City of Vancouver Archives

Corner of Granville & Pender Sts. Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Bu P526.1
Item
[ca. 1909]

Photograph shows The Canadian Bank of Commerce, the Canada Life building under construction, G.D. Scott and Co. Real Estate, Purdy's Chocolates, O.B. Allan Jewellers, F.A. Tandoo, C.D. Rand Real Estate, Crown Building and the Delmonico Hotel.

[View of False Creek Flats east of Main Street]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N86
Item
Aug 19, 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the start of the False Creek reclamation, the Great Northern Railway Station construction site, the Main Street bascule bridge, Market Hall and Ivanhoe Hotel.

[View of False Creek Flats east of Main Street]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N87
Item
Mar. 10, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Great Northern Railway Station, construction site for the Canadian National Railway Station, the Main Street bascule bridge and the Invanhoe Hotel.

[Partially constructed Dominion Trust building, northwest corner of Cambie and Hastings Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 921
Item
[1909]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Base of "H" frame wood pole structure at south side of Second Narrows of Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1214
Item
26 Feb. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows partially constructed base of poles used to carry power lines across the Burrard Inlet to North Vancouver.

[Underground cable manholes for Haro Street substation]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1149
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior Georgia] Medical and Dental Bldg. Vancouver BC [925 West Georgia Street and parking garage under construction]

AM54-S4-: Bu P179
Item
Jan. 4, 1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph. Photograph shows the upper floors of the house at 661 Hornby St.

[Westcoast Building under construction - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.2
Item
[1968]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the central concrete core illuminated at night

[Westcoast Building under construction - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.1
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the intalled floors and the beginning of the attachments of the glass curtain wall

[Construction workers tightening cables atop Westcoast Building - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.7
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Aerial view of the Westcoast Building construction site - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.6
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the 1300-1400 blocks of West Georgia Street, Pender Street and the shipyards in Coal Harbour

[View of West Georgia Street, looking east from Westcoast Building - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.3
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Elbow Room Cafe/ Restaurant on Jervis Street

[Westcoast Building under construction - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.9
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows steel girder hoisted alongside the central concrete core

[Westcoast Building under construction - 1333 West Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P725.4
Item
[1969]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows construction site, West Georgia Street in a westward direction, and Coal Harbour area

[The frame of the World (Sun) Tower under construction]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1274
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The second C.P.R. Station under construction at the foot of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1225
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[St. James Church under construction at 301 East Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-846
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The house at 2293 West 2nd Avenue under construction]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-736
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Looking southwest from Hastings Street at Homer Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-727.1
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Dominion Trust Building, the clock on top of the Vancouver Block, the spire of Holy Rosary Cathedral, part of the Hotel Canada, the Northwest Trust Company, a rooming house and other buildings

[Looking north along Granville Street from Georgia Street towards North Vancouver]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-725.2
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing billboards for Fletchers Pianos and Empress Coffee, the Bank of Montreal, the Post Office Clock tower, the C.P.R. Station and the North and/or West Vancouver ferries