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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection With digital objects
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Guide map: Vancouver - New Westminster, Burnaby and North Shore municipalities

Item is a street map of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster and the North Shore showing city limits and boundaries of central office areas. Map has been annotated to show the old and new Vancouver telephone exchange boundaries prior to and after the introduction of flat rate service on November 1, 1937.

Perspective of Greater Vancouver from Grouse Mountain (elevation 4000 ft.)

item is an illustrated, map-like pictorial view of Greater Vancouver. Locations of districts, waterways, beaches, golf courses, principal parks and significant buildings are identified by matching an index list to corresponding letters and numbers on the vertical and horizontal axes along the border of the map.

Panoramic view of the City of Vancouver, British Columbia, 1898

Item is a map showing an oblique aerial eye view of Vancouver, including Burrard Inlet, Upper False Creek Flats and False Creek. Streets, buildings and businesses are identified. Inset shows location of the Vancouver City foundry, Machine Works and Sugar Refinery. The map includes pictorial representations of buildings, industrial activity around Burrard Inlet, watercraft and vegetation. The perspective view of the map is to the south/south-east.

The map was originally included as a supplement to the Daily World newspaper.

British Columbia : an historical illustrated map commemorating two centenaries, 1867-1967, 1866-1966

Item is an illustrated map is of the province of British Columbia, created to commemorate the Canadian Centennial.

The central component of the sheet is a reproduction of part of a map from the Department of Lands; surrounding the map are illustrations depicting prominent historical figures and accompanying information. The map has been annotated with the routes of Captain Cook's voyage (1778-1779), Captain Vancouver's voyage (1792-1794), and the overland routes of Sir Alexander MacKenzie (1793), David Thompson (1806-1811) and Simon Fraser (1808).

Portraits, accompanied by short biographies, are included for Cook, Vancouver, MacKenzie, Fraser and Sir James Douglas. Six other portraits are of the early governors of the colony of Vancouver Island and of British Columbia between 1849 and 1876. An illustration of the Great Seal of the Realm attached to the royal commission appointing Richard Blanshard the first governor of the colony of Vancouver Island is shown. A short textual description of the birth and expansion of British Columbia is included with an accompanying illustration of the expansion of the province over time.

British Columbia. Port Moody

Item is a map showing subdivisions of townships in Coquitlam, Port Moody, Pitt Meadows, Surrey, Langley, Sumas, Sardis and Chilliwack. The west coast of British Columbia from Burrard Inlet to the Sechelt peninsula is shown as well as Vancouver Island and the surrounding Gulf Islands. Trails, post offices and railway stations are included.

Contour map showing surveyed lots, notes on vegetation and routes traveled on mountaineering expeditions

Item is a copy of a topographical map with annotations regarding logged areas around the northern end of Jervis Inlet and Princess Louisa Inlet. This copy has been used as a base map to shows climbing routes traveled to the summits of Albert Mountain, Mount Tinniswood, Mount George Edwards, Mount Alexander, Mount Victoria and Mount Alfred on expeditions between 1929 and 1941. The photograph shows A. T. Dalton standing on Matthews Glacier overlooking Dawn Glacier, Mount Tinniswood, Duane Peak, Mount Casement and Mount Albert.

The annotations add topography to areas blank on the base map, as well as indicating climbing routes, dates, and notes on geography and topograhy. The annotations are attested and dated by A.T. Dalton.

Fraser River Delta, British Columbia

Item is a map of the Fraser River and Lower Mainland showing the following: roads, electric railways and tramways, bridges, churches, schools, post offices, cemeteries, international, municipal, township and city boundaries, wharves, lighthouses, triangulation stations and boundary monuments. Map gives topography of the land and shows water lines, tidal flats and intermittent streams.

Howe Sound and Howe Sound (southern portion)

Item contains two nautical charts of Howe Sound; one chart shows the southern portion (Bowen Island and Gambier Island) only, while the other shows the Sound from Burrard Inlet in the south to Squamish in the north. Charts show soundings in fathoms, tidal information, bench marks, locations of cables, and characteristics of land at shorelines.

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