City of Vancouver Archives

Vancouver Fire Department float in parade, first aid and inhalator crew

AM1376-: CVA 76-09
Item
1936

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of Vancouver Fire Department first aid and inhalator crews doing a demonstration on the bed of a decorated flatbed truck in an unidentified parade on E Hastings Street, outside the Ukrainian National Hall (875 E Hastings Street). Spectators line the street.

Vancouver Fire Department float in parade, original 1886 members

AM1376-: CVA 76-11
Item
1936

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of the surviving original members of the 1886 Vancouver Fire Department seated on the bed of a decorated flatbed truck in an unidentified parade on E Hastings Street, outside the Ukrainian National Hall (875 E Hastings Street). Spectators line the street.

Vancouver Fire Department float with Vancouver Fire Department officials

AM1376-: CVA 76-06
Item
1936

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of a parade float for the Vancouver Fire Department with fire department officials posing along side of it and three children sitting on the hood in front.

Vancouver Fire Department horse drawn steam fire engine in parade

AM1376-: CVA 76-07
Item
1936

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of a horse drawn [1901 Waterous Engine] steam fire engine in an unidentified parade on E Hastings Street, outside the Ukrainian National Hall (875 E Hastings Street). Spectators line the street.

Vancouver Fire Department vehicles parade, H.B. Co. pageant on Georgia Street

AM1535-: CVA 99-1374
Item
1920

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Vancouver Firefighters Local 18 float in 1954 P.N.E. Opening Day Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-2494
Item
1954

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver footage

AM1614-: 2012-090.2
Item
[ca. 1926]

Part of Samuel S. Magoffin fonds

Item is a film showing various scenes around Vancouver. Footage shows the Georgia Hotel, the Court House (now Vancouver Art Gallery), a parade in downtown Vancouver, various scenes with automobiles, as well as some candid scenes in rural areas.

Vancouver Greek Community parade float

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-5096
Item
[193-?]

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver Jaycee Traffic Safety Committee float in 1953 P.N.E. Opening Day Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1896
Item
1953

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver Jubilee

AM1487-: 2018-008.1
Item
1947 [reprinted 197-]

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

Item is a promotional film showing the Diamond Jubilee celebration events, a brief history of Vancouver and concludes with footage of Vancouver after 1945. The film shows historical photographs of Vancouver and focuses on various aspects of development in Vancouver including industry, media, communications, transportation, power plants, city planning, city governance, tourism and architecture.

The film was commissioned by the Vancouver Jubilee Publicity Committee and later sponsored by the British Columbia Electric Company Ltd.

Individuals involved in the creation of the film include: John Young (Director of Photography), L.E. Weekes (Cameraman), Maureen Balfe (Editor), Gordon Inglis and Margaret Jestley (Narrators), C. Fredenburgh (Lighting), L.M. Parry (Producer), William D. Dix (Director)

This film is a re-print made by the Vancouver Museum in the late 1970's for a program called "Vancouver's Heritage in Film".

Trans-Canada Films

Vancouver Kiwanis Club float in 1947 P.N.E. Opening Day Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1363
Item
1947

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver Mayor F.J. Hume and P.N.E. President J.S.C. Moffitt waving from car in 1953 P.N.E. Opening Day Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-2224
Item
1953

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver Mayor F.J. Hume and P.N.E. President J.S.C. Moffitt waving from car in 1953 P.N.E. Opening Day Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1911
Item
1953

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver on parade [Pacific National Exhibition parade, 1936]

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

Item is an amateur film showing the 1936 Jubilee Pacific National Exhibition parade. Film contains footage of the Burrard Bridge, Stanley Park, an RCMP musical ride at near Jericho Beach, Vancouver Fire Department stunt with the firetruck ladder.

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.3
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings Street from Carrall Street

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.1
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings from Carroll Street

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.5
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings from Carrall Street

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.2
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings from Carrall Street

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.4
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings Street from Carroll Street

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.6
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings Street from Carrall Street

Vancouver Pageant. June 12, 1914

AM54-S4-: LGN 984
Item
12 June 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows crowds watching parade on Hastings Street, including floats from the Vancouver Gas Company and the B.C. Electric Railway Company.

Vancouver Playland float in 1953 P.N.E. Opening Day Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1918
Item
1953

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver Publicity Bureau parade float

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-0656
Item
1935

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver Sea Cadets bugle band in Canada Pacific Exhibition's All Out for Victory Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1113
Item
Aug. 25, 1941

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver South Junior Band Official Golden Jubilee Band

AM1495-: CVA 1495-37
Item
193-?]

Part of Vancouver Jubilee Time Capsule Collection

Photograph shows Vancouver South Junior Band marching in a parade. Photograph shows Joseph B. Olson, Bandmaster, Esther Puffer, Drum Major, Members from L-R: Wilfrid Olson, Jean Fuller, Mona Warhurton, Ethel Olson, Wilard Drake, Gordon Olson, Al Sandgrin, Jack Whent, Ross McKessock, Bryce Drake, Gordon Beckham, Rosalie Arnold, Lynne Gibles, Jim Mattinson, Shirley Fraleigh, Pearl Clarke, Jackqueline Smith, Barbara Smith, Margaret Thomas, George Davidson, Vernie Gordon, Bert Hirschfield, Gordon Moore, Lillian Whent, Gordon Drake, Iola Ingerson, Donald Fessenden, Gus Jantz, Joe Milton, Marvin Hollingshead, Mabel Olson Daryl Hollingshead, Gordon Penevill, Gilbert Bromley, Gladys Neelands, Bob Arnold, Al Lawrence, Carl Boeur, Wallace McDonald, Tom Ritchie, Lucille Greenbank.

Vancouver Tourist Association parade float

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1140
Item
Aug. 25, 1941

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Vancouver U-Fly taxiing plane in 1953 P.N.E. Opening Day Parade

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1950
Item
1953

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

[Various scenes regarding activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

AM54-S4-: LGN 973
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints, showing: head office building on Carrall Street; woman sketching next to Fraser Valley interurban line near Sumas Lake; view of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one from Indian Arm; view of partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two from Indian Arm; parade for Duke of Connaught passing B.C. Electric head office; and military inspection by the Duke of Connaught in front of Vancouver Courthouse. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the six images.

[Various scenes regarding the activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1158
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints, showing: the head office building on Carrall Street; a woman sketching beside interurban railway tracks near Sumas Lake; the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one; the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two; a parade for the Duke of Connaught passing by the B.C. Electric head office; and an assembly for the Duke of Connaught in front of the Courthouse. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the six images.

V.E. Day

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3840
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the Cenotaph and part of the Dominion Building during celebrations on Victory in Europe Day.

V.E. Day

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3839
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the Cenotaph and part of the Flack Block during celebrations on Victory in Europe Day.

V.E. Day

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3842
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a boy holding a flag during celebrations on Victory in Europe Day

V.E. Day

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3838
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a man on a boat reading The Vancouver Sun "Peace Edition" on Victory in Europe Day

V.E. Day crowds

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3836
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows the west side of Granville Street at Dunsmuir Street

V.E. Day crowds

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3837
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

V.E. Day[showing a performer on stage at the Bond Shell]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-3841
Item
May 7, 1945

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Vehicles in Vancouver Diamond Jubilee Parade

AM427-S4-F5-: CVA 289-005.674
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Victor David Neon Signs parade float

AM281-S8-: CVA 180-1141
Item
Aug. 25, 1941

Part of Pacific National Exhibition fonds

Victoria - Government House, royal visit footage, and soldiers departing

AM1591-: 2011-089.49
Item
[1939?]

Part of Douglas Stewart Scott fonds

Item is a film which contains some of Douglas Scott's footage of the royal visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Victoria, British Columbia, in May of 1939. The film captures a car approaching Government House; Margaret by the water; intertitles reading "We leave their majesties steaming Eastward, back to their family at the Heart of the Empire - while Canadians from the Atlantic to Pacific unite in loyalty and affection for our Sailor King and his gracious consort," and "The Straits of Juan de Fuca : In the foreground Canada - in the background the towering Olympic Range in the United States - two great nations living together in peace and Amity;" a large pole being painted by a man elevated by a pulley; the fountains and structures of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings illuminated for the royal visit; the parade, a marching band, and Mounties; a golf game; flowers; and youths riding horses. The end of the film captures soldiers marching.