City of Vancouver Archives

[Looking southeast from Howe Street and Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P63.5
Item
1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

View showing the second Hotel Vancouver

[Looking west from Downtown towards Deadman's Island and Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P63.1
Item
1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Immigration Building

[Looking west from the McLean Building showing the 200 Block Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P20
Item
Dec. 16, 1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows The Dominion Building, Spencers Department Store, The Marine Building and other buildings

[Looking west on Hastings Street from Cambie Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P57
Item
Jan. 17, 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Dominion Bank building, the Bank of Hamilton building, the cenotaph and the Marine Building

Lumberman's Arch in Stanley Park

AM54-S4-: Arch P45
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Malahat Drive, V.I.

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-115
Item
[ca. 1916]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a gravel road with three men in an open car in the background on Vancouver Island

[Man building skid sleigh for Capilano Timber Company on future site of the British Properties]

AM54-S4-: Log P26.3
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mayor L.D. Taylor congratulates Percy Williams on the stage of the Vancouver Opera House]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-249
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men climbing the west Lion]

AM54-S4-: LP 206.1
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Motor Vehicle Testing Building - Henry Whittaker Provincial Architect - Carter, Halls, Aldiner Company Limited, Contractors - No. 1

AM54-S4-1-M-17-: M-17-35
Item
June 30, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the building site on the south side of the 1700 Block West Georgia and a house being demolished

Motor Vehicle Testing Building - Henry Whittaker Provincial Architect - Carter, Halls, Aldiner Company Limited, Contractors - No. 2

AM54-S4-1-M-17-: M-17-36
Item
July 30, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the building site on the south side of the 1700 Block West Georgia

Motor Vehicle Testing Building - Henry Whittaker Provincial Architect - Carter, Halls, Aldiner Company Limited, Contractors - No. 3

AM54-S4-1-M-17-: M-17-37
Item
July 30, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the building site on the south side of the 1700 Block West Georgia

Motor Vehicle Testing Building - Henry Whittaker Provincial Architect - Carter, Halls, Aldiner Company Limited, Contractors - No. 4

AM54-S4-1-M-17-: M-17-38
Item
Aug. 19, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the building site on the south side of the 1700 Block West Georgia

Motor Vehicle Testing Building - Henry Whittaker Provincial Architect - Carter, Halls, Aldiner Company Limited, Contractors - No. 5

AM54-S4-1-M-17-: M-17-39
Item
Aug. 19, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the building site on the south side of the 1700 Block West Georgia

Mountain View Cemetery - Masonic and family plot [at the burial of Hugh Boscawen Matthews]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3069
Item
Nov. 1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken photograph shows the Matthews family plot at Mountain View Cemetery and the burial of Hugh Matthews, the youngest son of Major Matthews, who died in an elevator accident in Vancouver, November 5, 1922.

[New City Hall prior to opening]

AM54-S4-: City P19.1
Item
Nov. 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Oblique view of the crescent, Hycroft and other houses in Shaughnessy Heights]

AM54-S4-: Bu P690
Item
1934

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Panoramic view of Vancouver Harbour from Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: LP 49
Item
1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Prominent buildings identified are Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia), the Georgia Medical Dental Building, Immigration Building, Marine Building, Royal Bank and Pier "BC". Ships identified are (L-R): "Catala", "Princess Louise", "Robert Merrick", "Empress of Japan", "Aorangi", C.P.R. transfer car barage, "Kyuqust" and Union Oil Co. Tanker.

[Partial exterior of the Dawson Building - Main and Hastings Streets}

AM54-S4-: Bu P296
Item
Sept. 1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Owl Drug Co. Ltd., Geo. Cole Doll Hospital, signs for Dr. Wessels, Dentist and a traffic light.

[Partial exterior of the Empire Building - 603 W. Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P295
Item
Sept. 1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the K. Boot Shop window, a sign for Dr. T. P. Grady, Dentist and a taxi stand.

[Pauline Johnson Memorial]

AM54-S4-: Mon P30
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pender Hall, southwest corner of Howe and Pender Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu N209
Item
[Oct. 1947]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[People at an observation point beside Marine Drive]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-826
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[R.M.S.S. "Aorangi"]

AM54-S4-: LP 204
Item
[between 1925 and 1937]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photo shows Brockton Point

[Schooner "Vancouver" being towed by the tugboat "Sea Monarch" through the First Narrows]

AM54-S4-: Bo P318
Item
1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Ship passing Prospect Point]

AM54-S4-: Bo P103
Item
[between 1927 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Siwash Rock]

AM54-S4-: St Pk P175
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Span of Second Narrows bridge falling into inlet]

AM54-S4-: Br P55.2
Item
Sept. 9, 1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Tugboat is the "Lorne" and hulk is the "Pacific Gatherer."

[Steam crane in Capilano Timber lumber yard]

AM54-S4-: Log P26.1
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sternwheeler "White Horse" ascending the Yukon River

AM54-S4-: Bo P327
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Surviving electors of the first civic election at a banquet in the Oval Room in the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: LP 160.1
Item
May 4, 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group portrait shows the urviving electors of the first civic election at a banquet in the Oval Room in the Hotel Vancouver. Shows Alderman Loat, George Upham, Alderman Thompson, W.H. Gallagher, Calvert Simson, Alderman Harvey, Edward Cook, Alderman Smith, J.W. McFarland, Walter E. Graveley, Mrs. J.S. Matthews, Mr. Langley, Allan K. Stuart, Alderman Miller, and Alderman Lembke.