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Major Matthews collection Vancouver (B.C.) Piers
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[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.

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

View of waterfront showing the C.P.R. yard, piers and ships; courthouse under construction; Granville Street from the 500 block and south; Holy Rosary Cathedral and the spire of St. Andrew's Church; the railway station and yard, Kelly Douglas and Co. Ltd. and David Spencer Ltd.; and Hastings Street, streetcars and the Dominion Bank building.

Vancouver Harbour 1923

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

[Panoramic view of Vancouver Harbour from Stanley Park]

Prominent buildings identified are Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia), the Georgia Medical Dental Building, Immigration Building, Marine Building, Royal Bank and Pier "BC". Ships identified are (L-R): "Catala", "Princess Louise", "Robert Merrick", "Empress of Japan", "Aorangi", C.P.R. transfer car barage, "Kyuqust" and Union Oil Co. Tanker.

Vancouver Harbour

Panoramic view showing Burrard Inlet including 42 ocean steamers in port of which 25 were for grain cargoes, 17 vessels at berth (not shown in photograph) and the Harbour Commissioners wharf and Grain Elevator No. 1 and log booms

[Terminal Dock]

Photograph shows a ship (decorated with flags) partially identified as the "__ Maru Tokio" and the Columbia grain elevator in the background

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