City of Vancouver Archives

AM54-S4-: City N5
Item
1931

Photograph shows people and parked cars in front of the former Oppenheimer Bros. warehouse on Powell Street which was used as a City Hall after the fire of 1886. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Canadian North West Junk Co.]

AM54-S4-: City N6
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows car parked in front of the Canadian North West Junk Company yard, the site of the Powell Street City Hall in 1899.

[View of City Market and the Westminster trestle bridge]

AM54-S4-: City P32
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Market Hall [and City Auction Mart on Main Street]

AM54-S4-: City P6
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver, from Mount Pleasant

AM54-S4-: Dist P93
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Westminster Avenue bridge and False Creek

Granville Street, Vancouver [looking northeast from the first Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Dist P94
Item
July 1, 1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the C.P.R. Park, a military parade along the east side of the 600 block of Granville Street, Bank of Montreal and the New York Block

[The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York having passed through the Revelstoke Arch at Richards and Hastings streets]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P10
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Northeastern view of Georgia Street showing the 700 block and a corner of the Hudson's Bay Co. store decorated for the royal visit]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P32.2
Item
Sept. 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York arriving at the reception outside the Courthouse on Hastings and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P36
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Flack Block and Northwest Mounted Police

["Blue jackets" marching north on Granville Street at Georgia Street for the arrival of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P42.1
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Strathcona Block

[View of "Blue jackets" marching north of Georgia Street on Granville Street for the arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P42.2
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Northwest Mounted Police escort the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P72.12
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Flack Block

[The demolition of the second Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Hot P48.3
Item
Sept, 12, 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Briks' Building and Vancouver Block

[Empty lot where the second Hotel Vancouver once stood at Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Hot P48.5
Item
Oct. 25, 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Vancouver Block

[Demolition of the second Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Hot P83
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Vancouver Block and Hotel Carlisle

The Sun

[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

[Tsimpsian brass band on the north side of the 500 block of Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: In P120.1
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Molson's Bank, Mahon, McFarland and Mohon Building, the Thompson-Ogle Building and Shelton's Furniture Store

[Vancouver waterfront] before the fire [of 1886]

AM54-S4-: LGN 452
Item
[1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows houses and commercial buildings along the waterfront. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Exterior of Commercial Block building, on Columbia Street between Powell and Oppenheimer (Cordova) Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 481
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Illuminated sign for President Suspenders, located on top of commercial building on Hastings Street between Carrall and Columbia Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 997
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Illuminated sign for Cascade Beer, located on top of commercial buildings at Granville and Cordova Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 998
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Parade of Seaforth Highlanders returning from overseas]

AM54-S4-: LP 152
Item
Oct. 7, 1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the 400 block of Granville Street and the intersection is Hastings Street

[View looking west from the 600 block of Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: LP 159
Item
[ca. 1939]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the Strand Theatre, the Birks Building (Birks clock), and the old and new Hotel Vancouver

[View of H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh in motorcade proceeding south on Burrard St.]

AM54-S4-: LP 181
Item
Oct. 20, 1951

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Marine Building

[Northwest view of Vancouver from the roof of City Hall]

AM54-S4-: LP 283.1
Item
[ca. 1958]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing northern sections of Fairview and Mount Pleasant, Cambie bridge, False Creek, Yaletown and downtown

[Bird's eye view] looking N.W. from City Hall roof

AM54-S4-: LP 283.2
Item
[ca. 1958]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the intersection of Cambie St. and West Broadway Ave., the mouth of False Creek, Burrard Bridge, Granville Bridge and C.P.R. yards

A birds-eye view of the eastern business section of Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-1
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is a sectional panorama photograph consisting of 3 photographs joined together to form a panoarma. The left section shows a sailing ship at Hastings Sawmill, Malkins Wholesale Grocers, the Hotel Europe, Woodwards and other buildings. The center section shows Hastings Street at Abbott Street, Woodwards, the Holden Building, streetcars and pedestrians. The right section shows Pender Street, C.P.R. freight sheds and train and commercial buildings.

[Birds-eye view of the west-end, western business section of downtown and Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-4
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows area from Howe Street and Georgia looking west.

A scene in a retail section [along Hastings Street west of Seymour showing the Spencer store, Standard Furniture and other buildings]

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-50
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A business street [looking along Hastings west from Columbia Street]

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-52
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Holden building, Woods Hotel and other buildings along Hastings Street.

A view of a portion of a wholesale street

AM54-S4-1-M-11-: M-11-53
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Water Street looking West from Abbott Street and including the Malkins Warehouse, Kelly Douglas & Co., Canadian Fairbanks, Edward Lipsett and Hudson's Bay Wholesale.