City of Vancouver Archives

Indians in procession at St. Mary's, Mission

AM54-S4-: LGN 589
Item
[1894?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Indian salmon temple (shrine)]

AM54-S4-: In P59.1
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Women] preparing skins

AM54-S4-: In P138
Item
[between 1890 and 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows two women scraping a moose hide in a frame. Caption found on the front of image: "Squaws preparing skins."

[The Salvation Army Band marches on Second Avenue near Moncton Street]

AM54-S4-: Out P682
Item
[between 1898 and 1900] ; reproduced 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows S. Petersky and Company's Vancouver General Store and the Misfit Clothing House

Employees Hastings Sawmill, Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Mi P4
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a group of mill workers. Persons in the front row identified are Yasukichi Yoshizawa (second from left), Rusty Pleece (third from left), and Tom Hunter (fifth from left).

[Congregation of Evangelistic Tabernacle - Hastings and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P175.1
Item
May 12, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

H.B. Smith's temporary quarters, 12 miles above Keefers

AM54-S4-: Can N104
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A Skull Showing] Indian Surgery [found in] Marpole, B.C.

AM54-S4-: In P175
Item
[ca. 1925]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Major Matthews' original caption reads: "Indian surgery, Marpole, B.C. Trepanning at least 1000 years ago."

[Bishop Durieu, Father Le Jeune, and the Very Rev. J.M. Fayard with a large group of Native Indians outside the Roman Catholic Church at North Bend, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: SGN 341
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[First Nations lodge on a beach]

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-157
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A.W.A. Phair album]

AM54-S4-1-A-17
File
[between 1890 and 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File is album of photographs of Lytton, Lillooet (including street views, St. Mary's Church, Indian Church, Pimer Hotel and a stagecoach), Cayoosh Creek, Duffy Lake, Vancouver (including the Court House and a Japanese Arch on Hasting Street) and other locations in British Columbia. People identified: Frank Gott, Pete Rebagliati, Cottrell Hope and McGillivray's place

[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.

[Unidentified people standing at the prow of a ship]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-93
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[First nations group photograph at Gibsons]

AM54-S4-: LP 192.1
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[First Nations men in canoe on the Skeena River]

AM54-S4-: VLP 96.1
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Waterfront view of Alert Bay, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: VLP 78
Item
May 1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hug-Gil-Get Bridge]

AM54-S4-: VLP 91
Item
[1895?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a First Nations Bridge, also known as Hag-Wil-Git located over the Bulkley River near Hazelton

Early Indian Scenes and Portraits, Vancouver Island (North)

AM54-S4-1-A-15
File
[1894?] - [1939?], reproduced [ca. 1941]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File is album containing photographs of West Coast First Nations people, works of art and buildings (interior and exterior views). The photographs in the album were originally taken by B.W. Leeson between 1894 and 1939 while he was living in Quatsino Sound, where he worked as a customs official. The album includes detailed captions written by Leeson.