City of Vancouver Archives

[Workmen in front of the first Hotel Vancouver under construction on southwest corner of Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Hot P4
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Workmen improving bluff at "Cariboo Joe's" tunnel, C.P. Ry.

AM54-S4-: LGN 734
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men with loads of rock on tracks next to cliff.

[Workers, scaffolding and machinery in excavated area for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1763
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Workers, equipment and debris at construction area around stream]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1800
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Workers in partially excavated area for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1755
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Workers at Hastings Sawmill yard]

AM54-S4-: SGN 39
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Workers assembled on partially completed C.P.R. bridge over Fraser River at Mission]

AM54-S4-: LGN 505
Item
[1891?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Workers and scaffolding in excavated area fo Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1762
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Workers and scaffolding at partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1754
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Women and children watch road construction near Golden]

AM54-S4-: Trans P120
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Westcoast Building under construction - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.9
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows steel girder hoisted alongside the central concrete core

West end portal of hydraulic tunnel on cliff above No. 2 power plant - at early stage of excavation

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-1
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[View of West Georgia Street, looking east from Westcoast Building - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.3
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Elbow Room Cafe/ Restaurant on Jervis Street

[View of road paving on 41st Avenue east of the Boulevard]

AM54-S4-: Str P300
Item
July 18, 1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Various scenes regarding the construction of the Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 980
Item
[1911?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of five photograph prints, showing: water cresting over the top of the Coquitlam Dam; the clearing of the Coquitlam Dam site with a donkey engine; the roots of a large tree cleared off the Coquitlam Dam site; bridge over Coquitlam Dam; and two men sawing tree stump at Coquitlam Dam site. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the five images.

[Various scenes regarding the construction of the Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 982
Item
[1911?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: exploration cut at centre line of dam; partially cleared dam site; two men sawing tree stump on dam site; and partially cleared dam site covered in snow. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the four images.

[Various scenes regarding the activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

AM54-S4-: LGN 977
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of three photograph prints, showing: men standing next to railway tracks in partially excavated tunnel; man standing next to monitor releasing water into cleared area; and men standing with tools in partially excavated tunnel. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the four images.

[Vancouver Power Company's tunnel under construction to connect Lake Coquitlam with Lake Beautiful (Buntzen)]

AM54-S4-: Out P440
Item
1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Mr. H.M. Burwell, Mr. D.K. Campbell and others

Vancouver City Scavenging Department [yard], 120 Union Street

AM54-S4-: LP 19
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals identified in photograph are Frank Jones, Bob Walker and Mr. Pitman. Photograph also shows stables, incinerator, smoke stack and B.C. Electric (steamplant) powerhouse.

[Two men standing on planks while felling a tree with axes]

AM54-S4-: LGN 514
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Two men in partially constructed generator room for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two

AM54-S4-: LGN 832
Item
20 June 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Two men building a fence in front of a house on Melville Street]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1587
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Threshing outfit at T.B. Waddington, Brandon, Manitoba]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1473
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Threshing outfit at T.B. Waddington, Brandon, Man.

AM54-S4-: SGN 1472
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Threshing on the farm of J.R. Neff, Esq., Moosamin, Assa

AM54-S4-: LGN 648
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men in field, some operating threshing machinery, and others with horse drawn carts.

Threshing on the farm of J.R. Neff, Esq., Moosamin, Assa.

AM54-S4-: LGN 649
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men in field, some operating threshing machinery, and others with horse-drawn carts

Threshing on farm of C.A.C. and Col. Co., Namaka, Alb.

AM54-S4-: LGN 650
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men in field with horse-drawn carts, threshing machinery and barrels.

[The trunk sewer from Kerrisdale entering the Fraser River]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1037
Item
[1911 or 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Reeve and Councillors inspecting Little Mountain Quarry]

AM54-S4-: Dist P145
Item
[between 1908 and 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The original work car No. 4 of the Westminster and Vancouver Tramway Company]

AM54-S4-: Trans N73
Item
[ca. 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Mr. Semple, Foreman and others

[The men living in Robert McLean and Company construction camp on Macdonald Street at 50th Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Str P154
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[The crew of the Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P61
Item
[ca. 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[The bituminous macadam being repaired on Cambie Street between 10th Avenue and 12th Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Str P205.1
Item
Feb. 24, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Tea being spread out to dry in C.P.R. park at Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1083
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a customs agent sitting on a box of tea, watching Asian workers empty tea out of boxes and spread it out to dry with rakes.

[Students and staff in front of All Hallows' School]

AM54-S4-: Out P697.1
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: Miss Thompson, Minnie Chase, Jenny Sawyer, Flora Walker, Esther McDonald (Mrs. Wellington), Miss Moody (Sister Althea), Miss Chase, Sister Margaret, Mrs. McGinnis, Mrs. Urquhart, Lena, Agnes Main, Rose Oppenheimer, Marian Walker, Annie Main, Emma Castle, Emma Llene, Sister Superior, Mrs. Dodd, Helen Oppenheimer, Sister Alice, Dora Oppenheimer, Amy Paul, Mary Jane, Mrs. Clare and others.

[Streetcar line construction on Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P77
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking north from near Prior Street

[Streetcar line construction on Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P78
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking north from near Prior Street

[Streetcar line construction on Powell Street looking west from Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P79
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the first City Hall on the far right

Sterling Mill

AM54-S4-: Mi P34
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait of workers and some children in front of the shingle mill

[Statue of Lord Stanley being lowered onto granite base in Stanley Park by Johnston Terminals Ltd.]

AM54-S4-: Mon P105.4
Item
May 16, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Six men standing at location of intake gate of hydraulic tunnel for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 853
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Sewer construction on Balsam Street between Wilson Road (41st Avenue) and 43rd Avenue]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1039
Item
[1911 or 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Row of workers standing on scaffolding at Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: SGN 40
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Rotary snow plough, Revelstoke

AM54-S4-: LGN 617
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men on Canadian Pacific Railway Rotary Snow Plough on tracks in forest

[Road paving on 41st Avenue east of the Boulevard]

AM54-S4-: Str P299
Item
July 18, 1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Road grading gang on Arbutus Street near Bodwell Road (33rd Avenue)]

AM54-S4-: Dist P22.2
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Replacement of upper section of wood stove penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 823
Item
16 Aug. 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men woking on partially completed section of pipe.

[Rebuilding of upper end of penstocks 1 to 4 for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 816
Item
27 July 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men working on section of pipe.

Pure Foods Building. "Diatite" concrete throughout. Vancouver Exhibition Association July 30 1931

AM54-S4-: Bu N508
Item
30 July 1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men constructing building.

Point Grey Municipality, View of Kerrisdale (Municipal Hall on Left) 1911.

AM54-S4-: PAN P51
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing Wilson Road (41st Ave), Blair and Perrin Real Estate Office, the Post Office and the B.C.E. Railway freight shed and passenger shelter.

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