City of Vancouver Archives

[North to south east view of Shaughnessy from near 37th Avenue]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N257B
Item
Apr. 1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Shaughnessy Golf Club and a Fire Hall in the distance.

Vancouver, B.C. "The livest and most beautifully located city in Canada"

AM54-S4-: PAN P79
Item
Aug. 31, 1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view (280 degrees) taken from the dome of the World Building showing the Beatty Street Armouries, the Cambie Street Grounds, Central High School, Vancouver High School, the Dominion Building, the railway yards and the eastern industrial areas

[Panoramic view of downtown, Vancouver from Granville and Hastings Streets]

AM54-S4-: PAN P92.3
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph of downtown Vancouver. This is a cropped version of PAN P92.1.

[Panoramic view of downtown, Vancouver from Granville and Hastings Streets]

AM54-S4-: PAN P92.2
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is almost a 360 degree view. Buildings and some landmarks are identified in ink on print. This is a cropped version of PAN P92.1.

Written on the back of the print in what appears to be Major J.S. Matthews writing:
"Building permits issued.
Court House, superstructure, 7 Dec 1907 (addition, 30/3/1912)
excavation, 8 Mar 1907
Dominion Trust 21 Apr 1908
Carter-Cotton Bldg (Province Bldg) 5 Oct 1908 (addition Pender St 14/11/10)

Street cars and vehicles:- left hand rule of the road until 1921.

Have not investigated but this looks July or August 1908 or perhaps July-Aug 1909"

[Panoramic view of Vancouver looking east, south and west from the Post Office tower]

AM54-S4-: PAN P93
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews identification notes on print.

[Horse and cart travelling along 34th Avenue (now 33rd Avenue) before paving]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-40
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Horse and cart travelling along] 34th Avenue [now 33rd Ave.] before paving

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-57
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Houses in South Vancouver]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-72
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows houses on a residential street with wooden sidewalks and an unpaved road.

[Street car outside the Winram Block, 17th and Main St.]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-43
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Surveyors on street in South Vancouver]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-75
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of 33rd Avenue showing road work in progress]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-69
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of a dirt road, possibly 33rd Avenue, with street car tracks along one side]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-54
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of an intersection on Kingsway]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-106
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of finished] Paving Main St. and 17th Ave. looking north [showing the Winram block]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-30
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of intersection probably River Avenue, now Marine Drive, and Fraser Street]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-127
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Joyce Street looking south west towards Carleton School]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-85
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of road paving at the] Intersection Main St. and 34th Ave. [now 33rd Avenue]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-59
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the] Main St. bog [between 33rd Avenue and 41st Avenue]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-28
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of] 34th Ave [now 33rd Ave] showing bitulithic paving

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-58
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of] 56th Avenue

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-4
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of] Main St. and 51st Ave. looking north

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-32
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Finished bitulithic pavement Fraser St. and 34th Ave. [now 33rd Ave.]

AM54-S4-1-A-16-: A-16-64
Item
[191-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Granville Street looking north from about Dunsmuir Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P361
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a woman riding a bicycle

Town-site of Hastings

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

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.

Vancouver harbour

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item contains both nautical chart and map data. Nautical chart data includes soundings, anchorages, ferry lines, wharves, and waterfront businesses. Map features include district lots, streets, railways, and municipal boundaries.

False Creek development survey occupation plan

AM738-S1-: MAP 913
Item
Sept. 1952

Part of Dominion Map and Blueprint Company fonds

Item is a copy of a City of Vancouver Engineer's Office map of the False Creek area from Walnut Street to Main Street and downtown to Sixth Avenue. Map shows streets, railway lines, names of businesses occupying sites on the waterfront, and former high tide waterlines.

Street map of the Fraser Valley

AM738-S1-: MAP 923
Item
[ca. 1945]

Part of Dominion Map and Blueprint Company fonds

Item is a street map of the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley from Vancouver to Chilliwack.

[View of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York arriving at the reception outside the Courthouse on Hastings and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P36
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Flack Block and Northwest Mounted Police

Unidentified street in Point Grey [4700 block of Belmont Avenue]

AM757-S2-F2-: CVA 798-3.19
Item
1978

Part of Vancouver Public Aquarium Association fonds

Photograph taken in Point Grey along Belmont Avenue near Langara Avenue. English Bay, Stanley Park and Downtown peninsula visible in background

Pender Street at Main : Chinatown looking west toward the downtown core

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1921
Item
[ca.1987]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with an image showing Pender Street in Chinatown looking west.

Ladysmith, B.C.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1174
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Lillooet, B.C. Canada.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1190
Item
[192-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

West Looe [Cornwall]

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1370
Item
[ca. 1930]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mrs. Bert Harrison of Vancouver, B.C.

[Milsom Street, Bath, decorated for a special event]

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1402
Item
[ca. 1904]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

[A commercial street in Bath decorated for a special event]

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1403
Item
[ca. 1904]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

[A street in Bath decorated for a special event]

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1404
Item
[ca. 1904]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Bath, High Street from Abbey.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1410
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Harrison of Vancouver, B.C.

Chagford.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1457
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Due to damage on the verso, sender and recipient cannot be distinguished.

Duke street, Birr

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1474
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mr. A. Harrison of Vancouver, B.C.

Greetings from Camborne.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1504
Item
[ca. 1900-1910?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with images of key places in Camborne. This postcard was presented to Mrs. Harrison.

English Street, Carlisle.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1509
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

High street, Haddington.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1549
Item
[ca. 1907]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mrs. E. Baggs of Bath, England.

Headingley.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1552
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Miss. H. Baggs of Bath, England.

Cornhill and Market street, Highbridge.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1553
Item
[ca. 1906-1908]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with images of two main streets of Highbridge and the town's coat of arms. This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mr. Arthur Baggs of Bath, England.