City of Vancouver Archives

[Demonstration of Vancouver's first fire boat "J.H. Carlisle"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P359
Item
1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Engine room of fire boat "J.H. Carlisle"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P360
Item
1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

"Aorangi," at C.P.R. Wharf

AM54-S4-: Bo P389
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Passenger liner "Orsova" at dock]

AM54-S4-: Bo P413
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Passenger liner "Oronsay" leaving Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-: Bo P414
Item
1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Visitors on the upper deck of H.M.S. "New Zealand"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P419
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[M.V. Launch "Beaver"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P423.1
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[M.V. Launch "Beaver"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P423.2
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. "Empress of China" and salvage steamer "Salvor"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P425
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Schooner "Robert R. Hinds" in dry dock]

AM54-S4-: Bo P436.1
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Bow of "Robert R. Hinds"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P436.2
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Japanese training ship "Aso"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P440.1
Item
May 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

[H.M.C.S. "Rainbow"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P468.1
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

[H.M.C.S. "Labrador" under the Lion's Gate Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Bo P488.2
Item
Oct. 12, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

[H.M.C.S. "Labrador" approaching C.P.R. Pier B]

AM54-S4-: Bo P488.3
Item
Oct. 12, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boats at the City Wharf Company's dock]

AM54-S4-: Bo P528
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Boats identified (left to right): "Naiad," "Canadian," "Hopkins," "Daisy," "Tepic," "Squid," "Native," "Stetson," "B.C. Maid," "Imp," "Dauntless," "Wireless," "Esdud," "Mastadon"

[S.S. "Princess Victoria," C.P.R. "Empress of China" and "Salvor" at C.P.R. wharf]

AM54-S4-: Bo P536
Item
Oct. 1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

["St. Catherine" first Burrard Inlet fireboat]

AM54-S4-: Bo P557
Item
Nov. 20, 1926

Part of Major Matthews collection

["Kaiwo Maru" under the Lion's Gate Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Bo P559
Item
June 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

[S.S. "Empress of Russia" at C.P.R. dock]

AM54-S4-: Bo P569.1
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Lion's Gate bridge under construction]

AM54-S4-: Br P24.5
Item
1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the "Axel Johnson."

[Lion's Gate Bridge]

AM54-S4-: Br P35
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows one of the "Empress" liners under the bridge.

[Tugboat "Lorne" and "Pacific Gatherer"]

AM54-S4-: Br P55.3
Item
Sept. 9, 1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boats under the Lion's Gate bridge construction]

AM54-S4-: Br P81.15
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph.

[C.P.R. transfer wharf at foot of Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P12.2
Item
1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

A dragon in the sky [Empress of Japan figurehead in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: LP 58
Item
1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

British warships

AM54-S4-: LP 103.4.2
Item
July 1, 1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Ships identified in the photograph are H.M.S. Warspite, H.M.S. Arethusa, Icarus and Pheasant

[Evans, Coleman and Evans Wharf]

AM54-S4-: LP 48
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Boats identified are S.S. "Islander", S.S. "Joan", "Robert Dunsmuir" and "Cooks Slip"

[H.M.S. "Egeria" at anchor]

AM54-S4-: LP 135
Item
[between 1911 and 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[R.C.M.P. schooner "St. Roch" beside H.M.C.S. "Labrador" at C.P.R. Pier B-C]

AM54-S4-: Port P1374.01
Item
1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

[R.C.M.P. schooner "St. Roch" and H.M.C.S. "Labrador" enter Vancouver Harbour]

AM54-S4-: Port P1374.03
Item
Oct. 12, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Lion's Gate Bridge

[R.C.M.P. schooner "St. Roch" beside H.M.C.S. "Labrador" at C.P.R. Pier B-C]

AM54-S4-: Port P1374.15
Item
1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

[R.C.M.P. schooner "St. Roch" beside H.M.C.S. "Labrador" at C.P.R. Pier B-C]

AM54-S4-: Port P1374.16
Item
1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

A Regatta Day Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Sp P65
Item
[ca. 1903]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a part of the Vancouver Rowing Club at the foot of Thurlow Street and Deadmans Island in the background

[Businesses and docks on the shore of Coal Harbour across from the Vancouver Rowing Club]

AM54-S4-: St Pk P278
Item
1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Robertson and Hackett Sawmill in False Creek]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P26
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver Harbor

AM54-S4-: Wat P14
Item
[ca. 1937]

Part of Major Matthews collection

View looking east showing C.P.R. Pier B-C and Pier D

Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Wat P31
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the waterfront between Columbia Street and Carrall Street including shacks on floats, the Oppenheimer warehouse, a C.P.R. trestle, the Dunn-Miller Block, the Sunnyside Hotel and Andy Litton's boats

[View of Vancouver from Brockton Point]

AM54-S4-: Wat P100
Item
1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an Imperial Oil Company gasoline scow

[View of B.C. Marine Railways Company near the foot of Victoria Drive]

AM54-S4-: Wat P109
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the sternwheel steamship "Baramba" and the tallship "Robert R.. Hind"

[B.C. Marine Railways Company near the foot of Victoria Drive]

AM54-S4-: Wat P110
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the mast of the tallship "Robert R. Hind"

[Looking east from the C.P.R. Kitsilano Trestle Bridge at the National Harbour Board's False Creek fisherman's marina]

AM54-S4-: Wat P115
Item
1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

[One of the last squatter's shacks near the Burrard Bridge on False Creek]

AM54-S4-: Wat P128
Item
Nov. 13, 1934

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a man sawing drift wood

A section of Vancouver's waterfront

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-46
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is a sectional panorama photograph comprised of 2 photographs joined together to form a panorama. The left section shows the CPR station and Kelly Douglas & Co. Warehouse. The right section shows boats loading.