City of Vancouver Archives

[Fountain at Lost Lagoon]

AM54-S4-: St Pk N142.07
Item
17 July 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Fountain at Lost Lagoon]

AM54-S4-: St Pk N142.08
Item
17 July 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Fountain at Lost Lagoon]

AM54-S4-: St Pk N142.10
Item
17 July 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Fountain in Lost Lagoon]

AM54-S4-: St Pk N142.02
Item
17 July 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Frank Plante, E.V. Young, and David Oppenheimer in a horse drawn carriage at Lumbermans Arch for the rededication of Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: Reded N10
Item
25 Aug 1943

Part of Major Matthews collection

Erection of the first sections of steel for the roadbed where it enters Stanley Park. Sections suspended on wire cables hanging from main cable.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-64
Item
June 19, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

First rough grading of roadway through Stanley Park near bridge-head. Now a fine concrete driveway.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-14
Item
Aug. 18, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Granite rocks were dumped inside the edge of this caisson before cement was poured. Pump is carrying off water that has seeped through.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-26
Item
Oct. 31, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Long distance lens gives close-up of painters and electricians putting finishing touches. Cable covering machine at work on left catwalk. These catwalks are steep!

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-71
Item
Oct. 19, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Long-distance lens gives close-up of bridge construction on North Shore. Tower foundations nearly complete. Old P.G.E. [Pacific Great Eastern Railway] tracks show at right.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-38
Item
Feb. 16, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Painting quickly followed erection of steel. Painter shown at work on North Shore viaduct using spray-gun. Final coat is sea-green.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-50
Item
May 4, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Rough grading of driveway through Stanley Park finished. Pathway banks have been seeded with grass

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-12
Item
Aug. 3, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Scow load of granite blocks for facings of the two piers. The stone and cement piers measure twenty feet in height.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-31
Item
Dec. 8, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sections of Bridge road-bed supported from main cables. Each section is raised from scows. Union Steamship passing.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-65
Item
June 19, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

The 61 strands in each suspension cable are secured to seven steel butts shown above. These butts are set in tons of solid concrete.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-52
Item
May 4, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Tower piers are finished (South Shore). A few days after this picture was taken work commenced on erection of big steel construction "creeper".

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-34
Item
Jan. 12, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

View from near top of south Bridge tower looking towards Stanley Park and driveway. The cables on left of catwalk. A steep climb.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-63
Item
June 11, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

View from Prospect Point showing barge which started operations on North Shore waterfront. Note first breakwater and right-of-way slash.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-5
Item
Apr. 21, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a dredge in the background

Vancouver from Stanley Park

AM54-S4-: St Pk P262
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the C.P.R. Station in the background

Vancouver, B.C. from Stanley Park

AM54-S4-: St Pk P36
Item
[ca. 1891]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the entrance to the park

View on park road, near English Bay

AM54-S4-: SGN 98
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men with horsedrawn carriage on dirt road surrounded by trees and bush. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

With Season's Greetings

AM54-S4-: St Pk P40
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the road to Prospect Point

With the Season's Greetings

AM54-S4-: St Pk P37.2
Item
[ca. 1891]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the road to Prospect Point

4:30 a.m. All is in readiness for scow and tugs to haul four catwalk cables across First Narrows. Light dim. Photo taken with f/2 lens wide open at 20 seconds.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-45
Item
May 2, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

5:23 a.m. Three of the eight-ton cables for catwalks have been raised 325 feet above tide mark. Distance between piers is 1550 feet.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-47
Item
May 2, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

A diver swings into position - lifted by derrick and wire rope. Diver's air-line is being paid out by man on top of bank.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-18
Item
Sept. 1, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Beginning of the first caisson and general view of construction plant on South Shore from Prospect Point

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-10
Item
July 19, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Bridge-head in Stanley Park. Steel suspension cables will be held in position on top of the two steel pillars as they pass into cable anchorage below.

AM54-S9-F1-: CVA 265-44
Item
Apr. 27, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Charles Mair, poet, at Pauline Johnson's tablet

AM1616-S1-: CVA 136-035
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Pacific Press fonds

Item is a photograph showing poet Charles Mair standing at grave of Pauline Johnson in Stanley Park.

Three people on wooden bridge in Stanley Park

AM1616-S1-: CVA 136-506
Item
[ca. 1925]

Part of Pacific Press fonds

Stanley Park Duck Pond, with swans and fountain

AM1616-S1-: CVA 136-508
Item
[ca. 1925]

Part of Pacific Press fonds

Stanley Park, near Pavilion at Coal Harbour side

AM1616-S1-: CVA 136-509
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Pacific Press fonds

[The new grandstand at Brockton Point during Golden Jubilee celebration]

AM54-S4-: Port N157.3
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Nine O'Clock Gun at Brockton (Hallelujah) Point]

AM54-S4-: St Pk P121
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve at the gun emplacement near Siwash Rock, Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: St Pk P228.1
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Seven Sisters]

AM54-S4-: St Pk P203
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The wharf at Brockton Point]

AM54-S4-: St Pk P92
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three men beside the first Brockton Point lighthouse and fog bell]

AM54-S4-: St Pk P116.2
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Trail through trees in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: St Pk N61.1
Item
28 May 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Tree full of heron's nests in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: LGN 497
Item
[1925?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Two men playing cards in the middle of a logging road in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 138
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Man in carriage at Brockton Point, looking south]

AM54-S4-: SGN 438
Item
[1895?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Man photographing the figurehead from the "Empress of Japan" at Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: Bo N83.4
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Maxim Machine Gun Detachment, 6th Regiment, The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles at target practice at Second Beach]

AM54-S4-: Mil P222
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Lieutenant J.S. Matthews, Sergeant W.J. Elder and others

[Men and women eating strawberries at a picnic in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: SGN 965
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men and women in thatched roof gazebo at Prospect Point]

AM54-S4-: SGN 937
Item
[1895?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Lacrosse at Brockton Point grounds in Stanley] Park

AM624-S1-F1-: CVA 242-10.17
Item
1901

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

Item is a photographs showing a lacrosse match at the Brockton Point grounds in Stanley Park. The clubhouse and grandstand are shown in the background.

Stanley Park scenes

AM624-S1-: CVA 242-12.2
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

Item is a page from an album with photographs showing scenes from Stanley Park, including Brockton Point grounds, views of the ocean and sky from Stanley Park and horse drawn carriages in the park.