City of Vancouver Archives

[View of Arbutus Street at 37th Avenue looking east, north and west from East Boulevard]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN NX
Item
[ca. 1919]

Photograph shows the B.C.E.R. Stratchona station (37th Avenue), surrounding houses and a wooden sidewalk to the far left.

View of the erection of the Court House flagpole

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2458
Item
Aug. 29, 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the intersection of Georgia Street and Hornby Street and Westley Methodist Church, Y.M.C.A. building under construction, Christ Church Cathedral and Glencoe Lodge

Clark Drive Bridge (looking north from intersection of 6th Avenue)

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1096
Item
July 11, 1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

Looking Across the Inlet from Hotel Vancouver

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-693
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking north from Georgia Street showing the west side of the 600 Block Howe Street including Manor House and beyond to Deadman's Island

[Aerial view of Mount Pleasant, South Strathcona and Kensington-Cedar Cottage]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.6
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows aerial view of the east end of False Creek, Thornton Park, Great Northern Railway and Canadian National Railway yards, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland, Trout Lake, Kingsway, Vancouver Technical School grounds, Renfrew playing fields, John Hendry Park, British Columbia Electric Railway Right of Way, Clark Park, Grandview Highway South, Great Northern Railway.

[10th Avenue at Quebec Street looking east]

AM54-S4-: Str P273
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Florence Steele

[10th Avenue at Quebec Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P274
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

[1940 Seattle trolley bus built by Twin Coach on demonstration for the Cleveland Railway Company]

AM54-S4-: Trans P110.1
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the old Federal Building

[600 block of Seymour Street prior to being demolished for a parking lot]

AM54-S4-: Str N24.1
Item
[1932]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows cars parked along the east side of Seymour Street in front of empty storefronts and businesses.

Taken from the Top of the Hotel Vancouver - Brockton Point in the Distance

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2501
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the 600 Block Howe Street and beyond from the first Hotel Vancouver

West End, somewhere

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1916
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a row of houses and a dirt road

Procession July 1st, 1890 Cordova Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-57
Item
July 1, 1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking west from Carrall Street of street decoratations for Dominion Day and the Dunn-Miller Block

Boundary Road and Park Avenue [Vanness Street] Station

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-818
Item
1908

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Cornwall and Chestnut Streets, looking east towards partially constructed Burrard Street Bridge]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-854
Item
[20 July 1931]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Exterior of Manor House - 603 Howe Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P402
Item
[ca. 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows wooden sidewalks, a macadam road and the houses at 613 and 617 Howe Street.

[Exterior of the Post Office - 701 West Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P516
Item
1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Winch, Metropolitan and Marine Buildings

[Ferry line-up on Lonsdale Avenue up to Eighth Street]

AM54-S4-: Br P75.2
Item
Mar. 1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Fifteenth Street looking east towards Grand Boulevard]

AM54-S4-: Out P1085
Item
1906

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Crowd on Beatty Street observing Harry Gardiner (the "Human Fly") scale the World Tower]

AM54-S4-: Bu P550
Item
Oct. 31, 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Crowds gathered at Granville and Pender Streets for celebration]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1126
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Electric power lines running above lane west of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1129
Item
26 Jan. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Empty lot at Robson and Howe Streets, surrounded by residences]

AM54-S4-: SGN 905
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Canadian Northern Railway arch erected at Hastings and Seymour Streets for visit of the Duke of Connaught]

AM54-S4-: Arch N37
Item
[Sept. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Canadian Pacific Railway Pier 'D' fire]

AM54-S4-: Can N34
Item
1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows crowds gathered at foot of Granville Street watching the burning of CPR pier.

[Carriages on Ninth and Pacific Avenue]

AM54-S4-: SGN 827
Item
[Sept. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Third Avenue looking north showing new buildings and businesses]

AM54-S4-: Out P630.1
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows raised wooden sidewalks

[Two views of Melville Street covered in snow]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1572
Item
[1917?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of two photograph prints, each showing houses, trees, street and sidewalks covered in snow. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Two views of Melville Street covered in snow]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1574
Item
[1917?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of two photograph prints, each showing houses, trees and sidewalks covered in snow. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Various scenes regarding the activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

AM54-S4-: LGN 974
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of nine photograph prints, showing: interior of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one; New Westminster Bridge over Fraser River; railway line east of Huntington; loading strawberries at Douglas Road on the Burnaby Lake line; Columbia Street, New Westminster; two farming scenes; panoramic view of town; and B.C. Electric Railway sightseeing car. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the nine images.

[View along New Road showing the childhood home of James Skitt Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Out P579
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View looking north from City Hall]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P159.2
Item
July 25, 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Fraser Valley Milk Producers Association (Dairyland) building, the Cambie Bridge, False Creek, Downtown anf The Lions in the background

[View of Pender Street between Burrard and Thurlow Streets, showing houses and ships in harbour]

AM54-S4-: SGN 859
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View of Pender Street, showing Elysium Hotel and partially constructed Hoffmeister Building]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1579
Item
[1910?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View of Second Avenue looking north]

AM54-S4-: Out P681
Item
[ca. 1898] ; reproduced 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a wooden street and sidewalks

[View of Seymour Street between Dunsmuir and Georgia Streets, showing churches and other buildings in foreground and False Creek in the distance]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1454
Item
[1891?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View of streetcar, automobile, and businesses at] 25th and Fraser Avenue. S[outh] Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 1017
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the 400 block Granville Street from Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Str N182.2
Item
Sept. 21, 1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Williams Building, Fairfield Building and a portion of the Bank of Commerce.

[View of the 4500 Block of Dunbar Street at 29th Avenue looking south (Dunbar Heights)]

AM54-S4-: LP 241
Item
1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows railroad tracks and Scott's Grocery at 4531 Dunbar Street.

[View of the Chinese Arch for the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on Hasting Street near Carroll Street]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P24
Item
Sept. 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the B.C.E.R. depot on the right

[View of the last Vancouver Lulu Island inter urban tram near 41st Avenue and West Boulevard]

AM54-S4-: Dist P104.2
Item
July 18, 1952

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Lucas Motors and other businesses in the 5600 5500 blocks of West Boulevard

[View of the south side of the 700 and 800 Blocks of Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P646.2
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows signs on the Williams Building (Mackinnon Block) for the Liberal Headquarters, Dr. Max M. Johnson, Cunningham's Drug Store and Leonard's Cafe, Harwood Taxi and The Pacific Building and the Credit Foncier Building