Showing 41 results

Archival description
City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection Burrard Inlet (B.C.)
Print preview View:

30 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects

City of Vancouver : Canadian Pacific town site

Primary map shows lot numbers and boundaries, streets, fire limits and "soundings in feet" (in English Bay, Burrard Inlet, Coal Harbour and False Creek) in downtown Vancouver, Stanley Park and parts of Kitsilano and Fairview. The ancillary maps show an "Index plan of Vancouver, B.C.", an "Index plan of [Vancouver] city limits" and "Canadian Pacific Mail Steamship Lines" (a map of Canadian Pacifc steamship routes around the world). On recto, the item also includes a description of Stanley Park and an illustration of Vancouver's inner harbour. On verso, the item includes descriptions of major Vancouver residences, imports, exports, businesses and other landmarks.

Second Narrows Dam : general plan

First map shows the "proposed V.H.C. terminal railway" route along the southern shore of False Creek, along the southern shore of Burrard Inlet, across Second Narrows and along the northern shore of Burrard Inlet in North Vancouver. The second map shows details of the proposed dam and locks at Second Narrows. The additional sheet outlines the estimated costs of the proposed dam and locks at Second Narrows.

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

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

Howe Sound - Burrard Inlet

Item is a topographic map in two sections showing British Columbia north of Burrard Inlet to Britannia Creek in the north, and from Howe Sound in the west to Indian Arm in the east. Map shows lakes, streams and other natural features; roads, railways, communication lines, cities and other built features; and land, timber, and mineral surveys by number.

Howe Sound - Burrard Inlet [Burrard Inlet portion]

Part shows the Lower Mainland and Burrard Inlet from Howe Sound in the west to Indian Arm in the east. Map shows topographic contour lines, elevations, lakes, streams and other natural features, roads, railways, communication lines, cities and other settlements, and land, timber, and mineral surveys by number. Includes a list of sources of information.

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.

Vancouver Harbour : Sheet 2 (Point Grey to Second Narrows)

item is a nautical chart of Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Harbour from Point Grey in the west to Second Narrows in the east, showing soundings in fathoms, tidal information, anchorages, beacons, and waterfront businesses. Street names are shown on land areas. A Royal Canadian Air Force bombing range at Jericho Beach is identified as a danger area.

Vancouver Harbour. British Columbia

Item is a map sheet containing three nautical charts. The main map shows English Bay and Burrard Inlet and the land bordering these bodies of water, including North and West Vancouver, Downtown Vancouver, the University Endowment Lands and Port Moody. Inset maps depict the north arm of Burrard Inlet and a chart showing Vancouver Island in relation to the B.C. coast and the state of Washington, U.S.A.

Port of the City of Vancouver. Isometric view from the south-west

Item is a set of maps printed on one sheet. The main map shows an isometric view of the port of Vancouver from Stanley Park through the Second Narrows Bridge (including North Vancouver). The perspective point appears to be located above the Granviile Street and West Georgia Street intersection. Note that the isometric view of locations west of Granville Street is from the south-east, rather than the south-west, as indicated in the title.
The map depicts the port infrastructure, including piers, drydocks and companies located in the port.

The inset maps are a key plan showing the location of the port relative to the Lower Mainland as a whole, and a larger-scale map entitled "Plan of the Port of the City of Vancouver from Coal Harbour to Second Narrows". It contains more detail about the names of the various piers, drydocks and companies and shows the North Vancouver port facilities as well as south shore ones.

Burrard Inlet : Vancouver sheet : British Columbia

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.

Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia

Item is a nautical chart of Burrard Inlet, including the southern portions of the North Arm of Burrard Inlet. The map shows depth soundings, harbour anchorages, headlines, beacons, buoys, bells, piers and wharves. The map also shows lot numbers, municipal boundaries and major street names of the southern portion of North Vancouver and the northern portions of Point Grey, Kitsilano, Mt. Pleasant, Fairview, Hastings Townsite, Burnaby and Port Moody from the Coquitlam municipal boundary in the east to the western boundary of the Vancouver harbour (between Point Atkinson and Point Grey) in the west. The item also includes a key map showing the location of the Vancouver Harbour in relation to northwestern Washington and Vancouver Island and an inset map showing lots surrounding the north arm of Burrard Inlet to the Inlailawatash Indian Reserve.