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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection Vancouver (B.C.)
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Metropolitan Vancouver

Item is a map showing the locations and names of major businesses and corporations in the Greater Vancouver area. The map also shows major roads, highways, railways and proposed highway routes. 5 mile and 10 mile radius circles are depicted around the "geographical centre of metropolitan Vancouver." Map background is a mosaic of aerial photographs.

Panoramic view of the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1898

Item is a map showing an oblique aerial eye view of Vancouver, including Burrard Inlet, Upper False Creek Flats and False Creek. Streets, buildings and businesses are identified. Inset shows location of the Vancouver City foundry, Machine Works and Sugar Refinery. The map includes pictorial representations of buildings, industrial activity around Burrard Inlet, watercraft and vegetation. The perspective view of the map is to the south/south-east.

The map was originally included as a supplement to the Daily World newspaper.

Pictorial map of Greater Vancouver showing dates of settlement in specific areas and opening dates of regional landmarks

Item consists of an illustrated map of the Vancouver area and an overlay showing dates of settlement in various areas and the opening dates of regional landmarks. A poem about the growth of Vancouver has been included on the right-hand side of the map. Verso contains a seemingly unrelated drawing dated 1911 and showing front and side elevations for a church building.

Plan 3

Map shows present and proposed roads of the Lower Mainland and northern Washington State, as well as road repairs. Map covers the area from Point Grey to Hope and from Burrard Inlet to Bellingham Bay. Trails and roads indicated on the map include Telegraph Trail, Waggon Road and Pitt River Waggon Road, as well as several unnamed trails. Major bodies of water indicated on the map are Burrard Inlet, False Creek, Burnaby Lake, Pitt River, Fraser River, Sumas Lake, Sumas River, Chulukweyuk River, Harrison River, Boundary Bay, Semiahmoo Bay and Bellingham Bay. Place names are indicated throughout the map. 11T3 Roads & Trails is printed on the side of the map.

Plan of a portion of the water front of Vancouver city

Item is a tracing of a map showing the Vancouver waterfront between Granville and Carrall streets. The original map contains a number of attestations which have been traced: by W.C. Van Horne (Mar. 11, 1886); H.J. Cambie, Engineer in charge (Feb. 22, 1886); T. Trudeau, Deputy Minister of Railways (31 Mar. 1886); and Land Registry office (12 May 1886). The Tracing was made from a copy submitted as an appendix to an affadvit May 28, 1891.

Plan of Cambie St. grounds

Item is a map showing parade grounds, grand stand and drill hall in the area from Dunsmuir Street to Cambie Street to Georgia Street to Beatty Street. Legend in bottom left corner shows symbols for the following: iron fence, wire screen, goal posts, C.P.R. railway, car tracks, trees and contours. A letter about map from Major Matthews adhered to top right corner. Pencil annotation showing 158th Battalion men's quarters by Major Matthews

Plan of Greater Vancouver, British Columbia

Item is a map of Greater Vancouver from Alma Road (Alma Street) to Boundary Road and Burrard Inlet to King Edward Avenue. Map shows district lot, block, and lot numbers, waterfront businesses, rail lines, schools, parks, beaches, and concentric circles indicating distances from a point located approximately at the intersection of Cambie and Hastings Streets.

Plan of portions of False Creek (Kitsilano) Indian Reserve, Vancouver, B.C., required for Burrard Street Bridge right-of-way

Map shows proposed route for entry to the Burrard Street Bridge from Cornwall and Cedar Streets. Survey overseen by George Frederick Fountain, Land Surveyor of the City of Vancouver, March 26, 1930. Correctness of survey sworn before H. J. Painter, a notary public for the Province of British Columbia, April 8, 1930.

Vancouver (B.C.). Engineer's Office

Plan of provincial government property being a portion of townsite of Vancouver and sub-division of lot 540, group 1, New Westminster District, B.C., to be sold by public auction at Vancouver, B.C.

Item is a map showing lot numbers, lot boundaries, major streets and property sold or reserved in the area bounded by Campbell Street (Alma Street), present-day Trafalgar Street (unnamed on map), English Bay, and 16th Avenue.

Plan of re-subdivision of lots 3 to 14, subn [subdivision] 2 of bk [block] 3. D.L. 391 & 392

Map shows the subdivision of lots in the block bordered by 31st Avenue East, 32nd Avenue East, St. Catherines Street and Windsor Street, at that time in the District of South Vancouver. Map is certified by the surveyor Arthur H. Holland, British Columbia Land Surveyor, and W.A. Pound, Reeve of the District of South Vancouver. It is unclear as to whether the map was commissioned by the Corporation of the District of South Vancouver.

Plan of the City of Vancouver

Item is a reduced size copy of the Hermon & Burwell map Plan of the City of Vancouver. This copy is ca. 1/4 the size of the original map. The map shows District Lots, blocks and lots; transportation infrastructure such as bridges and railway and streetcar lines; and the identification of some industries, especially along the various waterfronts.

Plan showing polling divisions, City of Vancouver B.C., as defined in by-law no. 2434

Item is a map of Vancouver drawn by the City Engineer's Office in November 1936 showing polling divisions and sites as defined in by-law no. 2434. Annotated on the map in ink are the December 1945 civic election results for each division for R. Rowe Holland, Esq., Parks Board Chairman. A portion of D.L. 319 has been shaded in red. Map is numbered M.62.

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