City of Vancouver Archives

[Sergeant E. Scott, Corporal M.J. Olsen, Major J.S. Matthews and Thomas Howarth study copies of "The Northwest Passage" at Jericho Beach Hospital]

AM54-S4-: Port P1050.2
Item
Mar. 3, 1950

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Replica of Vancouver's First General Post Office on display at the Pacific National Exhibition]

AM54-S4-: Bu P640.1
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Major J.S. Matthews and Post master J.D. O'Connell

[Lord Tweedsmuir (John Buchan) visits the Archives]

AM54-S4-: Port P370
Item
Mar. 16, 1939

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows (left to right): Alderman Henry L. Corey, Lady Tweedsmuir, His Worship Dr. James Lyle Telford, Alderman Harry DeGraves, Lord Tweedsmuir, unknown, Miss Margaret Giles, Major J.S. Matthews

[Major J.S. Matthews and William Templeton with the model airplane that Mr. Frank H. Ellis built in 1911]

AM54-S4-: Port P1032.1
Item
July 22, 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Major J.S. Matthews and William Templeton with the model airplane that Mr. Frank H. Ellis built in 1911]

AM54-S4-: Port P1032.2
Item
July 22, 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Major J.S. Matthews escorts former Mayor L.D. Taylor to a Junior Board of Trade luncheon]

AM54-S4-: Port P851
Item
Apr. 5, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Major J.S. Matthews receives a standing ovation at a luncheon in his honour]

AM54-S4-: Port P1792
Item
Sept. 5, 1969

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Brock Webber and others

[Major J.S. Matthews signs a document to appoint responsibility for the Archives' holdings to a board of trustees]

AM54-S4-: Port P352.4
Item
Dec. 30, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Major J.S. Matthews speaking at the unveiling of the walking beam of the S.S. "Beaver" at Prospect Point]

AM54-S4-: Port P568.6
Item
July 26, 1941

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows R.E. Standfield, Mrs. J.N. Menzies, Mrs. Walter Winsby and others

[Major J.S. Matthews, City Archivist, with Mrs. Jean Gibbs and another woman at his desk in the City Archives, Burrard St.]

AM54-S4-: Port P1626.2
Item
27 Aug 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Major J.S. Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Port P1156.1
Item
1951

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Major J.S. Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Port P1713
Item
1927

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Major J.S. Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Port P1771.1
Item
1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Major J.S. Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Port P1771.2
Item
1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Major J.S. Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Port P1771.3
Item
1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Interior view of the City Archives, Burrard Street, showing Mrs. Jean Gibbs, Assistant City Archivist and another woman at work]

AM54-S4-: Port N926.1
Item
28 Aug 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior view of the main room of the City Archives, Burrard Street]

AM54-S4-: Port P1626.3
Item
27 Aug 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

[John Hosie and Sir Harry Lauder on board the "Princess Kathleen"]

AM54-S4-: Port P492
Item
1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

[John Hosie]

AM54-S4-: Port P85
Item
[ca. 1926]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Mrs. H.F. Stanley and Major J.S. Matthews ]

AM54-S4-: Port P1770.3
Item
June 3, 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother signs the guest book in the Mayor's office]

AM54-S4-: Port P1583.1
Item
Jan. 29, 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows His Worship Fred J. Hume and Major J.S. Matthews

The Archivist at Work

AM54-S4-: Port P567
Item
1941

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Major J.S. Matthews at his desk

[Ken Waites and Templeton High School's "Archivists Club"]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-801
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mr. and Mrs. John Post a box of jokes to Major J.S. Matthews in the Archives]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1783
Item
June 27, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Willard E. Ireland]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1653
Item
Oct. 28, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[City Archives at temporary City Hall in the Holden Building]

AM54-S4-: City N21
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows archival assistant Margaret Giles seated at the desk. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Air Marshall Heakes speaks at a presentation at Sir Charles Kingsford Smith School]

AM54-S4-: Port P1607.1
Item
June 24, 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Miss Florence Fyfe Smith, Mrs. Jean G. Gibbs, Principal Muir and Major J.S. Matthews

[A B.C. Electric Railway dinner meeting regarding the new buses]

AM54-S4-: Trans P119.7
Item
Apr. 23, 1947

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Howard Howard, Jack Loutet, A.E. Grauer, Jack Burchell, E.W. Arnott, M.E. Snowden, A.G. Perry, J. Alex Walker, Major J.S. Matthews and others