Yale, Pretty Calm Today...

This is a picture of the Canadian Pacific Railway passenger train as it passed by a small town called "Yale". Yale is in the Fraser River Canyon about 175 kilometers up river from Vancouver, British Columbia. Judging by the appearance of the automobile, I would guess that this post card was published in the 1940s. The Canadian Pacific Railway had several passenger trains that used this section of track, so I cannot say which train it is.

I am publishing this card as part of my blog because of the word "Yale". I went on line to see if there was a history around Yale as a settlement. THERE CERTAINLY IS!! Even before the railway came through this canyon, Yale has already made a name for itself. There was a gold rush in the 1850s in the Fraser Canyon. At one time, they think, there were as many as 15,000 people living and working the gold fields near Yale. It became famous (over the other settlements) because of the Fraser Canyon War of 1858. My favourite part of the war was when some "Indian-hating" white men went up river to kill "the enemy" and wound up killing themselves, instead. You can find the story on Wikipedia by googling "Fraser Canyon War" on their website. I highly recommend it.

This post card was published by The Coast Publishing Company, a publisher of view-cards and cards of Native Americans. Their first cards were issued as tinted halftones and they latter moved on to linens, and then photochromes. All their cards were printed in the United States. They existed between 1907 and the 1950s.