City of Vancouver Archives

Yukon Field Force Band, Dawson

AM54-S4-: Mil P269
Item
May 1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Vaudeville actors who performed at the Orpheum Theatre]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2168
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

Vancouver Police Pipe Band

AM54-S4-: Pol P13.2
Item
1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

Vancouver Branch G.W.V.A. Band

AM54-S4-: Mil P73
Item
1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait shows members of the Great War Veterans' Association band on the steps of the Court House

[Unidentified group at] Lynn Valley

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-981.2
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Unidentified band]

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3188
Item
[between 1907 and 1911]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group studio portrait

[The sitting room inside the McCleery farm house - 6750 MacDonald Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P538
Item
[ca. 1955]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The parlour in the Elliott home]

AM54-S4-: Out N556
Item
1900 ; reproduced [194-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The drawing room of the residence at West Kootenay Power and Light Co.]

AM54-S4-: Bu P490.2
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The drawing room of M.R. Smith's residence]

AM54-S4-: Bu P490.4
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The drawing room in the F.C. Wade residence]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-635
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The closing ceremonies for the British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Empire Stadium]

AM54-S4-: Sp P67.4
Item
Aug. 7, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Seaforth Highlanders marching band

[The Cast on stage at the Vancouver Opera House - 765 Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P479.2
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man in front identified as Fred Dyke.

[The Cast of the "Gondoliers" on stage at the Vancouver Opera House - 765 Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P479.1
Item
Apr. 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man on right at front identified as Fred Dyke.

The Ball Family

AM54-S4-: Port P338
Item
[189-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group photograph

[The 6th Regiment Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles march through Vernon]

AM54-S4-: Mil P113.2
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sixth Regiment Band (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles) Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Mil P250
Item
1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: W. Wallace, J. Courtney, E. Cox, G. Hitchcock, O. Trouse, I. Whitcomb, J. Lawson, J. Grant, G. Armishaw, C. Sordet, H. Cellet, W. Grant, D. Evans, T. Turner, F. Highfield, Lieutenant Colonel C.A. Worsnop, F. Kennedy, R. Chance, W. Chandler, J. Burns, J. Cronshaw, W.T. Rushton, W. Gawne, J. McDonald

[Sechelt Indian marching band at the blessing ceremony of a new seminary]

AM54-S4-: Out P428
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing band leader Frank Isidore and others

[Sechelt Indian marching band]

AM54-S4-: Out P427
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Sea Cadets on parade during royal visit]

AM54-S4-: Mil P126
Item
May 31, 1939

Part of Major Matthews collection

Roach Point

AM54-S4-: Out P573.1
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a camp and the men are identified as 1. Arthur Salsbury, 2. Billy Durand, 3. Ed Girdwood, 4. Mr. Durand and 5. unknown. Likely Roche Point, in North Vancouver.

[Police Pipe and Drum Band at the Caledonian Games]

AM54-S4-: Pol P13.1
Item
1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Joseph Shields, Pipe Major and others

Pipers and Drummers Vancouver Regiment, 29th Battalion Canadian Expeditionary Force

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2718
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait on the steps of the Women's Building at Hastings Park showing: A. Robertson, A. McRae, W. Montgomery, McLaughlin, W.S. Grant, W.A. Robertson, Major Tait, D. May, D. McCulloch, N. Minnes, J. Stafford, A. Balfour and Sinclair

Pipe Band 231st Battalion

AM54-S4-: Mil P87.1
Item
Dec. 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait on the steps of the Womens Building at Hastings Park

Pipe Band 1st Battalion (72nd C.E.F.) The Seaforth Highlanders of Canada

AM54-S4-: Mil P68
Item
May 17, 1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Part of Dr. Frank Burnett's collection of South Seas artifacts]

AM54-S4-: Out P660
Item
[192-?] ; reproduced 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows various native musical instruments

"No. 3 Platoon" 62nd Batt[alion] C.E.F. (Vancouver)

AM54-S4-: Mil P37
Item
Dec. 1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait shows Lieutenant Mogg and other Canadian Expeditionary Force members

[Mrs. Hodson's Salvation Army tambourine]

AM54-S4-: Misc N71
Item
[1945?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Lord Selkirk and District Schools Band - A.W. Jordan, Conductor

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-792
Item
1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Ray (Roy) Nye and others

[Kitsilano High School (Boys) Band on the Court House Steps]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2414
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: Roy Johnson, Donald Endacott, Gordon Delamont, Ardern Steeves, Stuart Ross, Ralph Derrick, Douglas Stewart, Bill Perkins, James Brown, Douglas Harkness, Mackenzie Morrison, Arthur Butroid, Douglas MacAdams, Fred Woodcock, Tom Martin, Wallace Oatway, Cecil Jenkins, Donald Wright, Van Dunfee, Norman Pearson, Gordon MacCullough, Bob Davison, Bob Morrison, John Daniels, Charlie Lowe, Jack Fairburn, Clifford Wood, Clifton Bryson, Herbert Melton, Jim Steele, Robert Steele, Douglas Cooper, Vera L. Delamont (mascot) and Arthur W. Delamont (conductor)

[Interior of residence at 916 Cardero Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-744
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the music or sitting room

[Interior of R.B. McMicking residence - 102 Menzies Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P490.1
Item
[ca. 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the drawing room.

High School Cadets Band

AM54-S4-: Mil P11
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hector Mackenzie with his bagpipes]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1713
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hector Mackenzie with his bagpipes]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1712
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hector MacKenzie playing the bagpipes]

AM54-S4-: Port P391
Item
1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 198
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Charles Bailey, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eve Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 199
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Charles Bailey, Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eva Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[George Buscombe first bugler for No. 5 Company, B.C.B.G.A.]

AM54-S4-: Port P180
Item
1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph annotated by Major Matthews "Bugler George Buscombe, first military bugler in Vancouver. He was enrolled in No. 5 Co., British Columbia Brigade of Garrison Artillery[B.C.B.G.A.], old Drill Shed, Pender St., 17 January 1894; the second night of organisation of first volunteer unit in Vancouver. Afterwards Alderman for several years. Brother of His Worship Fred Buscombe, mayor. In 1944, of 'Buscombe & Co' Ltd, and resides 2050 Comox St.". Studio portrait

[Four women gathered on porch of James Stark's summer cottage at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1074.2
Item
[1897?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The women in the photograph are identified as (from left to right): old Mrs. Adams, Mrs. James Stark, young Mrs. Adams, and Miss Mary Stark (later Mrs. Harry P. Archibald). Young Mrs. Adams and Miss Stark are holding a ukelele and an autoharp. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Famous 6th Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles' Bugle Band

AM54-S4-: Mil P29.2
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Famous 6th Regiment Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles Bugle Band

AM54-S4-: Mil P29.1
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Ed. Young Chef and others [playing musical instruments]

AM54-S4-: LP 255.6
Item
[between 1910 and 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a fiddle, guitar and hand organ (accordion)

[Christ Church Boys' Brigade on steps of old courthouse]

AM54-S4-: Ch P83
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Rex Nickson, Captain Johnson and others

[Buglers of the 18th Field Ambulance, Canadian Army Medical Corps]

AM54-S4-: Mil P84.1
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Bugle Band of the New Westminster Companies of the 6th Regiment, The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles]

AM54-S4-: Mil P146
Item
[between 1903 and 1911]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Arthur Leslie, Oswald Peele, Frank Biladeau, J.T. Burnett, Tom Sayer, A. Mortison, H.Walker Sangster, Tim Mahoney, W. Sutherland, Tom Trapp, Rufus K. Sangster, Stewart Gordon, Chris Jackson and Arthur Wise