City of Vancouver Archives

[Hudson's Bay Company alight on the northeast corner of Georgia Street and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N520.2
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Birks clock on the southeast corner

[Hudson's Bay Company alight on the northeast corner of Georgia Street and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N520.3
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Birks clock on the southeast corner

[Hudson's Bay Company alight on the northeast corner of Georgia Street and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N520.4
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Birks clock on the southeast corner

[Hudson's Bay Company alight on the northeast corner of Georgia Street and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N520.1
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Birks clock on the southeast corner

[Hudson's Bay Company building inside Fort Edmonton, N.W.T.]

AM54-S4-: Out P485
Item
Dec. 1871; reproduced [192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hugh M. Fraser and Co. Ltd. Insurance and Financial Service office at 132 West Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N284.1
Item
[Oct. 1926]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hugh M. Fraser and Co. Ltd. Insurance and Financial Service office at 132 West Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu N284.2
Item
[Oct. 1929]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Hyack Fire Company firemen in front of Fire Hall on Columbia Street]

AM54-S4-: FD P17
Item
[187-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the May Queens in a wagon, a Hotel and City Bakery

[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

[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

[Imperial Bank and other buildings at Granville and Pender Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu N422
Item
[1899?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-500
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is exhibit "B" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-502
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is exhibit "F" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-501
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is exhibit "F" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of the Shelly (Duncan) Building at 119 West Pender Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-864.2
Item
1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the lobby

[Interior of the Shelly (Duncan) Building at 119 West Pender Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-859
Item
1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the lobby

Kingsway and Duchess [Street] north side city incoming

AM54-S4-1---: CVA 20-36
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a billboard advertising Richards-Wilcox Rolltite garage doors, a sign painted on a building for O'Neil's Stores and Strutt Meat Market in the background

[Lawsen building at the northeast corner of Seymour and Dunsmuir Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu N350
Item
[1927?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Looking across the Inlet from Hotel Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Str P267
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Granville Street looking north

[Looking east along Hastings Street from Richards Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P38.3
Item
1892

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view from the Lefevre Block showing the Innes-Thompson (Innes-Townley) Block, The A.G. Ferguson Block, the Bank of British Columbia, the News-Advertiser and other buildings and streetcars

[Looking east from approximately Dunsmuir Street and Richards Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc N22
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the roof and steeple of the Homer Street Methodist Church

[Looking east from Cambie Street between Cordova Street and Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P30
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Looking east from Carroll Street near the Georgia Viaduct]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P161
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Marshall-Wells B.C. Limited, the Woodward's beacon, the Sun Tower and the second and third Hotel Vancouver

[Looking east from Georgia Street near Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P55.2
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the east side of the 600 Block of Granville Street including the Hudson Bay Company store and the Bank of Montreal

[Looking east from Granville Street at Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-725.3
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing Holy Rosary Cathedral, the World (Sun) Tower, Fox Motor Truck Company, the New England Hotel, the Northwest Trust building and Hastings Sawmill in the background

[Looking east from the Bank of British North America on the northwest corner of Hastings Street and Richards Street]

AM54-S4-: Wat P68
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a Canadian Australian Royal Mail ship at the C.P.R. wharf in the background

[Looking east from Water and Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-726.1
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view of intersection of Water Street and Cordova Street showing Gault Brothers, the Leckie water tower and other buildings

[Looking east over Downtown from Howe Street near Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P63.4
Item
1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Sun Tower, and the spire of Holy Rosary Cathedral

[Looking north along Granville Street from Georgia Street towards North Vancouver]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-725.2
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing billboards for Fletchers Pianos and Empress Coffee, the Bank of Montreal, the Post Office Clock tower, the C.P.R. Station and the North and/or West Vancouver ferries

[Looking north from approximately Dunsmuir Street and Richards Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc N20
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the McKinnon Block, the C.P.R. Station, Molson's Bank and other buildings

[Looking north from Dunsmuir Street between Howe Street and Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P45
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Looking north from Georgia Street from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P77.2
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the 600 Block between Howe Street and Granville Street including part of the C.P.R. Park, the Van Horne Building and the Bank of Montreal

[Looking north from Georgia Street from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P81
Item
[ca. 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the 500 and 600 Blocks between Howe Street and Granville Street including part of the C.P.R. Park, Manor House and the Van Horne Block

[Looking north from Georgia Street from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P102.1
Item
July 1, 1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the 500 and 600 Blocks of between Howe Street and Granville Street including part of the C.P.R. Park, the Japanese Consul, Manor House under construction, the Van Horne Block and the Bluff showing the homes of A.G. Ferguson and Harry Abbott in the background

[Looking north from Georgia Street from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P75
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the 600 Block between Howe Street and Granville Street including The Van Horne Building and the Bank of Montreal

[Looking north from Georgia Street showing the area between Bute Street and Homer Street and across Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2900.1
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[Looking north from Georgia Street showing the area between Bute Street and Homer Street and across Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2902
Item
[ca. 1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[Looking north from the 600 Block Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P394.2
Item
1906

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Bank of Montreal and the C.P.R. Station in the background

[Looking north on Cambie Street towards the Court House]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2098
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Campbell New York Tailor and the east side of the Arcade

[Looking north on Granville Street from Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P38
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Imperial Life Building, the post office clock tower and the C.P.R. Station in the background

[Looking north on Granville Street from Robson Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P332
Item
1927 ; reproduced 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows buildings under construction, the second Hotel Vancouver and the clock tower of the Vancouver Block

[Looking north on Homer Street from Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P256
Item
1948

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Hopps Sign Company, Smith Marking Device Company and the Alcazar Hotel

[Looking north on Howe Street from Dunsmuir Street towards North Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P63.2
Item
1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Marine Building under construction and part of Piers A and B-C

[Looking northeast from approximately Dunsmuir Street and Richards Street]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc N21
Item
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the S.S. "Joan at the Evans, Coleman and Evans dock

[Looking northeast from Georgia Street from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P102.2
Item
July 1, 1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the east side of the 600 Block of Granville Street and beyond including the New York Block, the Simpson Block, the Crew Block, Homer Street Methodist Church, St. Anne's Academy and Holy Rosary Church (before the steeple was built)

[Looking northeast from Georgia Street from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P77.3
Item
[ca. 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the east side of the 600 Block Granville Street including the Hudson Bay Company store and the New York Block

[Looking northeast from Georgia Street from the Hotel Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P82
Item
[ca. 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the east side of the 600 Block Granville Street including the Hudson Bay Company store, the New York Block and the excavation for the new Hudson Bay store