City of Vancouver Archives

[View of road and sewer construction on] Commercial St., bet. Vanness & 22nd Ave's.

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-89
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of J. Coughlan & Sons Ship yards in False Creek destroyed by fire]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N74
Item
May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Congregation of Evangelistic Tabernacle - Hastings and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P175.1
Item
May 12, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Vancouver from Ninth Avenue (Broadway), between Ash and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 444
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives state, "Ninth avenue between Ash and Bridge Sts. before 1899 showing CPR Stores Building, Vancouver Opera House, Congregational Church, Leamy & Kyle Sawmill (closed before 1899). Ash Street on left. Ninth Avenue road tip lower left corner. House in centre on eighth avenue."

J. Coughlan & Sons. Ship yards. Vancouver, B.C. May.9.1918.

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N73
Item
9 May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows a group of workers in the ship yard at False Creek.

Lease agreement and Edinburgh Soldiers' association articles

AM54-S10--
File
Feb. 2, 1671, Dec. 15, 1794

Part of Major Matthews collection

File consists of two parchments: one is the Articles of the Society of the Edinburgh City Guards, Soldiers, etc. dated 15 Dec. 1794, and an Indenture for a one-year lease between John Siday and William Purchas [?] with William Godfrey and John Stacye, dated 2nd Feb. 1671.

Wilgress, F.R.

AM54-S17-M10408
File
1938-1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

White, Thomas H.

AM54-S17-M10365
File
1926-1939

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vaughan, R.C.

AM54-S17-M10035
File
1941-1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: Up-town ticket office and telegraph, 527 Granville Street ; C.N.R. timetables, old locomotives, electronic reservations, fares

AM54-S17-MS13808
File
1946-1968

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: tunnel and bridge North Shore, 1966, to Port Mann

AM54-S17-MS13809
File
1952-1971

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: transportation trunk lines

AM54-S17-MS13812
File
1966

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: 'Super-Continental' April 24, 1955 (fast train) ; 'Highballer' (fast freight) February 1961

AM54-S17-MS13806
File
1955-1971

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: proposed ferry slip

AM54-S17-MS13803
File
1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: North Vancouver

AM54-S17-MS13811
File
1953-1968

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: Lulu Island branch

AM54-S17-MS13810
File
1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: interruptions to transcontinental trains - floods, wrecks

AM54-S17-MS13814
File
1954-1971

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: formerly Canadian Northern Railway

AM54-S17-MS13800
File
1913-1972

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: Dock, foot [of] Main Street ; old Grand Trunk dock ; destroyed by fire August 10, 1930

AM54-S17-MS13802
File
1941-1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: diesel locomotives ; first diesel-electric locomotive - 'all diesel line' - gas turbine engines

AM54-S17-MS13801
File
1946-1967

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: Canadian National Telegraph

AM54-S17-MS13807
File
1948-1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: Canadian National Steamships

AM54-S17-MS13813
File
1933-1964

Part of Major Matthews collection

Canadian National Railway: Canadian National Station, opened officially November 1, 1919 ; 1924-1965 - Great Northern Station

AM54-S17-MS13805
File
1922-1965

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Ice fishing in Three Duck Lake]

AM54-S4-: Misc P81
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited dredging False Creek for a new water main near the foot of Fir Street]

AM54-S4-: Dist P27
Item
Aug. 17, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Tudor Manor

[McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited dredging False Creek for new water main]

AM54-S4-: Dist P28
Item
Aug. 17, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Brackman-Ker Milling Co. Ltd.

AM54-S17-M1006
File
1938-1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Shirras], Asst. Comr. John, B.C. Provincial Police

AM54-S17-M8571
File
1944-1947

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The newly constructed Sir Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona), Lord Durham and Lord Elphinstone Blocks on Granville Street between Georgia Street and Robson Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P73
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View across the C.P.R. park towards] Granville Street and Georgia Street

AM54-S4-: Hot P9
Item
1893

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Hudson's Bay store under construction, Lord Strathcona Block, Lord Durham Block, Lord Elphinstone Block and the first Hotel Vancouver

[Exterior A.1. Aluminum Foundry Ltd. building at 5 West Second Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Indust P8
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Keefer's House [and family]

AM54-S4-: Can N101
Item
1885; reproduces 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Railway yards] immediately below Keefer's house

AM54-S4-: Can N105
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men working on C.P.R. railway line uphill from the Nose tunnel in Mt. Stephen, on the Big Hill east of Field, B.C.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 608
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows area known as the Big Slide, Kicking Horse River, the slopes of Mt. Field (on right) and Mt. Burgess in the background.

Workmen improving bluff at "Cariboo Joe's" tunnel, C.P. Ry.

AM54-S4-: LGN 734
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men with loads of rock on tracks next to cliff.

House of Keefer's Assistants

AM54-S4-: Can N103
Item
1885; reproduces 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

H.B. Smith's temporary quarters, 12 miles above Keefers

AM54-S4-: Can N104
Item
1885; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Staff of first Hotel Vancouver gathered in the Georgia Street entrance]

AM54-S4-: Hot P3
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Military scenes and early Vancouver]

AM54-S4-1-L-6
File
[188-? - 190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File is album of photographs showing militia groups and military contingents in early Vancouver and elsewhere. Includes travel to Port Essington and encampment of militia battery for the "Skeena River 'War'". Album also includes numerous photographs of scenes of Vancouver and British Columbia, as well as scenes of unidentified places and portraits of unidentified people.