Clinton BC | Clinton Hotel Street View | Gowen Sutton RPPC Postcard SP25

Real photo postcard showing the Clinton Hotel in Clinton, British Columbia, with an automobile and people outside its covered frontage. The front caption reads “Clinton Hotel the oldest HOTEL in B.C.”

Scene Details:

• Long hotel building with pitched roofs, chimneys and a covered ground-floor veranda.
• Hotel lettering on the central gable.
• Automobile parked near the entrance and people standing along the frontage.
• Broad unpaved street in the foreground.

Postal Markings:

• Canadian 2-cent King George VI postage stamp with a circular cancellation; the date is not clearly legible.
• Addressed to Leslie Hassan at 5083 Nanaimo St., Vancouver.
• Handwritten message mentions seeing a bear on the way, cows and horses, and seeing the recipient Sunday.
• Pencil annotation at the top reads “BURNED 1956.”
• Printed publisher line: “Made in Canada by the Gowen Sutton Co. Ltd., Vancouver, B.C.”

Please zoom into and look closely at the front and back photos to view condition, and feel free to send me a message if you have any questions. Thank you, D