Floats (Parades)

[Labour Day Parade: Vancouver Sewer System]

COV-S632-: CVA 789-4
Item
1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Labour Day Parade: Waterworks Progress 1890 to 1914]

COV-S632-: CVA 789-8
Item
1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Labour Day Parade: Waterworks Progress 1890 to 1914]

COV-S632-: CVA 789-12
Item
1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Labour Day Parade: Waterworks Progress 1890 to 1914 First Narrows Submerged Mains]

COV-S632-: CVA 789-5
Item
1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Labour Day Parade: Waterworks Progress 1890 to 1914 First Narrows Submerged Mains]

COV-S632-: CVA 789-7
Item
1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Labour Day Parade: Waterworks Progress 1890 to 1914 First Narrows Submerged Mains]

COV-S632-: CVA 789-6
Item
1914

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Lieutenant Colonel Merritt, V.C. float [in a dagger parade]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1030
Item
[1943?]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Longshoremen's union on Hastings Street in front of their Labour Day parade float replicating the S.S. "Umatilla"]

AM54-S4-: Str P371
Item
[1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Captain Percy Nye and others and the Inns of Court Building (423 Hamilton Street at West Hastings).

[Malkin's float in the Vancouver Golden Jubilee parade]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-494
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Manitoba float [in the Calgary Stampede parade]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-323
Item
1940

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Maple Leaf float at the Calgary Stampede

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-275
Item
1940

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Maple Ridge Junior Board of Trade float]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-935
Item
1938

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Mayor L.D. Taylor and a small group of men standing next to Vancouver British Columbia Western Grain Terminus parade float]

AM1477-1-S5-: CVA 1477-184
Item
[between 1925 and 1928?]

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

McDonald Grocery Company floats for parade

AM1535-: CVA 99-3574
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

McDonald Grocery Company floats for parade

AM1535-: CVA 99-3572
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

McDonald Grocery Company floats for parade

AM1535-: CVA 99-3573
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Men lining up to buy Victory Bonds from a parade float depicting Mussolini, Hitler, and Hiro Hito]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-1455
Item
1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Model of the Lion's Gate Bridge on float in the Vancouver Golden Jubilee parade]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-490
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows signs for the Hastings Steam Baths and Oaks Rooms

[Model of the parthenon on float in the Vancouver Golden Jubilee parade]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-492
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Moose Lodge float in front of Japanese Church - Jackson Avenue and Powell Street]

AM54-S4-: Ch P131
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Nabob's 50th Year parade float]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2080
Item
[1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[National Dairies float made by Butterfields Florists in the Golden Jubilee exhibition opening parade]

AM54-S4-: Fl N5.1
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

New Brunswick float in the Calgary Stampede parade

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-265
Item
1940

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[New Westminster Queen of the May float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-486
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the main office of the Singer Sewing machine Company

[North Vancouver Orchid Florist's float]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-108
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows women dressed as mermaids

[Norwegian Icelandic float passing Carnegie Library in the Vancouver Golden Jubilee parade]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-495
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Parade

AM1470-: MI-74
Item
26 Aug. 1936

Part of Colonel Victor Spencer family fonds

Item is an amateur film documenting a Vancouver Golden Jubilee Parade. Film documents floats including the Electrical Contractors, Tyees Grouse Mountain, the Japanese-Canadian Citizens' League, Seaport Crown Fish Co., Ltd., Grace Hospital, Hodgson Lumber Company, Fraser River Sockeye, the Vancouver Rowing Club, and a float reading "Good citizenship and British ideals built Vancouver".

[Parade float advertising "The Standard" newspaper and the fundraising campaign for UBC's War Memorial Gymnasium passing St. Andrews-Wesley Church on Burrard Street]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3101
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Parade float for Holiday magazine]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3102
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Parade float for Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes]

AM54-S4-: LGN 557
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Parade vehicle "Vancouver's First Street Car A.D. 1890" displayed on truck]

AM1535-: CVA 99-872
Item
3 May 1920

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Personal - [Br--?] 1925 - Vancouver 1926 - Prince George - Prince Rupert

AM1614-: 2011-002.4
Item
1925-1926

Part of Samuel S. Magoffin fonds

Item is an amateur film beginning with footage of a man playing with dogs; wild horses running; Margaret Magoffin driving a car; Sam Magoffin, Margaret and various people and dogs standing on the front stairs of a house; and Sam and three men exiting the S.S. Magoffin & Co. Railway Contractors Tie Department building (possibly in Prince George).

The film also includes footage of Prince Rupert, B.C., including the Prince Rupert Hotel and Sam and Margaret Magoffin on Sixth Avenue with several of the downtown buildings in the background. Also included is footage taken along the waterfront and from aboard the S.S. Prince Rupert, as well as views of the city taken from a high vantage point. Buildings shown in this footage include the fire hall and elevator.

Also contained in the film is footage of a parade in Vancouver taken from a bird’s eye viewpoint. The parade includes footage of mounties on horses, sailors, a pipe band, clowns, animals, and many floats, including floats for Point Grey, the City of Vancouver, the Loyal Order of Moose, Burns Shamrock Brand Products, Vancouver Ice Cream, and a stampede. The film also includes several minutes of footage of a rodeo at Hastings Park, including bronco and bull riding and chuckwagon racing activities. The film also shows Sam and Margaret with other people in front of the Court House and having a picnic on Grouse Mountain. Also included is footage of a military parade by Victory Square, a military review, and a medals ceremony; Mayor L.D. Taylor is shown in attendance at this event.

Portland float

AM1535-: CVA 99-4470
Item
1936

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Portland Rose Festival, 1931

AM1477-1-S2---: CVA 1477-62
Item
1931

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

Photograph shows L.D. Taylor (centre) with an unidentified man and woman in a car covered in flowers. The word "Vancouver" is spelled in flowers at the front of the car.

[Pro Rec Centres float passing Begg in a parade along Georgia Street]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2351
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Queen of Dunbar and West Point Grey] float, approaching Crown St. on 16th with Lord Byng School in the background

AM1533-S2-4-: 2009-005.332
Item
Aug. 12, 1936

Part of Dunbar History Project fonds

Item filed under Sports and recreation. Peggy Molys is on the float. Major E. A. Boulden is in the open car behind the float.

[Queen of Dunbar and West Point Grey] float, approaching Crown St. on 16th with Lord Byng School in the background

AM1533-S2-4-: 2009-005.332.1
Item
Aug. 12, 1936

Part of Dunbar History Project fonds

Item filed under Sports and recreation. Peggy Molys is on the float. Major E. A. Boulden is in the open car behind the float.

[Rocket designed by Lew Parry for the Sheet Metal Workers Local 280 float]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-936
Item
1938

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Rotary Club float in parade]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-489
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Saskatchewan Float of the Calgary Stampede

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-471
Item
1940

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[South Vancouver "As sound as a bell" float]

AM54-S4-: Fl P6.2
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Spencer's parade

AM1470-: MI-31
Item
[1927?]

Part of Colonel Victor Spencer family fonds

Item is an amateur film documenting the Spencer's Toy Parade staged by the Spencer's Department Store in Vancouver. Film documents floats and costumed marchers, and crowds watching the parade as it moves south on Dunsmuir Street past the Hotel Dunsmuir at 502 Dunsmuir Street.

Spencer's parade

AM1470-: MI-32
Item
[1927?]

Part of Colonel Victor Spencer family fonds

Item is an amateur film documenting the Spencer's Toy Parade staged by the Spencer's Department Store in Vancouver. Film documents floats with fairy tale and storybook themes, and the arrival of Santa Claus.

St. John's [Ambulance] float at Richmond victory celebration

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-1303
Item
July 1, 1943

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows members of Nursing Division No. 180

[Street cleaning crew on "Thorncroft" truck decorated for Labour Day]

AM54-S4-: Ci Dept P2
Item
Sept. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows J.R. Walker behind the wheel

[The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners with their Labour Day parade float at Seymour Street and Dunsmuir Street]

AM54-S4-: Fl P2
Item
Sept. 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Bank of Montreal, Mr. Hunt, John Hawkins Gregory and others

[The Armstrong and Morrison Engineers, Machinists and Boiler Makers' Dominion Day float at the corner of Powell Street and Gore Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Str P264
Item
[1897 or 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Jack Johnsen, William Lusk and others

[The B and A float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-501
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows bathroom fixtures (bath tub, shower and sink) and the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and Anderson and Warnock hardware

[The B and A float in the 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-497
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows bathroom fixtures (bath tub, shower and sink) and the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and Anderson and Warnock hardware

[The B.C. Electric Company float in the Dominion Day Parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-590
Item
July 1, 1925

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph was taken from the apartment of Mrs. Wilson on the north side of the 100 Block of East Hastings Street and shows part of the White Lunch, Baxter and Sons Furniture, the entrance to the Howard Hotel, The Modern Company and other businesses on the south side

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