City of Vancouver Archives

[Studio portrait of John Morton, Ruth Morton, and Joseph Morton]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-515
Item
[ca. 1884]; reproduced [197-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Sprat[t]'s Fishery Coal Harbour

AM54-S4-: Bu P42
Item
1884

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of the first St. James Church near the foot of Main Street]

AM54-S4-: Ch P14
Item
1884

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Russell A. Leonard (without hat) and an unidentified man]

AM54-S4-: Port P1467
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

False Creek Looking into English Bay

AM54-S4-: Dist P38
Item
1885

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Nye family]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-332
Item
1885

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing left to right (back row): William Nye, Joseph Nye, Gertrude Nye, Arthur Dalton and Alice Nye; (front row): Kate Nye, Mrs. W. Nye (nee Mary Silverthorne) and Mr. W. Nye

Inlet Looking East

AM54-S4-: Ch P15
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the first St. James Church on Hastings Road (Alexander Street)

[Exterior of the Sunny Side Hotel - 1 Water Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P371
Item
[between June 12 and 25, 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man fourth from right identified as William McGirr. Building at left contained Van Volkenberg Market and A.R. Coughtery's butcher shop. Photograph shows street refuse.

[View from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-181
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows buildings, streets, and waterfront area.

Hastings Mill wharf and sailing ships from Dunlevy and Railway Streets

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1837
Item
1885 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Granville [Street]

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1838
Item
1885 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Cedar Mills, Cedar Cove, Vancouver, B.C. South side of Burrard Inlet, New Westminster District

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-820
Item
1885

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows buildings, cleared area, and surrounding wooded area.

[View of Brockton Point from the foot of Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-: Wat P38
Item
1885

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of the Chapel of St. James' Church at Oppenheimer Street and Gore Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Ch P104
Item
[ca. 1885]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of Smith and Freeland Hardware and General Grocery Store]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-880
Item
[between 1885 and 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mr. Smith, Mr. Sikes, Mr. Freeland and Mr. McCady

[Corporal J.Z. Hall, B.C.B.G.A.]

AM54-S4-: Port P12
Item
[ca. 1885] ; reproduced [194-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length portrait

[Tugboat "Arrow"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P339
Item
June 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Police officers assembled in front of tent]

AM54-S4-: LGN 457
Item
[Sept. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Police Chief John Stewart, Assistant Chief McLaren, and constables Heywood and Jackson T. Abray standing in front of a tent labelled "City Hall".
Although this photograph was originally dated June 1886 (shortly after the fire), information from a newspaper article, and from a dated billboard found in the background of the photograph, shows that the portrait was likely staged in early September of 1886. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Cordova St[reet looking west from Carrall Street] : July 1886 - five weeks after the fire.

AM54-S4-: Str P7.1
Item
July 1886 ; reproduced 1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows businesses being rebuilt after the great fire. Some businesses in the photograph are: Burrard Hotel, Tom Dunn Hardware, Grant & Arkell, Dietz (sp?) Winch, Daily News (on Hastings Street), Sekl's Furniture Store, Dougall House, Tom McDonald (on Pender Street), Mathison the Printer (on Hastings Street), Cosmopolitan Hotel, Mizony's Restaurant, F.W. Hart Furniture, Tilley's (sp?) Book Store and the Telephone Exchange.

[Vancouver waterfront] before the fire [of 1886]

AM54-S4-: LGN 450
Item
[1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows buildings and ships of waterfront, including Hastings Sawmill, the S.S. "Beaver", the Hastings Mill Store and wharf, and other buildings. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View of Brockton Point from Coal Harbour]

AM54-S4-: Wat P47
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Tall ships in Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-: Bo P259
Item
July 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Two ships identified as the H.M.S. "Triumph" and the barque "Robert Kerr"

[Refugee bivouac near south end of Westminster bridge after the Great Fire]

AM54-S4-: GF P6
Item
June 14, 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identifed: Robert Robertson, Chris L. Behnsen, Bob Spinks and Walter E. Gravely

Water Street looking east from Cambie Street

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1840
Item
1886 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

[Group assembled on steps of Hastings Sawmill School]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-224
Item
11 June 1886

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

The photograph is accompanied by a note stating that the information written on the photograph (that the school's teacher was Miss Harknay, standing in the back row in a blouse with white buttons) is incorrect. The note also states that the teacher was Mr. T. W. Palmer (standing on the plank sidewalk in the photograph).

[Mayor, Council and City officials assembled in front of tent]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1045
Item
[Sept. 1886]; copied [190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows City Council members and officials standing in front of a tent with the sign "City Hall", after the fire of 1886. The men in the photograph are: (seated, left to right) C.M. Coldwell, E.P. Hamilton, J.R. Northcote, Mayor M.A. Maclean, L. A. Hamilton, P. Cordiner, City Clerk T.F. McGuigan; (standing, left to right) J. Griffith, R. Balfour, T. Dunn, City Solicitor J.J. Blake, J. Humphries, City Treasurer G.F. Baldwin, and City Coroner Dr. W.J. McGuigan. The empty chair on the left is for Councillor H. Hemlow, who was absent on business. The man standing on the wharf in the background is G.W. Gibson, founder of Gibson's Landing.
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Mayor, Council and City officials assembled in front of tent]

AM54-S4-: LGN 456
Item
[Sept. 1886]; copied [190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows City Council members and officials standing in front of a tent with the sign "City Hall", after the fire of 1886. The men in the photograph are: (seated, left to right) C.M. Coldwell, E.P. Hamilton, J.R. Northcote, Mayor M.A. Maclean, L. A. Hamilton, P. Cordiner, City Clerk T.F. McGuigan; (standing, left to right) J. Griffith, R. Balfour, T. Dunn, City Solicitor J.J. Blake, J. Humphries, City Treasurer G.F. Baldwin, and City Coroner Dr. W.J. McGuigan. The empty chair on the left is for Councillor H. Hemlow, who was absent on business. The man standing on the wharf in the background is G.W. Gibson, founder of Gibson's Landing. Cropped version of LGN 1045.
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[L.A. Hamilton's camp on the southside of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: Dist P36
Item
1886 ; reproduced June 1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Miss Isabelle Hamilton holding Isobel Hamilton and John Leask

[Looking east from the bluff near the foot of Howe Street]

AM54-S4-: Wat P17
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the C.P.R. wharf, the proposed C.P.R. station site and Princess Louise tree in the background

[Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Grassie standing next to large pieces of a felled tree on Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: SGN 152
Item
[1886?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Real estate office in big tree

AM54-S4-: LGN 1047
Item
[1886]; copied [190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sunset

AM54-S4-: Wat P43
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking west from near the foot of Westminster Avenue (Main Street)

Douglas Fir

AM54-S4-: Tr P12
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a huge tree stump on Georgia Street

Hotel Site C.P.Ry

AM54-S4-: Hot P14
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the excavation for the first Hotel Vancouver at Granville and Georgia Streets and John Tonkin

[Anglican clergy in front of St. James' Church]

AM54-S4-: Port P756
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Reverend Ditcham, Reverend Wright, Archdeacon Woods, Reverend Clinton, Reverend Charles Croucher, Reverend Small, Bishop Sillitoe, Reverend Edwards and others

[Barrister L.P. Eckstein's office in a tent after the great fire]

AM54-S4-: GF P3
Item
1886; reproduced 1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View from the water of Alderman Coldwell's building under construction]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1026
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph show the Granville Hotel on the far left

[C.P.R. wharf under construction]

AM54-S4-: Can P24
Item
[1886?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the ship "Robert Kerr"

[Cargo of tea on dock from the "W.B. Flint"] 1st Tea Ship

AM54-S4-: Bo P185
Item
Aug. 1, 1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified left to right: F.F. Nelson, Mr. Forrest, H. Abbott, C.T. Conover, J.B. Tiffin

[Clearing the land that would become the area near the corner of Hastings Street and Seymour Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P202
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Portrait of Mayor Malcolm McLean

AM465-: CVA 246-1
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of McQueen family fonds

[Portrait] Mayor [Malcolm Alexander] MacLean, 1st Mayor of Vancouver, 1886-87

AM1535-: CVA 99-3104
Item
[1886 or 1887]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Canadian Pacific Railway. Plan of part of branch line from Port Moody. A point on main line C.P.R. to English Bay, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Map shows a survey conducted by the Canadian Pacific Railway of English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Coal Harbour, including a rough outline of area and lots. Note on map reads "Certified as a correct plan showing the land required for right of way Burrard Inlet B.C., February 22, 1886. H.J. Cambie, Engineer in Charge." Map is certified as correct and signed by various C.P.R. officials, including W.C. Van Horne.

The Harbour [showing Hastings Mill Store wharf]

AM1376-: CVA 30-2
Item
1886

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[Exterior of A.W. Ross Real Estate and E.C. Coulding Law Office building on Hastings between Homer and Hamilton Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P12
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of F.W. Hart Furniture Store - 29 Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P325
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

4 Weeks after Fire

AM54-S4-: Str P129
Item
1886

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking east from Richards Street toward the intersection of Water Street and Cordova Street, plank roads, buildings including the Greyhound Hotel under construction and Princess Louise Tree