English Bay beach, showing renovated bathhouse
- VPK-S625-: CVA 392-141
- Item
- June 1964
English Bay beach, showing renovated bathhouse
View of Sunset Beach and Crystal Pool, with West End highrise buildings in background
Replacing water line at Maple Grove
Item is a photograph annotated "Replacing wood stove pipe believed installed about 1928-1929"
View of English Bay beach and bathhouse, with West End high rise buildings in background
View of English Bay beach, Englesea Lodge and West End building
View of 600 block East Georgia Street
View of British Columbia Permanent Loan Company building at 330 West Pender Street
View of English Bay beach from Stanley Park
New large sign shop [at service yard]
Boat painting [at service yard]
Teeter-totters are serviced in woodworking shop
Tennis net maker and repairman Ivan Malatestinic of 622 Nanaimo St.
View of downtown Vancouver skyline and waterfront from Stanley Park
Stanley Park Georgia Street entrance
Photograph shows Coal Harbour, Lost Lagoon, greenhouses, and Stanley Park Armouries.
Men standing atop a mountain of trees from land clearing work
Couple at Capilano Canyon Park
Under Park Drive at front of Beaver Lake ravine
Photograph shows S.S. Iberia passing in Burrard Inlet.
View looking down Beach Avenue, with houses on north side and Sunset Beach on south side
Crowd of children and adults gathered around the old miniature railway at Stanley Park
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Bare trunks and arms are all that remain after these trees are reduced to make habitable this new apartment block 'Coniston Lodge'. The trees on the other side of this block are similarly treated."
Haro Street (corner Denman Street)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Showing how street lighting is affected by heavy growth. NOTE: Tree planted within a foot of light pole."
Bidwell Street (between Haro and Barclay)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Lombardy poplars on right. Forest maples on left, always kept heavily pruned to permit of light and air to apartment block."
Comox Street (between Burrard and Thurlow)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "This is one of the worst examples of boulevard planting. It shows both inner and outer planting on the left side, while on the right it will be noted that the outer boulevard is planted in one section of the block and inner planting on the other section. The trees on the left (heavy forest maples) average ten to twelve feet spacing."
Barclay Street (between Jervis and Broughton)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Another case of boulevarding common to the whole City and especially to the West End. Note the close planting of the heavy forest type of maple on the right, which act as a shroud to the houses fronting thereon, and the three straggling trees on the left."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "An example of conditions often met with. On the left (North side of street) the sidewalk is on the inside, with outer boulevard; on the right the sidewalk is constructed to the kerb, with inner boulevard. Proper boulevarding under such conditions is impossible. Note the forest maples planted closely together on the left and the occasional tree on the opposite side. An application is on file requesting the City to remove these trees entirely, so as to permit light and air to the houses and to make more effective street lighting at night."
Eveleigh Street (West of Burrard)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "A typical example of boulevard planting. Note the forest maple and the attempt to keep down its growth, and the other varieties of trees also 'pruned'. Left background - forest maple in full growth."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "The heavy type of elm is unsuitable for boulevards. In this instance (St. Julien Apartments) these trees have always to be kept heavily pruned, otherwise the lower suites are debarred from light and air. Note the size of the tree in its natural state."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Typical boulevarding. The permanent system carried out under the Local Improvement Scheme and maintained under Frontage Tax."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Illustrating the pleasing effect of a properly and systematically planted boulevard."
Burnaby Street (looking towards English Bay)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "One of the few sections properly and systematically boulevarded.
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "This scene is common wherever the native or forest maple grows. Every year work of this nature has to be undertaken at a heavy cost. Note the size of the roots which lift the sidewalks."
Denman Street (between Nelson and Comox)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "In this block the heavy type of forest maple was planted on the inner boulevard. This is a typical instance of how the owners of the houses affected by such trees deal with them in their desire for light and air. NOTE: That in the next block is outer planting."
Robson Street (between Thurlow and Bute)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Trees without form or beauty. Note their effect upon street lighting at night."
Thurlow Street (corner of Davie looking north)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "On the right is another example of the growth of the forest maples after heavy pruning a few years ago by the B.C.E. R[ai]l[wa]y. Co. to remove the danger from contact with their light wires. These trees have almost reached their former proportions and the danger still exists. On the left note the inner and outer planting and the large tree in the foreground, one hundred feet in height."
Haro Street (between Cardero and Bidwell)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "The pole-like looking tree is all that remains of what was once a full grown Lombardy poplar; this is how the owner of the house fronting them dealt with these specimens in order to obtain light and air and to prevent dampness, from which his house was suffering. Note the variety of other trees and their close spacing."
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "Regrading of the boulevard a few years ago left these forest maples 'high and dry' with roots exposed, as this picture illustrates, constituting an unsightly appearance. The life of the trees will be greatly shortened as a result, some already having dies. In this instance note the effect this tree, when in full leaf, will have upon the street lighting at night."
Melville Street (West of Burrard)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "One of the streets whose trees were heavily pruned at the expense of the B.C.E. Rly. Co., at a cost of $3,000, a few years ago, the work being necessary to remove the menace caused through the heavy growth coming in contact with light wires. NOTE: The trees have grown almost to their former size and further heavy expense is again necessary to reduce them."
Comox Street (looking East from Denman)
Item is a photograph on an album page, annotated with "A 'hit-and-miss' example of boulevard planting. Note the varieties of trees planted, size and age, and the gaps left unplanted."
The 1954 Vancouver Board of Park Commissioners
Item is a photograph showing the City of Vancouver's 1954 Board of Parks Commissioners (the Parks Board), taken in the main Stanley Park Pavilion. Pictured top row (L-R): Norman S. Carmichael (Board Member), Alfred H.J. Swencisky (Board Member), Marion Bell (Board Secretary), P.B. Stroyan (Superintendent and Engineer), Harry Duker (Special Events Supervisor), S.S. Lefeaux (Assistant Superintendent and Engineer). Pictured bottom row (L-R): William G. Calder (Board Member), Robert R. Maitland (Deputy Chairman), Arnold Webster (Chairman), Buda H. Brown (Board Member), Frederick W. Taylor (Board Member).
[People playing volleyball on sports field]
[Children at shooting practice]
[Child with grocery bag on ropes course]
[Man with children in wheelchairs]