Item S01-SS800-044 - Mission City

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MCA-0116-S01-SS800-044

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Mission City

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  • [ca. 1949] (Creation)

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1 photograph : b&w postcard ; 9 x 14 cm

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(1929-2020)

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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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Photograph of Main Street with the Cheam mountain range in the background. Cars line the sidewalks and storefronts include J.L. English Rexall Drug Store and the Odeon Theatre.

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Title Source: Formal title.

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Verso Note: correspondence between unknown individuals talks about the building of a new theatre in town.

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