Vancouver : the world's distributing base for Western Canada
- AM1519-: PAM Und. 371
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- [between 1920 and 1936]
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Vancouver : the world's distributing base for Western Canada
Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a map adhered inside a leather presentation case made for Lord Tweedsmuir by the Vancouver Harbour Commissioners. The item was presented to Lord Tweedsmuir during a visit to Vancouver in 1936. Accompanying the map there is a booklet by the Vancouver Harbour Commissioners entitled "Interesting Facts about the Port of Vancouver" and a note to Henry "Budge" Bell-Irving from John Tweedsmuir. The map shows English Bay and Burrard Inlet with soundings in feet. Map shows district lots and street names from Lighthouse Park and the University of British Columbia to the border of the Municipality of Coquitlam. Includes inset maps of North Arm Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Island.
Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia, 1932
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a nautical chart showing English Bay and Burrard Inlet with soundings in feet, anchorages, locations of submarine cables, and ferry lines. Land features include city blocks and district lot numbers. Includes inset maps of the North Arm of Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Island.
The Port of Vancouver, British Columbia : Canada's gateway of the Pacific
Pamphlet includes port statistics, photographs, and a map.
By-laws of the Corporation of the Harbour Commissioners of Vancouver, B.C.
Port of Vancouver news : July 1928
Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a nautical chart of Burrard Inlet, including the southern portions of the North Arm of Burrard Inlet. The map shows depth soundings, harbour anchorages, headlines, beacons, buoys, bells, piers and wharves. The map also shows lot numbers, municipal boundaries and major street names of the southern portion of North Vancouver and the northern portions of Point Grey, Kitsilano, Mt. Pleasant, Fairview, Hastings Townsite, Burnaby and Port Moody from the Coquitlam municipal boundary in the east to the western boundary of the Vancouver harbour (between Point Atkinson and Point Grey) in the west. The item also includes a key map showing the location of the Vancouver Harbour in relation to northwestern Washington and Vancouver Island and an inset map showing lots surrounding the north arm of Burrard Inlet to the Inlailawatash Indian Reserve.
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item contains both nautical chart and map data. Nautical chart data includes soundings, anchorages, ferry lines, wharves, and waterfront businesses. Map features include district lots, streets, railways, and municipal boundaries.
Vancouver Harbour Northshore Terminal [Railway]
Part of Samuel S. Magoffin fonds
Item is an amateur film showing the work of the S.S. Magoffin & Co. Limited Railway Contractors company during construction of the North Shore Terminal Railway in North Vancouver. Activities documented include the blasting and clearing of soil and rock with steam shovels, railway cars transporting and dumping soil over a trestle and men sawing railway ties. Includes many scenes of workers and other individuals, possibly including Vancouver Harbour Commissioners, footage of land owned by the B.C. Mills Timber and Trading Company Limited.
The Port of Vancouver annual report 1926
Comparative wheat prices via western and eastern routes
Plan showing suggested development fronting D.L. [District Lot] 274, North Vancouver
Item is a map showing contours above and soundings below the low water mark along a portion of the North Vancouver shoreline. Map has been annotated with what appears to be the outline of a possible development on the waterfront.
What every grain grower should know
Comparative freight rates on wheat via western and eastern routes
Port of Vancouver, British Columbia
By-laws of the Corporation of the Harbour Commissioners of Vancouver, B.C.
Second Narrows Dam : general plan
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
First map shows the "proposed V.H.C. terminal railway" route along the southern shore of False Creek, along the southern shore of Burrard Inlet, across Second Narrows and along the northern shore of Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver. The second map shows details of the proposed dam and locks at Second Narrows. The additional sheet outlines the estimated costs of the proposed dam and locks at Second Narrows.
Cross sections of channel and proposed dam, Second Narrows Dam
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Map contains two depictions: cross section showing proposed dam and locks and cross section of the dam. Sheet 2 of 3.
Drawing of locks, Second Narrows Dam
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Map contains two depictions: a plan of the dam and a cross section. Sheet 3 of 3.