City of Vancouver Archives

Thorpe's truck [delivering to La Fonda Restaurant at 3731 West 4th Avenue]

AM1535-: CVA 99-3872
Item
Apr. 24, 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Exterior of Hamilton Hall (formerly First Baptist Church) at the corner of Dunsmuir Street and Hamilton Street]

AM54-S4-: Ch N29
Item
31 Jan. 1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Dr. Alfred Lane and Acting Mayor John Bennett]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4002
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph showing Lane and Bennett at the arrival of Princeton University Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources.

[Dr. Alfred C. Lane]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4003
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph of Alfred Church Lane, Past President of the Geological Society of America and part of the group visiting from the Princeton University Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources.

[A professor from Princeton University]

AM1535-: CVA 99-4004
Item
1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph showing Richard Montgomery Field, leader of the Princeton University Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources.

Professors from Princeton University

AM1535-: CVA 99-4001
Item
Aug. 11, 1931

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph showing a group portrait of the Princeton University Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources.

Untitled [409 of 991]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4114
Item
[Between 1970 and 1988]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing Joyce and Vanness Street. Malco Remodeling at 5103 Joyce Street is visible on the corner.

Untitled [410 of 991]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4115
Item
[Between 1970 and 1988]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a photograph showing Joyce and Vanness Street.

Untitled [411 of 991]

COV-S663-: CVA 800-4116
Item
[Between 1970 and 1988]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

item is a photograph showing Rupert and Vanness Street with Johnson's Grocery at 4866 Rupert Street visible.

[View from Thurlow and Melville Streets looking east]

AM54-S4-: Bu P508.100
Item
May 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Georgia Medical Dental Building and the Hotel Vancouver and a house behind trees

Portrait of Anna Grosvenor Purdie

AM490-: CVA 273-1
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Anna Purdie fonds

Item is a portrait of Anna Grosvenor Purdie, teacher at Kitsilano High School.

[One way traffic Seymour St. at Georgia Street, looking south]

COV-S505-2-: CVA 772-14
Item
Jul 21, 1952

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Exterior of the Hudson's Bay Co. store - corner of Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P414
Item
[between 1949 and 1952]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[East facing cityscape view of Kitsilano]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-386
Item
Mar. 1975

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph also shows the Granville Street Bridge and the Connaught (Cambie) Bridge.

[Troops on parade on Burrard Street at Melville Street]

AM54-S4-: Mil P64.3
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing spectators watching the parade. Also visible in the background are Wesley Church, Glencoe Lodge and the Ailsa Lodge.

East 15th Ave., facing west towards Knight St.

AM757-S2-F3-: CVA 798-6.19
Item
1989

Part of Vancouver Public Aquarium Association fonds

Photograph taken from corner of East 15th Avenue and Fleming Street, showing dip in land where China Creek once flowed. To the right is Clark Park.

East 15th Ave., facing west towards Knight St.

AM757-S2-F3-: CVA 798-6.20
Item
1989

Part of Vancouver Public Aquarium Association fonds

Photograph taken from corner of East 15th Avenue and Fleming Street, showing dip in land where China Creek once flowed. To the right is Clark Park.

Looking west on East 15th Ave. toward Knight St.

AM757-S2-F3-: CVA 798-5.11
Item
1989

Part of Vancouver Public Aquarium Association fonds

Photograph shows depression in 15th Avenue where China Creek once flowed. To the right is Clark Park. Additional descriptive information on back of print.

Looking west on East 15th Ave. toward Knight St.

AM757-S2-F3-: CVA 798-5.10
Item
1989

Part of Vancouver Public Aquarium Association fonds

Photograph shows depression in 15th Avenue where China Creek once flowed. To the right is Clark Park.

Vancouver on the move

AM1576-S6-2-: 2011-010.2702
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a videocassette containing a documentary about the city of Vancouver.

The main focus of the documentary as a whole is the social and cultural life in the city and the relationship between the people and their surroundings in 1986, the centenary year. The visual elements are a combination of historical photographs, hand drawn illustrations, historical moving image footage, and moving image footage shot by the filmmakers between 1985 and 1986. Music with a narrator speaking in the foreground accompanies the visuals.

The early history of Vancouver is told through stories about George Vancouver naming point Grey and Burrard channel and meeting First Nations people, John Deighton (“Gassy Jack”) opening his saloon, the first city council meeting, and the arrival of the first CPR train from Montreal and ship from Yokohama.

The discussion of modern life in Vancouver that makes up the bulk of the documentary is roughly divided into sections. The first section discusses modern commerce, including shipping, transportation, forestry, fishing, and tourism. The second section discusses cultural life, including the natural beauty of Stanley Park, street scenes in Chinatown, the expo grounds and the SkyTrain, street musicians, children playing at a water park, and a football game at BC Place.

The third section focuses on the immigrant experience and how a diversity of cultures enriches life in the city. This point is illustrated with scenes of new Canadians at a citizenship ceremony, Tai Chi in Queen Elizabeth Park and Chinese dragons in Chinatown, the Nitobe Memorial Garden and the Powell Street Festival, a Sikh wedding and street scenes of Main Street in South Vancouver. It also explores the dark side of the immigrant experience, discussing the 1907 anti-Asian riots, the forced removal and internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II, and the Komagata Maru incident. The section also addresses Indigenous resistance and cultural resilience.

The fourth section deals with Vancouverites' love of being outside, with footage of outdoor aerobics and other fitness activities, relaxing on the beach and ‘being seen’, outdoor cocktail parties and dining, a family picnic in the park, outdoor theatre, and sailing.

Okexnon Films Inc.

[Rows of confiscated vehicles at Hastings Park racetrack]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-86
Item
10 Mar 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Item is a photograph showing cars and trucks forcibly seized in conjunction with the dispossession and mass displacement of Japanese Canadians.

[Two confiscated vehicles at Hastings Park racetrack]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-87
Item
10 Mar 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Item is a photograph showing cars forcibly seized in conjunction with the dispossession and mass displacement of Japanese Canadians.

[Uchida Stationery Store, 347 Powell Street, boarded up]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-1534
Item
Dec 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Item is a photograph showing the former Uchida Stationery Store at 347 Powell Street following the forced removal and dispossession of Japanese Canadians. A 'for rent' sign and Wartime Prices and Trade Board license expiry notice are visible in the windows.

[Japanese Canadians on train waving goodbye to friends on platform in conjunction with forced removal]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-12
Item
25 Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Item is a photograph showing Japanese Canadians on train and platform at CPR station en route to a work camp near Japser.

[Japanese Canadian men shaking hands through train window]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-10
Item
25 Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Japanese Canadians on train saying goodbye to friends on platform in conjunction with forced removal]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-67
Item
[1942]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Japanese Canadians entering train while friends and family wave from train platform]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-14
Item
25 Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Japanese Canadian man and woman shaking hands through train window]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-11
Item
25 Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Japanese Canadian men shaking hands through train window]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-13
Item
25 Feb 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

1942 : Japanese Canadians ordered from coast to detention camps

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1897
Item
1942 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a slide showing a photograph of three Japanese Canadian men consulting a poster titled "To Male Enemy Aliens," in conjunction with the forced removal, dispossession and internment of Japanese Canadians.

1942 : Japanese [Canadian] children escorted to school by police

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1898
Item
1942 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a slide showing a photograph of Japanese Canadian children walking in the rain with a police officer, in conjunction with the forced removal, dispossession and internment of Japanese Canadians.

1942 : Japanese [Canadian] evacuation to camps [forced removal]

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1899
Item
1942 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a slide showing a photograph of Japanese Canadians on a train waving to others on a platform, in conjunction with the forced removal, dispossession and internment of Japanese Canadians.

[View of East Pender Street at night]

COV-S511---: CVA 780-475
Item
[between 1960-1980]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Photograph also shows the neon Ho-Ho Chop Suey Restaurant sign (102 East Pender Street)

[Exterior of the Nippon Club with a for rent sign posted on the window]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-1536
Item
Dec 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Item is a photograph showing the club at 362 Alexander Street following the dispossession and forced removal of Japanese Canadians.

[Children looking in the window of a store closed after the dispossession and forced removal of Japanese Canadians]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-1537
Item
Dec 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Certificate of Honour acknowledging a contribution to the Victory Loan campaign by a Japanese Canadian posted on a storefront window]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-1538
Item
Dec 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Item is a photograph showing a vacant store on Powell Street closed after the dispossession and forced removal of Japanese Canadians. Also posted on the window is a "V" for victory symbol and painted Japanese script.

[Caucasian man showing papers to a Japanese Canadian man]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-1358
Item
Sept. 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Caucasian man checking a Japanese Canadian man's papers]

AM1184-S3-: CVA 1184-1356
Item
Sept. 1942

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Sensational Vancouver by Eve Lazarus

FC 3847.25 L39 2014
2014

Part of City of Vancouver Archives library collection

Military funeral procession on a residential street in the West End

AM1535-: CVA 99-6634
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph showing a view of the procession and spectators along Burrard and Barclay Street.

Proposed industrial subdivision - Joyce and Vanness

COV-S648---: LEG1357.03
Item
Jun. 1, 1956

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

CS [Chinese Students' Athletic Association soccer team] vs. B.C. Telephone - [CS team member]

AM1108-S4---: CVA 689-77
Item
1925

Part of Yip family and Yip Sang Ltd. fonds

Photograph shows Quene Yip, member of the Chinese Students' Athletic Association soccer team, standing in front of a building.

Vancouver Canada

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Colour illustrated tourist map with border depictions of historical Vancouver events and landmarks.

Staff Christmas party : Trader Vic's

AM1563-F11
File
[Dec.] 1969

Part of Joe Quan fonds

File consists of photographs of a staff Christmas party at the Bayshore's Trader Vic's restaurant. Includes group shots taken at various tables, and photographs of guests with Santa Claus. There appears to be some duplication between the negatives and the photographs.

Morton home, 1151 Denman Street

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-511
Item
[ca. 1907]; reproduced [197-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows exterior of house,1947 Pendrell Street, with people standing on front porch.

Frank Wong and Paul Yee

AM1523-S6-F20
File
[ca. 1985]

Part of Paul Yee fonds

File consists of photographs of Frank Wong, former member of Chinese Soccer Team, at Cathay Seniors Home, Paul Yee with students at Hastings Elementary School in Vancouver, two self-portraits of Yee and other images.