City of Vancouver Archives

Mrs. Ebenezer Robson

AM54-S4-: Port P1699
Item
[188-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

North Vancouver, B.C

AM54-S4-: Bo P58
Item
[188-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Robert Kerr, a C.P.R. coal hulk in the foreground.

On the beach of the Narrows, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 96
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows beach and Burrard Inlet, looking north, near Prospect Point. Photograph also shows a man in a rowboat and the ship "Princess Louise". J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[View of English Bay Beach looking south]

AM54-S4-: Be P110.2
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Frank Murphy's cottage.

[Mrs. Josephine Sullivan's house - N.W. corner of Gore Avenue and Oppenheimer (E. Cordova) Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P73
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing the house of the Sullivan family, early Black settlers in Vancouver.

[Exterior of E.V. Bodwell's real estate office - 301 Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P243.2
Item
June 27, 1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Captain and Mrs. George William Robertson and daughter]

AM54-S4-: Out P102.4
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior Vancouver City Foundry and Machine Works]

AM54-S4-: Bu P198
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group portrait in front of Rand Bros. Real Estate office - 100 Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P195
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified (left to right): G.L. Fowler, J.D. Byrne, Mr. Leonard, W. Quam, Mr. Hay, D.S. Wallbridge, James England, P.M. Ferris.

Building [Hotel Vancouver] with horse and carriage in front

AM1535-: CVA 99-1300.3
Item
[ca. 1889, reproduced ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Item is a photograph which appears to be a copy of a photographic print of a Hotel Vancouver.

Cottages, Eveleigh Street

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boys' baseball team seated on grass at Cambie Street grounds]

AM54-S4-: SGN 42
Item
[1889?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Queen Brothers Stanley Park Stables - south side Georgia between Seymour and Granville Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P84
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Frank W. Hart's funeral hearse.

[The Dunn-Miller Block under construction - south side of Cordova between Carrall and Abbott Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P96
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[S.S. "Premier" at C.P.R. wharf]

AM54-S4-: Bo P556
Item
Oct. 27, 1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

City looking east from Georgia and Granville Streets

AM1576-S6-12-F47-: 2011-010.1727
Item
1889 (reproduced 1986)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Str. Premier rounding Brockton Point, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Bo P54
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Wreck of S.S. "Beaver" off Observation Point (now Prospect Point)]

AM54-S4-: Bo P90
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Interior Machine Shops of City Foundry [at the foot of Hawks Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu P95.1
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver From Westminster Avenue South

AM54-S4-: Str P125
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Main Street near 6th Avenue looking north

[McCleery house, showing people in front yard]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-347
Item
[188-?]; reproduced [197-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows the house, surrounded by trees, and various men, women, and children in the front yard.

(Main St.) West Westminster Avenue, Vancouver

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-988
Item
[188-?]; reproduced [197-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows incomplete plank roads, a brick building in the foreground, and various other buildings in the background.

[Exterior of Barker and Mackay Real Estate and Diplock and Osburn Importers at 519 Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P50
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing (left to right): E.E. Barker and his dog "Bruce", Dr. J.M. Lefevre, Mr. Mackay, Mr. C.G. Johnson, Mr. Beasley, Mr. Osburn and Mr. Diplock

[Exterior of R. Mackay Fripp residence - 1264 Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P226
Item
Aug. 1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Coal Harbour and Deadman's Island.

[Group of men and boys on Greer's Beach (Kitsilano Beach)]

AM54-S4-: Be P86
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified left to right: W.T. Dalton and C.E. Hope. Photograph is a view looking north from about the foot of Whyte Avenue.

[Group portrait of W. Johnson (far left), H. Stephens, C. Stephens and J. Anderson]

AM54-S4-: Port P194
Item
[188-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait

[L.A. Hamilton]

AM54-S4-: Port P147.2
Item
[188-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[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

[John McDougall]

AM54-S4-: Port P776
Item
[188-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Full-length portrait

[A float in the 400 Block of Powell Street ready to join the Dominion Day parade]

AM54-S4-: Str P245
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Choice Groceries in the background

[A team of oxen on a skid road in Oben's Camp in the West End]

AM54-S4-: Str P342
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Alderman William Towler's house - 273 Dufferin St.]

AM54-S4-: Bu P30
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver B.C. from the South

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-692
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view loking north from the corner of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) and 7th Avenue including the Westminster Avenue Trestle Bridge and False Creek in the background

Vancouver city foundry and machine works

AM1576-S6-12-F12-: 2011-010.1851
Item
1889 (reproduced ca. 1984)

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

[The Ridley family]

AM54-S4-: Port P1109.5
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Mr. and Mrs. Abington Herbert Ridley and their sons Leon Alonzo, Harold E. and Oscar E.

[The street railway wharf at the foot of Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P80
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver Iron Works and Foundry

AM54-S4-: Bu P19
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sign on building reads: Vancouver City Foundry and Machine Works.

Vancouver, B.C. from the South

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P24
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking north from the corner of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) and 7th Avenue including the Westminster Avenue Trestle Bridge and False Creek in the background

Vessels in Harbor at Vancouver, B.C. July 1st 1889

AM54-S4-: Bo P118
Item
July 1, 1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Warships identified (left to right) H.M.S. "Swiftsure", "Champion", "Icarus" and the "Amphion" behind

City of Vancouver : Canadian Pacific town site

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Primary map shows lot numbers and boundaries, streets, fire limits and "soundings in feet" (in English Bay, Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour and False Creek) in downtown Vancouver, Stanley Park and parts of Kitsilano and Fairview. The ancillary maps show an "Index plan of Vancouver, B.C.", an "Index plan of [Vancouver] city limits" and "Canadian Pacific Mail Steamship Lines" (a map of Canadian Pacifc steamship routes around the world). On recto, the item also includes a description of Stanley Park and an illustration of Vancouver's inner harbour. On verso, the item includes descriptions of major Vancouver residences, imports, exports, businesses and other landmarks.

City of Vancouver

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a copy of sections of a November 1889 fire insurance map that have been pieced together. Includes the area between Seymour and Dunlevy Streets, from the south shore of the Burrard Inlet to Keefer Street. Map shows Chinatown, part of False Creek, and buildings and their uses (commercial, residential, industrial). The name of the business, business owner, or type of business is noted for most commercial and industrial buildings.

Looking across the Inlet from Hotel Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Str P267
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Granville Street looking north

[Streetcar line construction on Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Trans P78
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking north from near Prior Street

Exterior of C.P.R. stables - Water Street (Blk. 9, D.L. 541)]

AM54-S4-: Bu P193
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows D.B. Charleson's teams, wagons and men. Men identified: in front James Keil and holding mules Ed Warner; Also Jack Kerr, Sid Kerr, Tom Frewer and Alderman Cleland.