[Crowds greet the Montreal Alouettes as they arrive by Trans Canada Airlines]
- AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-956
- Item
- 1955
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Crowds greet the Montreal Alouettes as they arrive by Trans Canada Airlines]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Crowds line a street to see Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Prince Philip]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Dredging ditches on Lulu Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the dredge "Beaver" No. 2
Engine Control Panel - Test House - B.A.E.L and C.W.L. - Sea Island, B.C.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Engine test house - B.A.E.L. and C.W.L. on Sea Island built by Major General John Peter Mackenzie]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of Administration building at Sea Island Airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of Alexander Mitchell's residence on Mitchell Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Item is a photograph. Notes written on the back include: " Alexander Mitchell residence on Mitchell Island, Richmond, B.C., in the Greater Vancouver area. My grandfather, Alexander Mitchell, was born at North Wakefield, Que., in 1847 and went to B.C. in the 1870's, pioneering in lumbering and farming. This house, built in typical ottawa valley style, was my mother's girlhood home. It was built about 1885 and burned about 1925. Alexander Mitchell died on the Island in 1931. Wessie M. Lamb"
[Exterior of Boeing Plant building two Sea Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of Boeing Plant, building one, Sea Island
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows planes in various stages of assembly.
[Exterior of Kenneth Sweet's store on the water on Lulu Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Walter Vermilyea, Herbert Vermilyea, Grace Sweet, Kenneth Sweet, and Kate Smith
[Exterior of pumphouse at Boeing Aircraft plant, Sea Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of the Orison Davis Sweet residence on Lulu Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Group portrait shows Mr. and Mrs. Orison Davis Sweet, Ada Sweet, Mrs. J.A. Wood (nee Margaret Sweet) and Clinton Sweet
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Fire erupts in stacks of peat on Lulu Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[First Nations men wearing regalia at Western Canada Air Show]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Men identified (left to right): Joseph (Splahk-tum), the sons of Chief Jack Stogen, Chief Jack Stogen (Semilano), Chief Moses Joseph, Chief Jimmy Jimmy (Swahsh), Stanley Joseph
Frank Way, first Customs Officer, Sea Island Airport and Keith Rider, pilot
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows an experimental airplane named "Gilmore the Record Breaker" NR-14215
Part of Major Matthews collection
Fraser Ave. bridge over North Arm - Fraser River
Part of Major Matthews collection
Item is a photograph showing the gates of the draw bridge and bridge tender Thomas Dodson is standing far right.
[Fraser dairy farm - 225 Grauer Street, Lulu Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Front end of B.C. Airways Ltd. "Ford Transport" airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Gerald Ashthorpe on the airfield at Landsdowne Park on Lulu Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Grauer bull at Fraser Dairy, Sea Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Grauer bull at Fraser Dairy, Sea Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Grauer bull at Fraser Dairy, Sea Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Harvesting using an oxen drawn reaper]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Head and shoulders portrait of] Pat Howard, Chief Test Pilot for Boeing Aircraft of Canada
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Prince Philip at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows W.A.C. Bennett, Mayor and Mrs. Rathie, Lieutenant Governor Pearkes and others
[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Prince Philip at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Mayor and Mrs. Rathie and others
[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Prince Philip at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Prince Philip at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows W.A.C. Bennett, Mrs. Rathie, Lieutenant Governor Pearkes and others
[Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness Prince Philip in a car]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows The Honourable F.M. Ross, Mrs. and His Worship Fred Hume, Mr. and Mrs. John Stolberg, Mr. and Mrs. William Inglis, Lieutenant Colonel Ian Bell-Irving and others
[His Worship Fred J. Hume welcomes Captain T.T. Frolov and the crew of Russian jet "Tu. 104"]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees arrive at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees arrive at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees bed down in the Immigration Building at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees deplane at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees gather in the Immigration Building at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees have a meal in the Immigration Building at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees help themselves to food in the Immigration Building at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees in the Immigration Building at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Hungarian refugees in the Immigration Building at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Miklos, Andreas and Karoby Socher