City of Vancouver Archives

Hastings Street, South Granville, Chinatown [Street light and power lines]

COV-S644-: CVA 1095-08733
Item
Sept. 1968

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

[Four men standing outside partially constructed gate house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 833
Item
20 June 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Four scenes regarding construction of Buntzen Lake power lines]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1146.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: men raising power poles; supplies near shore; power poles and lines; and electrical towers and lines.

3rd Avenue Prince Rupert, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P630.2
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Rebuilding of upper end of penstocks 1 to 4 for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 815
Item
27 July 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows workers with partially constructed pipe.

[Reconstruction of upper portion of penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1258
Item
16 Aug. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the pipes in the process of having the original wood stove sections replaced with rivetted steel sections.

[Reinhart Hoffmeister with the first electric generator that he built]

AM54-S4-: Port P1008
Item
1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Replacement of upper section of wood stove penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: LGN 823
Item
16 Aug. 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men woking on partially completed section of pipe.

[Row of large box shaped objects in B.C. Electric Railway Company Limited power station]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1692
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Section of electrical tower]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1781
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Machinery inside B.C. Electric Railway Company Limited power building]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1700
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of electric power station]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1718
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of gate house on west shore for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 828
Item
20 June 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of partially constructed generator room for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 852
Item
14 Apr. 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of partially constructed power house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, showing construction of 2300 volt oil circuit breaker structure]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1170
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of power house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1686
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior view of partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 838
Item
17 May 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior view of partially constructed power station at Brentwood Bay Steam Plant]

AM54-S4-: LGN 890
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed power house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1701
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pelton-Doble hydraulic valves used for power plant penstocks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 963
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pieces of water pipe and lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1181.2
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of water pipe, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1181.3
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Planks and other debris in partially excavated area for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1774
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Power lines in front of the Grandview Sheet Metal Works building at 1685 Venables Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1228
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shoes high voltage power pole, with cradle guards under the power lines.

[Power poles along dirt road]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1714
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric generators on dam]

AM54-S4-: Out P452.8
Item
Nov. 19, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric meter installation in basement of building]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1215.4
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric meter installation in hallway of building]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1215.1
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric meter installation in hallway of building]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1215.2
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric power lines above lane behind Carnegie Library at Hastings and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1192
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric power lines running above lane west of Main Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1128
Item
10 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Dunsmuir Hotel to meet boats at the docks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1267.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of partially constructed gate house for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 836
Item
17May 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially cleared site for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1688
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially cleared site for Horne Payne substation, covered in snow]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1178
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Partially cleared site of the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, viewed from Indian Arm]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1262
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially completed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two, surrounded by scaffolding]

AM54-S4-: LGN 827
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Various scenes regarding the activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

AM54-S4-: LGN 979
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: partially constructed tunnel opening; wooden buildings at edge of water; construction of tunnel opening, showing men operating monitors; and interior of concrete portal and tunnel for Coquitlam Dam. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the four images.

[View of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one from Indian Arm]

AM54-S4-: LGN 819
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three wooden penstocks for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1773
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Two men and one boy standing in partially constructed hydraulic tunnel from Buntzen Lake for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1260
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Base for 6'-6" needle intake valve [used for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1216.12
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a technical drawing produced by the Pelton Water Wheel Company.

Chart of transmission system

AM54-S4-: LGN 1148
Item
2 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a diagram illustrating a high voltage electrical power system.

Enlargement of the Coquitlam-Buntzen hydro-electric power development

AM54-S4-: LGN 1298
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of a page from a Sept. 21, 1912 article in the "Engineering Record", containing a plan of dam and tunnels. Negative was created in order to produce a lantern slide of the image.