City of Vancouver Archives

[Constable A. Lindsay and his charger "Bob" watch a fawn and goat on Pipe Line Road]

[Cricket match in Stanley Park]

[Crowds at Brockton Point waiting for school children's display for the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

[Crowds in grandstand watching lacrosse game at Brockton Point grounds]

[Crowds leaving Stanley Park over Coal Harbour Bridge]

[Deadman's Island from Pender Street]

[Dignitaries and military personnel gathered around bandstand at Stanley Park for speech by United States President, Warren G. Harding]

[Dominion Construction Company dredging coal harbour for the causeway construction]

[Family assembled on rock near road in Stanley Park]

[Figurehead from the "Empress of Japan" at Stanley Park]

[Fountain at Lost Lagoon]

[Fountain in Lost Lagoon]

[Frank Plante, E.V. Young, and David Oppenheimer in a horse drawn carriage at Lumbermans Arch for the rededication of Stanley Park]

Erection of the first sections of steel for the roadbed where it enters Stanley Park. Sections suspended on wire cables hanging from main cable.

First rough grading of roadway through Stanley Park near bridge-head. Now a fine concrete driveway.

Granite rocks were dumped inside the edge of this caisson before cement was poured. Pump is carrying off water that has seeped through.

Long distance lens gives close-up of painters and electricians putting finishing touches. Cable covering machine at work on left catwalk. These catwalks are steep!

Long-distance lens gives close-up of bridge construction on North Shore. Tower foundations nearly complete. Old P.G.E. [Pacific Great Eastern Railway] tracks show at right.

Painting quickly followed erection of steel. Painter shown at work on North Shore viaduct using spray-gun. Final coat is sea-green.

Rough grading of driveway through Stanley Park finished. Pathway banks have been seeded with grass

Scow load of granite blocks for facings of the two piers. The stone and cement piers measure twenty feet in height.

Sections of Bridge road-bed supported from main cables. Each section is raised from scows. Union Steamship passing.

The 61 strands in each suspension cable are secured to seven steel butts shown above. These butts are set in tons of solid concrete.

Tower piers are finished (South Shore). A few days after this picture was taken work commenced on erection of big steel construction "creeper".

View from near top of south Bridge tower looking towards Stanley Park and driveway. The cables on left of catwalk. A steep climb.

View from Prospect Point showing barge which started operations on North Shore waterfront. Note first breakwater and right-of-way slash.

Vancouver from Stanley Park

Vancouver, B.C. from Stanley Park

View on park road, near English Bay

With Season's Greetings

With the Season's Greetings

4:30 a.m. All is in readiness for scow and tugs to haul four catwalk cables across First Narrows. Light dim. Photo taken with f/2 lens wide open at 20 seconds.

5:23 a.m. Three of the eight-ton cables for catwalks have been raised 325 feet above tide mark. Distance between piers is 1550 feet.

A diver swings into position - lifted by derrick and wire rope. Diver's air-line is being paid out by man on top of bank.

Beginning of the first caisson and general view of construction plant on South Shore from Prospect Point

Bridge-head in Stanley Park. Steel suspension cables will be held in position on top of the two steel pillars as they pass into cable anchorage below.