City of Vancouver Archives

[5th Regiment of the Canadian Garrison Artillery marching in Dominion Day parade]

AM54-S4-: SGN 813
Item
[1 July 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

C. Company 6th Reg't D.C.O.R. [group portrait "Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles"]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N197
Item
Apr. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph was taken outside their Drill Hall on Beatty st. and shows Capt. J.S. Matthews at far right and Lieut. G.W. Melhuish at far left.

[Group portrait North Vancouver Boy Scouts]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N31B
Item
1 July 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows an unidentified military man on a horse behind the group.

Canadian Fusiliers. C.A. "City of London Regiment" Vancouver, B.C. APL.21-43

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N42
Item
21 Apr. 1943

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Mrs. C.C. and Mary Maddams with an unidentified soldier at 941 East 7th Avenue]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1909
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[72nd Regiment, Seaforth Highlanders of Canada prior to entraining at new C.P.R. Station]

AM54-S4-: Mil P224
Item
Aug. 22, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Major J.S. Matthews and Pilot Officer A.J.G. Hall in Major Matthews' garden]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc N43.02
Item
30 June 1943

Part of Major Matthews collection

Major W. Hart-McHarg - winner of The Governor General's Prize, D.C.R.A., Ottawa - 1908 and 1913 [and] The Long Range Championship of the World with Army Rifle, Camp Perry, Ohio, 1913

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2749
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length studio portrait

General Plumer takes the salute on the bridge at Cologne where the 1st Canadian Division crossed the Rhine River

AM54-S4-: Gr War P41
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

6th D.C.O.R. [Duke of Connaught's Own Regiment] Bugle Band, A.Y.P. [Alaska-Yukon-Pacific] Exposition

AM54-S4-: Mil P244
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Lieutenant W.J. McManus and others on steps of Forestry Building

Cadets of Vancouver High School entertaining their visitors from Australia

AM54-S4-: Mil P180
Item
Dec. 1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing W.D.S. Rorison, R.N. Davy, F.W. Boultbee, Ewing Buchan and others

Dawson Rifle Company

AM54-S4-: Mil P221
Item
May 24, 1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Major H.D. Hulme, Lieutenant William McKay, Lieutenant Richard L. Cowan and others and a uniform badge of the company

[62nd Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force departing by train]

AM54-S4-: Mil P67.1
Item
Mar. 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows sign on train "Hulme's Husky Hun Hunters"

[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

[A Supermarine built "Walrus" seaplane suspended from a crane]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-356
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an amphibious biplane usde by the Navy and Airforce (numbered 769 and K8343) with a man kneeling on the upper wing

Sentry from The Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles beside cannon outside the Beatty Street Drill Hall

AM54-S4-: Mil P312
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Demolition - Old Shaughnessy Military Hospital [800 block 28th Ave W]

AM54-S4-: Bu P379.3
Item
Sept. 6, 1950

Part of Major Matthews collection

Demolition - Old Shaughnessy Military Hospital [800 block 28th Ave W]

AM54-S4-: Bu P379.2
Item
Sept. 6, 1950

Part of Major Matthews collection

Demolition - Old Shaughnessy Military Hospital [800 block 28th Ave W]

AM54-S4-: Bu P379.1
Item
Sept. 6, 1950

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men training with bayonets]

AM54-S4-: Mil N85.04
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph of a group of men training with bayonets on hanging bales of hay. The men appear to be Australian soldiers wearing slouch hats.

King George inspects a hydraulic press in a munitions factory

AM54-S4-: Mil P281.68
Item
[ca. 1916]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Unknown troop of cavalry

AM54-S4-: Mil P341
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

Ypres in 1915. Locality 158

AM54-S4-: Gr War P43
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a line of troops and a clock tower surrounded by scaffolding

[George Buscombe first bugler for No. 5 Company, B.C.B.G.A.]

AM54-S4-: Port P180
Item
1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph annotated by Major Matthews "Bugler George Buscombe, first military bugler in Vancouver. He was enrolled in No. 5 Co., British Columbia Brigade of Garrison Artillery[B.C.B.G.A.], old Drill Shed, Pender St., 17 January 1894; the second night of organisation of first volunteer unit in Vancouver. Afterwards Alderman for several years. Brother of His Worship Fred Buscombe, mayor. In 1944, of 'Buscombe & Co' Ltd, and resides 2050 Comox St.". Studio portrait

Soldiers unload ammunition on the Western Front

AM54-S4-: Mil P281.34
Item
[ca. 1916]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Promised Land. Canadians looking out from the ridge upon the plain beyond Vimy.

AM54-S4-: LP 61.3
Item
[1917]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Looking back from the front at Vimy. German prisoners hurrying to safety

AM54-S4-: Gr War P30
Item
[1917]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Shelled while digging in Vimy Ridge

AM54-S4-: Gr War P32
Item
[1917]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows soldiers under fire while digging trenches

Annual Inspection 6th Regiment D.C.O.R.

AM54-S4-: Mil P199
Item
May 16, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait of the Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles showing left to right (front row): Lieutenant Cecil Tweedale, Lieutenant S.D. Gardner, Lieutenant Colonel A.D. McRae, Lieutenant Colonel H.D. Hulme, Colonel Roy, Brigadier General J.D. Stuart, Major Hart-McHarg, Captain Tooley; (middle row): Lieutenant W.J. Hunter, Captain Charles Milne, Lieutenant King, Captain J.S. Matthews, Captain W.J. McManus, Captain P.M. Ferris, Lieutenant W.G. Morrison; (back row): Captain Milner, Lieutenant J.W. Warden, Lieutenant Spencer, Captain A. Boult, Captain John McMillan, Lieutenant J.D. Inkster, Captain Alex Graham and Lieutenant G.W. Melhuish

[View of the 231st Battalion, C.E.F. camp]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2324
Item
1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[Bayonet practice]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2322
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[The headquarters of the 158th overseas Battalion in the old Vancouver Athletic Club at Dunsmuir and Beatty Streets]

AM54-S4-: Cl P6.1
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Bakers with bread for troops on the Western Front]

AM54-S4-: Mil P281.06
Item
[ca. 1916]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of an inspection of the 62nd Battalion near the training camp]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2323
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[View of the 62nd Battalion on parade near the training camp]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2321
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[Group portrait of] 6th Regiment D.C.O.R. Nanaimo Station Camp

AM54-S4-: LP 68.2
Item
Aug. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

121st [Battalion] C.E.F.

AM54-S4-: Mil P303
Item
1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait of the Western Irish in camp

Military Camp [in the distance]

AM54-S4-: Mil P113.1
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Emily Matthews at table with nurses and soldiers]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3141
Item
[between 1915 and 1919]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point in April 1918]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3073
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group photograph shows speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point near Forest Hall roadhouse on the Columbia River Highway (near Portland) in April 1918. Major Matthews notes on photo that "the mission addressed scores of audiences in churches, halls, schools, raising enthusiasm for the 4th Liberty Loan". From left to right: Major Matthews, General Green of the United States, French delegate, American delegate, and two unknown women.

[Speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point in April 1918]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3072
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group photograph shows speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point near Forest Hall roadhouse on the Columbia River Highway (near Portland) in April 1918. From left to right: Major Matthews, General Green of the United States, unknown woman, American delegate.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3065
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews outside officers' quarters while "attending Royal School of Instruction". Back row: Selater, J.S. Matthews, Ward, Turner, Maxwell, unknown, unknown, Latta. Front row: Unknown, Melhuish, Scharschmidt, J.E. Ward.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3064
Item
1908 or 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph postcard shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews outside officers' quarters while "attending Royal School of Instruction". Back row: Selater, J.S. Matthews, Ward, Turner, Maxwell, unknown, unknown, Latta. Front row: Unknown, Melhuish, Scharschmidt, J.E. Ward.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3063
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt in front of flagpole. Photograph is annotated to note the location of Major Matthews.