City of Vancouver Archives

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.085
Item
1859

Item is a copy of a portion of a manuscript map of Burrard Inlet, created during the H.M.S. Plumper survey of the area. Sheet shows the eastern portion of the Inlet, including the southern portion of the North Arm.

United Kingdom. Admiralty

Portion of Burrard Inlet

AM1594-: MAP 684a
Item
1859 [copied ca. 1950?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a photostat copy of a portion of a map of Burrard Inlet from the 1859 H.M.S. Plumper Survey. The map depicts outer Burrard Inlet and the surrounding shorlines.

Portion of Burrard Inlet

AM1594-: MAP 684b
Item
[186-?], [copied 195-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a copy of a portion of a British Admiralty hydrographic survey of Burrard Inlet. The copied portion shows the area from First Narrows to just east of Capital Hill. The map shows soundings in the Inlet, as well as indications of topography of the surrounding shoreline areas.

North America. West Coast. Fraser River and Burrard Inlet

AM1594-: MAP 530
Item
1860-Aug. 1863

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a nautical chart which show details of area surveyed from Pitt Lake in the north to Roberts Bank in the south and from (what is now) Harrison Hot Springs in the east to Bowen Island in the west. The chart shows soundings in Burrard Inlet, and along the Fraser River.

North America. West Coast. Fraser River and Burrard Inlet

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a nautical chart which show details of area surveyed from Pitt Lake in the north to Roberts Bank in the south and from (what is now) Harrison Hot Springs in the east to Bowen Island in the west. The chart shows soundings in Burrard Inlet, and along the Fraser River.

Fraser River and Burrard Inlet

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.088
Item
[Nov. 30, 1860, with corrections to Mar. 1881]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Fraser River and Burrard Inlet

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.089
Item
[Nov. 30, 1860, with corrections to May 1891]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Fraser River and Burrard Inlet

AM54-S13-: LEG1801.087
Item
[Nov. 30, 1860?], with corrections to Aug. 1868

Part of Major Matthews collection

Granville [Townsite], B.C. Aug., 1885

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a fire insurance map of the "Coal Harbour" [south shore of Burrard Inlet] area. The Hastings Saw Mill Company and Coal Harbour Fishery are shown in detail. Other businesses along Front Street are identified including hotels and stores.

City of Vancouver, Canadian Pacific Town Site

AM1594-: MAP 33
Item
[between 1887 and 1889]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

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.

North America - West Coast. British Columbia. Burrard Inlet

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map sheet containing four nautical charts and one illustration. The main chart depicts Burrard Inlet; the three inset charts depict First Narrows, Vancouver Harbour and Second Narrows. The charts depict soundings and physical features. The illustration is of Point Atkinson Lighthouse.

Canadian Pacific Railway plan of foreshore at Vancouver, Burrard Inlet as shewn on plan fyled in Department of Railways and Canals, 31st March, 1886

AM127-: MAP 648
Item
Jan. 30, 1893

Part of Privy Council (Canada) collection

Item is a map showing land subdivision in downtown Vancouver around Burrard Inlet, and the route of the Canadian pacific Railway along the south shore of Burrard Inlet.

Burrard Inlet

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a sheet with three nautical charts. The main chart depicts Burrard Inlet from Atkinson Point [Point Atkinson] in the west to the "townsite of Port Moody" in the east. The inset charts depict Vancouver Harbour and the Second Narrows.

Tourist guide map of Vancouver City and Park

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

The map shows the area currenlty occupied by Downtown Vancouver and parts of Kitsilano. It shows the location of C.P.R. Wharves, Hastings Saw Mill and other saw and shingle mills. "Note, Electric street railway shewn in Red."

Plan of the Burrard Inlet and Pitt River canal location

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map which depicts the route of a proposed canal running from Port Moody to the Pitt River through the Coquitlam River. Lot numbers and the Canadian Pacific railway line are also shown.

Plan of Vancouver Harbour and False Creek, Vancouver, B.C., showing proposed improvements as outlined in Jos. R. Roy's reports dated 15th Sept. 1906

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map showing major landmarks, railway lines, harbour lands reclaimed, proposed wharves and piers, retaining walls and dredging, and soundings in fathoms in Vancouver Harbour (Burrard Inlet) and False Creek.

First Narrows, Burrard Inlet, B.C. showing Parthia and Burnaby shoals

AM1594-: MAP 506
Item
Sept. 26, 1909

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map showing shorelines, estuaries of adjacent creeks, mud flats, tide levels and soundings in feet. Map notes velocity of current at First Narrows.

New Westminster (B.C.). Department of Public Works

A glimpse of the Narrows, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-306
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is postcard printed with an image of Burrard Inlet and the First Narrows, looking north toward the North Shore from Stanley Park.

Suggested harbour improvements Burrard Inlet

COV-S365-: LEG1967.05
Item
[191-?]

Part of City of Vancouver fonds

Plan of proposed dam, locks and wharves. Second Narrows, Burrard Inlet

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item consists of a design for a proposed dam and locks system to be located near the Second Narrows of Burrard Inlet. One side of the dammed area is marked "reclaimed tideflats available for industrial purposes," the other "land available for industrial or other purposes." Sites for warehouses are indicated on the dam.

Kilmer and Holland, Engineers and Surveyors

Sketch of proposed interurban canal and harbour development for Greater Vancouver, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a copy of a map depicting the approximate location of a proposed canal from Burrard Inlet to the Pitt River and the Canadian Pacific Railway line. The map also includes "Detail of wharves and locks at Second Narrows".

Coquitlam (B.C.). Engineer's Office

North Vancouver, B.C.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-759
Item
[191-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Indian Mission on Vancouver Harbor

AM1052-: AM1052 P-758
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

The "First Narrows" entrance to Vancouver Harbor.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-311
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with an image of a passenger ferry entering the First Narrows. The Prospect Point lighthouse and a smaller building with a ramp leading down to the water are shown; the area of the North Shore across the First Narrows is also pictured. Postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mrs. Shand in Edmonds, B.C., from F. Pullen in Vancouver.

"Burrard Inlet Dock" looking west from Campbell Ave. July 1, 1913

AM1376-: CVA 113-1
Item
July 1, 1913

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Shell Oil Co. - tanks at Barnet

AM1535-: CVA 99-192
Item
1917

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Shell Oil Co. - tanks at Barnet

AM1535-: CVA 99-193
Item
1917

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Shell Oil Co. tanks at Barnet

AM1535-: CVA 99-267
Item
1919

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Business section & Burrard Inlet

AM1376-: CVA 65-6
Item
[192-]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph of downtown Vancouver, Granville Street, the waterfront, Burrard Inlet, and the north shore mountains, taken from an upper floor of the Birks Building (700 Granville Street), looking northwest.

Evening, Prospect Point, Stanley Park

AM1376-: CVA 65-9
Item
[192-]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Grouse Mountain and the Lions

AM1052-: AM1052 P-745
Item
[192-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Miss Lotsie Lane, c.o William Peterson Esq., Saanichton P.O., Vancouver Island, B.C.

Wigwam Inn

AM1052-: AM1052 P-844
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Ballantyne Pier, Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a fire insurance plan of Ballantyne Pier, showing structural and fire fighting information for the purposes of determining fire rating for the site The sheet also includes an architectural section of the outer and inner berth buildings.

British Columbia Underwriters' Association

Burrard Inlet - Vancouver sheet

AM1594-MAP 1157-: LEG1153.055
Item
1921

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Burrard Inlet - Dollarton sheet

AM1594-MAP 1157-: LEG1153.057
Item
1921

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Burrard Inlet - triangulation control

AM1594-MAP 1157-: LEG1153.062
Item
1921

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Burrard Inlet - Barnet sheet

AM1594-MAP 1157-: LEG1153.058
Item
1921

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Burrard Inlet - Second Narrows sheet

AM1594-MAP 1157-: LEG1153.056
Item
1921

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Burrard Inlet - Port Moody sheet

AM1594-MAP 1157-: LEG1153.059
Item
1921

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Burrard Inlet : Vancouver sheet : British Columbia

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a map showing streets, roads, buildings, trails, railways, electric railways, bridges, swing bridges, foot bridges, churches, schools, post offices, wharves, piers, dikes, piling lighthouses, lightships, beacons, ranges, range lights, buoys, triangulation stations and geographical features in Burrard Inlet from Moodyville in the east to First Narrows in the west. A small index map shows this and other numbered sheets in relation to one another.