City of Vancouver Archives

[A City of Vancouver Float at the corner of Granville Street and Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2786
Item
[between 1915 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Georgia Pharmacy at 699 Granville Street

[A dragon float]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-104
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A First Nations float in the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-34
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows August Jack Khahtsahlano and others

[A float for the U.B.C. Canadian Olympic Oarsmen in a parade for the returning athletes]

AM54-S4-: Sp P78.10
Item
Dec. 15, 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A float in a Labour Day parade]

AM54-S4-: Str P379.3
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A float in the 400 Block of Powell Street ready to join the Dominion Day parade]

AM54-S4-: Str P245
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Choice Groceries in the background

[A float in the Labour Day parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1156.1
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A group of girls on a float in the Labour Day parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1156.3
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A Labour Day parade travelling east on Cordova Street at Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P337
Item
1891

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A McDonald Brothers Heavy Teaming float on Alexander Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P248
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A parade in the 700 Block of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-915
Item
1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ross and Howard Iron Works boiler pulled by a team of Clydesdale horses and the lower stories of the Vancouver Block and the Birks Building

[A parade in the 700 Block of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-917
Item
1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the lower stories of the Vancouver Block and the Birks Building

[A parade in the 700 Block of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-919
Item
1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the lower stories of the Vancouver Block and the Birks Building

[A Sons of the British Empire float in the 100 Block of Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P316
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A woman on a float in the Labour Day parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1156.2
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An imitation elephant to promote Columbo Tea and Company in a parade in front of 579 Burrard Street near Eveleigh Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P327
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An imitation elephant to promote Columbo Tea Company in a Labour Day Parade]

AM54-S4-: Str P379.2
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An Oasis Car Wash float]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-101
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An octopus float]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-105
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

[B.C. Electric Railway Company floats showing Vancouver's first streetcar, and a model of the Buntzen Lake Power House number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1006
Item
12 June 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[B.C. Electric Railway Company parade float, showing a model of the Buntzen Lake Power House number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1008
Item
12 june 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[B.C. Electric Railway Company parade float, showing Vancouver's first streetcar]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1009
Item
12 June 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Chemical fire engine and horses decorated for a parade outside Fire Hall No. 1 on Water Street]

AM54-S4-: FD P45
Item
[1897 or 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows John McMorran, John Campbell, Hugh E. Campbell, Ed Mitchell and the Granville Hotel

[City of Vancouver float for 1925 Dominion Day parade]

AM54-S4-: LGN 501
Item
[1 July 1925]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows young man driving, and young women and girls sitting in flower covered float.

[City of Vancouver float for the Gyro Club Tyee Potlatch]

AM54-S4-: Fl P3.2
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph show Ray Fraser Auto parts at 1340 Seymour Street and Mayor W.R. Owen

[City of Vancouver float of a ship]

AM54-S4-: Fl P1
Item
[1927?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Finning Tractor and Equipment Company Limited float in the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-22
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Fraser Valley Milk Producer's Association float in Golden Jubilee Exhibition opening parade

AM54-S4-: Fl N5
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews notes on edge of negative

[King Neptune and the "Jantzen Girls" in swim suits pulling a Royal Life Saving float in a Dominion Day parade]

AM54-S4-: Port P258.1
Item
July 1, 1925 ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Colonial Theatre and other businesses in the west side of the 600 Block of Granville Street and the post office tower

[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).

[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

[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

[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

[Parade float for Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes]

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

[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 Bricklayers and Masons International Union's Labour Day parade float at the corner of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) and Dupont Street (Pender Street)]

AM54-S4-: Str P261
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows W.H. Hooper, Bob Sleeth and others and the Glasgow Hotel

[The British Columbia Centennial 1958 float in the Grey Cup Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-946
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The British Columbia float on Hastings Street in the Grey Cup Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-948
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Woodwards building

[The British Columbia Telephone Company float travelling past the cenotaph in the Grey Cup Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-947
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Western Canada Raw Fur Auction Sales Limited and Canadian Bank of Commerce buildings in the background

[The Canadian Pacific Airlines float at the Grey Cup Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-942
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The City of New Westminster "76th May Queen" float in the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-21
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The City of Vancouver float in the Grey Cup Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-951
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Eaton's of Canada float in the 600 Block of Granville Street in the Grey Cup Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-945
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Exhibition parade in the 300 Block West Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-991
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows businesses on the north side

[The horse-drawn Canadian Pacific Exhibition float in the Exhibition parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-990
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Irish Fusiliers float in the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-25
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Marine Building in the background

[The "Leif Erikson" float in the Vancouver Pageant on Burrard Street]

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.8
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Pacific National Exhibition float in the Grey Cup Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-950
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

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