City of Vancouver Archives

[Partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two from Indian Arm]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1163.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two from Indian Arm]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1163.3
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of partially constructed high voltage switch room for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1165
Item
21 Feb. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of partially constructed power house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, showing assembly of the turbine and generator]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1168.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of partially constructed power house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, showing assembly of the turbine and generator]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1168.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two from Indian Arm]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1169
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of partially constructed power house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, showing construction of 2300 volt oil circuit breaker structure]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1170
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed section of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1171
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photographs shows a partially constructed base for the intake structure of the hydraulic tunnel. The base is constructed to carry a gate house containing three intake gates.

[Steel frame of partially constructed Horne Payne substation]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1175
Item
19 Aug. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men constructing steel frame of Horne Payne substation]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1176
Item
31 July 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Horne Payne substation construction site, viewed from the west]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1177
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Partially cleared site for Horne Payne substation, covered in snow]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1178
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Construction of main generating room for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1179
Item
20 June 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Top of surge tank of hydraulic tunnel for Buntzen Lane Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1180
Item
22 July 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed Timms residence at Langley Prairie]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1206
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Base of "H" frame wood pole structure at south side of Second Narrows of Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1214
Item
26 Feb. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows partially constructed base of poles used to carry power lines across the Burrard Inlet to North Vancouver.

[Partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, viewed from Indian Arm]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1252
Item
2 May 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Derrick for lifting transformers to transformer house of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1253
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Upper portion of penstock number one for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1256
Item
11 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows section of penstock, butterfly valve and air vent intake pipe in background, and section for assembly of penstock number two behind beam of erection derrick.

[Partially constructed penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1257
Item
27 July 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men on the partially assembled pipes, including (left to right, sitting on scaffolding): F.S. Easton, Hydraulic Engineer for the B.C. Electric Railway Co., and Martin Tracey, Resident Engineer of the Buntzen Lake Power Plant.

[Reconstruction of upper portion of penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1258
Item
16 Aug. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the pipes in the process of having the original wood stove sections replaced with rivetted steel sections.

[Construction of penstock on hillside behind Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1259.1
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of penstock on hillside behind Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1259.2
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Two men and one boy standing in partially constructed hydraulic tunnel from Buntzen Lake for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1260
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially cleared site of the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, viewed from Indian Arm]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1262
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men working on partially cleared site of the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1263
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Coquitlam Lake and Coquitlam Dam construction camp]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1278
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Coquitlam Dam construction camp and borrow pit]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1279
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Man on sluicing flume for construction of Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1280
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows man on flume used to deposit materials to build up the dam. Flume is mounted on sloping timber caps.

[Construction site for Coquitlam Dam, showing construction camp, flumes and borrow pit]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1281
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panorama of dam site taken from co-ord: 850.550S on 17th May 1913

AM54-S4-: LGN 1282
Item
17 May 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Coquitlam Dam site, showing construction camp, flumes and borrow pit.

View of settling pond taken from 1200.0 looking to 1400.0 on 24th June 1913

AM54-S4-: LGN 1283
Item
24 June 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows water below flumes of Coquitlam Dam.

[Headgate valve house for Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1284.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows building containing valves used to control the outflow from the lake during dam construction. Photograph also shows rock cut for the permanent overflow spillway, and the riprap facing of the upstream side of the dam.

[Headgate valve house for Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1284.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows building containing valves used to control the outflow from the lake during dam construction. Photograph also shows rock cut for the permanent overflow spillway, and the riprap facing of the upstream side of the dam.

[Headgate valve house for Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1284.3
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows building containing valves used to control the outflow from the lake during dam construction. Photograph also shows rock cut for the permanent overflow spillway, and the riprap facing of the upstream side of the dam.

[Upstream side of partially constructed Coquitlam Dam, showing construction camp in the distance.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1285
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Downstream side of partially constructed Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1286
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three views of Coquitlam Dam construction]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1287
Item
[1913?

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of three photograph prints, showing: view of upstream side of dam; view along centre line of dam; and view of downstream side of dam. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the three images.

[Two views of Coquitlam Dam construction]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1288
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of two photograph prints, showing: hydraulic monitor sluicing materials for dam; and view of dam from east bank, showing settling pond in middle of view, construction camp in foreground, and spillway cut in foreground. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the two images.

[Two views of Coquitlam Dam and Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two construction]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1289
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of two photograph prints, showing: man with donkey in front of openings for hydraulic tunnels to be connected to the surge tank with penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two; and water flowing over the spillway at the Coquitlam Dam. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the two images.

[Four views of Coquitlam Dam and Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two construction

AM54-S4-: LGN 1290
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: early excavation at Buntzen Lake power house site; view looking up Coquitlam Lake from east end of dam, showing cleared shores that will be submerged when water levels are raised; trestle work for Coquitlam Dam; and downstream view of original Coquitlam Dam, showing construction sawmill in the background. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the four images.