City of Vancouver Archives

[William Mason being interviewed during the launch of "The Canadian".

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-60
Item
[Apr. 24, 1955]

Part of H.A. Price collection

[William Manson, Vice President, CPR, and Major J.S. Matthews during the launch of "The Canadian"]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-76
Item
[Apr. 24, 1955]

Part of H.A. Price collection

[William Manson, Norman MacKenzie and an unidentified man during the launch of "The Canadian"]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-67
Item
[Apr. 24, 1955]

Part of H.A. Price collection

[Western Canada Shipyards, False Creek]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N249A.2
Item
Apr. 30, 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows four ships under construction and the G.N.R. Trestle and Granville bridges

Waiting [on the C.P.R. platform] for the Atlantic Express

AM54-S4-: Can P42.2
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View to the north from the CMI Industries Building rooftop - 1345 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.5
Item
1968

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows North Vancouver, Coal Harbour and C.P.R. (Canadian Pacific Railway) tracks

[View of "Y" tracks and surrounding sheds for the Great Northern Railway, at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1057
Item
8 Oct. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the C.P.R. tracks looking west from Campbell Avenue]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-18
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows a B.C. Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. building on the left and on the right it shows a house (980 Powell Street) Ramsay Brothers Ltd. (210 Raymur Avenue), houses in the 1000 block Powell Street and cabins (1100 Powell Street).

[View of the C.P.R. tracks looking east from Campbell Avenue]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-16
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows a B.C. Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. building on the left and on the right it shows a house (980 Powell Street) Ramsay Brothers Ltd. (210 Raymur Avenue), houses in the 1000 block Powell Street and cabins (1100 Powell Street).

[View of the C.P.R. tracks and B.C. Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. buildings on the waterfront from the foot of Raymur Avenue.

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-20
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph also shows the Barnard Castle Hotel (898 Powell Street and Campbell Avenue), buildings in the 700 block Powell Street, a floating wharf and the B.C. Wire and Nail Co. Ltd. building at the foot of Hawkes Avenue and a wooden sidewalk.

[View of railway tracks and cars, buildings, and other structures at east end of Georgia Viaduct]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1015
Item
8 Oct. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of railroad tracks through forest]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3117
Item
Nov. 1933

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[View of Powell Street looking west from Raymur Avenue]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-15
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows CPR tracks and buildings on the B.C. Sugar Refinery Co. Ltd. property on the waterfront side of Powell Street. Photograph also shows Ramsay Brothers & Co. Ltd. (210 Raymur Avenue), a house (922 Powell Street) the Barnard Castle Hotel (898 Powell Street), Vancouver Junk Company storehouse (755 Powell Street) and other buildings in the 700 block of Powell Street . A B.C. Electric Streetcar is on Powell Street at Campbell Avenue.

[View of Powell Street looking west from Raymur Avenue]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-17
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows C.P.R. tracks, the Banard Castle Hotel (898 Powell Street at Campbell Avenue) and buildings on the waterfront..

[View of Powell Street looking west from Raymur Avenue]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-19
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows CPR tracks and buildings on the B.C. Sugar Refinery Co. Ltd. property on the waterfront side of Powell Street. Photograph also shows a portion of Ramsay Brothers & Co. Ltd. (210 Raymur Avenue), the Barnard Castle Hotel (898 Powell Street), and wooden sidewalks.

[View of partially constructed Georgia-Harris viaduct, showing G.N.R. freight tracks, sheds, and passenger platform in foreground, and two concrete chimneys from B.C. Electric steam plant in background]

AM54-S4-: LGN 961
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Burrard Inlet and] C.P.R. [train and tracks]

AM624-S1-F1-: CVA 242-10.07
Item
1901

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

[View of a railroad] looking East at Kerr [Street] and Kent [Avenue]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-144
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Vancouver, B.C. 1890 : built-on area

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map showing downtown Vancouver and a portion of east Vancouver. City blocks, buildings and railway lines are shown. Annotations in pencil mark the location of Granville Bridge, Main Street Bridge, the Vancouver Lumber Company, the Canadian Pacific Railway station, the Hastings Sawmill, False Creek and Burrard Inlet.

Holdsworth, Derek

Vancouver Harbour 1923

AM54-S4-: PAN P59
Item
1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view from Pender Street showing the C.P.R. car barge dock, the Immigration Building and Pier A and the squatter's shacks on Deadman's Island

Vancouver Harbour 1923

AM1376-: CVA 1376-206
Item
1923

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Panoramic view from Pender Street showing the C.P.R. car barge dock, the Immigration Building and Pier A and the squatter's shacks on Deadman's Island

Vancouver Harbor

AM54-S4-: Wat P14
Item
[ca. 1937]

Part of Major Matthews collection

View looking east showing C.P.R. Pier B-C and Pier D

Vancouver from C.P.R. Docks

AM54-S4-1-: CVA 4-36
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver B.C. C.P.R. East end Station and Tracks showing proposed crossing by the Y.W. + Y. Rly [Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Rly]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-13
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows Hastings Station and Henry J. Cambie standing on the main line C.P.R. track. The far right shows the C.P.R. Spur to Vancouver Engineering Works.

Vancouver B.C. C.P.R. East End Station + tracks showing proposed crossing by the [Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon Rly] V.W. + Y Rly: [C.P.R. Hastings Station]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-14
Item
Nov. 1906

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows Hastings Station. Henry Cambie is standing on the main line C.P.R. tracks. The track to the leftof the main line is the switching track. The far left shows the C.P.R. spur to Vancouver Engineering Works.

Vancouver and Northern Railway, 1908

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a portion of a larger topographic map which supposedly has been annotated to show proposed railway routes from North Vancouver, along Howe Sound, to Alta Lake. The annotations have been made on a portion of a topographical map, most likely published by the British Columbia Department of Lands.

[Two women boarding the C.N.R. super continental train for its inaugral run to Edmonton]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3614
Item
[1955]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Train tracks and a reflection of the Marine Building in the water]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-998
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Train tracks and a reflection of the Marine Building in the water]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-999
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[Train pulling a load of logs over a trestle]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2178
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Train engine on track, houses behind]

AM1535-: CVA 99 - 3271
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Trading scrap yard [at] Cordova St[reet]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-337
Item
Feb. 1966

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph also shows railroads and cars

[Three men standing by a television decorated with streamers]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3617
Item
[1955]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Photograph shows some event associated with the inaugural run of the C.N.R. super continental train]

The modern engine [C.P.R. train]

AM427-S4-F5-: CVA 289-005.339
Item
July 2, 1936

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

[The Duke of Cornwall and York inspecting the naval guard of honor at C.P.R. station]

AM54-S4-: LP 55.2
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows old "Yosemite" paddlewheeler in background

[The C.P.R. train] just arriving

AM427-S4-F5-: CVA 289-005.338
Item
July 2, 1936

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

The C.P.R. train

AM427-S4-F5-: CVA 289-005.337
Item
July 2, 1936

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Terminus C.P.Ry. [at the foot of Trafalgar Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P208
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the end of the C.P.R. tracks (stop block)

Terminal railway location from Fraser River Bridge, New Westminster, to Spanish Bank, Point Grey, showing terminal layout [Burrard Peninsula topographical plan]

COV-S397---: LEG1362.04
Item
[1923?]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a map showing the railway line from New Westminster to Point Grey. Railway data appears to have been added to a base map showing topographic contour lines, shorelines, low tide marks, natural divides, and municipal boundaries.

[Team of oxen pulling logs]

AM54-S4-: Log N9
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows oxen pulling logs in Kitsilano as part of steam logging railway. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Stuart's pocket map of Vancouver, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is an illustrated map of the "old" City of Vancouver. The map shows streets, transportation, and significant businesses (such as C.P.R. wharves, smelter, Hastings Mill, Morse's Mill, C.P.R. Shops, City Hospital, sawmill, slaughter houses, and smallpox hospital). The map includes "Index of Streets, Government Offices, Churches, [etc.], including "Civic and other Principal Buildings", "Places of Amusement or Recreation", "Public Schools", "Principal Mills, Foundries and Manufactories", "Principle Bankers", Principal Hotels", and "Miscellaneous".

The map was designed to be folded into a cover, which is included.

Strathcona Horse contingent

AM753-S1-F1-: CVA 256-01.04
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Elizabeth Abbott fonds

Item is a photograph showing the Strathcona Horse contingent leaving for the Boer War surrounded by crowds at the C.P.R. train tracks.

[Spences Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Out P743
Item
[ca. 1955]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Social event during the launch of "The Canadian"]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-70
Item
[Apr. 24, 1955]

Part of H.A. Price collection

[Social event during the launch of "The Canadian"]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-69
Item
[Apr. 24, 1955]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows 4 men seated in one of "The Canadian" cars.

Site for Pender St. Freight Sheds [Proposed CPR warehouse site]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-10.10
Item
[1905]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows land near Pender and Hastings Streets. Image includes railsiding, shed, and buildings in the distance.

[Ships docked near grain elevator]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-252
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Sheet Z : Milton Street to Heather Street and Seventy-second Avenue to Fraser River and sheet v: Angus Drive to Granville Street and South West Marine Drive to Fraser River

COV-S303-MAP 343-: MAP 343.47
Item
[ca. 1925], with revisions to Dec. 8, 1943

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item consists of two sections on one sheet. Sections show the area from Milton Street to Heather Street and Seventy-second Avenue to Fraser River (Sheet Z) ; as well as Angus Drive to Granville Street and South West Marine Drive to Fraser River (Sheet V). Includes streets, roads, railway lines, blocks, lots and legal descriptions. Section is hand coloured to show tax sale property for sale, property with no water, street widening and drainage, replotting, reserved land for schools, reserved land for parks, sundry land, capital assets not including schools and parks, schools, and parks, as applicable.

Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer

Sheet Z : Milton Street to Heather Street and Seventy-second Avenue to Fraser River ; Angus Drive to Granville Street and South West Marine Drive to Fraser River

AM1594-MAP 779-: MAP 779.47
Item
[ca. 1935], with revisions to Dec. 8, 1943

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item consists of two sections. One shows the area from Milton Street to Heather Street and Seventy-second Avenue to Fraser River; the other shows Angus Drive to Granville Street and South West Marine Drive to Fraser River. Includes streets, roads, railway lines, blocks, lots and legal descriptions.

Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer

Sheet V and Z : Milton Street to Heather Street and Seventy-second Avenue to Fraser River ; Angus Drive to Granville Street and South West Marine Drive to Fraser River

AM1594-MAP 682-: MAP 682.47
Item
[ca. 1925, with revisions to ca. 1945]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a sheet with two sections. The first section shows the area from Milton Street to Heather Street and Seventy-second Avenue to Fraser River; the second section shows the area from Angus Drive to Granville Street and South West Marine Drive to Fraser River. Sections show streets, roads, blocks, lots and legal descriptions, as well as the location of railway lines, the Eburne Sawmill, and a proposed bridge to Richmond.

Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer

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