City of Vancouver Archives

[A post office in a tent]

AM54-S4-: Out P698
Item
Nov. 23, 1906

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mr. McIntosh, postmaster on a raised wooden sidewalk

[Cedar shingle bolts being hauled on a skid road]

AM54-S4-: Out P701
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Clair Chamberlin and Frederick Soames

Mayor, Aldermen and Guests at Opening of Waterworks Seymour Creek

AM54-S4-: Out P707.1
Item
Oct. 14, 1908

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Mayor Bethume, T.F. McGuigan, W. Hepburn, J.W. Prescott, J.H. Calland, Colonel McSpadden, H.M. Burwell, Colonel F.W. Boultbee, Dr. Underhill, A.J. Pilkington, Sam Robb and others

[Future site of Seymour Creek Waterworks]

AM54-S4-: Out P707.2
Item
[ca. 1906]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Robert Service on the steps of his cabin]

AM54-S4-: Out P713
Item
1947

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing W.J. Twiss and others

[Damage to water pipes after the Seymour Creek washout]

AM54-S4-: Out P719.08
Item
Oct. 1921

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows F.L. Fellowes and others

Corner of B.C. Orchard [showing] A. Clemes, Spences Bridge

AM54-S4-: Out P740
Item
[189-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Captain and Mrs Henry Peterson]

AM54-S4-: Out P756.3
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length studio portrait

[Henry Ohlsen at work in his store near the boat landing on the San Josef River]

AM54-S4-: Out P756.8
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Dredge Used in the Reclamation of Pitt Meadows by the B.C. Draining and Dyking Company Designed, Patented and Built by J.W. and J.B. Pike

AM54-S4-: Out P781
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Mr. Olsen trying to free debris from the sand bags on Fairmont Road in Forest Hills]

AM54-S4-: Out P812.13
Item
Nov. 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Flood waters breach sandbags around a house]

AM54-S4-: Out P812.15
Item
Nov. 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Crossing Fraser River by Cable near Yale

AM54-S4-: Out P823
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group portrait in front of the Hudson's Bay Company store]

AM54-S4-: Out P836
Item
1883

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A part of H.J.F. McLeod's cottage]

AM54-S4-: Out P838
Item
1882

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mr. W.A. Dashwood-Jones at the gate

[People sitting on a log at Pratt's Beach]

AM54-S4-: Out P858
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Hector MacDonald, Frank Hicks, Cornelius Olsen, Albert and William Cook and their sisters

[Delivering a meat block to the butcher]

AM54-S4-: Out P859
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Arthur S. and Hector McColl and Wilbur Hicks

[A four-horse team dragging logs along a skid road]

AM54-S4-: Out P861
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Dan Grey, Jim Horne, John and Frank Hicks and others

[An ox and a horse hauling supplies to Mrs. Mary Henry's boarding house]

AM54-S4-: Out P866
Item
[ca. 1907]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an ox and horse harnessed together pulling a load along with Frank Henry riding the ox (left), George Remy "Rem" Henry (centre), and Wilbur Hick (right).

[A ten-horse team hauling logs]

AM54-S4-: Out P878
Item
1903 ; reproduced 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a skid road

[A gathering in front of the school]

AM54-S4-: Out P879
Item
[ca. 1923] ; reproduced 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Mountain goat hunters on Hope Mountain]

AM54-S4-: Out P882
Item
1898 ; reproduced 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pioneers in front of the Corrigan Hotel]

AM54-S4-: Out P883
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Tom Alvarez, James Wardle, James Corrigan, Mathew Finely, William Bradley, John Starret, James Lawrence, William Yates, Smith Curtiss, Edgar Dewdney, William Bristol, Roland Ryder, W.L. Flood and others

[Opening day of the Pacific Coast Terminals Company Limited]

AM54-S4-: Out P884.1
Item
Sept. 2, 1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing H. Roderick Morgan, C.E. Disher, J. Shaw, W. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. R.R. Chalcraft, Mr. and Mrs. J. Fyfe-Smith, Nels H. Rosberg, Mrs. J. Shaw, Mr. and Mrs. A. Wells Gray, Mr. and Mrs. Valentine Quinn, Lord and Lady Willingdon and others

Lady Willingdon at B.C. Chamber of Mines

AM54-S4-: Out P884.2
Item
1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a relief map

[Settler's picnic on Jonston Flats]

AM54-S4-: Out P889
Item
July 4, 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Alexander Farmer, R.W. Leeson, Captain Peterson and others

[Building a new wagon road at Quatsino]

AM54-S4-: Out P890
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Alex Farmer, Miss Evanson, Mr. Barnett, Mr. Gill, Mr. Browning and Mr. Nordstrom

[Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce employees]

AM54-S4-: Out P898
Item
1908

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Robert Service, J.H. Roaf, J. Alex Walker, M. Saunders, Mr. McKenzie and Mr. Day

[Stage coach at Mile 70 of the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Out P900
Item
Sept. 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing J. Alex Walker on top of the stage coach

Gold Mine

AM54-S4-: Out P904
Item
1868 ; reproduced 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men at the entrance

Gold Washing

AM54-S4-: Out P905
Item
1868 ; reproduced 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Washing Gold

AM54-S4-: Out P906
Item
1868 ; reproduced 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Boating Seymour Creek

AM54-S4-: Out P91
Item
May 24, 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows A.W. Ross, Dr. McGuigan, Mr. Jackson, W.E. Gravely and others and the Phibbs and Thompsons Milk Ranch House

The trail of '98 - Klondike [Gold] Rush

AM54-S4-: Out P93
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Cooking meat at a W.A. McIntosh's butchershop employees picnic]

AM54-S4-: Out P938
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of the Pioneer Hotel]

AM54-S4-: Out P95
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mr. Johnston beside his house "Van Anda"]

AM54-S4-: Out P999
Item
1899

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Agnes Rouse (Mrs. B. Mullem), Dorothy Rouse (Mrs. Robert Edwardson), Martha Rouse (Mrs. Martin Warnock) and Mary Higgins (Mrs. Alex Brown)

The Wm Lyall Shipyards Ltd. North Vancouver, B.C. April. 5-1918

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N157
Item
5 Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a group portrait of workers in front of five wooden steamships (including the "War Cariboo") under construction.

Exterior view of W.N. Bertram Marble Works, 4904 Fraser Street, showing tombstones and monuments

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N212-B-1
Item
July 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows three men and a street car.

[W.N. Bertram Marble Works at 4904 Fraser Street]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N212-B-2
Item
1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows tombstones and monuments

[W.N. Bertram Marble Works at 4904 Fraser Street]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N212-B-3
Item
1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows tombstones and monuments

[Group portrait of employees in front of Wallace Shipyards Ltd.]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N244
Item
10 May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Western Canada Shipyards Ltd. Vancouver. B.C. April, 30. 1918

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N248A
Item
30 Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows employees and four wooden cargo steamships under construction and identified as "War Tatla", "War Casco", "War Chilkat" and "War Tanoo".

Western Canada Shipyards Ltd. Vancouver B.C. Mar. 14/18

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N248B
Item
Mar. 14, 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing group portrait of employees and three ships under construction.

[An unidentified group in front of a wooden ship under construction at Western Canada Shipyards, False Creek]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N249A.1
Item
Apr. 30, 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a group portrait of workers ; rail cars, industrial buildings and the Royal George Hotel is shown in the background.

[Western Canada Shipyards, False Creek]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N249A.2
Item
Apr. 30, 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows four ships under construction and the G.N.R. Trestle and Granville bridges

[Y.M.C.A. banner held across Burrard Street in front of Wesley Methodist Church]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N254.1
Item
Dec. 9, 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

This group portrait is an example of a unique characteristic of the Cirkut format which made it possible for an individual to appear at both ends of the group photograph (see the same boy appearing at either end of the banner). Photograph shows a banner promoting Canadian Efficiency Test for Boys