Vintage Ben My Chree BC Garden Postcard - Vegetable and Flower Gardens - Gowen Sutton RPPC - SP22
Charming vintage hand-tinted real photo postcard (RPPC) featuring the gardens at Ben My Chree, with beautiful vegetable and flower gardens. This delightful postcard captures a peaceful rural scene from early 20th century British Columbia.
Scene Details:
- Ben My Chree property with white two-story main building and rustic barn structures
- Expansive vegetable garden with neat rows of crops in the foreground
- Colorful flower beds with pink and yellow blooms along the garden paths
- White picket fence separating the garden areas
- Tall evergreen trees in the background
- Hand-tinted coloring adding soft greens, pinks, and yellows to the scene
- Real photo postcard (RPPC) with excellent photographic detail
- Published by The Gowen Sutton Co. Ltd, Vancouver, B.C.
- Made in Canada
Ben My Chree (a Manx Gaelic phrase meaning "Girl of My Heart") represents British Columbia's agricultural heritage and the tradition of small farms and market gardens. This postcard beautifully documents the self-sufficient lifestyle of early BC, where properties grew their own produce and maintained beautiful flower gardens. The hand-tinted coloring enhances the pastoral charm of this scene, showing the abundance and careful cultivation that characterized these early establishments.
Condition: Unused, very good condition with age-appropriate wear.
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