Snappy, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

 

Thanks to Snappy for this collage postcard "The Jantzen Skimmers"

Sugar Irmer, Berlin, GERMANY

Looks as if Sugar may have his own Cabinet of Curiosities . .  

Many Thanks . . great to hear from you again.

 

Anne Fizzard, New York, New York, USA

The Solar Queen  . . who has travelled from New York to Newfoundland to New York again and back to British Columbia, Canada.

Many Thanks Anne

 

Snappy, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

Many Thanks to Snappy for this unique ring addition from the collection of artist/designer Ellen Bennett to the Cabinet of Curiosity

 

Mike Tarantino, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

Many Thanks to Mike for this Special Edition 1939 stamp sheet of King George and Queen Elizabeth.

Check out Mike's shop AAA stamps 

 

Dale Roberts, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

Brick from Broad Street Studio J ArtSpace remnant 

from the Canada Hotel / Ducks Building

The original Duck Building

The brick pile

DESCRIPTION OF HISTORIC PLACE

The Canada Hotel is a three storey commercial building with a beveled corner located at the intersection of Broad and Johnson Streets in Victoria's Old Town District.

HERITAGE VALUE

The Canada Hotel adds value to Victoria's Old Town District because it physically joins the historic commercial streetscapes of Johnson and Broad Streets. Although this 1870s building has lost almost all of its fine original detailing, it is the surviving solidity and form, with its beveled corner, which impart a visual connection along the vistas of this intersection. Furthermore, the fact that both the Canada Hotel and the adjacent 1892 Duck Block to the south were constructed for local entrepreneur and politician Simeon Duck some eighteen years apart sheds light onto patterns of real estate speculation and development which occurred in Victoria in the late nineteenth century. 

Source: City of Victoria Planning and Development Dept.

CHARACTER-DEFINING ELEMENTS

The character-defining elements of the Canada Hotel include: 
- The prominent location on the busy intersection of Johnson and Broad Streets. 
- The physical and visual connection the building makes between the two streets on which it sits, accentuated by its beveled corner. 
- The integrity of the building envelope which relates to its two stages of construction in 1874 and 1879, and the evidence of construction methods and building materials used to carry out its construction, particularly the original stone and brick construction still evident on the west elevation. 
- Interior light wells. 
- The contiguous relationship with the 1892 Duck Block to the south. 
- The existing scale and height which are compatible with the surrounding historic streetscape.

Carl Chew, Seattle, Washington, USA

Thanks to Carl of Triangle Press for these visual curiosities

Jokie X. Wilson, San Francisco, California, USA

Many Thanks to Jokie for an amazing selection of this "Time Slice" also including a Fluke magazine.

 

V. Simeoni, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

A unique addition of Kendal brand batteries  . .  as I'm known as Kenndal . .  this was a new namesake discovery for me. Thanks V.

 

Stan Askew, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Many Thanks to Stan Askew for this recent collage piece for the Curiosities collection.

 

Tim Gosley, Victoria, British Columbia, CANADA

 

Many Thanks Tim for the addition of the Smile archive to the Curiosities Collection.

Here's a link to more about the amazingly talented artist: JERRY GOSLEY

Lubomyr Tymkiv, Lviv, UKRAINE

Envelope clippings from mail art postings around the world.

Many Thanks Lubomyr

 

Keiichi Nakamura, Tokyo, JAPAN

Thanks to Keiichi for this intriguing set of postcards

 

Serse Luigetti, Perugia, ITALY

 

Thanks to Serse for this composition of visuals.