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Major Matthews collection Vancouver (B.C.) Houses With digital objects
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English Bay, Vancouver

Buildings identified (left to right): summer cottages, English Bay Club, Simpson's boathouse, the Pavilion's bathhouses, bandstand and waterchute and tents.

Erection of Court House flagpole

Photograph shows intersection of Hornby St. and West Georgia St., Wesley Methodist Church, Glencoe Lodge (1001 West Georgia), Christ Church, 600 block Hornby and Western Club (951 Dunsmuir)

Erection of Court House flagpole

Photograph shows intersection of Hornby St. and West Georgia St., Glencoe Lodge (1001 West Georgia), Christ Church, 600 block Hornby St., Colonial Apartments and Western Club (951 Dunsmuir)

Erection of Court House flagpole

Photograph shows the intersection of Georgia and Hornby Streets, shops in the 900 block Georgia, houses in the 600 block Hornby, the Western Club (951 Dunsmuir) and the King Edward VII monument.

[Exterior of a house]

On verso of print: 7 rooms, 3 fire places, furnace, corner lot 100' x 131', beautiful view, all well furnished, if interested phone North Van 1115X, will rent furnished

[Exterior of house at 3399 Kingsway (formerly the Pig and Whistle on Westminster Road)]

Major Matthews notes written below the print are:
"The Pig and Whistle" Westminster Road; as in 1960. A notable roadhouse on Westminster Road, now Kingsway, in the days when that paved highway was a slit in the forest. Also called "Collingwood Hotel". Originally it faced Westminster Road but in 1960 is 3399 Kingsway, and is a private house facing Stamford street, Central Park. The roadhouses were "Junction Inn" at Westminster Road and North Arm Road (Fraser); next "Gladstone Inn", near Gladstone Road; "Pig and Whistle", nearer Central Park; and the "Royal Oak", still standing in 1960. They were important places; landmarks to mark progress as a buggy passed through the towering trees. Photo taken June 1960 by Reuben Hamilton, 836 East 20th. City Archives.

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