City of Vancouver Archives

AM54-S4-: VLP 58
Item
[ca. 1924]

Photograph shows Chinese gardens, houses, North Arm School and Walter Moberly School in South Vancouver from Fraser Street and River Road (Marine Drive)

Vancouver Pioneers Association Annual Picnic, June 16th 1920, Bowen Isld. B.C. Commemorating Big Fire 1886

AM54-S4-: VLP 47
Item
June 16, 1920

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified: 2. A.E. Foreman, 5. Tom Evans, 6. Wm. Godfrey, 7. J.J. Banfield, 8. W.J. Trythal, 9. Rev. E.D. McLaren, 10. Mrs. Irma Hatfield, 11. Mrs. Nevill Townsend, 12. Mrs. Angus C. Fraser, 13. Nichol Thompson, 14. Geo. R. Gordon, 15. Bill Allen, 16. A.J. Ford, 17. Ed Cook, 18. J.W. McFarland, 20. Capt. Wm. Watts, W.D. Burdis, 23. Mr. Roedde, 24. Mr. Findlay, 25. Alex Morrison

[Group portrait of the Carl Berch Stock Company in front of the People's Theatre - N.W. corner of Pender and Howe Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P190
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified (L-R): Eddie Diamond, [unidentified], Carl Birch [sic], Harry Hooper, [unidentified], Hank Muir, [unidentified], and Billy Phipps.

[First] May Day [Queen of the May celebration] New Westminster, B.C.

AM54-S4-: VLP 41.2
Item
May 1870

Part of Major Matthews collection

Girl standing on fire engine is Helen McColl and man under Maypole with hands in pockets is Col. Scott

[Second May Queen celebration at Queens Park, New Westminster]

AM54-S4-: VLP 41.1
Item
May 1871

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified: Man in top hat: Col. Scott and two girls in front of Maypole (left): Helen McColl, (right): Elizabeth Irving

[Stock parade at the Vancouver Exhibition at Hastings Park]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N80
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows a tartan-clad marching band and some Boy Scouts

[Portrait of Dr. Robert Mathison]

AM54-S4-: VLP 13
Item
1947

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Aerial view of the] Granville Bridge, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: VLP 169
Item
1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Oblique view shows the Burrard bridge, Granville Island, Kitsilano trestle bridge, the old and new Granville bridges, downtown, Yaletown and north Fairview.

[Aerial view of Vancouver and Burnaby]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.7
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Vancouver Technical School, Grandview Highway and Renfrew Playing Fields.

[Aerial view of Mount Pleasant, South Strathcona and Kensington-Cedar Cottage]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.6
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows aerial view of the east end of False Creek, Thornton Park, Great Northern Railway and Canadian National Railway yards, Mount Pleasant, Strathcona, Grandview-Woodland, Trout Lake, Kingsway, Vancouver Technical School grounds, Renfrew playing fields, John Hendry Park, British Columbia Electric Railway Right of Way, Clark Park, Grandview Highway South, Great Northern Railway.

[Aerial view of Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.5
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Kitsilano, Kits Point, Kitsilano Beach, R.C.A.F. Equipment Depot, Kitsilano Pool, Burrard Bridge, C.P.R. Kitsilano Trestle, Granville Island, Granville Bridge, Cambie Bridge, False Creek, C.P.R. False Creek Yards, West End, Yaletown, Arbutus Ridge, Shaughnessy, South Cambie, Fairview, Mount Pleasant, Little Mountain Reservoir, Connaught Park, Quilchena Golf Course, Douglas Park, Shaughnessy Heights Golf Course, Queen Elizabeth Park, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Barracks, Shaughnessy Military Hospital, Hillcrest Park, Robertson & Hacket Sawmill, City Yard, West Coast Ship Builders and Athletic Park.

[Aerial view of West Point Grey, Kitsilano, Dunbar - Southlands and University Endowment Lands]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.4
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the south Slope of English Bay, Spanish Banks, Locarno Beach Park, Jericho Beach, R.C.A.F. Jericho Air Station, Kitsilano pool, Connaught Park and Kitsilano Beach Park, Caldecott Park, Quilchena Golf Course, School for Deaf and Blind and Quesnel Park.

[Aerial view of Burrard Inlet, Hastings-Sunrise, Burnaby and the District of North Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.3
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Exhibition Park and P.N.E. Golf Course, Second Narrows Bridge, New Brighton Park, Callister Park, Burrard Inlet, Lynn Creek, Lynn Park, Seymour Creek, Vancouver Harbour Commissioners Railway, Inspected Shingles Ltd., Cascade Rock and Gravel Co. Ltd., Canadian Shingle Co. Ltd. (Capilano Timber Co. Ltd.), Alberta Pool Elevator, Columbia Grain Elevator Co. Ltd., Canadian Pacific Railway, Girls Industrial School and Old Peoples Home sites.

[Aerial view of Burrard Inlet, Vancouver waterfront and North Vancouver waterfront]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.2
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows L-R: Evans Coleman & Evans Warehouses, North Vancouver Ferry Wharf, Canadian National Steamships Pier, Canadian Fish Co., Ballantyne Pier, Great Northern Railway Pier and shed, Balfour Guthrie Freight shed, Pacific Mills Ltd., B.C. Sugar Refinery Co., Hastings Shingle Mills, LaPointe Pier B-C, Marine Engineering & Ship Builders Ltd., Terminal Dock & Warehouse and Burrard View Park.

[Aerial view of North Vancouver, First Narrows, Stanley Park, West End, Coal Harbour, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver Waterfront and Downtown]

AM54-S4-: VLP 186.1
Item
[between 1942 and 1945]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Lions Gate Bridge, Beaver Lake, Lost Lagoon, Prospect Point, Brockton Point, Deadman's Island, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, H.M.C.S. Discovery, Brockton Oval and English Bay.

[Head and shoulders portrait of Frederick Patrick Rogers]

AM54-S4-: VLP 178
Item
[between 1920 and 1925]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Lord Strathcona and Sir MacKenzie Bowell with group in front of "Hollow Tree"]

AM54-S4-: VLP 164
Item
Aug. 31, 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows David Robertson, D.C. McGregor, C.S. Douglas, Colonel McSpadden, William Murray, C. Wade, Miss Howard, Lord Strathcona, Donald Howard, Sir Mackenzie Bowell, C.C. Chipman, John Hendry, Ewing Buchan, H.T. Lockyer, W.H. Malkin, Alex Morrison, J.J. Banfield, J.N. Ellis, A.E. Goodman, Rupert Chipman, George E. Trorey and J.M. Bowell

[Hugh Matthews paddling a canoe off Second Beach in Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: VLP 144
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group portrait] Vancouver Football Team

AM54-S4-: VLP 143
Item
1889 or 1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Studio portrait: Players identified, back row L-R: E.W.W. Pugh, A.P. May, F.W. Johnson, R.E. Palmer, H.H. MacKay, R.P. Woodward, G.F. Rounsefell, R.G. Harvey, middle row L-R: R.M. Fripp, A.B. Williams, A.G. Malcolm, J.M. Bowell, G.H. Woodward, J.W. Dawson, C. Campbell and front row L-R: P. Evans, H. McGregor and F.W. Rounsefell.

[Head and shoulders portrait of Joseph Hoskins, Esq.]

AM54-S4-: VLP 141
Item
[between 1918 and 1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[English Bay Beach looking towards Stanley Park]

AM54-S4-: Be P151
Item
[between 1890 and 1895]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium, theatre and C.B.C. building superimposed onto an aerial view of the proposed building site between Howe, Hornby, Robson and Smithe Streets]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2881
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Oblique view showing the Hotel Vancouver, the Court House, the Medical-Dental Building, the Immigration Building, the Manhattan Apartments and other buildings, H.M.C.S. Discovery on Deadman's Island, Coal Harbour and Brockton Point

[The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners with their Labour Day parade float at Seymour Street and Dunsmuir Street]

AM54-S4-: Fl P2
Item
Sept. 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Bank of Montreal, Mr. Hunt, John Hawkins Gregory and others

Moonlight Lacrosse Club Junior Champions of British Columbia

AM54-S4-: Sp P47
Item
1893

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group studio portrait showing left to rifgt: (back row): T. Rankin, S. Peele, W. Cunningham, W. Eickhoff, H. Pittendrigh, J. Patterson; (middle row): C.D. Peele, J. Jackson, A.B. Mackenzie, H.L. Edmonds, J.T. Wilson, A. Eickhoff; (front row): J. Eickhoff, O. Cooper, A.W. Gray, W. McQuarrie

Earl Grey Party at Big Tree Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: St Pk P163
Item
1906

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait at the Hollow Tree showing Earl and Lady Grey and their daughters and His Worship Fred Buscombe and William Stark driving

[Head and shoulders portrait of William Hamilton]

AM54-S4-: VLP 166
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Vancouver Kitsilano Boy's Band at Buckingham Palace

AM54-S4-: VLP 163
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Conductor identified as W. Delamont

[Fairview looking west across False Creek]

AM54-S4-: Dist P81
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the False Creek Indian Reserve, Granville and C.P.R. Kitsilano bridges, the McCreery and Johnston residences and a cannery

[Head and shoulders portrait of Edwin Sanders]

AM54-S4-: VLP 147
Item
[ca. 1897]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Part of Hastings Street, Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Str P127
Item
July 1, 1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Hastings Street looking east from Granville Street and the Alfred Bunker and Customs House building (formerly L.A. Hamilton's house)

[H.M.S. "Warspite" entering the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta]

AM54-S4-: Bo P202
Item
[between July 1937 and Sept. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph inscribed as follows: To Major J.S. Matthews V.D. City Archivist - Vancouver BC with best wishes fron Douglas Fisher Captain RN H.M.S. Warspite 1941. Photograph also shows the HMS Hood in the background.

[View of men and dog sleds beside a river]

AM54-S4-: VLP 96.2
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.9
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.8
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.7
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium and theatre]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.6
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium and inner courtyard]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.4
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of civic auditorium superimposed onto an aerial view of the proposed building site between Howe, Hornby, Robson and Smithe Streets]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.3
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Oblique view shows the court house, H.B. Co. building and the Vancouver Block.

[Model of proposed civic auditorium and CBC building]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.2
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium and CBC building]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.1
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium]

AM54-S4-: VLP 94.5
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Hastings looking west from George Black's wharf]

AM54-S4-: Dist P17
Item
1884

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mrs. Duncan R. Reid]

AM54-S4-: Port P396.1
Item
[ca. 1932]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Head and shoulders portrait of Thomas Henry Tracy, Esq.]

AM54-S4-: VLP 140
Item
[between 1921 and 1925]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group portrait of the Tourist Association on the steps of the courthouse]

AM54-S4-: VLP 110
Item
[between 1925 and 1928]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Mayor Louis D. Taylor

[First Nations men in canoe on the Skeena River]

AM54-S4-: VLP 96.1
Item
1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Birds eye view of Vancouver looking north from tower of Holy Rosary Church]

AM54-S4-: LP 103.2.1
Item
July 28, 1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the 500 block of Seymour Street and the intersection of Pender Street. Prominent buildings are the MacKinnon building, the Fairfield Building and the Delmonico Hotel. Photograph also shows wooden sidewalks.

"American-La France" Vancouver - Point Grey [firemen and engines in front of V.F.D. Firehall No. 2]

AM54-S4-: VLP 124
Item
Dec. 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified (left to right): In fire engines: Slim Sullivan, Ed Morgan, H.E. Edwards, Jack Dyer, Billie Hall, Unidentified, A. Gordon (rear), Torquil Campbell, Geo. Williams, Dan Maher (rear). Standing: "Cappy" Smart, J.H. Carlisle, Campbell, A.G. Long, Arthur Roberts, Plinton, Tommy Lauder, Charlton W. Thompson.