City of Vancouver Archives

[A dragon float]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-104
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A girl in costume]

AM54-S4-: Port P561
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length portrait

[A man outside the Balmoral Hotel on the southwest corner of Cordova Street and Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P349.4
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Capt. and Mrs. Waard with son and crew who crossed Pacific Ocean on Chinese Junk "Amoy" in 87 days Shanghai to Victoria B.C.

AM54-S4-: Bo P134.4
Item
1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Captain and Mrs. Waard and son]

AM54-S4-: Bo P134.1
Item
[1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Captain Malcolm McLeod's family on the steps of 526 Homer Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-135
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

Carrall Street looking north

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1076
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows signs and businesses in the 500 Block including Hing Far Low restaurant (533), Hong Yee Chong and Company Contractors (529) and the Chinese Reform Gazette

Chinamen Washing for Gold near North Bend

AM54-S4-: Out P803
Item
1891

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Chinese ancestral worship ceremony on Fisgard Street, Victoria B.C.]

AM54-S4-: Str P351.1
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the Methodist Chinese Mission building at 16 Fisgard Street.

[Chinese Arch on C.P.R. dock at foot of Howe Street]

AM54-S4-: Arch P25
Item
Sept. 14, 1896

Part of Major Matthews collection

Arch erected in honour of Li Hung Chang. Photograph shows Dr. LeFevre's house on left and H.H. Abbott's house on right. Individuals identified in photograph: Li Hung Chang, H.H. Abbott, Mayor Collins and Chief Constable Ward.

[Chinese clowns on Hastings at homer Street to celebrate the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P44
Item
Sept. 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Medical Hall and Mcdowell, Alkin and Watson Druggists

Chinese Funeral [of Lo Ming] Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Str P232
Item
[between 1893 and 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the northeast corner of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) and Princess Avenue (Pender Street) and the C.F. Foreman Wholesale and Retail Grocer building

[Chinese Labour Battalion at William Head Quarantine Station en route to France]

AM54-S4-: Mil P194
Item
Mar. 28, 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Chinese Prayers to their Dead

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1914
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the burners at Mountain View Cemetery

Chinese Village opposite Keefers

AM54-S4-: Can N107
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Chinese Winter Quarters near North Bend, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P41
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Crew of the Annie Fraser

AM54-S4-: Port P238
Item
1878

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing (left to right) standing: Angus Fraser, Cum Yee, Alex Johnston; sitting: James Fraser and John Murray

[Dignitaries waiting at C.P.R. dock for arival of Imperial statesman Li Hung Chang]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1082
Item
[14 Sept. 1896]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, his wife with Capt. and Mrs. Waard on board Chinese Junk &qu...

Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford, his wife with Capt. and Mrs. Waard on board Chinese Junk "Amoy" which crossed Pacific Ocean; Shanghai to Victoria B.C. in 87 days.

AM54-S4-: Bo P134.3
Item
1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Engineers and labourers in the engine room of R.M.S. "Empress of Japan"]

AM54-S4-: LP 267.1
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of an unidentified rooming house]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-893
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Casper Phair's residence "Longford House"]

AM54-S4-: Out P739
Item
1896

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Mr. and Mrs. Phair, their sons A.W.A. "Arty" and Herbert, and, standing toward the back of the house is Chew, their Chinese servant.

[Exterior of George Gibson's store]

AM54-S4-: Out P708
Item
[between 1900 and 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: Mr. White, Mrs. Albert McColl (nee Hattie Gibson), Mrs. Patterson (nee Nellie Gibson), Don Patterson, Tom Wells, Vera McColl, Mrs. Gibson and Mr. George Gibson

[Exterior of Lim Gong fresh fruits and vegetable store at 157 - 2nd Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P670
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mr. Lim Gong

[Exterior of the Sam Kee Building - 8 West Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P255.7
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Yick Lung Jin, Merchant Tailors' Shop at 426 Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P3.1
Item
[1897 or 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Yick Lung Jin, Merchant Tailors' Shop at 426 Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P3.2
Item
[1897 or 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

King George High School Matric

AM54-S4-: Sch P152
Item
1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows left to right: (top row): Marguerite Sampson, Annie Henderson, Carol Helme, Hilda Binns, Marguerite Stinson, Virginia Eaton, Alice Bennett, Adeline Claman, Mildred Nellist, Margaret Andrews, Nancy Monks, Beth Tingley, Barbara Mandell, Agnes King; (second row): Lorna Brown, Dorothy Hillhouse, Elsie Davidson, Lillian McKenzie, Mr. T.H. Roberts, Edna Garner, Eleanor Nicholson, Sybil Bolt, Grace McNeillFlorence Williamson, Mr. A.B. Morrison, Freda MacArthur, Florence Henderson, Muriel Sinton, Gertrude Johnston; (third row): Gladys Brealey, Helen Selbie, Muriel Allen, Alix Binns, Helen Chambers, Mr. H.M. Robertson, Mr. J.R. Sandersdon, Mr. G.W. Clark, Mr. S.M. Moodie, Kathleen Clark, Minnie Lazarus, Evelyn Blain, Mollie Adam, Agnes Cressman; (fourth row): Elizabeth Dobbins, Dorothy Eyre, Winnie Green, Mary Cain, Mrs. E.B. Bell, Mr. D.B. Johnston, Mr. B.J. Wood, Mr. C.H.Cornum, Mary Higginbotham, Ruel Wonder, Maxine McSwayn, Ida Brealey; (fifth row): Fred Stone, Edwin Elliott, W. Murphy, Walter Patrick, John Williams, C. Pugsley, Maurice Freeman, King George High School, Ted Welsman, Jack Piters, James Case, G. Parker, Walter S. Owen, Wilfred Owen, Albert James; (sixth row): R.C. Robson, Allen Jones, James Sheasgreen, J.A. McMillan, F.H. Newitt, B. Williams, William Cornyn, L.W. Campbell, Dalton Allan, G.W. Ashworth, Willard O'Hara, C.B. Owen, John MacDonald, T. Tokunaga, (botton row): Chin Fat, Wong Poon, Harry Elliott, G. McPherson, Herbert D.King, Grant Wiswell, B. Wales, Bruse Macdonald, Jack Sills, H.B. Bonsall, J. Barton, Murray Rowan, M. Golley, Desmond Lawrence and A.H. Rutherford

Lim Gong, a painting

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1354
Item
Apr. 30, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph of a painting of Lim Gong. Written on the back is " Lim Gong. In 1910 he had a fruit and vegetable store at 157-2nd Street, North Vancouver. We have a photo of it, which is being copied 8x10. J.S.M."

Williams Bros. Photographers Ltd.

[Men reading Chinese notices and newspapers posted on bulletin boards on Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N157.1
Item
[1936?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Men reading Chinese notices and newspapers posted on bulletin boards on Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N157.2
Item
[1936?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Miss Koo-Yu-Ching dances to a Chinese orchestra]

AM54-S4-: Port P824
Item
May 11, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Orientals in B.C., report; Provincial Govt. 1927

AM54-S17-M6978
File
1931-1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Parade in Chinatown on Fisgard Street, Victoria B.C.]

AM54-S4-: Str P351.3
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Chinese Settlement House on the far right.

[Pedestrians near the southwest corner of Cordova Street and Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P349.2
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Quan Lim, Fred Weisman, Mrs. Fairclough and BrunoTenhusen]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2027
Item
Apr. 18, 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Stark family and cook assembled on porch of summer cottage at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1074.3
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in photograph include: Mr. and Mrs. James Stark, Jessie Stark (later Mrs. F.R. Begg), Walter Stark, William Stark, and an Asian servant. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Stark family and cook assembled on porch of summer cottage at English Bay]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1074.4
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include: Mr. and Mrs. James Stark, Jessie Stark (later Mrs. F.R. Begg), Walter Stark, William Stark, and an Asian servant. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.