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AM1435-: CVA 1435-656
Item
[196-?]

Part of Westcoast Transmission Company Ltd. fonds

Item is photograph showing an aerial view downtown Vancouver looking northwest towards Coal Harbour and Stanley Park.

[South side of Coal Harbour at low tide with four-man scull]

AM1584-: CVA 7-208
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

Showing Entrance to Stanley Park looking East

AM1535-S1-: CVA 1123-6
Item
May 27, 1919

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Oblique view showing Lost Lagoon, Coal Harbour, Deadman's Island, Brockton Point, Denman Arena, the Horseshow Building and Downtown in the background

Entrance to Pender Harbour

AM1584-: CVA 7-322
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of James Luke Quiney fonds

[View of Avalon Harbor at Santa Catalina Island]

AM1477-2-S5---: CVA 1477-512
Item
Sept. 1910

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

Bird's eye view

Eagle Harbour regatta

AM1535-: CVA 99-2047
Item
[ca. 1929]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Eagle Harbour regatta

AM1535-: CVA 99-2048
Item
1929

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Rowing Club regatta [in Coal Harbour]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2080
Item
1929

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

The Denman Arena is featured in the background.

Vancouver Rowing Club regatta [in Coal Harbour]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2082
Item
1929

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photo shows men in canoes with arena in background.

Vancouver Rowing Club regatta [in Coal Harbour]

AM1535-: CVA 99-2083
Item
1929

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Lower Mainland Regional Plan : harbour areas

AM683-S5---: LEG1349.08
Item
Sept. 1, 1945

Part of Community Planning Association of Canada, British Columbia Division fonds

Plan of Vancouver Harbour and False Creek, Vancouver, B.C., showing proposed improvements as outlined in Jos. R. Roy's reports dated 15th Sept. 1906

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map showing major landmarks, railway lines, harbour lands reclaimed, proposed wharves and piers, retaining walls and dredging, and soundings in fathoms in Vancouver Harbour (Burrard Inlet) and False Creek.

Plan of the City of Vancouver, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map of the old City of Vancouver south to 16th Avenue. The map depicts District Lots and blocks, railway lines, street car lines, industrial areas, parks, postal information, schools, property boundaries.

Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia, 1932

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a nautical chart showing English Bay and Burrard Inlet with soundings in feet, anchorages, locations of submarine cables, and ferry lines. Land features include city blocks and district lot numbers. Includes inset maps of the North Arm of Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Island.

Vancouver Harbour. British Columbia

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map sheet containing three nautical charts. The main map shows English Bay and Burrard Inlet and the land bordering these bodies of water, including North and West Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver, the University Endowment Lands and Port Moody. Inset maps depict the north arm of Burrard Inlet and a chart showing Vancouver Island in relation to the B.C. coast and the state of Washington, U.S.A.

Plan showing suggested development fronting D.L. [District Lot] 274, North Vancouver

AM279-: MAP 589
Item
1926

Part of Shipping Federation of British Columbia fonds

Item is a map showing contours above and soundings below the low water mark along a portion of the North Vancouver shoreline. Map has been annotated with what appears to be the outline of a possible development on the waterfront.

Interim harbour headline

COV-S445-3-: MAP 964
Item
Dec. 17, 1962

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Item is a map prepared as part of the Harbour Headline project of the False Creek Development Study. Map shows existing, interim and ultimate harbour headlines, existing water areas, ownership boundaries, other property lines and lease boundaries in and around False Creek.

Pender Harbour showing [S.S.] "Comox"

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-12
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Inner harbour [showing] small boats and Union Steamship's "Camosun"

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-62
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[View of Vancouver Harbour]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-100
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of James Crookall fonds

[View across Coal Harbour towrds Downtown]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-479
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows the Marine Building and the Hotel vancouver in the background

Vancouver harbour from the roof garden [of David] Spencer's [Department] Store

AM1559-: CVA 258-8
Item
1923

Part of Hubert William Lovell fonds

Pier D, Empress of Russia, Deadman's Island and Brockton Point are visible in the distance. Photograph was taken in the summer.

Grand Trunk Pacific Railway S.S. "Prince Rupert" in Vancouver harbour or could be a C[anadian].P[acific]. R[ailway]. "Princess'

AM1559-: CVA 258-11
Item
1923

Part of Hubert William Lovell fonds

Photograph was taken in the summer.

Another view of Eagle Harbour

AM1559-: CVA 258-33
Item
1923

Part of Hubert William Lovell fonds

Photograph was taken in the summer.

Eagle Harbour, old logging buildings

AM1559-: CVA 258-32
Item
1923

Part of Hubert William Lovell fonds

Photograph was taken in the summer.

[View of Coal Harbour from the causeway]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-595
Item
1936

Part of James Crookall fonds

HMS Hood at Vancouver Liberty boat [Naval steam launch in Vancouver Harbour with passengers]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-9.10
Item
[1924]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows naval steam launch with civilian passengers in Vancouver Harbour.

HMS Hood at Vancouver [British warship in Vancouver Harbour on its Empire Tour]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-9.09
Item
[1924]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows HMS Hood at anchor in Vancouver Harbour. Vancouver was a port-of-call on the Hood's round-the-world Empire Tour.

[CPR steamships at dock and under sail]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-9.07
Item
[1924]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows one CPR steamship moored at the east side of Pier "D" while another steams out of Vancouver Harbour.

Australian Cruiser New Zealand [HMS New Zealand]

AM358-S1---: CVA 152-10.05
Item
[1913]

Part of H.A. Price collection

Photograph shows HMS New Zealand anchored in Vancouver Harbour. A gift from the people of New Zealand to the Imperial Government, HMS New Zealand was on a ten month tour of the Dominions before joining the Grand Fleet.

Harbour during the Blushes Beautiful Ski to Sea Relay Race

AM1576-S6-12-F62-: 2011-010.1593
Item
Apr. 5, 1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

The rum-runner 'Trucilla' enters Vancouver Harbour

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1877
Item
1923 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Princess Elaine enters Vancouver Harbour on maiden voyage to join the C.P.R. Princess fleet

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1884
Item
1928 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Granville, B.C. 1885 - C.P.R. plan

AM1576-S6-12-F47-: 2011-010.1674
Item
1986

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Waterfront looking east

AM1576-S6-12-F47-: 2011-010.1724
Item
1887 (reproduced 1986)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Waterfront looking west

AM1576-S6-12-F47-: 2011-010.1725
Item
1904 (reproduced 1986)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Harbour panorama [with] war canoe

AM1576-S6-12-F47-: 2011-010.1726
Item
[ca. 1901] (reproduced 1986)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a nautical chart of Burrard Inlet, including the southern portions of the North Arm of Burrard Inlet. The map shows depth soundings, harbour anchorages, headlines, beacons, buoys, bells, piers and wharves. The map also shows lot numbers, municipal boundaries and major street names of the southern portion of North Vancouver and the northern portions of Point Grey, Kitsilano, Mt. Pleasant, Fairview, Hastings Townsite, Burnaby and Port Moody from the Coquitlam municipal boundary in the east to the western boundary of the Vancouver harbour (between Point Atkinson and Point Grey) in the west. The item also includes a key map showing the location of the Vancouver Harbour in relation to northwestern Washington and Vancouver Island and an inset map showing lots surrounding the north arm of Burrard Inlet to the Inlailawatash Indian Reserve.

Coal Harbour, Vancouver, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map showing dredging of Coal Harbour, with depth soundings given in feet (taken from Admiralty charts). The map hows which areas of land in Coal Harbour were dry at low water levels.

Canada. Department of Public Works

Downtown Vancouver from high vantage point

AM1376-: CVA 72-09
Item
[between 1950 and 1952]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of downtown Vancouver looking northwest from the upper floors of an unidentified building. The view includes the Marine Building, Coal Harbour, Vancouver Harbour, and the north shore.

C.P.R. train tracks

AM1376-: CVA 72-10
Item
[between 1950 and 1952]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of a high angle view looking northeast over the C.P.R. train tracks at Vancouver Harbour.

Troopship from Korea, Vancouver, May 11/52

AM1376-: CVA 72-17
Item
May 11, 1952

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of the USNS Private Sadao S. Munemori, a US naval transport vessel, docked in Vancouver Harbour. There is a tugboat in the foreground.

Vancouver; 1950

AM1376-: CVA 72-18
Item
1950

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of an unidentified freighter loading lumber at a pier in Vancouver.

[North to north east view of downtown from the Birks Building showing Burrard Inlet and the North shore in the background]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN NXIVB
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows Coal Harbour, the second Hotel Vancouver under construction.

[North to north east view of downtown from the Birks Building showing Burrard Inlet and the North shore in the background]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN NXIVA
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows Coal Harbour, the second Hotel Vancouver under construction and Holy Rosary cathedral and St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.

[Northward view of Downtown Vancouver from the tower of the Vancouver Block]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N219
Item
July 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the upper floors and the roof garden of the second Hotel Vancouver, Burrard Inlet and the North Shore in the background.

Burrard Inlet

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a sheet with three nautical charts. The main chart depicts Burrard Inlet from Atkinson Point [Point Atkinson] in the west to the "townsite of Port Moody" in the east. The inset charts depict Vancouver Harbour and the Second Narrows.