City of Vancouver Archives

[View across the C.P.R. park towards] Granville Street and Georgia Street

AM54-S4-: Hot P9
Item
1893

Photograph shows the Hudson's Bay store under construction, Lord Strathcona Block, Lord Durham Block, Lord Elphinstone Block and the first Hotel Vancouver

[Aerial view of Mount Pleasant, South Strathcona and Kensington-Cedar Cottage]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.6
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows aerial view of the east end of False Creek, Thornton Park, Great Northern Railway and Canadian National Railway yards, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland, Trout Lake, Kingsway, Vancouver Technical School grounds, Renfrew playing fields, John Hendry Park, British Columbia Electric Railway Right of Way, Clark Park, Grandview Highway South, Great Northern Railway.

[Aerial view of Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.5
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Kitsilano, Kits Point, Kitsilano Beach, R.C.A.F. Equipment Depot, Kitsilano Pool, Burrard Bridge, C.P.R. Kitsilano Trestle, Granville Island, Granville Bridge, Cambie Bridge, False Creek, C.P.R. False Creek Yards, West End, Yaletown, Arbutus Ridge, Shaughnessy, South Cambie, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Little Mountain Reservoir, Connaught Park, Quilchena Golf Course, Douglas Park, Shaughnessy Heights Golf Course, Queen Elizabeth Park, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Barracks, Shaughnessy Military Hospital, Hillcrest Park, Robertson & Hacket Sawmill, City Yard, West Coast Ship Builders and Athletic Park.

[Aerial view of West Point Grey, Kitsilano, Dunbar - Southlands and University Endowment Lands]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.4
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the south Slope of English Bay, Spanish Banks, Locarno Beach Park, Jericho Beach, R.C.A.F. Jericho Air Station, Kitsilano pool, Connaught Park and Kitsilano Beach Park, Caldecott Park, Quilchena Golf Course, School for Deaf and Blind and Quesnel Park.

[Aerial view of Burrard Inlet, Hastings-Sunrise, Burnaby and the District of North Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.3
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Exhibition Park and P.N.E. Golf Course, Second Narrows Bridge, New Brighton Park, Callister Park, Burrard Inlet, Lynn Creek, Lynn Park, Seymour Creek, Vancouver Harbour Commissioners Railway, Inspected Shingles Ltd., Cascade Rock and Gravel Co. Ltd., Canadian Shingle Co. Ltd. (Capilano Timber Co. Ltd.), Alberta Pool Elevator, Columbia Grain Elevator Co. Ltd., Canadian Pacific Railway, Girls Industrial School and Old Peoples Home sites.

Staff of Pure Milk Dairy Co. Samuel Garvin Prop. Vancouver B.C. 15/6/16

AM54-S4-3-: PAN NVIB
Item
June 15, 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows S. Garvin and others in an automobile among horse-drawn milk wagons and delivery men in front of a bandstand in Robson Park. The photograph also shows houses and buildings in the 500 block 13th Ave E. and the 2900 block Carolina Street.

[Logging skid trail in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: VLP 84
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Rededication, Stanley Park, 1943

AM54-S4-1-A-10
File
[ca. 1868] - 1943 ; reproduced [ca. 1943]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Album contains photographs of the rededication ceremony in 1943, copy photographs of the original dedication of the park in 1889 and early scenes of Stanley Park. Album was dedicated to Lord Derby, son of Lord Stanley, and includes Lord Derby's invitation to the ceremony as well as Major Matthews' notes with the photographs.

[Apodaca Park (D.L. 4974) and Cove from the water]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-215
Item
Mar. 7, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph made of 3 separate photographs joined together. Panoramic view. The sections have been described separately as CVA 371-215.1, CVA 371-215.2 and CVA 371-215.3.

[View of the Great Northern (Union) and Canadian National Stations and Thornton Park]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N101
Item
Sept. 8, 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Hotel Ivanhoe, the G.N. and C.N. freight buildings and Massey-Harris Farm Implements.

[View of Coal Harbour, Deadman's Island, part of Stanley Park, and the North Shore mountains, from John Morton's clearing at the foot of Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-: SGN 902
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[View of Coal Harbour, Deadman's Island, part of Stanley Park, and the North Shore mountains from the foot of Bute Street]

AM54-S4-: SGN 901
Item
[1896?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Two women seated on grass at Beacon Hill Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 896
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[People watching swans in pond at Beacon Hill Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 897
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Crowds gathered to watch events at Beacon Hill Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 161
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Drive at Brockton Point, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 157
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Stanley Park, viewed from English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 97
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Family assembled on rock near road in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 114
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Woman at wooden staircase near path, Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 112
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Three women observing black swans on pond, Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 111
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Boat in Burrard Inlet, near Brockton Point]

AM54-S4-: SGN 109
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Two women standing on dirt road at Brockton Point], Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 106
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Pioneer Place design

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-484
Item
1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph of an artist's conception for the design of Pioneer Place. Notes written on the back include: "see draft letter from JSM to Mr. Fraine Nov. 23, 1960 and to JSM from A M Fraser Nov. 30, 1960" and "Received from Superintendent Park Board, Vancouver, Nov. 18th, JS Matthews, City Archivist" and "On Dec. 31 1916 [1961?], P. B. Stroyan told me this work had been partially completed. That it was a Park Board official's design. What would be the use of my trying to compose an inscription for a tablet at this late date. JS Matthews"

[A baseball game at Recreation Park at Smithe Street and Homer Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2945
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Rupert Park

AM54-S17-M8193
File
July 29, 1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

Riley Park, near Little Mountain

AM54-S17-M7982
File
1946-1972

Part of Major Matthews collection

Recreation Park, south east corner Homer and Smythe

AM54-S17-M7873
File
1910-1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Queen Elizabeth Park

AM54-S17-M7721
File
1940-1966

Part of Major Matthews collection

Norgate Park, North Vancouver

AM54-S17-M6747
File
1948-1961

Part of Major Matthews collection

New Brighton Park

AM54-S17-M6679
File
1964-1971

Part of Major Matthews collection

Manning Park

AM54-S17-M6069
File
1941-1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Apodaca Park (D.L. 4974) and Cove from the water]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-215.1
Item
Mar. 7, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

False Creek Park

AM54-S17-M3028
File
1960-1972

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coronation Park, Port Moody

AM54-S17-M2096
File
Dec. 19, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Connaught Park

AM54-S17-M2034
File
1912-1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

Central Park Garden Village

AM54-S17-M1736
File
1953-1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Central Park

AM54-S17-M1735
File
1933-1968

Part of Major Matthews collection

Camosun Area

AM54-S17-M1446
File
Dec. 11, 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Brentwood Park, Burnaby

AM54-S17-M1032
File
1953-1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

Athletic Park, 5th and Hemlock St.

AM54-S17-M358
File
1945-1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Ambleside, West Vancouver

AM54-S17-M217
File
Mar. 4, 1952

Part of Major Matthews collection

Alexandra Park

AM54-S17-M174
File
Feb. 25, 1972

Part of Major Matthews collection

View on park road, near English Bay

AM54-S4-: SGN 98
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men with horsedrawn carriage on dirt road surrounded by trees and bush. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Rustic bridge on Stanley Park Road, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 94
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

In the park, Beacon Hill, Victoria, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 86
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men playing cricket in] Beacon Hill Park, Victoria, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 85
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Composite view of ships and Stanley Park sites]

AM54-S4-: SGN 61
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph consists of a composite of four photographs showing: large tree in Stanley Park, bridge in Stanley Park, the S.S. "Beaver" on shore (Bo P124), and the "Empress of India" at Vancouver dock (Bo P 6.4).