City of Vancouver Archives

[Wreck of William Clarke Gibson's barge]

AM54-S4-: Bo P525
Item
Sept. 1960

With "creeper" construction completed the first steel of South Shore towers was erected on February 2, 1938. View from Prospect Point.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-35
Item
Jan. 28, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Western Canada Shipyards Ltd. July 31st 1917 [False Creek]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N247B
Item
31 July 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the first keels being laid for six wooden cargo steamers and the G.N. Trestle bridge in the background.

[West Coast Shipbuilders Limited site under construction]

AM54-S4-1-M-7-: M-7-3
Item
June 10, 1941

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the north shore of False Creek and the Hotel Vancouver, the Vancouver Block and the Sun Tower in the background

[View of Vancouver from the harbour]

AM54-S4-: Wat P23
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the second Hotel Vancouver under construction

[View of the remaining concrete piers from the Vancouver, Westminster and Yukon (VW&Y) trestle bridge over False Creek]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2086
Item
1961

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Downtown in the background

[View of Terminal Dock showing ships, railroad cars and dredging beside the partially complete dock extension]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N206B
Item
Oct. 31, 1927

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing two barges with Canada Public Works rock cutter and breaker structures. One ship is identified as the "Achilles" and the dredge ship as the "Mastadon".

[View of Terminal Dock showing ships, barges and railway cars]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N210
Item
17 Feb. 1934

Part of Major Matthews collection

One ship is identified as the "Mikawa Maru". The barges belong to the Empire Stevedoring Co.

[View of Straits Lumber Co. sawmill, Red Gap, B.C. showing docks and barges]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N200
Item
9 May 1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Kirkpatrick shingle mill showing some structures in the former Hastings townsite and the North Shore]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N150
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of King and Jardine Sawmill at First and Ontario, False Creek]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N149B
Item
[ca. 1924]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows dicks, barges and logbooms.

[View of Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P60
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Hastings Mill Store and other buildings

[View of False Creek showing Granville Island and the Fairview waterfront]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N88
Item
23 July 1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of B.C. Transfer Co. Ltd. horse drawn wagons and men gathered at Carrall Street on False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LP 137
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows barges under construction and the B.C. Cement Co. plant in the background. Men identified: Joseph McDonald, Henry R. McDonald and Mr. W.W. Burrough

View Looking South

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-38
Item
Aug. 13, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph

[View from Vancouver Rowing Club at the foot of Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-: PAN P96
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing a regatta, rowing races and a barge for spectators

Vancouver Harbour 1923

AM54-S4-: PAN P59
Item
1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view from Pender Street showing the C.P.R. car barge dock, the Immigration Building and Pier A and the squatter's shacks on Deadman's Island

[Transfer of crate containing one half generator stator from a Blue Funnel liner to a flatbed car on a C.P.R. transfer barge in Vancouver harbour]

AM54-S4-: LGN 863
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Transfer of crate containing one half generator stator from a Blue Funnel liner to a flatbed car on a C.P.R. transfer barge in Vancouver harbour]

AM54-S4-: LGN 864
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The tugboat "Point Hope" beside H.M.C.S. "Skeena" at C.P.R. Pier B-C]

AM54-S4-: Bo N274.3
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Robertson and Hackett Sawmill in False Creek]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P26
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The "Hakvra" at dock]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2121
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[S.S. "Losmar" after knocking down a span of the Second Narrows Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Br P9.5
Item
Apr. 1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Sealing schooners at anchor in harbour]

AM54-S4-: Out P787.2
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Scow load of granite blocks for facings of the two piers. The stone and cement piers measure twenty feet in height.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-31
Item
Dec. 8, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Salmon fishing boats being towed out from English Bay Cannery to fish in English Bay]

AM54-S4-: Bo P25.2
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[R.C.M.P "St. Roch" being repaired at Haddon Park]

AM54-S4-: Bo P574
Item
[ca. 1958]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Point Grey Partnership Pipe project - False Creek Section]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-285
Item
June 21, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the pipeline approaching the water on the south side of False Creek

[Point Grey Partnership Pipe project - False Creek Section]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-274
Item
May 9, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph looking north across False Creek from east railing of Connaught (Cambie) Bridge showing a portion of the bridge guard pier that was removed to make way for the pipe, the Musicmaster Phonograph Company, the Canadian Fairbanks Morse Company and other buildings and the World Tower in the background

[Point Grey Partnership Pipe project - False Creek Section]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-276
Item
May 16, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph looking south from Pacific Box Company's bulkhead (foot of Smithe Street) showing a clam-shell dredging a pipe channel and the trestles for the Connaught (Cambie) Bridge

[Point Grey Partnership Pipe project - False Creek Section]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-277
Item
May 16, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the pipeline approaching the water on the south side of False Creek

[Point Grey Partnership Pipe project - False Creek Section]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-281
Item
May 26, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph looking south across False Creeek showing a donkey engine on a barge

[Point Grey Partnership Pipe project - False Creek Section]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-280
Item
May 26, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph looking north across False Creeek showing a dredge preparing a ditch for the watermain and a portion of the bridge guard pier that was removed to make way for the pipe

[Point Grey Partnership Pipe project - False Creek Section]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-279
Item
May 26, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph looking north across False Creeek showing a North Western Dredging Company dredge on the east side of the Connaught (Cambie) Bridge