City of Vancouver Archives

[Construction of headquarters for B.C. Electric Railway Company conductors and motormen, located at Main and Prior Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 948
Item
7 Aug. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Covered wagons being driven through Boston Bar]

AM54-S4-: Out P926
Item
[between 1866 and 1870] ; reproduced 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Dancing pavilion at Lake Washington, Seattle]

AM54-S4-: SGN 823
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Decorated Red Cross Brewery carts in the 400 block Cordova Street - north side]

AM54-S4-: Bu P128
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of the Horse Show Building - southwest corner of Georgia and Gilford Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P554
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of the Lacey R. Johnson residence - 455 Seymour St.]

AM54-S4-: Bu P119
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified: Mr. L.R. Johnson and son on porch and Miss Johnson (Mrs. Walter F. Evans) in window. The Durham Block is to the left.

[Exterior of the second Electric Power House on Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P108
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Lotus Hotel in the background.

[F.X. Martin's groceries and provisions, A.E. Beck Law Office and a building society in the Unit Block Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P77
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Fleet of battery operated trucks used by B.C. Electric Arc Lamp Department (street light employees)]

AM54-S4-: LGN 931
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows arc lamp trimmers with trucks outside B.C. Electric Railway Company's head office on Carrall Street.

Town of Lytton From Railway Looking North

AM54-S4-: Out P742
Item
[between 1885 and 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver Boys Club Association - Camp Potlatch

AM54-S4-: Out P602.2
Item
[ca. 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver, B.C. from Hotel Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P17
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking east from Georgia Street towards the 600 Block Seymour Street

View from YMCA building Montreal, showing general offices C.P.R. and station

AM54-S4-: SGN 280
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Yale, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P706
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Yale, B.C. from South

AM54-S4-: SGN 230
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows river, buildings, and hills. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Ypres in 1915. Locality 158

AM54-S4-: Gr War P43
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a line of troops and a clock tower surrounded by scaffolding

[Panoramic view of downtown, Vancouver from Granville and Hastings Streets]

AM54-S4-: PAN P92.2
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is almost a 360 degree view. Buildings and some landmarks are identified in ink on print. This is a cropped version of PAN P92.1.

Written on the back of the print in what appears to be Major J.S. Matthews writing:
"Building permits issued.
Court House, superstructure, 7 Dec 1907 (addition, 30/3/1912)
excavation, 8 Mar 1907
Dominion Trust 21 Apr 1908
Carter-Cotton Bldg (Province Bldg) 5 Oct 1908 (addition Pender St 14/11/10)

Street cars and vehicles:- left hand rule of the road until 1921.

Have not investigated but this looks July or August 1908 or perhaps July-Aug 1909"

[Third Avenue looking north showing new buildings and businesses]

AM54-S4-: Out P630.1
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows raised wooden sidewalks

[McKinnon Block under construction on the southwest corner Hastings Street and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P153
Item
[ca. 1897]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men sitting outside shallow building at Pender and Carrall Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu N158.2
Item
[1936]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men assembled outside Y. Kee tailoring and laundry business, located in building which is six feet deep. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Site of Seaforth Armoury on Kitsilano Indian Reserve]

AM54-S4-: Park N10.6
Item
[1935]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows location of armoury and houses, schools and buildings along Cornwall Street and Cypress Street. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Spences Bridge (Cook's Ferry)]

AM54-S4-: Out P726
Item
[ca. 1880]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Street in Chilliwack, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 918
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Edward VII Memorial Service May 20th/10 North-Van. B.C. [outside Horticultural Hall on Lonsdale Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu P392
Item
May 20, 1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man addressing crowd identified as Reeve McNaught.

Electric Railway Department. Car barn for British Columbia Electric Railway

AM54-S4-: LGN 1246.3
Item
[Sept. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of architectural drawings of two buildings, surrounded by accompanying text.

Floods 1894 Mission City B.C.

AM54-S4-: LP 248
Item
June 6, 1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

General view of Montreal from Mt. Royal

AM54-S4-: SGN 278
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Government buildings, Victoria, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 87
Item
24 May 1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Indian Village - Yale, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P1060
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Indian Village Kamloops B.C.

AM54-S4-: In P177
Item
[between 1910 and 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of St. Paul Mountain

Rat Portage from Tunnel Island, Ontario

AM54-S4-: LGN 767
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sour Dough Alley Looking East

AM54-S4-: Out P1188
Item
1895

Part of Major Matthews collection

B.C. Electric [Hydro Building - 970 Burrard Street under construction]

AM54-S4-: Bu P522
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Hotel Vancouver

Bastion and Harbour Nanaimo, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P450.2
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a photo and art studio building

Boothroyd's - 36 miles above Yale

AM54-S4-: Out P163
Item
[ca. 1870]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows chuck wagons at a road house

Brandon, Man.

AM54-S4-: SGN 208
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows buildings and railway lines.

Comox, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P1019
Item
1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Crematorium, Mountain View Cemetery

AM54-S4-: Bu N519.4
Item
[ca. 1937]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Cross section [of Mount Pleasant car barn]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1246.1
Item
[Sept. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of an architectural drawing.

Negative of four images about the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall

AM54-S4-: LGN 721
Item
[1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives. Images show: Crowds at C.P.R. station waiting for arrival of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York; View of West End buildings, Coal Harbour and Stanley Park, looking northwest from the Hotel Vancouver; Hastings Street decorated for visit of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall; the Chinese Arch on Hastings Street, one of the arches created for their visit.

[View of the West End looking south taken from the B.C. Hydro building]

AM54-S4-: Sch N128
Item
[ca. 1972]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Sir William Dawson School, St. Paul's Hospital, buildings along Burrard, Hornby and Granville, and the Burrard and Granville Street bridges

[View of Vancouver from Ninth Avenue (Broadway), between Ash and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 444
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives state, "Ninth avenue between Ash and Bridge Sts. before 1899 showing CPR Stores Building, Vancouver Opera House, Congregational Church, Leamy & Kyle Sawmill (closed before 1899). Ash Street on left. Ninth Avenue road tip lower left corner. House in centre on eighth avenue."

[View of Vancouver waterfront from Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1022
Item
[30 May 1924]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative shows, side by side, two photograph prints of ships and buildings at waterfront. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View of Victoria from across James Bay]

AM54-S4-: Out P1082
Item
[187-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of West End buildings, Burrard Inlet, part of Stanley Park, and North Shore mountains from roof of Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: LGN 700
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[View of West End buildings, Coal Harbour, Stanley Park and North Shore mountains, looking northwest from Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: LGN 701
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Vancouver waterfront] before the fire [of 1886]

AM54-S4-: LGN 450
Item
[1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows buildings and ships of waterfront, including Hastings Sawmill, the S.S. "Beaver", the Hastings Mill Store and wharf, and other buildings. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

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

AM54-S4-: LGN 973
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints, showing: head office building on Carrall Street; woman sketching next to Fraser Valley interurban line near Sumas Lake; view of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one from Indian Arm; view of partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two from Indian Arm; parade for Duke of Connaught passing B.C. Electric head office; and military inspection by the Duke of Connaught in front of Vancouver Courthouse. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the six images.

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

AM54-S4-: LGN 1158
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints, showing: the head office building on Carrall Street; a woman sketching beside interurban railway tracks near Sumas Lake; the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one; the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two; a parade for the Duke of Connaught passing by the B.C. Electric head office; and an assembly for the Duke of Connaught in front of the Courthouse. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the six images.

[View along Georgia Street, looking east from Hornby Street, showing Court House, Hotel Vancouver, and Birks building]

AM54-S4-: Bu N141.1
Item
[May 1927]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

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