City of Vancouver Archives

[C.P.R. crossing under construction on Cordova between Seymour and Granville Streets]

AM54-S4-: Can P25
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the end of the depot that held the Dominion Government Immigration Office.

[Palace Livery Stables, Burrard Street]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-169
Item
[ca. 1896]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the stables, snow-covered street and north shore mountains in the background..

[Looking east along the 600 block of] Hastings Street

AM1376-: CVA 1376-168
Item
[ca. 1896]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows S. Blackson, tobacconist at the corner of Granville and Hastings Streets and other buildings on Hastings Street.

[B.C. Electric Railway Co. power house under construction - Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Bu P248
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a carbon arc street light.

Hotel Vancouver

AM54-S4-1-S-3-: S-3-1
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the first Hotel Vancouver (with extension) on the southwest corner of Granville Street and Georgia Street

[Interior of] Pioneer [Steam] Laundry [showing the] Producer Gas-Electric Plant [- 904 Richards Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P492.1
Item
1908

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Lower portion of concrete smoke stack from reconstruction of Vancouver Steam Plant]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1127
Item
[1910?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric power lines above lane behind Carnegie Library at Hastings and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1192
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Chapman and Walker [Electric Machinery and Supplies display at] Vancouver Exhibition

AM54-S4-: Bu P492.2
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Man sitting in back seat of electrically operated passenger coupe style car]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1268
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pieces of water pipe and lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.1
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of water pipe and lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.8
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of water pipe, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.4
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of water pipe, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.6
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.2
Item
[1912?

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of water pipe, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.5
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

Fire on Main Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2135
Item
July 20, 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the remains of a building, a burned street car and a man standing on an electrical transformer

[Pieces of water pipe and lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.3
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of water pipe and lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1202.7
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Man with generator near man laying streetcar tracks, for reconstruction of Hastings, Main and Harris (Georgia) Street lines]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1068.08
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Men using a storage battery operated truck to haul reels of cable at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1264.3
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Dunsmuir Hotel to meet boats at the dock]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1267.3
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Haro Street substation, located on Haro between Burrard and Thurlow Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1172
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Underground cable manholes for Haro Street substation]

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

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men using a storage battery operated truck to haul reels of cable at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1264.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric storage battery operated truck outside B.C. Electric Railway Co. building on Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1265
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of power poles, looking east along the 1600 block of Venables Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1229
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Dunsmuir Hotel to meet boats at the docks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1267.1
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electrically operated bus used by the Lotus Hotel to meet boats at the docks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1266
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Power lines in front of the Grandview Sheet Metal Works building at 1685 Venables Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1228
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shoes high voltage power pole, with cradle guards under the power lines.

[Electrically operated bus used by the Dunsmuir Hotel to meet boats at the docks]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1267.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men on float in False Creek to determine electric currents from streetcar tracks in Fairview area]

AM54-S4-: LGN 960
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men in photograph include Distribution Engineer Mr. Busch (in bowler hat), and Assistant Engineer R. Lyon (in cloth cap).

[Men using a storage battery operated truck to haul reels of cable at the south side of False Creek]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1264.2
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men laying power cables under Smithe Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 988
Item
6 May 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men laying two 11,000 volt cables from large spool. Photograph shows Smithe Street looking west towards Granville Street.

[View of southeast corner of Pender and Burrard Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1237
Item
9 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows power poles, houses on Burrard Street, and the Charleson Black building at the corner, containing businesses and apartments.

[Piece of lead covered cable and lead sheath of underground cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1181.4
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Pieces of water pipe and lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1181.7
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Power poles and pruned trees on Burrard Street near Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1235
Item
9 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Newly installed power poles at Burrard and Haro Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1234
Item
9 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Electric power lines running above lane west of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1129
Item
26 Jan. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Section of coal conveyor, concrete stack, and gas holder structure of the Vancouver Steam Plant]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1196
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially laid cable ducts in the sidewalk of the Georgia Viaduct]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1203
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pieces of water pipe and lead covered cable, showing corrosion as part of an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1181.6
Item
[1914?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows specimens, and labels indicating type of specimen and the location from which it was taken.

[Power lines and supporting structure in lane west of Main Street at Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1241
Item
10 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows power lines, houses with businesses operating on ground floors, and a portion of the City Hall building.

[Power lines over intersection of Cambie and Pender Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1240
Item
10Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows intersection, looking northwest towards Victory Square.

[Power lines over lane near Pender and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1231
Item
10 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows electric power lines and support structure, and part of the Sherman Hotel.

[Newly installed power poles at the southeast corner of Hastings and Burrard Streets]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1238
Item
9 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows power poles, planks over muddy road, and the Townley residence on the corner.

[Newly installed power poles on Burrard Street, looking south from near Dunsmuir Street]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1242
Item
9 Mar. 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three men on float in False Creek conducting an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1269.1
Item
6 May 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows three men with equipment on a small float, and two men in canoes nearby.

[Three men on float in False Creek conducting an electrolysis survey]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1269.2
Item
[6 May 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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