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A birds-eye view of the eastern business section of Vancouver, B.C.

Photograph is a sectional panorama photograph consisting of 3 photographs joined together to form a panoarma. The left section shows a sailing ship at Hastings Sawmill, Malkins Wholesale Grocers, the Hotel Europe, Woodwards and other buildings. The center section shows Hastings Street at Abbott Street, Woodwards, the Holden Building, streetcars and pedestrians. The right section shows Pender Street, C.P.R. freight sheds and train and commercial buildings.

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

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.

[Aerial view of Burrard Inlet, Vancouver waterfront and North Vancouver waterfront]

Photograph shows L-R: Evans Coleman & Evans Warehouses, North Vancouver Ferry Wharf, Canadian National Steamships Pier, Canadian Fish Co., Ballantyne Pier, Great Northern Railway Pier and shed, Balfour Guthrie Freight shed, Pacific Mills Ltd., B.C. Sugar Refinery Co., Hastings Shingle Mills, LaPointe Pier B-C, Marine Engineering & Ship Builders Ltd., Terminal Dock & Warehouse and Burrard View Park.

[Buildings west of the Marine Building]

Photograph shows buildings near railway tracks behind the Marine Building, including the Quadra Club, a bunkhouse from Spratt's Oilery, and the Blue Ribbon Tea and Coffee building. Photograph also shows trees and bushes in a vacant lot, and an entrance to a C.P.R. tunnel. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

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