People forget or may not know Canada had an 'old west' too - prairie, cattle, mining, gold, timber, furs, covered wagons, homesteading, Indians. This scene from Winnipeg looks as if it could be from any western US city at the time. Horse drawn wagons and carriages, a bicycle, and an electric trolley car. No gas powered vehicles in sight at all makes me wonder if the photo was taken a few years before the card was mailed.
Check out the cancellation dates. It was mailed from Winnipeg April 18 1906 and arrived in Oakland April 22. Not bad. The great SF earthquake of 1906 occurred on April 18.
The stamp is Edward VII, oldest son of Queen Victoria, whom he succeeded upon her death in 1902.
I'm curious what the three men in the lower right are doing. They appear to be looking at something on the ground, possibly in or near the other set of trolley tracks. Man on the left is poking at something with a stick
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