City of Vancouver Archives

Our First Fifty Years 1886 - 1936 Vancouver, Canada. View Looking North From Nelson Street

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3177
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1936

Prominent buildings in photograph are: Manhattan Apartments (784 Thurlow Street), Marine Building (355 Burrard Street), Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia Street), Provincial Court House (750 Hornby Street); Second Hotel Vancouver (Granville Street), Vancouver Block (736 Granville Street), First Baptist Church (969 Burrard Street) and St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church (1012 Nelson Street).

[Wesley Choir's last stand - flashlight taken Sunday evening, August 31, 1930, following the singing of "Handel's Hallelujah" - henceforth Wesley and St. Andrew's are one]

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3187
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Aug. 31, 1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the choir of the Wesley Methodist Church posed in front of the church organ before the church's amalgamation with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church to form St. Andrew's Wesley United Church.