City of Vancouver Archives

[View of fire at lumber yard - B.C. Forest Products fire?]

COV-S280-: CVA 354-416
Item
[July 3, 1960]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing fire fighters working to control the blaze at the lumber mill site on West 6th Avenue.

[View of False Creek looking west from the Granville Street Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Wat N62.3
Item
[Sept. 1928]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the C.P.R. Kitslano trestle bridge and industrial buildings on both sides of False Creek.

[View of False Creek looking east from the Granville Street Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Wat N62.1
Item
[Sept. 1928]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows barges moored by the British Ropes Canadian Factory Ltd., Wallace Foundry Co. Ltd.and Vulcan Iron Works Ltd.

[View of False Creek looking east from the Granville Street Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Wat N62.2
Item
[Sept. 1928]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a lumber mill or company.

[View of False Creek from the Burrard Bridge]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-1016
Item
1939

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows the Kitsilano Trestle Bridge and Granville Bridge

[View of False Creek from the Burrard Bridge]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-1017
Item
1939

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows the Kitsilano Trestle Bridge, part of Granville Island (including the B.C. Equipment Co. buildings) and the Granville Bridge

[View of Downtown from the Vancouver Iron and Engineering Works Ltd. at 1155 West 6th Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-485
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of construction site and industrial buildings]

COV-S644-: CVA 1095-07236
Item
Aug. 1973

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of construction site and industrial buildings]

COV-S644-: CVA 1095-07238
Item
Aug. 1973

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of building with sign for Reid's Moving & Storage]

COV-S644-: CVA 1095-02815
Item
Apr. 1974

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[View of a New Westminster shipyard showing wooden ships under construction]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N168
Item
Nov. 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows sawmills across the river.

[View of Walsh Construction Company and Vancouver Lumber Company, Roche Point]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N245B
Item
1920

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View looking north showing the new Granville Bridge under construction]

AM980-S1-: CVA 804-24
Item
[1952 or 1953]

Part of Kerrisdale Historical Society fonds

Construction progress photograph showing the Granville Rooms, Albion Lumber and Millwork and the Burrard Bridge and the Hotel Vancouver in the background

Victory Flour Mills Ltd. [806 Beach Avenue]

AM1535-: CVA 99-1403
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Rowing Club Regatta [Coal Harbour - showing Boeing Aircraft Co. building]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2545
Item
16 May 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Rowing Club Regatta [Coal Harbour - showing arena and Boeing Aircraft Co.]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2544
Item
16 May 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Vancouver Manufacturing and Trading Company building and work yard near the foot of Granville Street, showing the Fairview area in the distance]

AM54-S4-: SGN 23
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Vancouver Machinery Depot buildings]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N104A
Item
1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the Gulf of Georgia Towing Co. and Cedar Coe Sash and Door Co. buildings.

Vancouver Iron Works Limited

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2245.10
Item
1943

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view of equipment on the shop floor

Vancouver Iron Works and Foundry

AM54-S4-: Bu P19
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sign on building reads: Vancouver City Foundry and Machine Works.

Vancouver Iron [and Engineering] Works [Ltd. at 1155 West 6th Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-486
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Vancouver Iron [and Engineering] Works [Ltd. at 1155 West 6th Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-490
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph also shows the Granville Bridge

Vancouver Iron [and Engineering Works Ltd. at 1155 West 6th Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-491
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Vancouver Iron and Engineer Workers buildings, False Creek

AM1349-S3-: CVA 207-61
Item
July 1973

Part of Elizabeth Walker fonds

Item is a photograph showing Vancouver Iron and Engineer Workers buildings. Photo taken during a tour of False Creek.

Vancouver Harbour

AM1376-: CVA 1305-1
Item
Feb. 7, 1924

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Panoramic view showing Burrard Inlet including 42 ocean steamers in port of which 25 were for grain cargoes, 17 vessels at berth (not shown in photograph) and the Harbour Commissioners wharf and Grain Elevator No. 1 and log booms

Vancouver Harbour

AM54-S4-: PAN P78
Item
Feb. 7, 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing Burrard Inlet including 42 ocean steamers in port of which 25 were for grain cargoes, 17 vessels at berth (not shown in photograph) and the Harbour Commissioners wharf and Grain Elevator No. 1 and log booms

Vancouver Brewery [interior view - warehouse]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3069
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Brewery [interior view - men crating bottles of beer]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3071
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Brewery [interior view - front office]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3070
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries Ltd. [interior view - mechanics]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3065
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries Ltd. [interior view - mechanics]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3064
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries Ltd. [interior view - mechanics]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3067
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries Ltd. [interior view - mechanics]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3066
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries Ltd. [2700 Yew, corner 11th Avenue]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3063
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries [interior, workers packing barrels]

AM1535-: CVA 99-6561
Item
[ca. 1926]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries [interior]

AM1535-: CVA 99-6560
Item
[ca. 1926]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Breweries [exterior view, wooden and corrugated metal siding building]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3068
Item
[1926?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

United Distillers Limited [exterior of plant at 8900 Shaughnessy Street]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3974
Item
Aug. 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Two views of Walsh Construction Company and Vancouver Lumber Company, Roche Point]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N245A
Item
1920

Part of Major Matthews collection

Truck (Reo) Champion and White Ltd. builders supplies

AM1535-: CVA 99-1400
Item
1921

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

The "Jungle" of the unemployed, summer of 1931

AM54-S4-: Re N10.07
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men sitting by a makeshift shelter in the "jungle" on the site of the old Hastings Sawmill and the C.P.R. right-of-way east of Dunlevy Avenue. The American Can Company factory is in the background.
J.S. Matthews' notes on negative: Another of the crude shelters. Most of the men were Canadians - half had fought in the war.