City of Vancouver Archives

[A class of the steps of Central School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P65
Item
1891

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Miss Buttimer and her students

[A class on the steps of Central School]

AM54-S4-: Sch P64
Item
1891

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Miss Hartney and her students

Keefer's House [and family]

AM54-S4-: Can N101
Item
1885; reproduces 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Railway yards] immediately below Keefer's house

AM54-S4-: Can N105
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[James, Herbert and Hugh Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Dist N15.2
Item
[1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Abraham W. Watson album]

AM54-S4-1-A-18
File
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File is album of photographs of unidentified adults and children (family and friends of Abraham Watson?) and early scenes of Vancouver (including houses in the West End, the 1600 Block Robson Street, English Bay pier, Stanley Park and a dentist at work), Victoria, Banff and other locations. Nearly all of the photographs are unidentified.

[First] May Day [Queen of the May celebration] New Westminster, B.C.

AM54-S4-: VLP 41.2
Item
May 1870

Part of Major Matthews collection

Girl standing on fire engine is Helen McColl and man under Maypole with hands in pockets is Col. Scott

[Group portrait of staff and campers at Jubilee Children's Camp]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-431
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Children at Jubilee Children's Camp]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-425
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph. Writing on the back includes "Rainey's Rauch, Orlomah Beach"

Point Grey Municipality, View of Kerrisdale (Municipal Hall on Left) 1911.

AM54-S4-: PAN P51
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing Wilson Road (41st Ave), Blair and Perrin Real Estate Office, the Post Office and the B.C.E. Railway freight shed and passenger shelter.

[Child sitting on log in clearing]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1703
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Girl sitting in front of Kirkwood residence behind Chekwelp Reserve, Gibson's Landing]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1644
Item
[1910?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Teacher Dorothy Allison and students in classroom of Model School]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1586
Item
[1907?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Bathing. English Bay. Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 1015
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Child standing at edge of pond in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 164
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

"O! Come With Me in My Canoe"

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2896
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows First Nations women and children in a canoe on the Fraser River

P. Burns and Company Limited Annual Picnic Selma Park

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2996
Item
July 15, 1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

Employees P. Burns and Company Limited Annual Picnic Selma Park

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2997
Item
July 28, 1926

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

B.C. Electric Head Office Staff Picnic Seaside Park Aug. 11-23

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-3000
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Unidentified group of tennis players]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2670
Item
[188-?] ; reproduced [194-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[A man standing on a car demonstrating yoyo techniques for a Sun $100 YoYo Contest]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1922
Item
Mar. 28, 1933 ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Canadian Fairbanks-Morse Company's Picnic, Seaside Park

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1359
Item
Aug. 7, 1920

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Lavina Freeman, Sarah Peter, Mr. and Mrs. James Peter and others

[A group of campers in Lynn Valley]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1148
Item
[ca. 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showingMrs. Alan Stewart, Firth McNeill, Mrs. H.W. Maynard, Mrs. R.W. Perry, John Prentice and others

[W.J. Twiss' children]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1004
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A group of unidentified First Nations people]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-747
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Exterior of residence at 916 Cardero Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-741
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Frances, Lionel, May and Roderick MacKenzie]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-699
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Simon MacKenzie's children

Evacuee Children from British Isles, war 1939-1945

AM54-S17-M2933
File
1940-1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

File consists of newspaper clippings mentioning children evacuated from the British Isles during the second World War.

[Charles Bailey, son of photographer Charles S. Bailey, as a young child, wearing a straw hat]

AM54-S4-: SGN 125
Item
[1899?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[School girls, nuns, and church official gathered for Passion Play at St. Mary's Church, Mission]

AM54-S4-: LGN 579
Item
[1894?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Unidentified group on the steps of a house numbered 526]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1915
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Charles Bailey, son of photographer Charles S. Bailey, as a young child]

AM54-S4-: SGN 124
Item
[1899?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Charles Bailey, son of photographer Charles S. Bailey, as a young child, holding a toy pig]

AM54-S4-: SGN 126
Item
[1899?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[New Westminster's May Day event]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N160
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows May Queens, children dancing around May poles and spectators.

[View of a May Day Celebration at Queen's Park, New Westminster]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N159
Item
1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows children dancing around May poles and crowds watching the activities.

[Children in a classroom in the Crippled Children's Hospital - 250 West 59 Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu N526.4
Item
Aug. 15, 1934

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hydrotherapy pool room in the Crippled Children's Hospital - 250 West 59 Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu N526.3
Item
Aug. 15, 1934

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Physical therapy room in the Crippled Children's Hospital - 250 West 59 Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu N526.1
Item
Aug. 15, 1934

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group portrait in recreation room of the Crippled Children's Hospital - 250 West 59 Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu N526.2
Item
Aug. 15, 1934

Part of Major Matthews collection

Beatrice and Edward Morres

AM54-S4-1-: CVA 4-15
Item
[ca. 1880]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

[James, Herbert and Hugh Matthews in a canoe on the south shore of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: Dist N15.1
Item
[1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Major J.S. Matthews' three children in a small boat on False Creek, with the Leamy and Kyle Sawmill in the background. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Fire Ruins [of] Hanbury and Evans Bakery and adjoining buildings [in] Mt. Pleasent [Pleasant]

AM54-S4-: Dist P143
Item
1908

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows 2414 Westminster Avenue (Main Street)

[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.

[Children in yard of William Hamilton's residence southwest corner of Martha (St. Catherines) Street and 18th Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Dist P131
Item
[ca. 1897]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Children identified (left to right): Ella (Mrs. John Murchie) and William Lloyd Hamilton

[Abbott and Hodges families] taken at Hazel and Richard Abbott's home, 100 King George Terrace, Victoria, B.C. Aug. 28th 1964

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3054
Item
Aug. 28, 1964

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows group portrait of Abbott and Hodges families, taken at Hazel and Richard Abbott's home, 100 King George Terrace, Victoria, B.C., on August 28, 1964. From left to right, top row: Ashley May Abbott, Florence Vera Matthews, Evelyn Walser, unknown baby, Letitia Hodges. Second from top: Mary Abbott, Wendy Ann Abbott, Theresa Hodges. Third from top: Unknown girl, Dean Hodges, Cindy Hodges, Howard Hodges, Gilbert Hodges, Bruce Abbott. Bottom row: twins Bonnie Lee Hodges and Robin Ann Hodges.

[The children of Richard Smith and Mary Forbes]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2223
Item
[ca. 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group studio portrait showing Norman Benson, Andrew Milton, Annabella Florence (Mrs. Mellis), Osborne George, James Crossley, Frederick Richard, Edgerton Alfred, Gertrude Eleanor, Horace Wesley and Maud Mary Forbes