MJ Malleck// This postcard was sent to Owen Sound from Barbados in February, perhaps in 1968. We are enjoying the beautiful weather, hot with a glorious breeze all the time. Have “done” the island pretty well by car, the shops on foot and persuaded the men to take “the ladies” night clubbing occasionally. Pleasant fellow resorters. Went to a service in a little old Methodist Church on Sunday. Have seen the two O.S. nurses who have come down for a year to hospital here. A Bien tot. Grace and Al The front is “Ruins of an old sugar mill with blooming frangipani tree in foreground” from the beautiful pictorial book “Barbados” by Hans W. Hannau. The book was published in 1966 and had captions in English, French, German and Spanish. Grace and Al were at the start of a trend, because in the 1970s Canada was the largest source of tourists to the island. In 1979 for example, about 97,000 Canadians visited. I have not been able to find out about what kind of an exc...
Sharing postcards from the '60s and forward, bought at a garage sale, in Ontario Canada.