City of Vancouver Archives

Point Atkinson looking up Howe Sound

[Rear of the first house in Caulfield]

[Reeve J. Edward Sears speaking after unveiling a cairn during the Narvaez Pageant at Ambleside Park]

Reeves of West Vancouver

Replica of the "Silver Dart" flown by John A. Douglas McCurdy on February 23, 1909 at Baddeck Bay, Nova Scotia. The first flight of a heavier-than-aircraft in Canada it was also officially credited as the first airplane flight in the British Empire

[Sand bags along a flooded road]

[Sandbags diverting water away from a home on Riverside Drive]

Scale model of the "Red Wing" flown March 12, 1908 by F.W. "Casey" Baldwin pioneer canadian pilot who was the first British Subject to fly and airplane

Side view of the replica of the Curtiss type single seater biplane constructed and flown by two Alberta pioneer airmen Thomas G. Blakely and Frank H. Ellis. Flights took place during 1914 in the vicinity of Calgary

South face of cable anchorage on North Shore. Suspension cables enter the two "windows&quot...

South face of cable anchorage on North Shore. Suspension cables enter the two "windows" and go down into concrete.

South Shore view showing completed catwalkas from tower to tower, cables and stay-wires. Catwalks braced together near top.

Steel has been erected on top of North Shore cable anchorage. One of cables is shown passing through "window" of anchorage.

Stumps covered the ground less than a year before this picture was taken of bridge approach on North Shore

Suspension cables enter the cable anchorage on North Shore, below the viaduct and are anchored into 20,000 tons of solid concrete.

The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Company's Picnic, Seaside Park

[The Edmonton Fusiliers putting on a smoke screen demonstration at the Narvaez Pageant at Ambleside Park]

[The Lions and Capilano Valley]

[The Narvaez Pageant at Ambleside Park]

[The second Point Atkinson Lighthouse]

[The surf surging at Ambleside during a storm]

[The wedding party of John Lawson's daughter outside Navvy Jack's house]

[The wedding party of Miss Elizabeth C. Lawson and Mr. W.J. Pitman]

[The wedding party of Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Hopcraft at Skunk Cove]

This scale model represents the two-seater dual controlled biplane designed, built and flown by the early Manitoban airman, William A. Straith whose experiments were conducted near Winnipeg