City of Vancouver Archives

Greer's Beach, English Bay

AM54-S4-1-L-12-: L-12-66
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is photograph showing a group of adults and children at Greer's Beach (now Kitsilano Beach).

Cottages, Eveleigh Street

AM54-S4-1-L-12-: L-12-70
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[English Bay]

AM54-S4-1-L-12-: L-12-37
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is view of English Bay from below the Beach Avenue entrance to Stanley Park, showing the entrance to False Creek, Kitsilano Indian Reserve, and Fairview in the forest in the distance.

[English cathedrals and other photographs]

AM54-S4-1-L-12
File
[188-] - [190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File is album of photographs depicting mainly cathedrals and countryside scenes in England. Album also includes the following photographs: English Bay (L-12-37); Greer's Beach (L-6-66); Observation Point, now Prospect Point (L-12-69); and houses on Eveleigh Street (L-12-70).

Sino Japanese war photos 1937

AM54-S4-1-M-12
File
1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

The great fire, New Westminster, 1898

AM54-S4-1-A-5
File
1898 ; reproduced [between 1940 and 1959]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File is an album commemorating the great fire of New Westminster, which took place on September 10, 1898. The album contains copy photographs showing both the fire and its aftermath, and some photographic copies of newspaper clippings pertaining to the fire taken from The Columbian, September 17, 1898.

[Views of Early Vancouver, Hawaii, and Japan]

AM54-S4-1-M-10
File
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Album contains photographs of early Vancouver scenes, including the S.S. Beaver on the rocks at Stanley Park and C.P.R ships. Album also contains photographs depicting areas around British Columbia including Harrison Hot Springs, Yale, Vancouver Island, and men in a mining camp in an unidentified location. Pictures of Japanese cities and villages and Hawaiian scenes are also included.

[Jamieson family photograph album]

AM54-S4-1-M-3
File
[ca. 1898] - [ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Album contains photographs depicting various Vancouver buildings and scenes, including shots of the Fire department. The album also contains photographs from Port Moody, New Westminster, Rivers Inlet and Victoria.

Reeves of West Vancouver

AM54-S4-1-A-11
File
[ca. 1912] - [ca. 1958] ; reproduced [195-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Album includes portraits of the following Reeves of West Vancouver: Charles Nelson, John Lawson, George Hay, Valient Vivian Vinson, David Morgan, R.C. Proctor, Sydney Gisby, Joseph Bentley Leyland, J. Edward Sears, Patrick Willoughby Field, William Dickinson, Thomas J. Brown, J. Howard Fletcher, A Hugo Ray, J. Richardson, and R.J.G. Richards. The album also includes some biographical information on the Reeves.

[Snapshots from the Boer War]

AM54-S4-1-S-6
File
[1899 or 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

File includes photographs of members of the 11th Battalion engaged in various activities, and photographs of Africans, cemeteries and Boer prisoners.

The ascent of Mount Crown

AM54-S4-1-S-1
File
1902

Part of Major Matthews collection

Album contains photographs of the North Shore mountains and Arthur Tinswood Dalton and family members on Grouse Mountain, Mount Crown and Goat Mountain.