City of Vancouver Archives

Center Line, South Shore

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-3
Item
July 10, 1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the bridge site

[Charred remains after the fire]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2033
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Charred remains of a crockery store after the fire]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2034
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Children prepare to dance around a 'may pole' for H.R.H. Queen Elizabeth and H.R.H. The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh]

AM54-S4-: Q E P17.11
Item
July 15, 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coffer-Dam Pier No. 2

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-44
Item
Sept. 28, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph

Columbia Street - Great Westmister Fire, Sept 11th, 1898

AM54-S4-: Out P548
Item
Sept. 11, 1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the ruins of buildings

Columbia Street After the Fire, New Westminster

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2863
Item
Sept. 11, 1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Columbia Street after the Great Fire]

AM54-S4-: Out P339
Item
Sept. 1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Columbia Street [after the] Great Westminster Fire

AM54-S4-: Out P1041.2
Item
Sept. 11, 1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Columbia Street. All that was left of business blocks [after fire of September 10, 1898]

AM54-S4-: Out P1029
Item
[Sept. 1898] ; reproduced 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows people walking along Columbia Street, viewing damaged buildings. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Columbia [Street] and 4th [Street] east side incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-21
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a billboard advertising Swift's Premium Hams and Bacon

Columbia Street Great Westminster Fire

AM54-S4-: Out P364
Item
Sept. 11, 1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Columbia Street Great Westminster Fire

AM54-S4-: Out P365
Item
Sept. 11, 1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Columbia Street in 1888 New Westminster

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2873
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Columbia Street, New Westminster, decorated with banners and flags for visit of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

AM54-S4-: SGN 824
Item
[Sept. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Commercial businesses in sheds among destroyed buildings after fire of September 10, 1898]

AM54-S4-: Out P1043
Item
Sept. 1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows sheds built near destroyed buildings. Businesses in sheds include: P.D. Grey's Barber Shop, J.G. Gamous Cigar Store, and M.L.D. Beck clothing store. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Completing Masonry Pier No. 3

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-45
Item
Oct. 12, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the tugboat "Dorothy"

Completing Substructure

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-46
Item
Oct. 24, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the last block of masonry being put into place under the watchful eye of some well-dressed ladies, W.H. Armstrong, Robert Balfour and others

[Construction of a spread span]

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-67
Item
[1903?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph

[Construction of the bridge superstructure]

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-49
Item
[1903?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph

[Construction of the bridge superstructure]

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-50
Item
[1903?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph

[Consulting Engineers and Contractors for Substructure of the Fraser River Bridge]

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-2
Item
[between 1902 and 1904]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows head and shoulders portraits of H.K. Seltzer, J.A.L. Waddell, I.G. Hendrick, C.P. Moss, W.H. Armstrong, Alex Morrison and Robert Balfour; and two small views of the Fraser River and the completed bridge