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Guide map: Vancouver - New Westminster, Burnaby and North Shore municipalities

Item is a street map of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster and the North Shore showing city limits and boundaries of central office areas. Map has been annotated to show the old and new Vancouver telephone exchange boundaries prior to and after the introduction of flat rate service on November 1, 1937.

Guide to Vancouver

Item is a pamphlet advertising BC Electric City routes, including observation car routes conducted by Teddy Lyons. The front side of the unfolded pamphlet includes information on City streetcar routes and interurban routes. The reverse side includes information on routes to major attractions and a map of Vancouver showing routes and attractions.

Hastings Townsite

Item is a partial sectional map of Hastings Townsite showing streets, railways, legal addresses, some lot sizes, and municipal boundaries. Item has been annotated with information regarding property ownership, including identification of properties included in a 1919 tax sale, and various symbols of unspecified meaning.

Howe Sound - Burrard Inlet

Item is a topographic map in two sections showing British Columbia north of Burrard Inlet to Britannia Creek in the north, and from Howe Sound in the west to Indian Arm in the east. Map shows lakes, streams and other natural features; roads, railways, communication lines, cities and other built features; and land, timber, and mineral surveys by number.

Howe Sound and Howe Sound (southern portion)

Item contains two nautical charts of Howe Sound; one chart shows the southern portion (Bowen Island and Gambier Island) only, while the other shows the Sound from Burrard Inlet in the south to Squamish in the north. Charts show soundings in fathoms, tidal information, bench marks, locations of cables, and characteristics of land at shorelines.

Indexed guide map of the City of Vancouver and suburbs

Item is a map showing district lots, blocks, and boundaries between the City of Vancouver, Point Grey, South Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, and parts of Richmond, North Vancouver and West Vancouver. Concentric circles indicate the distance in miles from the intersection of Main Street and Hastings Street in intervals of 1/2 mile. Cover and street index attached.

Indexed map of Greater Vancouver

Item is a promotional brochure for Bekins Moving and Storage Co. Ltd. The front side of the unfolded brochure includes illustrations, a street index, and a map of the company's services are for inter-city moves. The back side of the sheet shows a street map of Vancouver with concentric circles centred on the company's downtown office, showing distances in miles.

Insurance plan of Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, situated on the Canadian Pacific Railway 17 miles east of Vancouver

Item is a portion of a fire insurance plan of Port Coquitlam. Map shows legal descriptions, street widths, building dimensions and types (dwelling, office, industrial, other commercial use), names of businesses, and other features of the built environment relevant to insurance claims. This four-sheet portion is missing the key to symbols and abbreviations.

Introductory Notes

Item is a sheet containing the following information for all volumes of the map: Table of Contents (including information on map symbols); General Information (on the land registration system in British Columbia and District Lots); a list of land registry districts in British Columbia; information on the process of applying for registration of plans; Certificate of Title process; a definition of Indefeasible Title; a list of registration fees, and technical requirements for subdivision maps.

It might have been Albert City, 1858, New Georgia 1792 : it was Granville, 1870, British Columbia, 1871 : it is Vancouver, 1886, British Columbia, 1871 : it is Vancouver, 1886, Canada, 1867

Item is a map compiled and drawn by J.S. Matthews, City Archivist showing historic place names of Vancouver and the North Shore and listing some historic Burnaby names. A note in the bottom left hand corner reads: "Memorada. The precise location of "Albert City" is unknown, Narveaz was first; 150 years passed before his name was given to a landmark. His vessel's name "Santa Saturnina" has never been applied to anything at all."

Location of ferry pedestrian subway, Vancouver, B.C.

Item is an architectural drawing depicting a subway (underground) pedestrian walkway to run underneath the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks, linking Alexander Street to the North Vancouver Ferry Co. dock. Ramp grades are indicated. The drawing shows the location of the North Vancouver Ferry Company; Evans, Coleman and Evans Limited; and the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway Company.

Vancouver (B.C.). Engineer's Office

Lot numbers, boundaries, railway lines and street names in the municipality of Point Grey

Primary map shows lot numbers, boundaries, railway lines and street names in the municipality of Point Grey from 16th Avenue in the north to the Fraser River in the south and from Ontario Street in the east to Blanca Drive in the west. A smaller map in the bottom left-hand corner of the item shows the north west portion of Point Grey.

Map and Guide to Vancouver Street Car and Interurban Lines

Item is an informational pamphlet published by the BC Electric Railway Co. regarding City streetcar routes and interurban lines, golf and country clubs, city trips, interurban trips, motor coach trips, stations, ferries and docks, bathing beaches, public parks, North Shore canyons and parks, athletic and amusement parks. The map on the verso shows street car lines, interurban lines, bus routes and parks.

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