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City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection With digital objects
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Front elevation

Item is an elevation drawing. The drawing has the following attestation: G.L. Warner Ltd., 1410 Royal Bank Building, Vancouver, B.C., but as this company was an insurance broker and real estate agents, it is unlikely they were responsible for creating the drawing.

It it most likely that the house was never built, as tax records show no improvements to the property until after Mrs. Oram sold it in 1936.

Vancouver, B.C. Plan showing location of water pipes, hydrants, etc. [Kitsilano]

Item is a map showing the location of water pipes and hydrants for the area from Spruce Street to False Creek to Vine Street to Tenth Avenue (D.L. 526). Pipes and hydrants are shown in various coloured inks to indicate Installation date. Includes annotations as to whether pipes are wood or steel. Annotations have been added to a base map that is part of a larger map.

Vancouver (B.C.). Water Works Department

Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia

Item is a map adhered inside a leather presentation case made for Lord Tweedsmuir by the Vancouver Harbour Commissioners. The item was presented to Lord Tweedsmuir during a visit to Vancouver in 1936. Accompanying the map there is a booklet by the Vancouver Harbour Commissioners entitled "Interesting Facts about the Port of Vancouver" and a note to Henry "Budge" Bell-Irving from John Tweedsmuir. The map shows English Bay and Burrard Inlet with soundings in feet. Map shows district lots and street names from Lighthouse Park and the University of British Columbia to the border of the Municipality of Coquitlam. Includes inset maps of North Arm Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Island.

Town-site of Hastings

Map shows Hastings Town-site, Granville Town-site, Burnaby, and the City of New Westminster. Map also shows the Road from Granville and the False Creek Trail, as well as the names of places and soil types found along these roads. Other places and structures noted include Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour (Coal Harbor on map), False Creek, False Creek Bridge, Burnaby Lake, Fraser River, New Westminster and Burrard Inlet Road, Douglas Road, Edinburgh Street, Columbia Street, Richards Street, and the New Westminster Cemetery. Two notes on map read "Plan to accompany Report of 1st May 1883, Joseph Hunter" and "Memo: Mr. Ross will place [?] this map to the [Engs.] Office Victoria [?]." 14T3 Roads & Trails is printed on the side of the map.

Plan 3

Map shows present and proposed roads of the Lower Mainland and northern Washington State, as well as road repairs. Map covers the area from Point Grey to Hope and from Burrard Inlet to Bellingham Bay. Trails and roads indicated on the map include Telegraph Trail, Waggon Road and Pitt River Waggon Road, as well as several unnamed trails. Major bodies of water indicated on the map are Burrard Inlet, False Creek, Burnaby Lake, Pitt River, Fraser River, Sumas Lake, Sumas River, Chulukweyuk River, Harrison River, Boundary Bay, Semiahmoo Bay and Bellingham Bay. Place names are indicated throughout the map. 11T3 Roads & Trails is printed on the side of the map.

City of Vancouver, Canadian Pacific Town Site

The map shows the area currently occupied by Downtown Vancouver and parts of Kitsilano. It shows the location of C.P.R. Wharf, Royal City Saw Mills, Hastings Saw Mill and Wharf, Leamy and Kyle's Saw Mill and other saw mills. "Streets graded and side-walked marked thus . . . . .." An insert shows "Canadian Pacific Mail Steamship Lines" on a map of the world. The north shore of Burrard Inlet indicates the locations of "Indian Houses" and a mission church.

Sheet J : University Endowment Lands to Wallace Street and Twenty-seventh Avenue to Thirty-eighth Avenue

Item is a section showing the area from the University Endowment Lands to Wallace Street and Twenty-seventh Avenue to Thirty-eighth Avenue. Includes streets, roads and sewers; blocks, lots, and legal descriptions; and parks and schools.

Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer

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