City of Vancouver Archives

[Kelly, Douglas and Co. Ltd. warehouse under construction - Sussex Avenue and Kingsway]

AM54-S4-: Bu P328.3
Item
July 1947

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph.

[Kelly, Douglas and Co. Ltd. warehouse under construction - Sussex Avenue and Kingsway]

AM54-S4-: Bu P328.1
Item
July 1947

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph.

[Kelly, Douglas and Co. Ltd. warehouse under construction - Sussex Avenue and Kingsway]

AM54-S4-: Bu P328.2
Item
July 1947

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph.

Kingsway and Edmonds [Street on] north side city incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-22
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a billboard advertising Ingledew's and the Richfield Garage

Kingsway and Gilley [Avenue on] south side city outgoing

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-23
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Ruddy-Druker Company billboard advertising Graham automoiles at Bingham-Tyrwhitt Motors

Kingsway and Patterson [Avenue]

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-28
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Company billboard advertising The Camrin and Vance Hotel in Seattle

Kingsway and Patterson [Avenue] north side city incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-26
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a sign for The Abbey Mausoleum and Columbarium at Ocean View Burrial Park and two billboards in the background

Kingsway and Tyne [Street showing] roof (2700) [on] south side outgoing

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-30
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Ruddy-Duker Ltd. billboard for Shell and a sign painted on the side of a building advertising The Seaton Suites

Kingsway and Waltham [Avenue] south side city incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-24
Item
1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Harry Duker Ltd. billboard advertising McCallum's Scotch Wiskey

[Kingsway at Boundary Road]

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-27
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a billboard in the distance

Lake City Industrial Park

AM1519-: PAM 1970-158
Item
1970

Part of City of Vancouver Archives pamphlet collection

Item is a promotional brochure.

Land use (Burnaby, B.C.)

AM1257-S26-F3-10
File
1961

Part of Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds

[Laurie Lyn Walser, 3 days old]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3025
Item
[Dec. 1962?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Laurie Lyn Walser at 3 days old sent to Major Matthews by Evelyn Walser for Christmas. Photo has a short note on verso by Evelyn Walser that describes the picture.

Laurie Lyn, 6 weeks old

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3020
Item
Jan. 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Laurie Lyn Walser on couch.

Laurie, 3 months

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3027
Item
Apr. 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Laurie Lyn Walser crawling on bed.

Laurie, 3 months and Mark, 2 1/2

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3026
Item
Apr. 1963.

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Mark Walser holding Laurie Lyn Walser.

Lightning

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-371
Item
[ca. 1935]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Photograph shows a view at night from Burnaby Heights looking west to the harbour

[Loggers near Still Creek]

AM54-S4-: Log P18
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait shows men from Ironside, Rannie and Campbell Company

[Looking west from Burnaby Heights showing the sun streaming through the clouds]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-418
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Madge Hogarth's investiture at Simon Fraser University

AM1036-S7-: CVA 703-7.12.1
Item
May 1967

Part of Hamber family fonds

[Magistrate G.A. Grant]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-922
Item
Jan. 6, 1948

Part of Major Matthews collection

Major park developments (Burnaby, B.C.)

AM1257-S26-F3-34
File
1969-1974

Part of Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds

Major road projects (Burnaby, B.C.)

AM1257-S26-F3-33
File
1969-1974

Part of Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds

Map of Burnaby

AM1257-S26-F3-13
File
[194-]

Part of Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds

Map of Burnaby and New Westminster British Columbia

AM738-S1-: 1980-253.05-: 1980-253.05.1
Part
[195-?]

Part of Dominion Map and Blueprint Company fonds

Map of Burnaby and New Westminster British Columbia

AM738-S1-: 1980-253.04-: 1980-253.04.1
Part
[195-?]

Part of Dominion Map and Blueprint Company fonds

Map of Burnaby and New Westminster, British Columbia

AM1594-: MAP 820-: LEG1279.4
Part
[ca. 1945]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Part consists of a street map of Burnaby and New Westminster, information on bus and street car routes, and text advertising the products and services of the Dominion Map and Blueprint Company.

Map of New Westminster and Burnaby with street directory indicated by dial

AM495-F2-: LEG1283.4
Item
[1935?]

Part of Sectional Map and Street Directory Company fonds

Item is a street map of New Westminster and Burnaby. Item includes a dial (a numbered circle, a paper indicator, a grid of block numbers and a street index used to find locations).

Map of New Westminster and Burnaby with street directory indicated by dial : map cover and street index

AM495-F2-: LEG1283.4-: LEG1283.4.2
Part
[1935?]

Part of Sectional Map and Street Directory Company fonds

Part contains directions for using the dial map and the street index. Part includes Major Matthews's annotation that the map was "Presented, 23 Apr. 1942, by Robt. Morton, publisher, 2119 Maple St. aged 87."

Map of portion New Westminster District

AM1594-: MAP 1055.02
Item
1877 (copied 1954)

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a heavily-amended copy of a map illustrating intended land settlement and subdivision in 1877 in the future sites of Vancouver, Burnaby and the North Shore, from an area bordering on English Bay to an area bordering on North Arm. Also shown are bodies of water, Hastings & Granville Road, and the settlements of Hastings and Granville. Annotations by J.S. Matthews in 1954 made on the copy are tracings in white pen and darkening the background to improve the copy.

Map of portion New Westminster District

AM54-S13-: MAP 1055.01
Item
1877 (traced 1954)

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is an annotated tracing of a map showing the future sites of Vancouver, Burnaby and the North Shore from an area bordering on English Bay to an area bordering on North Arm. Traced over by J.S. Matthews in 1954, it illustrates intended land settlement and subdivision in 1877. Also shown are bodies of water, Hastings & Granville Road, and the settlements of Hastings and Granville. Annotations are an introductory note by Matthews in August 1954 titled "Before Greater Vancouver." Enclosed with the map are four letters between J.S. Matthews and W.H. Hutchinson, Chief of the Geographic Division of the B.C. Survey and Mapping Branch of the Department of Lands and Forests, in 1954 concerning the map's provenance and Matthew's efforts to increase the legibility of copies of the original map.

Map of Vancouver, North Vancouver, and West Vancouver

AM1257-S26-F2-11
File
1936

Part of Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds

Mark 2 1/2 yrs. old

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3019
Item
Jan. 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Mark Walser, son of Don and Evelyn Walser nee Matthews, on a rocking horse in front of the Christmas tree.

[Mark Walser and Laurie Lyn Walser sitting on chair]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3021
Item
Apr. 14, 1964

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mark Walser with toy at 16 1/2 months]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3023
Item
Jan. 5, 1962

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Mark Walser with toy printed as a Christmas and New Year card that was sent to Major Matthews from Don and Evelyn Walser.

[Meal served at Oakalla prison]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2270
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Members of James Crookall's family]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-958
Item
1938

Part of James Crookall fonds

Group portrait

[Members of James Crookall's family]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-959
Item
1938

Part of James Crookall fonds

Group portrait

[Men constructing steel frame of Horne Payne substation]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1176
Item
31 July 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men in front of the hut at the Central Park Rifle Range]

AM54-S4-: Mil P231
Item
[1903 or 1904]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows A.B. Cather, Sergeant F. Kennedy, Sergeant Major A.C. Bundy, R.O. Boult, C.H. Williams, W.R. Chandler, Captain J.R. Tite, William Croy, Mr. Fisher, Mr. Barwick and Bill Grant

[Men working on BC Telephone Company conduit on Kingsway near Central Park, 4200 and 4400 block Kingsway]