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Dial map of Greater Vancouver

Part contains a street map of Vancouver showing street car, bus and railway lines, hospitals, and block numbers. Part includes a dial (a numbered circle, a paper indicator, a grid of block numbers and a street index used to find locations).

[Panoramic view looking north from the Hotel Vancouver]

Photographs show the west side of the 600 Block of Howe Street, Manor House, Deadman's Island, the 600 Block of Granville Street, the Van Horne Block, the Hudson Bay Company store, the Homer Street Methodist Church, the tower of Holy Rosary Cathedral and other buildings and houses

Industry : quality of street

Map is Plan no. 4105A Sheet 4 of 11 of the City of Vancouver, showing streets, blocks, hospitals, golf courses, First Nations reserves, parks, schools, city yards and cemetery. Map is hand coloured to show very good, good, fair, poor and very poor quality streets. Map is labelled "1963 January 4105 A-4 Industrial Study 1964." Map is dated January 1963 in the bottom left corner; base map is amended to May 1961.

Contour plan of a portion of the City of Vancouver

Item is a map of the area from Chilco Street to Raymur Avenue and Coal Harbour/Vancouver Harbour to False Creek showing topographic contour lines, streets, block numbers (in Roman numerals), sewers, manholes, and elevations at various points along streets.

City of Vancouver

Item is a copy of sections of a November 1889 fire insurance map that have been pieced together. Includes the area between Seymour and Dunlevy Streets, from the south shore of the Burrard Inlet to Keefer Street. Map shows Chinatown, part of False Creek, and buildings and their uses (commercial, residential, industrial). The name of the business, business owner, or type of business is noted for most commercial and industrial buildings.

Town-site of Hastings

Map shows Hastings Town-site, Granville Town-site, Burnaby, and the City of New Westminster. Map also shows the Road from Granville and the False Creek Trail, as well as the names of places and soil types found along these roads. Other places and structures noted include Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour (Coal Harbor on map), False Creek, False Creek Bridge, Burnaby Lake, Fraser River, New Westminster and Burrard Inlet Road, Douglas Road, Edinburgh Street, Columbia Street, Richards Street, and the New Westminster Cemetery. Two notes on map read "Plan to accompany Report of 1st May 1883, Joseph Hunter" and "Memo: Mr. Ross will place [?] this map to the [Engs.] Office Victoria [?]." 14T3 Roads & Trails is printed on the side of the map.

[Panoramic view of downtown, Vancouver from Granville and Hastings Streets]

Photograph is almost a 360 degree view. Buildings and some landmarks are identified in ink on print. This is a cropped version of PAN P92.1.

Written on the back of the print in what appears to be Major J.S. Matthews writing:
"Building permits issued.
Court House, superstructure, 7 Dec 1907 (addition, 30/3/1912)
excavation, 8 Mar 1907
Dominion Trust 21 Apr 1908
Carter-Cotton Bldg (Province Bldg) 5 Oct 1908 (addition Pender St 14/11/10)

Street cars and vehicles:- left hand rule of the road until 1921.

Have not investigated but this looks July or August 1908 or perhaps July-Aug 1909"

Vancouver Harbour 1923

Panoramic view from Pender Street showing the C.P.R. car barge dock, the Immigration Building and Pier A and the squatter's shacks on Deadman's Island

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