Greenhouses

[Jackson's Florists greenhouse]

AM1376-: 2021-005.09
Item
[between 1935 and 1940]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

The Palm House, Kew gardens.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1563
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Miss Hilda Baggs of Bath England, from Arthur Baggs.

Millie and Elsie in greenhouse

AM1376-: CVA 330-17
Item
Sept. 5, 1908

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

VanDusen Gardens, Gastown - Vancouver, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a documentary film documenting the VanDusen Botanical Display Garden, as well as tourist attractions and businesses in Gastown. Film documents areas of the VanDusen Garden including the parking lot, administration building, main entrance, pavilions, greenhouses, MacMillan Bloedel Place, several ponds and gardens. The film also includes footage of bees, mallard ducks, Canadian geese, black swans, blue herons, and children feeding geese. The film also documents street scenes, tourist attractions, and prominent buildings in Gastown. It features footage of the replica SS Beaver at its moorings, shops including The Coggery and a silver and goldsmith, a busker with a banjo, a mural and signs for Brother Jon's Restaurant (1 Water Street), the Old Spaghetti Factory, a wooden bhudda statue outside of a store, the Europe Hotel, Steam Clock, Gassy Jack statue, Vancouver Harbour Centre, and views of Water Street.

[Gardens at Aberthau]

AM1470-: MI-58
Item
[1932?]

Part of Colonel Victor Spencer family fonds

Item is an amateur film documenting the gardens, house, and greenhouse at the Spencer family home at 1750 Trimble Street in Vancouver.

Hycroft [exterior]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2058
Item
Oct. 11, 1942

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Brown Bros. Florists - Renfrew St. [and] Grandview Hwy.

AM1506-S1-: CVA 447-39
Item
[193-?]

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

Brown Brothers Nurseries

AM1535-: CVA 99-3765
Item
Nov. 15, 1929

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows the greenhouses near Rupert Street and Broadway

Brown Brothers Nurseries

AM1535-: CVA 99-3764
Item
Nov. 15, 1929

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph shows the branch store at 3205 East 13th Avenue

Opening of Bloedel Conservatory

VPK-S652-: MI-107
Item
1969

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a documentary film documenting the opening of the Bloedel Conservatory in Queen Elizabeth Park on December 6th, 1969. Film contains bird?s eye view footage of the Bloedel Conservatory, Stanley Park and downtown Vancouver as seen from an airplane. The film also documents the external building structure of the Bloedel Conservatory and people entering it for the opening ceremony. Notable people filmed at the opening ceremony include Mayor Tom Campbell and his wife (who is holding a programme leaflet for the opening), Prentice Bloedel and his wife (who are in front of the sculpture), Deputy Park Superintendent Bill Livingstone (man talking at the microphone and who designed the park), Park Board Chair Andy Livingstone, Vice-Chair Sandy Robertson, Ex-Park Commissioner Grace McCarthy, Park Commissioner George Puil, Park Commissioner George Wainborn, Park Superintendent Stuart Lefeaux and his wife Louise and H.R. MacMillan and his daughter Jean Southam..