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Vancouver downtown property map

Item consists of a planning map depicting every building between Main Street and Stanley Park north of False Creek, showing the address, name (if a commercial building), number of floors, and type of use (commercial, apartments, vacant, etc. ). The map may be based on a City of Vancouver Planning Department map, partially re-purposed and published by Colliers Macaulay Nicholls.

Plan of the City of Vancouver

Item is a reduced size copy of the Hermon & Burwell map Plan of the City of Vancouver. This copy is ca. 1/4 the size of the original map. The map shows District Lots, blocks and lots; transportation infrastructure such as bridges and railway and streetcar lines; and the identification of some industries, especially along the various waterfronts.

Vancouver, Canada

Item is a map of the Lower Mainland from the City of Vancouver east to Port Coquitlam, including the North Shore municipalities, Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, the western portion of Port Coquitlam, Richmond, and the northern portion of Surrey. The pictorial map is in the form of an oblique aerial view oriented to the E/NE.

City of Vancouver [park sites June/80]

Map is a City Engineering Department base map of Vancouver, with parks hand-coloured in green. Shows city blocks and Canadian Pacific, Canadian National and Great Northern Railway lines. Golf courses, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are identified. "Metric Vancouver" and "Guide Map 15" appear in the bottom right corner of the map.

City of Vancouver

Map is a City Engineering Department base map of Vancouver, showing city blocks and Canadian Pacific, Canadian National and Great Northern Railway lines. Parks, golf courses, hospitals, schools, theatres and other structures are identified. "Metric Vancouver" and "Guide Map 15" appear in the bottom right corner of the map.

Map of portion New Westminster District

Item is a heavily-amended copy of a map illustrating intended land settlement and subdivision in 1877 in the future sites of Vancouver, Burnaby and the North Shore, from an area bordering on English Bay to an area bordering on North Arm. Also shown are bodies of water, Hastings & Granville Road, and the settlements of Hastings and Granville. Annotations by J.S. Matthews in 1954 made on the copy are tracings in white pen and darkening the background to improve the copy.

It might have been Albert City, 1858, New Georgia 1792 : it was Granville, 1870, British Columbia, 1871 : it is Vancouver, 1886, British Columbia, 1871 : it is Vancouver, 1886, Canada, 1867

Item is a map compiled and drawn by J.S. Matthews, City Archivist showing historic place names of Vancouver and the North Shore and listing some historic Burnaby names. A note in the bottom left hand corner reads: "Memorada. The precise location of "Albert City" is unknown, Narveaz was first; 150 years passed before his name was given to a landmark. His vessel's name "Santa Saturnina" has never been applied to anything at all."

Canadian Pacific Railway. Plan of part of branch line from Port Moody. A point on main line C.P.R. to English Bay, B.C.

Map shows a survey conducted by the Canadian Pacific Railway of English Bay, Burrard Inlet and Coal Harbour, including a rough outline of area and lots. Note on map reads "Certified as a correct plan showing the land required for right of way Burrard Inlet B.C., February 22, 1886. H.J. Cambie, Engineer in Charge." Map is certified as correct and signed by various C.P.R. officials, including W.C. Van Horne.

Tourist guide map of Vancouver City and park

Item is a map shows city streets for downtown, Fairview and Mount Pleasant, and major civic, municipal and industrial buildings, as well as "electric street railways shown in red." An inset map shows the roads and trails of Stanley Park. The map is annotated with green pencil shading "signifies where houses are" and blue shading indicates areas where it "is almost entirely vacant land - small trees."

Vancouver Harbour, British Columbia, 1945

Item is a nautical chart showing English Bay and Burrard Inlet with soundings in feet, anchorages, locations of submarine cables, and ferry lines. Land features include city blocks and district lot numbers. Includes inset maps of the North Arm of Burrard Inlet and Vancouver Island. Note at the bottom of map states, "Not to be used for navigational purposes."

Vancouver

Item is a map showing land subdivision in the New Westminster District. The Reference index indicates that lands alienated or covered by applications under the "Land Act"; surveyed timber leases, licences, and births; and Indian reserves are noted; none of these categories of land have been colour-coded on the map. The map also shows land district boundaries; park boundaries; provincial forest boundaries; forest management licences; and municipal boundaries.

The map appears to be based on the National Topographic Series 1:250,000 map 92G, with other data added.

Vancouver

Item is a map showing land subdivision in the New Westminster District. The map shows lands alienated or covered by applications under the "Land Act"; surveyed timber leases, licences, and births; and Indian reserves; shows land district boundaries; park boundaries; provincial forest boundaries; forest management licences; and municipal boundaries.

The map appears to be based on the National Topographic Series 1:250,000 map 92G, with other data added.

Vancouver, British Columbia

Item is a map showing New Westminster Land District, including lands alienated or covered by application under the Land Act; surveyed timber leases, licences, or berths; Indian reserves; Government reserves; provincial forest boundaries; tree farm licences; municipality boundaries; and park boundaries. Includes a key plan of maps published in the same publisher's series and a reliability diagram noting data sources.

Stuart's pocket map of Vancouver, B.C.

Item is an illustrated map of the "old" City of Vancouver. The map shows streets, transportation, and significant businesses (such as C.P.R. wharves, smelter, Hastings Mill, Morse's Mill, C.P.R. Shops, City Hospital, sawmill, slaughter houses, and smallpox hospital). The map includes "Index of Streets, Government Offices, Churches, [etc.], including "Civic and other Principal Buildings", "Places of Amusement or Recreation", "Public Schools", "Principal Mills, Foundries and Manufactories", "Principle Bankers", Principal Hotels", and "Miscellaneous".

The map was designed to be folded into a cover, which is included.

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.

Plan of portions of False Creek (Kitsilano) Indian Reserve, Vancouver, B.C., required for Burrard Street Bridge right-of-way

Map shows proposed route for entry to the Burrard Street Bridge from Cornwall and Cedar Streets. Survey overseen by George Frederick Fountain, Land Surveyor of the City of Vancouver, March 26, 1930. Correctness of survey sworn before H. J. Painter, a notary public for the Province of British Columbia, April 8, 1930.

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

Transit routes in downtown area Vancouver, B.C. effective July 18, 1952

Item is a sheet which contains maps of the downtown portions of 14 BC Electric transit routes: Dunbar, Arbutus, Granville - Kingsway - Victoria, Macdonald, 4th Ave. - West Pt. Grey, Powell - Stanley Park, Broadway East - Robson, Hastings East, Main, Davie - Fraser, Grandview, Oak, Cambie, North Vancouver - Intercity.

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