Fraser Valley Antiques & Collectibles Club

It is true! We have a Summer show coming up!

THE BIG SUMMER SHOW IS COMING!!!  MARK THIS IN YOUR CALENDAR!!! ~ YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS OUT 

FVACC SUMMER 2026 Vintage Collectibles & Antique Show – Biggest & Best Vintage Collectibles Show in BC!!!! Fri. Aug. 28th and Sat Aug. 29th, 2026. Queens Park Arena 51 – 3rd Ave (corner of 1st St and 3rd Ave), New Westminster, BC V3L 1L7

Over 200+ tables, tons of various endless vintage collectables and antiques: vintage advertising tins and signs, oil & gas, toys, radios, fishing tackle, hunting & sports memorabilia, post cards, old photos, LP vinyl records, Medalta, orange crush, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Moorcroft, movie posters, vintage clothing, brewerania, fruit jars, soda pop / ginger beer bottles, drug stores, ephemera, old tools, books, stoneware crocks/jugs, soda syhons, vintage lamps, Fire King Jadeite, Chinese Asian artifacts, tobacco, dolls, jewelry, pottery, comics, trade cards, coins, stamps, old telephones, Hudson Bay, Chinaware, kitchenware, sports memorabilia, general store items, vintage home décor, small vintage furniture, etc. – you name it; it’s here & you do not want to miss out! 

Special Announcement!

New Book Spring 2026

Presenting our latest online publication, B.C. Druggists Repository: An index of early drug stores in British Columbia 1858-1930. This body of work was primarily compiled by long time member and collector Gord Northcote. 

There are nearly 700 druggists in the list, although it is not a completely comprehensive list, it remains a very good overview. It's loaded with facts, dates, locations, photos, and ephemera related to the early drug stores of B.C. More work could be done to fill in the blanks, and there will no doubt be more druggists to add from 1915 to 1930. The bulk of the material came from the publication The Canadian Druggist (1889-1915) which is found at archive.org. 

You can download the 96 MB PDF FREE from our website, under the Publications section: 

FYI Coming Sunday SEPTEMBER, 21 2025 at the VANCOUVER FLEA MARKET

ANTIQUE & COLLECTIBLES SHOW

703 TERMINAL AVE., VANCOUVER, BC

ADMISSION FOR ALL SHOWS: $5

Starts 10am - 3pm

Early Bird $15 (7:30am entrance)

This year, we have a special anniversary gift for you. Our regular annual membership of $20 CDN per year (for Canadians and $25 CDN for USA and Worldwide members) has been WAIVED!

That's right, for the year 2025, your membership dues are COMPLIMENTARY! It’s our way of saying thank you, after 40 years of operation. This year also marks our 30th antique show with our Queen’s Park show in April.

We're proud to be able to pass on this little gift to our members this year, at a time when costs seem to keep going up and up.

The rise of the local auction has been advancing fast in recent years, with a particular spike during the COVID years. New local auction houses have been offering a wide array of antiques and collectibles. With shipping rates ever increasing, as well as ebay fees increasing for sellers, mainstream online purchases can lose their incentive against a local auction house that offers local pickup or consolidated shipping.

We've seen a large number of major collections pass through the auction world in recent years. From our own club, we saw the notable Al Reilly collection go to auction, followed by Mike Wagner's unparalleled collection. Later this month, there are some artifacts from Red Robinson's collection up for auction including this Vintage CKWX Radio Jacket at the Mad Picker.

There are many many auction houses that use the icollector aka liveauctionworld platform, a platform that was started right here in Port Coquitlam. There are auctioneers using the platform all over North America (and 3 in the UK currently), you can search using their map feature...

Then there's the upstart estate clearing site MaxSold, founded in 2010, which also uses the auction platform specifically for total home / estate clearing at a time when families are most overburdened.

Here's a roundup of regular online auctions based out of the greater Vancouver area.

Able Auctions - lots of industrial hardware, business liquidations, estate liquidations, police auctions, Surrey, Langley, Nanaimo locations

Ace Auctions - Langley based auction house on liveauctionworld

All Nations Stamp and Coin - weekly coin, stamp, and ephemera auction in Dunbar, Vancouver

Aurum Auction House - Abbotsford based auction house, and one of our alumni club members at the helm; offering a range of collectibles, antiques, and estate sales.

Bid4Storage and Bid13 - Storage Locker Auctions...if you have lots of time...and space on your hands! Results vary

Clint the Collector - on the way to Cultus Lake just past Yarrow, Clint's wonderful assortment of transportation and mancave collectibles, also with a showroom, by invitation only

Direct Auctions / Direct Liquidation - Burnaby based liquidator on liveauctionworld/icollector, as well as their own URL; full featured auction house, movie set auctions, estates, collectibles, industrial, surplus, and recently merged with Mad Picker Auctions, continuing both 'brands'. Also with a popup store in North Vancouver at the moment, and their retail store on Nootka

ebidz - collectibles auction in Surrey

Great Canadian Auctions - collectibles in Port Moody

The Mad Picker - high end estate auctions and collectibles in Abbotsford, now under the Direct Auctions umbrella

Urban Auctions - Langley based auction house, vinyl auction, video game auctions, collectible auctions

$15 shrinkwrapped on foamcore, or $5 each unmounted

Upcoming shows!

Annual Fall Flea & Vintage Sale Royal Canadian Legion 118 Saturday Oct 5th, 2024 123 West 15 St @ Lonsdale Ave, North Vancouver, BC 9:30am to 2:00pm

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/en-ca/obituaries/duncan-bc/andrew-philp-11986063

Earlybirds $20 at 8.30 am

Clothes and jewelry; dolls and bears; trains; cars; textiles and linens; stamps; coins; glass; mirrors; books and magazines; toys; clocks; watches… and more!