City of Vancouver Archives

[Exterior of First Baptist Church - corner of Nelson and Burrard Streets]

AM54-S4-: Ch P174
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men doing road work on] Main St. - placing cushion

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-23
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Clubs: Alpine Club

AM54-S17-MS12356
File
1936-1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Chinese ancestral worship ceremony on Fisgard Street, Victoria B.C.]

AM54-S4-: Str P351.1
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the Methodist Chinese Mission building at 16 Fisgard Street.

[First Nations lodge on a beach]

AM54-S4-1-A-6-: A-6-157
Item
[186-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Windsor Hotel, 52 East Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Hot N67
Item
8 Mar. 1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

1886-1936 Pioneer monument [front elevation]

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.036
Item
Nov. 1933

Part of Major Matthews collection

Townley, Matheson and Partners

[Printer's picnic group on dock and on board the "Cutch"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P125
Item
Aug. 1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group partially identified: 1. Archie Campbell, 2. O'Brien, 3. Campbell, 4. Dr. McGuigan, 5. Sam Robb, 6. Gibson, 7. Tom Duncan, 8. Jack McLagan, 9. J.C. McLagan, 10. J.C. Keith, 11. Mrs. J.C. McLagan, 12. Galbraith, 13. Brainbridge, 14. Fred Fowler, 15. Mat. Peard, 16. Geo. Bartley, 17. F.X. Martin, 18. John H. Brown, 19. Thos. F. McGuigan, 20. Geo. F. Baldwin, 21. John Booltbee, 22. Thos. Evans, 23. Prof. Edward Odlum, 24. F.L. Carter-Cotton, 25. Dr. Lefevre, 26. Shoebottom, 27. C.S. Philp, 28. Capt. Frank Monk, 29. W.J. Trythall, 30. Tilley, 31. Sam Greer, 32. Wm. Bailey.

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

[An arched entrance hallway]

AM54-S4-1-M-15-: M-15-105
Item
[ca. 1927]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Arched entrance hallway of the third C.P.R. Station (601 West Cordova Street), also known as Waterfront Station, located at Granville Street and Cordova Street.

Our First Fifty Years 1886 - 1936 Vancouver, Canada. View Looking North From Nelson Street

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3177
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Prominent buildings in photograph are: Manhattan Apartments (784 Thurlow Street), Marine Building (355 Burrard Street), Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia Street), Provincial Court House (750 Hornby Street); Second Hotel Vancouver (Granville Street), Vancouver Block (736 Granville Street), First Baptist Church (969 Burrard Street) and St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church (1012 Nelson Street).

[Exterior of Glasgow Hotel - 501 Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Hot P84
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Portrait of an unidentified man in military uniform]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-68
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of men and women and threshing machines at work in a field in Ladner]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N153
Item
May 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows two horse drawn wagons filled with mown grain stalks.

[Woman being led out of English Bay by the Reverends Christmas and Fair]

AM54-S4-: Be P64.2
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the English Bay Club building under construction

[Commemoration service at the grave of Captain George Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Mon P96
Item
May 19, 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Frank Ross, Sir George J. Cullum, the Mayor of Richmond, the Mayor of King's Lynn, Reverend R.S. Mills and others

[A man speaking into a microphone during a performance for Diamond Jubilee Celebrations]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2021
Item
July 2, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph possibly showing John Charles Thomas on stage.

[View of Main Street and Logan Avenue]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2187
Item
1897

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Reverend Roland Grant, Baptist minister]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1976
Item
ca 1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Written on the back: "I have an idea this is the Rev. Roland Grant, Baptist minister, here in Vancouver about 1900. Renowned speaker. J.S. Matthews, July 1948"

[Apartment buildings on Granville Street and 16th Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Str N38
Item
Sept. 1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of downtown Vancouver looking northeast from the tower of the Baptist Church at Burrard and Nelson]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc N61.1
Item
[between 1925 and 1927]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows houses and apartment buildings in the West End, the courthouse, Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver Block and other buildings in the downtown area.

[Yale Creek Falls]

AM54-S4-: Out P286
Item
[1867 or 1868]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Before the pale-face came (Indian place names of Vancouver)

AM54-S13-: 1975-016
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Matthews, James Skitt, Major

Vancouver, Canada

AM54-S13-: 1974-020
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Matthews, James Skitt, Major

[2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles returned from Boer War]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-751
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Dominion Day yacht races, English Bay]

AM54-S4-: Bo P81.2
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

Pacific Dredging Co. Ltd., J.L. Davidson, Esq.

AM54-S4-1-A-10
File
1911-1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

File contains photographs of Pacific Dredging Co. Ltd. activities in and outside of Vancouver, including False Creek, Granville Island, Kitsilano Beach, the Fraser River, Port Coquitlam, Powell River and Victoria. The Pacific Dredging Company (later Pacific Construction Company) had offices at 510 Hastings Street and engaged in a variety of harbour activities, including dredging, land reclamation, harbour improvements, and construction of wharves, dams and canals. John L. Davidson was its president.

Vancouver Cricket Eleven

AM54-S4-: Sp P11
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group studio portrait showing left to right: (back row): C. Nelson, H. Laurenson, H.H. McKay, J.T. Williams, A. Mc C. Creery; (middle row): W. Miles, R. Mackay Fripp, J. Boultbee, F. Chaldecott, E. Griffiths; (front row): H.J. Walton and W.E. Green

[The Board of Park Commissioners]

AM54-S4-: Port P1666.2
Item
1961

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing (Left to right): Margaret Jack, Stan Donaldson, Ebbie Bowering, Theo DuMoulin, George Wainborn, Arnold Webster and Charlie Stephens

[The Board of Park Commissioners]

AM54-S4-: Port P1666.1
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing (left to right): standing: F. Drewe Pratt and Charlie Stephens; (seated): Ebbie Bowering, Arnold Webster, Robert Maitland, Iris Hardwick and Bill Calder

[Charles Edward Tisdall, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.4
Item
[ca. 1904]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Donald Malcolm Stewart, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.3
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[George Wainborn, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.2
Item
[ca. 1956]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Albert C.J. Weeks, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.1
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Mrs. J.S. Matthews]

AM54-S11-: Port P949.1
Item
1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken head and shoulders portrait shows Emily Matthews in evening gown. This portrait was used as the basis for Sydney March's oil painting of Emily Matthews.

[Exterior of Mission Confectionery Company (722) and Brown Brothers and Company Florists (728) on Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-885
Item
1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

North Arm Road, 1876 : North Arm, Fraser River

AM54-S13-: 1975-061
Item
Dec. 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a map showing lot boundaries and numbers, roads, trails, family settlements and reserves along North Arm Road of the North Arm of the Fraser River.

Matthews, James Skitt, Major

Famous posts of the Hudson's Bay Company

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.150-: LEG1801.150.2
Part
1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

Part is a brief history of a small selection of Hudson's Bay Company fur trade posts.

Fur trade posts of the Hudson's Bay Company

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.150-: LEG1801.150.1
Part
1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

Part consists of a small flyer with a map of Canada, where location of Hudson's Bay Company fur trade posts were located.

C.P.R. right-of way, Hastings Township

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.115
Item
May 1886 (traced 194-?)

Part of Major Matthews collection

D.L. 185 subdivision

AM54-S13---: LEG1801.106
Item
[Feb. 24, 1887 or earlier]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a copy of the West end portion only of a map purportedly signed by L.A. Hamilton, CPR Land Commissioner. It is presumed that the shaded lots are those which had been granted to the CPR.

D.L. 185 subdivision

AM54-S13---: LEG1801.105
Item
Mar. 16, 1882 (traced July 28, 1932)

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a copy of a sketch map of Blocks 1 and 15, D.L. 185, showing subdivision into lots, as well as portions of blocks to the north.