City of Vancouver Archives

Vancouver Centennial street banners

AM1576-S6-12-F64-: 2011-010.402
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Tillicum shaking hands with a Centennial Committee member at Vancouver City Hall

AM1576-S6-12-F64-: 2011-010.408
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Tillicum with Centennial Committee members in meeting room at Vancouver City Hall

AM1576-S6-12-F64-: 2011-010.421
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Tillicum at table with Centennial Committee members at Vancouver City Hall

AM1576-S6-12-F64-: 2011-010.425
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Fraser River and Burrard Inlet

AM1594-: MAP 785
Item
Nov. 30, 1860, with revisions and corrections to May 21, 1926

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Boats docked under Georgia Viaduct

AM640-S1-F4-: CVA 260-2168
Item
[192-]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Hamilton flying over Vancouver

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-1826
Item
Mar. 25-26, 1910

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows Charles K. Hamilton flying a biplane over the West End and Deadman's Island

Sketch showing traffic plan for night functions in Stanley Park during Golden Jubilee period

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map showing provisions for parking, traffic movement, and pedestrian movement for special events related to the City's Golden Jubilee held in Stanley park. Restricted areas, pedestrian crossings, locations of police traffic officers, ticket collectors and fences and gates to be erected are shown.

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

Pieter's picture no. 1 [old garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2735
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a portfolio containing six photographs showing the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street prior to improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Pieter's picture no. 2 [old garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2736
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing four photographs showing the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street prior to improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Pieter's picture no.3 [new garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2737
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing six photographs showing the garden of the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street after improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Pieter's picture no.4 [new garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2738
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing four photographs showing the garden of the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street after improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Pieter's picture no.5 [new garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2739
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing four photographs showing the garden of the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street after improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Pieter's picture no.6 [new garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2740
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing four photographs showing the garden of the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street after improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Pieter's picture no.7 [new garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2741
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing four photographs showing the garden of the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street after improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Pieter Molenaar final [new garden photographs]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2742
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing six photographs showing the garden of the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street after improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Mr. P.J. Molenaar [pictures of new gardens at 1477 West Pender Street]

AM1576-S6-6-F29-: 2011-010.2743
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a folder containing six photographs showing the garden of the Canadian Indemnity Company building at 1477 West Pender Street after improvements undertaken for the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest. Item was submitted to the Make Vancouver Sparkle contest.

Plan of subdivision of D in lot 183 and subdivision of J in lot 182, City of Vancouver

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a subdivision map showing block and lot numbers of subdivisions D and J in lots 183 and 182 respectively. These areas are situated roughly between Burrard Inlet in the north and First Avenue in the south and between Victoria Drive in the east and Clark in the west.

Garden, Hermon and Burwell, Provincial Land Surveyors

The Aristocracy of 813 Hornby Street. [boarders]

AM169-F17-: CVA 162-16
Item
1910

Part of Alexander Godfrey fonds

Alterations to old City Hall 425 Main Street for the Library Board

COV-S164-2--
File
Mar. 1929

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

File consists of specifications and architectural drawings for proposed renovations to the City Hall building for the Public Library Board, likely in anticipation of the building being empty after its replacement by the new City Hall on Cambie Street.

City Hall (425 Main Street) - renovations

COV-S164-2--
File
[192-]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

File consists of architectural drawings created for various renovation projects proposed and completed at "old" City Hall, at the corner of Main and Pender Streets. Drawings are plans, exterior elevations, sections. Many of the drawings were created by Arthur J. Bird, Building Inspector / City Architects (head of the Building Department).

Projects documented include expansion of the Treasurer's office, and addition of the Annex to the south of the original building.

Vancouver (B.C.). Building Department

Greenery arch erected at Granville and Hastings Streets

COV-S365-: LEG1800.099
Item
[before Sep. 22, 1919]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item consists of an architectural drawing of the ceremonial arch erected for the Prince of Wales' visit to Vancouver. The drawing depicts a front elevation.

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

District Lots 181 & 182 Parker St. to Burrard Inlet [Vancouver docks]

AM965-: 1987-12.4
Item
[after Feb. 1915]

Part of Walter A. Grecula collection

Item is a portion of a map which has been annotated to show the location of rail signals and other crossing infrastructure where the Great Northern Railway line crosses Georgia Street between Raymur Avenue and Glen Drive.

Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway warehouse

AM965-: 1987-12.2
Item
[194-?]

Part of Walter A. Grecula collection

Item is a portion of a map showing the Great Northern and Canadian National railway stations and surrounding buildings. Annotations are one of the Great Northern warehouses and adjacent buildings outlined in ink.

New Westminster-Vancouver right-of-way map [Great Northern properties]

AM965-: 1987-12.3
Item
May 1920, with annotations Mar. 22, 1937

Part of Walter A. Grecula collection

Item is a portion of a map of the area around False Creek, showing surrounding rail lines. The map has been annotated to show land owned by the Great Northern Railway around the perimeter of the False Creek infill site and along the GNR right-of-way.

Great Northern Railway

Great Northern Railway freight house

AM965-: 1987-12.5
Item
[Nov. 16, 1916?] (copied Oct. 10, 1955)

Part of Walter A. Grecula collection

Item is an architectural drawing of Fred Townley's design for a freight house for the Vancouver, Victoria & Eastern Railway Company. The drawing includes a general floor plan of the freight house, and a more detailed floor plan of a portion of the building.

Fred L. Townley, Architect

Howe Sound - Burrard Inlet

AM54-S13-: MAP 450
Item
Feb. 1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a topographical map of the municipalities surrounding Howe Sound and Burrard Inlet. Municipal boundaries, roads and other transportation infrastructure, and radio stations are also included. The Greater Vancouver water supply areas and waterways are shown along with pipe lines, power lines and telegraph lines.

Mountain View Cemetery : plan of border strip, north of Wilson Road

COV-S153-: LEG1800.104
Item
1918

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a copy of a map of border strips along the edge of Mountain View Cemetery; the copy has been annotated to show possible areas to convert to grave sites, possibly in the 1940s.

Black Sunday in Gastown

AM1487-: LEG1101.1
Item
Jun. 13, 1966

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a recording of a CBC broadcast of the special program "Black Sunday in Gastown," written and produced by Bill Herbert, which describes the events of the Great Vancouver Fire of 13 June, 1886. The program features the following Vancouver senior citizens who remembered the fire and recounted their stories of the great conflagration which consumed most of the young city: Mrs. John MacKee, Mrs. W.M. Drainey, Mrs. Gertrude E. Gao, Mrs. Eliza Jane Beach, Alex M. Matheson. Also features a tribute to all survivors by Vancouver City Archivist Major J. S. Matthews. Blank from 28:30.

Plan of arch to be erected on Georgia Street for the Diamond Jubilee celebration

COV-S365-: LEG1800.098
Item
June 1927

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is an architectural drawing of a ceremonial arch erected for the the Diamond Jubilee celebrations. The drawing depicts plans, elevations and details.

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

Indian village and museum, Stanley Park

VPK-S98--
File
1922-1923

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

File consists of drawings depicting various buildings designed for an "Indian village" or "Indian museum" to be located in the Lumberman's Arch area of Stanley Park. Five of the drawings are of buildings designed by Henry E.C. Carrey for the Arts, Historical and Scientific Association of British Columbia, who came up with the original idea for a collection of buildings to represent a model First Nations village. When the project failed to garner funding, the Association handed the project off to the Parks Board.

Two later drawings by Parks Board Superintendent A.S. Wooton are for a smaller, single building referred to as an "Indian museum" proposed for the same site.

Carry, Henry E.C.

Elma Beck photograph album

AM1376-: 2017-026.2
Item
[1912-1917]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph album containing 137 prints. The photographs show life as a student at Braemar School including portraits of students, classes, clubs and teachers. There are also some images showing an outdoor trip to Twin Island, school buildings and school activities.

Beck, Elma

Stanley Park survey - Lost Lagoon

VPK-S98-: LEG1800.100
Item
Oct. 1932

Part of Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation fonds

Item is a map showing data from a topographical survey of Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park. The area of the park around the lagoon is depicted, but no topography is indicated.

[Unidentified house]

COV-S639-1-F01-: CVA 790-0033
Item
[1985?]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Unidentified houses]

COV-S639-1-F01-: CVA 790-0034
Item
[1985?]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Unidentified house]

COV-S639-1-F01-: CVA 790-0035
Item
[1985?]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Ski-interview

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a video of an Chan-Chek TV Vancouver interview. The interviewed guest is the 1960 downhill skiing Olympic gold medal winner, Jean Vuarnet, and the interviewer is Bob Dawson, director of Mt. Seymour Ski School. Jean Vuarnet responds to a number of questions, and in his answers touches on subjects including the books he has authored on skiing; his hometown of Morzine, France, and the skiing area he was asked to help develop there; his gold medal win at the 1960 Squaw Valley (CA) Olympics and the "egg position" downhill ski technique; his training; his metallic skis; his opinion on particular Simpsons-Sears ski boots and bindings; the strength of the French skiing program; and skiing skill within his family.

The trading post

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a video of a Chan-Chek TV Vancouver television program titled "The Trading Post," with Ron Morrier. In the program, Ron Morrier sits at a desk reading letters and taking live phone calls for people interested in purchasing, selling, or trading goods (except for clothing, automobiles, or accommodations). Examples of the goods in question include rowing machines, electric guitars, tikis, stoker furnaces, televisions, purebred chihuahuas, water softeners, and bicycles.

Peter and Ann Wedding 1952

AM1368-S3---: 2015-056.1
Item
1952-1953

Part of Rogers family fonds

Item is a family film shot between 1952 and 1953. Footage includes the wedding party and guests of Ann and Peter Cherniavsky arriving and mingling outside of the church, Peter and Ann Cherniavsky picnicking and site seeing, and baby portraits being taken of Alix Cherniavsky (daughter of Peter and Ann). Also shown is a trip to Ozama, Dominican Republic including swimming scenes at the beach and pool, a Christmas party and locals singing, dancing and fishing.

Granville [fire insurance plan]

AM1594-: MAP 334
Item
Aug. 1885 (copied 194-?)

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a photostat copy of a fire insurance plan of the village of Granville (the Old Granville Township part of Vancouver).

Privy Council (Canada) collection

AM127
Fonds
1886-1893

Item is an extract of a report of a Committee of the Privy Council, dated 8 July 1893, regarding foreshore rights in Vancouver of the Canadian Pacific Railway Company, with two accompanying maps. One map is in the file; the other one is catalogued as Map 648.