City of Vancouver Archives

City Hall on left, [snow banks on] Douglas Street & Pandora Avenue, Victoria, B.C.

AM303-S2-: CVA 294-073
Item
1916

Family movies from 1928 - early roll - Ruby, Chris, Kay - wedding, Valleen etc.

AM1590-: 2011-016.3
Item
[1926-1961]

Item is a film consisting of several amateur films that have been spliced together. Footage documents the life of the George and Ruby (nee Wood) Thompson family from approximately 1928-1961. The film includes footage of significant family events such as the couple’s courtship, engagement and 1930 wedding, bringing home their baby daughter Valleen, and Christmas celebrations and holiday meals. Film also includes footage of numerous family scenes and subjects such as playing at the beach, picnicking, swimming, the family’s houses and pets, daughters Valleen and Hellene, and George and Ruby tending to and riding horses.

Film also includes footage of Vancouver attractions, including the Thompsons skiing and playing in the snow at Grouse Mountain circa 1928, and visiting the Stanley Park ornamental gardens and zoo in the 1930s.

The order of the stock date years of the films is as follows: 1929, 1926, 1928, 1939, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1945, 1959, 1955, 1946, 1961, 1948 and 1947.

Cadet Corps at University School

AM1---: CVA 1158-010
Item
1910

Part of Bell-Irving family collection

View [of] James Bay from Cathedral

AM54-S4-1-: CVA 5-10
Item
[ca. 1886]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an arc lamp

67th Battalion Western Scots, C.E.F.

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-758
Item
[1915 or 1916]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait in front of the canteen

[The legislature building during the visit of Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (Field Marshal)]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-664
Item
1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of a military parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1079
Item
[ca. 1919]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Also shows part of the Dominion Theatre entrance on Yates Street.

[Willard E. Ireland]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1653
Item
Oct. 28, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Honourable K.C. MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1474
Item
1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Honourable K.C. MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1476
Item
Jan. 24, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[J. Gordon Vinter, B.C. Rifle Brigade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1867
Item
[187-?] ; reproduced [193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

[John McGregor]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2622
Item
1885

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length studio portrait

[Mayor Peter Scurrah presenting a centennial medal to Alderman John A. Worthington]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1301
Item
[ca. 1958]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Members of the B.C. Rifle Association at Clover Point]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-482
Item
July 19, 1904

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Mr. Robert Soady Chamberlain]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1360
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Mrs. David Spencer]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2993
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[An unidentified Nursing Sister, No. 5 Canadian General Hospital]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1871
Item
[between 1914 and 1919]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

Empress Hotel

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-21
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Victoria Fire Department

AM1504-: CVA 1504-18
Item
June 28, 1920

Part of John William Freeston fonds

Panoramic view showing a group portrait on Cormorant Street near the Victoria Public Market

The Laurie Bugle - British Columbia Rifle Association

AM54-S4-: Mil P251
Item
1884

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait of the New Westminster Rifles showing (left to right): standing: Private T.J. Trapp, Lieutenant Charles Mc Naughten, Sergeant J.M. Kennedy, Captain Adolphus Peele, Dr. Trew, Private Thomas Mowatt; kneeling: Sergeant E.S. Scoullar, Adam Jackson, Lieutenant William McColl, Private S.B. Homer; sitting: James Wilson