Picnics

[S.S. "Cutch" and men on a picnic at Hermit Island]

AM54-S4-: Bo P228.1
Item
1892

Some of the men are identified (left to right): Isaac Oppenheimer, J.C. Keith, Mr. McKee, H.T. Ceperly, J.T.C. Williams and Harry Abbott

[Group of men and women assembled for a picnic on the lawn in front of the Vancouver Waterworks Company house in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 175B
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with negative states, "End of Pipe Line Road. First Narrows. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harris have lived here almost fifty years.; Picnic is on the edge of beach. Her Lord Stanley dedicated. Oppenheimer opened.; Stanley Park water works house. Pipe Line Road. Prospect point.; Old Indian [indigenous] clearing. Occupied Chief Haatsalanogh (Kitsilano) 1863.; See R.E. [Royal Engineers] survey this is Chaythoos. Here Hay-tulk was buried."

[Church picnic at Lynn Valley]

AM54-S4-: Port P334
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Miss Sentell, J.H. Carlisle, Miss Slade (Mrs. F.W. Sentell), F.W. Sentell, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Hooper and others

[Church picnic at Lynn Valley]

AM54-S4-: Port P335
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 199
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Charles Bailey, Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eva Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 198
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Charles Bailey, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eve Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Our outdoor heritage

VPK-S652-: MI-105
Item
1940

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a documentary film documenting Vancouver's parks in 1940. This film names Vancouver the "Playground City of the North West" and contains footage of Stanley Park, Connaught Park, Douglas Park, Devonshire Park, Shaughnessy Park, Memorial West Park, Memorial South Park, Almond Park, Hastings Community Park, Grandview Park, Trout Lake, Queen Elizabeth Park, Tatlow Park, Thornton Park, Hadden Park, Burrard View Park, Maple Grove Park, Sunset Nursery, Victory Square Park, Beaver Lake Park as well as Vancouver's beaches including English Bay, Kitsilano Beach, Second Beach, Spanish Banks and Locarno Beach. The film also features Stanley Park including footage of typical scenes at the entrance and causeway, the Administration Offices of the parks system, primeval forest scenes, blossom time in the rockeries and gardens, Lost Lagoon, Prospect Point, Lions Gate Bridge, the totem poles and a view of Stanley park from afar. As well, the film documents the locations of the free swimming classes provided by Vancouver Sun newspaper at Lumberman's Arch Pool, Kitsilano Pool, New Brighton Pool and Maple Grove Pool. Vancouver's playgrounds are also documented with footage of children playing in the playgrounds at Memorial South Playground, Norquay Playground, Robson Playground and McLean Playground. In addition, this film documents a variety of recreational activities that take place in Vancouver's parks including swimming, sunbathing, boating, diving, folk dancing, tennis, golfing (at Fraser Golf Course), walking, lawn bowling, horse-shoe pitching, model yacht racing, cricket, playing games, enjoying the park's fauna and flora (in both summer and autumn), picnicking and having BBQs. Special events such as symphonies, Dress-up Day, the Annual Sandbox Contest, and the annual Soap-box Derby are also documented.

BC Sugar Refinery picnic, Bowen Island

AM1592-1-S2-F01-: 2011-092.1543
Item
1917

Part of The British Columbia Sugar Refining Company fonds

[Printer's picnic group on dock and on board the "Cutch"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P125
Item
Aug. 1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group partially identified: 1. Archie Campbell, 2. O'Brien, 3. Campbell, 4. Dr. McGuigan, 5. Sam Robb, 6. Gibson, 7. Tom Duncan, 8. Jack McLagan, 9. J.C. McLagan, 10. J.C. Keith, 11. Mrs. J.C. McLagan, 12. Galbraith, 13. Brainbridge, 14. Fred Fowler, 15. Mat. Peard, 16. Geo. Bartley, 17. F.X. Martin, 18. John H. Brown, 19. Thos. F. McGuigan, 20. Geo. F. Baldwin, 21. John Booltbee, 22. Thos. Evans, 23. Prof. Edward Odlum, 24. F.L. Carter-Cotton, 25. Dr. Lefevre, 26. Shoebottom, 27. C.S. Philp, 28. Capt. Frank Monk, 29. W.J. Trythall, 30. Tilley, 31. Sam Greer, 32. Wm. Bailey.