City of Vancouver Archives

"Yorkshire Building" for Yorkshire Guarantee and Securities Corporation Ltd. Messrs. Somerville and Putnam architects. Dominion Construction Coy. contractors

AM54-S4-: LGN 553
Item
29 Apr. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows building under construction

[Yorkshire building]

AM54-S4-: LGN 554
Item
[1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows two men standing in front of completed building.

[View over downtown]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-782.1
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the W.E. Fales Undertaker and Furniture Dealer and other buildings

[View of the east side of the 400 Block of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P422
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Rogers Building and the second C.P.R. Station in the background

[View of Hastings Sawmill from the float at the foot of Gore Avenue]

AM54-S4-: LGN 545
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the tug boat "Haro" and a sailing ship at the wharf.

[View of Columbia Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-782.3
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing T.J. Hardware House Furnishings, the Edison Theatre, The Fair, Mills Clothing and other businesses and buildings and The Fraser River Bridge in the background

Veterans' Parade, Coronation Day, June 22, 1911, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: LGN 529
Item
22 June 1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a group of men, and the Vancouver High School Cadet Corps band assembled near the Cambie Street grounds. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Vancouver's harbour. "The Gateway of the west"

AM54-S4-: LGN 543
Item
[1910?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows ships at dock, Burrard Inlet, and North Shore mountains.

Vancouver Post Office [Hastings and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-31
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[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.

[Train at station along beach in White Rock]

AM54-S4-: LGN 547
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Threshing in British Columbia

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-16
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Thomas W. Wilby emptying a bottle of Atlantic Ocean water into Pacific Ocean at the end of his trip across Canada by car]

AM54-S4-: LGN 539
Item
[Oct. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Thomas W. Wilby and Reo Car. The First to Cross Canada by Car

AM54-S4-: Trans P188
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The sternwheeler "Skeena" in front of the Wigwam Inn]

AM54-S4-: LGN 546
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

The Richmond Apartments

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-54
Item
[between 1908 and 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

"The meeting of the waters" - Thos. W. Wilby finishing his great journey across Canada by motor car

AM54-S4-: LGN 537
Item
[1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Thomas Wilby standing in front of his car, emptying a container of water into the ocean.

The Manhattan Apartments [784 Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-56
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Loader, loading logs on cars with [a] donkey engine.

AM54-S4-: LGN 509
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows two men using a donkey engine to move logs onto flatbed railway cars.

[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 Kenilworth apartments [843 Cardero Street]

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-63
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Holden Building - under construction

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-33
Item
[1910?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The end of the trans-continental motor car journey across Canada. Thomas W. Wilby emptying a bottle of Atlantic Ocean water into the Pacific Ocean at Victoria, Vancouver Island, October 18, 1912

AM54-S4-: LGN 538
Item
18 Oct. 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

The City of New Westminster

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-782.2
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Columbian Printing House and other buildings

"The Canadian Highway". T.W. Wilby and Parly en route for Victoria

AM54-S4-: LGN 533
Item
[Oct. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows five men standing near two automobiles parked next to a large tree at the side of the road. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

The business centre of Vancouver 1911. Hastings Street [at Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 559
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Storage tanks and railway tanks at Imperial Oil Company refinery in Burnaby]

AM54-S4-: LGN 685
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

S.S. Princess Royal [docked at C.P.R. wharf]

AM54-S4-: LGN 541
Item
[1911?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[S.S. "Empress of Russia" at C.P.R. dock]

AM54-S4-: Bo P569.1
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

S.S. Empress leaving Vancouver

AM54-S4-: LGN 540
Item
[1911?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Some coast boats

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-27
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the "Cowichan" and the "Prince Rupert" at the Grand Trunk Pacific Dock.

Scenes on the Halifax to Alberni automobile journey

AM54-S4-: LGN 536
Item
[1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints of Thomas Wilby's trip across Canada, showing various stops and ceremonies along the way.

Scenes from the route of Thos. W. Wilby, the "Pathfinder" on his journey from Halifax to Victoria

AM54-S4-: LGN 535
Item
[1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints of Thomas Wilby on his trip, showing various stops along the way.

[Regimental Sergeant Major H. Heritage with Sergeants of the 6th regiment of the D.C.O.R. and the 18th Field Ambulance gathered around Maxim Machine Gun at entrance to Beatty Street drill hall]

AM54-S4-: LGN 522
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Regimental Sergeant Major David Nelson of the 72nd regiment of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, standing in uniform in front of the Beatty Street drill hall]

AM54-S4-: LGN 519
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Plan of Burrard Peninsula - distribution of population estimated for 1950

AM54-S4-: LGN 558
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a map showing estimated population levels for Vancouver, Point Grey, South Vancouver and Burnaby. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.