City of Vancouver Archives

Native Indian Centre May 1985

AM1576-S6-12-: 2011-010.2173
Item
1985

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a contact sheet with thirty-six images of Tillicum participating in celebrations at the Native Indian Centre [Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre] at 1607 East Hastings Street.

Vancouver Jubilee

AM1487-: 2018-008.1
Item
1947 [reprinted 197-]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives sound recording and moving image collection

Item is a promotional film showing the Diamond Jubilee celebration events, a brief history of Vancouver and concludes with footage of Vancouver after 1945. The film shows historical photographs of Vancouver and focuses on various aspects of development in Vancouver including industry, media, communications, transportation, power plants, city planning, city governance, tourism and architecture.

The film was commissioned by the Vancouver Jubilee Publicity Committee and later sponsored by the British Columbia Electric Company Ltd.

Individuals involved in the creation of the film include: John Young (Director of Photography), L.E. Weekes (Cameraman), Maureen Balfe (Editor), Gordon Inglis and Margaret Jestley (Narrators), C. Fredenburgh (Lighting), L.M. Parry (Producer), William D. Dix (Director)

This film is a re-print made by the Vancouver Museum in the late 1970's for a program called "Vancouver's Heritage in Film".

Trans-Canada Films

[Indian Canoe race in English Bay]

AM54-S4-: Bo P466.1
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Canoe being loaded onto truck]

AM54-S4-: Bo P466.2
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[English Bay Beach after the Indian canoe race]

AM54-S4-: Bo P466.3
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the bathhouse, the old aquarium, the Sylvia Hotel, the Huntington Apartments and the Beach Town House apartment.

[Getting the canoes ready before the race]

AM54-S4-: Bo P466.4
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Smoothing canoe hull before race]

AM54-S4-: Bo P466.5
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Homer Stevens addressing canoe race contestants]

AM54-S4-: Bo P466.6
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Congregation of Evangelistic Tabernacle - Hastings and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P175.1
Item
May 12, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

[First nations man in traditional dress with two men wearing ceremonial headdresses]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-2623
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Lord Alexander and his aide sitting with Chief William Scow during a ceremony to confer an honourary chieftainship on the Governor General]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3245
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Lord Alexander arriving at a ceremony to confer him as an honourary chief]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3246
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Chief William Scow and party reading a declaration to confer an honourary chieftainship on Lord Alexander]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3247
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Chief William Scow placing a mask over Lord Alexander's head during a ceremony confering an honourary Chieftainship on him]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3248
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Lord Alexander wearing a First Nations mask and blanket kneeling before Chief Wiliam Scow at a special ceremony to make Lord Alexander an honourary chief]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3249
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Chief William Scow making a speech during a ceremony to confer an honourary chieftainship on Lord Alexander]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3250
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Lord Alexander in full First Nations dress receiving a plaque from Chief William Scow during a ceremony to confery an honourary chieftainship on Lord Alexander]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3251
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

[Lord Alexander in full First Nations dress making a speech at the ceremony making him an honourary chief]

AM1184-S1-: CVA 1184-3252
Item
[13 June 1946]

Part of Jack Lindsay Ltd. Photographers fonds

Mount Currie First Nation wins Moccasin Miles relay event

AM1667-: CVA 134-068
Item
Apr. 7, 1970

Part of Vancouver Express fonds

Item is a photograph showing a hand shake after Mount Currie First Nation wins Moccasin Miles event. Caption from Vancouver Express: "Mount Currie Indian Band Team . . . relay winners in Moccasin Miles event."

[View of Kitsilano Indian Reserve looking east]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-203
Item
[ca. 1907]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows August Jack Khahtsalano, his wife Swanamia (Marrian) and a child in a dugout canoe.

[The 600 Block of Granville Street during a Victoria Day parade]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-488
Item
May 24, 1914

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a First Nations person in traditional garb, an unidentified group of clowns and performers and the main office of the Singer Sewing Machine Company and Anderson and Warnock hardware

City Hall Vanc[ouver]'s Ceremony, The Indians Sing

AM427-S4-: CVA 160-02
Item
June 21, 1962

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Item is a photograph showing Chief Dan George at the microphone and a guitar and accordion player standing behind him.

Indians at the kitchen door

AM624-S1-F1-: CVA 242-10.03
Item
1901

Part of Olga Jenkinson Bell fonds

Item is a photograph showing two First Nations women, a child and a man holding a cat at the side door of 1260 Barclay Street.

City Hall Vancouver's Ceremony, Indians welcome dance

AM427-S4-: CVA 289-142
Item
June 21, 1962

Part of William Orson Banfield fonds

Item is a photograph showing Robert (Bob) George dancing.

[A native man in costume in the Labour Day parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1156.4
Item
1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows part of the Flack Block at the corner of Hastings Street and Cambie Street

[Layhulette (Mrs. Mary Capilano) in Miss Wades' garden]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1218
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Two women sitting among First Nations artifacts]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2384
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a sign "Vancouver 1886" - possibly a Vancouver Jubilee celebration display and a stuffed bear

[A First Nations float in the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-34
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows August Jack Khahtsahlano and others

[A parade in the 700 Block of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-914
Item
1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the lower stories of the Vancouver Block and the Birks Building

Jubilee Parade [showing a First Nation in ceremonial costume]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-4471
Item
July 1, 1946

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Lipsett Museum [display] at the Vancouver Exhibition

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-736
Item
[ca. 1941]

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Item is a photograph showing an exhibit case containing baskets and on the wall behind is a group of framed portraits showing Kootenay (Ktunaxa Nation) peoples.

Lipsett Museum [display] at the Vancouver Exhibition

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-741
Item
1941

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows an ethnological map of British Columbia

Lipsett Museum [display] at the Vancouver Exhibition

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-749
Item
1941

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a display case of tools, arrow heads and other artifacts

Lipsett Museum [display] at the Vancouver Exhibition: [Carved Harpoon]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-751.2
Item
1941

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Mrs. Mathias Joe, Mrs. Mary Capilano and Chief Mathias Joe and others during visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth]

AM73-S1-1---: CVA 6-108
Item
May 29, 1939

Part of Vancouver Committee for the Reception of their Majesties fonds

[S.S. "Princess Marguerite" en route to Victoria for visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth]

AM73-S1-1---: CVA 6-117
Item
May 29, 1939

Part of Vancouver Committee for the Reception of their Majesties fonds

Photograph shows Indian war canoes

[Indian war canoe in Vancouver Harbour during visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth]

AM73-S1-1---: CVA 6-119
Item
May 29, 1939

Part of Vancouver Committee for the Reception of their Majesties fonds

[Four images of Vancouver assemblies and businesses]

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-148
Item
1910; [191-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph is a composite of four separate photographs. The image in the upper left corner shows a bakery interior and its employees. The image in the upper right corner shows individuals outside the George S. Kerr grocery store and Demetry's Ice Cream Parlour. The image in the lower right corner shows chairs and staff assembled for a Vancouver Gas Company exhibition. The image in the lower left corner shows a group of First Nations individuals assembled around a table and two large drums.