge, Mission City, B.C. C.P.R. Bridge, Mission City, B.C. McIntyre General Store Albion House Bellevue Hotel, Mission City, B.C. Bellevue Hotel, Mission City, B.C. (864) Canadian Canners (Western) Ltd., Mission City plant. Des Brisays Store Eddy Match Co. Mission City, B.C. The King-Beach Mfg Co Ltd. Matsqui Hotel, Mt. Baker in distance Mission City, B.C. Mission Farm Products Ltd. Mission Motel = 1 Mile east of Mission, B.C. and View of Fraser River Jas. Plumridge: Baker & General Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries Boots & Shoes Hardware Routledge Motors Mission City, B.C.
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MCA-0116

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Carl Klenk collection

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  • 1947-2015 (Creation)

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870 black & white and color postcards
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(1929-2020)

Biographical history

Carl Klenk was born and raised on a farm in Saskatchewan. In 1946, at the age of 17, he moved to Mission with his family and lived on the south side of Main Street at the foot of Stave Lake Road. At this time he developed his life-long interest in collecting postcards.

After working for various logging companies in the area he started his own business in 1954. Shortly after that he married (1955) Iris Boyd and they moved to the Caribou where he continued to operate his business and start a family. Following several other moves, they came back to Mission in 1964 and Carl retired six years later.

In 1979, Carl and his wife moved to Seattle where he lived for the next 15 years. While there, he began to earnestly collect old postcards and photographs. He joined the Seattle Postcard Club and the Vancouver Postcard Club where he both purchased and sold postcards. He also acquired postcards at old antique stores, photographic club shows and swap meets.

In 1995, Carl moved back to Mission where he continued to add to his collection over the next twenty years and in 2006, met with the Archivist to discuss arrangements to preserve them. In 2016, he received a Special Heritage Award from the Mission Community Heritage Commission in recognition for his substantial contribution to Mission’s heritage by collecting and preserving his postcards in the Mission Community Archives to ensure their accessibility for present and future generations. He died on January 29, 2020.

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Starting in 2006, Carl Klenk began donated his collection to the Mission Community Archives to ensure its safe-keeping and availability for present and future generations. Accruals were received in 2011 and 2016.

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Spanning more than six decades, the Carl Klenk postcard collection was collected between 1947 and 2015. It is comprised of 870 black / white and color postcards providing a visual record of Mission and communities in the lower and upper Fraser Valley, including: Dewdney, Harrison Hot Springs, Hatzic, and Nicomen Island. Of note in the collection is more than 40 postcards of Mission’s most storied street – First Avenue, originally called Washington Street.

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2020-08-13

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