City of Vancouver Archives

Looking north from the Fraser Street Bridge showing the open swing span

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.5
Item
1919

Fraser Ave. bridge - Looking towards Lulu Island [Mitchell Island]

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.2
Item
1916

Item is a photograph showing a group at the bridge with a diver in a boat preparing to dive to the submerged automobile.

Fraser Ave. bridge over North Arm - Fraser River

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.1
Item
1916

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.

Southern end Fraser Avenue Bridge

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.3
Item
1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

Looking north towards South Vancouver over Fraser Avenue Bridge

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.4
Item
1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

[German barque "Pallac" in Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-924.1
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The aftermath of a boiler explosion on Vancouver Island]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2637
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the remains of a boiler on a beach

[The aftermath of a boiler explosion on Vancouver Island]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2639
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the remains of a boiler on a beach

[Waterworks house at end of Pipeline Road in Stanley Park, covered in snow]

AM54-S4-: SGN 977
Item
[1900?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with negative states, "Old water works house, occupied by Frank Harris for over fifty years, end of Pipe Line Road, date about 1900."

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 199
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Charles Bailey, Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eva Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Group of men and women assembled at Barnet Beach]

AM54-S4-: SGN 198
Item
[1 July 1894]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right - back row: Miss Mary Campbell, Miss Beatrice Evans, Charles Bailey, Andy Forbes, Dan Grant, and Art Lewis; middle row: J.V. Armstrong, Bessie Currie, Miss Armstrong, Miss Johnson, Gus, Millie Mathison (Mrs. Lewis), Mrs. Grace Lewis, and Matt Peard; front row: unidentified man, Ed Burchell, Miss Eve Olmstead (Mrs. Addison), Ralph Wilson, Miss Maud McGregor, Thomas Bradshaw, and Mrs. Dr. Brighouse (nee Middlemas). J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View of road construction along] Commercial St., bet. Vanness & 22nd Ave's.

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-88
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of road and sewer construction on] Commercial St., bet. Vanness & 22nd Ave's.

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-89
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of J. Coughlan & Sons Ship yards in False Creek destroyed by fire]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N74
Item
May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Congregation of Evangelistic Tabernacle - Hastings and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P175.1
Item
May 12, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Vancouver from Ninth Avenue (Broadway), between Ash and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 444
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives state, "Ninth avenue between Ash and Bridge Sts. before 1899 showing CPR Stores Building, Vancouver Opera House, Congregational Church, Leamy & Kyle Sawmill (closed before 1899). Ash Street on left. Ninth Avenue road tip lower left corner. House in centre on eighth avenue."

J. Coughlan & Sons. Ship yards. Vancouver, B.C. May.9.1918.

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N73
Item
9 May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows a group of workers in the ship yard at False Creek.

[Ice fishing in Three Duck Lake]

AM54-S4-: Misc P81
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited dredging False Creek for a new water main near the foot of Fir Street]

AM54-S4-: Dist P27
Item
Aug. 17, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Tudor Manor

[McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited dredging False Creek for new water main]

AM54-S4-: Dist P28
Item
Aug. 17, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The newly constructed Sir Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona), Lord Durham and Lord Elphinstone Blocks on Granville Street between Georgia Street and Robson Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P73
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View across the C.P.R. park towards] Granville Street and Georgia Street

AM54-S4-: Hot P9
Item
1893

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Hudson's Bay store under construction, Lord Strathcona Block, Lord Durham Block, Lord Elphinstone Block and the first Hotel Vancouver

[Exterior A.1. Aluminum Foundry Ltd. building at 5 West Second Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Indust P8
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Keefer's House [and family]

AM54-S4-: Can N101
Item
1885; reproduces 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Railway yards] immediately below Keefer's house

AM54-S4-: Can N105
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men working on C.P.R. railway line uphill from the Nose tunnel in Mt. Stephen, on the Big Hill east of Field, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 608
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows area known as the Big Slide, Kicking Horse River, the slopes of Mt. Field (on right) and Mt. Burgess in the background.

Workmen improving bluff at "Cariboo Joe's" tunnel, C.P. Ry.

AM54-S4-: LGN 734
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men with loads of rock on tracks next to cliff.

House of Keefer's Assistants

AM54-S4-: Can N103
Item
1885; reproduces 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

H.B. Smith's temporary quarters, 12 miles above Keefers

AM54-S4-: Can N104
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Staff of first Hotel Vancouver gathered in the Georgia Street entrance]

AM54-S4-: Hot P3
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

Full-length studio portrait of S.J. Perry

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1776
Item
1904

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length studio portrait showing S.J. Perry in uniform

[The wedding party of John Lawson's daughter outside Navvy Jack's house]

AM54-S4-: Out P80
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Unidentified military group outside the parliament buildings]

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3189
Item
[between 1914 and 1919]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[A Skull Showing] Indian Surgery [found in] Marpole, B.C.

AM54-S4-: In P175
Item
[ca. 1925]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Major Matthews' original caption reads: "Indian surgery, Marpole, B.C. Trepanning at least 1000 years ago."

[Bishop Durieu, Father Le Jeune, and the Very Rev. J.M. Fayard with a large group of Native Indians outside the Roman Catholic Church at North Bend, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: SGN 341
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Construction of switches and switch structures in high tension switch room of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 861
Item
14 Apr. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Unidentified chalets in the mountains]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2817
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[James, Herbert and Hugh Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Dist N15.2
Item
[1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Group of men standing next to partially constructed wooden penstock for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1670
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mayor Gale and other dignitaries assembled around car decorated for the campaign to build the Trans Canada Highway]

AM54-S4-: SGN 998
Item
[1918?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Exterior of First Baptist Church - corner of Nelson and Burrard Streets]

AM54-S4-: Ch P174
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men doing road work on] Main St. - placing cushion

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-23
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Chinese ancestral worship ceremony on Fisgard Street, Victoria B.C.]

AM54-S4-: Str P351.1
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the Methodist Chinese Mission building at 16 Fisgard Street.

[First Nations lodge on a beach]

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-157
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Windsor Hotel, 52 East Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Hot N67
Item
8 Mar. 1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

1886-1936 Pioneer monument [front elevation]

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.036
Item
Nov. 1933

Part of Major Matthews collection

Townley, Matheson and Partners

[Printer's picnic group on dock and on board the "Cutch"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P125
Item
Aug. 1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group partially identified: 1. Archie Campbell, 2. O'Brien, 3. Campbell, 4. Dr. McGuigan, 5. Sam Robb, 6. Gibson, 7. Tom Duncan, 8. Jack McLagan, 9. J.C. McLagan, 10. J.C. Keith, 11. Mrs. J.C. McLagan, 12. Galbraith, 13. Brainbridge, 14. Fred Fowler, 15. Mat. Peard, 16. Geo. Bartley, 17. F.X. Martin, 18. John H. Brown, 19. Thos. F. McGuigan, 20. Geo. F. Baldwin, 21. John Booltbee, 22. Thos. Evans, 23. Prof. Edward Odlum, 24. F.L. Carter-Cotton, 25. Dr. Lefevre, 26. Shoebottom, 27. C.S. Philp, 28. Capt. Frank Monk, 29. W.J. Trythall, 30. Tilley, 31. Sam Greer, 32. Wm. Bailey.

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.6
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings Street from Carrall Street

[An arched entrance hallway]

AM54-S4-1-M-15-: M-15-105
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Arched entrance hallway of the third C.P.R. Station (601 West Cordova Street), also known as Waterfront Station, located at Granville Street and Cordova Street.

Our First Fifty Years 1886 - 1936 Vancouver, Canada. View Looking North From Nelson Street

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3177
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Prominent buildings in photograph are: Manhattan Apartments (784 Thurlow Street), Marine Building (355 Burrard Street), Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia Street), Provincial Court House (750 Hornby Street); Second Hotel Vancouver (Granville Street), Vancouver Block (736 Granville Street), First Baptist Church (969 Burrard Street) and St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church (1012 Nelson Street).

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