City of Vancouver Archives

Women go to work at the Sea Island plant of Boeing aircraft to help build Catalina PB4s

AM54-S4-: Air P1.3
Item
Dec. 30, 1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

William M. Stark [at the controls of a Curtiss Exhibition-Type Pusher Biplane at Minoru Park]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2333
Item
Apr. 13, 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the Lulu Island Bridge to Sea Island]

AM54-S4-: Out P5
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Richmond Rifle Range on Lulu Island]

AM54-S4-: Mil P138
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

View of Main Dairy Buildings - Looking East

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-4
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of grandstand at Minoru Race Track]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-447
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of a horse race at Minoru Race Track]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-448
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View from the Administration Building at Sea Island Airport looking north across the runway]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-992
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver Rifle Association Team - Defenders of Kamloops Challenge Cup

AM54-S4-: Mil P140
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing (L-R): W. Cuckow, H. J. Ferris, R. Doherty, J. Stevens, S. B. Birds, H. N. Odlin.

[Trans-Canada airplane taxiing at Sea Island airport]

AM54-S4-: Air P17
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Tom Goode, M.P. greets Hungarian refugee Helga in the Immigration Building at the airport]

AM54-S4-: Port P1428.06
Item
Dec. 6. 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Three Catalina Patrol Bombers on test flight]

AM54-S4-: Air P1.10
Item
Feb. 20 [1944?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Thomas Doman, Auldin Field Ayres and John Logan senior airport grounds maintenance staff]

AM54-S4-: Port P1447.4
Item
May 31, 1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Storage Room. Milk is Stored in a Cold Temperature Here Until Delivered to the Customers

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-22
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable Anthony Eden at the airport]

AM54-S4-: Port P1458.2
Item
Apr. 6, 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable and Mrs. Anthony Eden at the airport]

AM54-S4-: Port P1458.1
Item
Apr. 6, 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable and Mrs. Anthony Eden at the airport]

AM54-S4-: Port P1458.3
Item
Apr. 6, 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The nose of an airplane]

AM54-S4-: Trans P82
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The North Arm Bridge looking north from Sea Island]

AM54-S4-: Out P366
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Edward McDade, Duncan Smith, Miss Hazel Smith, Mr. Urquhart, Mrs. Duncan Smith, Mr. Brown, Captain Stewart, Mr. Sinclair, Billy Williams, Ed Smith, Mr. McBain and others

The Morning Mash at Frasea is Rich in Vitamins, Calcium and Nutrients that the Cows can Assimilate to Produce a Rich and Healthy Milk

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-11
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The inaugural Trans-Canada Airlines flight between Vancouver and Seattle]

AM54-S4-: Trans P83
Item
Sept. 2, 1937

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows R.L. Maitland, D.R. McLaren, His Worship G.C. Miller and others

The Huge Milk Cooler Where the Pasturized Milk is Cooled From 145 Degrees Down to 40 Degrees While Passing Over this Cooler. This Cooler is Enclosed with Stainless Steel and Glass

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-20
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Hospital. Any Cow in the Herd that Becomes Ill is Isolated in the Hospital until Completely Cured and Then is Returned Back to the Herd

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-17
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Honourable James Sinclair greets the first Hungarian refugee to deplane at the airport]

AM54-S4-: Port P1428.21
Item
Dec. 6. 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

["The Flying Seven"]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-478
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait in front of a bi-plane showing (left to right): Miss Tosca Trasolini, Mrs. Alma Gilbert, Miss Jean Pike, Mrs. Elizabeth (Betsy) Flaherty, Miss Margaret Fane, Miss Rolie Moore (Mrs. Barratt) and Miss Elianne Roberge

[The first non-stop flight to Mexico just after take-off]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-719
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the judges checking the time

[The first house built by Hugh McRoberts on Sea Island]

AM54-S4-: Out P430
Item
[ca. 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The first camp of No. 11 (A.C.) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force at Sea Island Airport]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-752
Item
1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Exterior View of Frasea Farms Modern Piggery

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-26
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The "Empress of Auckland", C.P.A. transpacific aircraft, on tarmac at Vancouver Airport.

AM54-S4-: Air P39
Item
July, 1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Dyke at London's, Lulu Island, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P678.1
Item
Sept. 1908 ; reproduced 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Duke of Kent touring an aircraft factory]

AM54-S4-: Duke of K P3
Item
Aug. 1941

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Air Commodore Earl Godfrey

The Cattle Have Names at Frasea Farms Because they are Pure Bred. Their Milk Production is Weighed Each Day and Accurate Records are Kept of Their Lifetime Production

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-15
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Canadian Pacific Airlines airplane in which Queen Elizabeth travelled]

AM54-S4-: Port P1690.01
Item
Feb. 1, 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Bunting Family]

AM54-S4-: Port N981
Item
[ca. 1888] ; reproduced 1962

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing left to right: (standing): Maud Ethel, Mary Elizabeth "Lillie" (Mrs. A.H. Mitchell) and Agnes May (Mrs. Frederick Jones); (seated): Charles Roland, Charles Edward, Jennie (nee McRoberts) and Mabel Grace (Mrs. William Thomas Hoyes)

[The Brisbane Aviation Company Limited building at Vancouver Civic Airport]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-468
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Stephan a Hungarian refugee deplanes at the airport]

AM54-S4-: Port P1428.05
Item
Dec. 6. 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Stanley Burke, President of Boeing Aircraft of Canada in his new office on Sea Island]

AM54-S4-: Port P682
Item
1944

Part of Major Matthews collection

Standard's Phamon - One of the Nobility From Jersey Island - You Can Tell by the Jewellery Around Her Horns

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-8
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Southern view from Steveston Highway and Number Five Road of vehicles waiting for the Fraser River ferry]

AM54-S4-: LP 284.2
Item
1950

Part of Major Matthews collection

Oblique view

Southern end Fraser Avenue Bridge

AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.3
Item
1919

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Soldiers on steps of the Richmond Rifle Range]

AM54-S4-: Mil P196
Item
[between 1905 and 1907]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing left to right (seated): Lieutenant James Sclater, Captain J. Reynolds Tite, Lieutenant Colonel J.C. Whyte, Captain Hart-McHarg, Lieutenant Thomas Cunningham, Sergeant John Moscrop; (standing): Mr. Sloan, Mr. Perry, Mr. Sid, Mr. Mortimore, Ralph Wilson, Mr. Kennedy, C.P. Bliss and George Turnbull

[Smoke billows over stacks of peat during fire on Lulu Island]

AM54-S4-: Out P451.2
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Seven Beauties Imported From the Island of Jersey By J. Grauer and Sons Forming Part of the Foundation of the Famous Grauer Herds

AM54-S4-1-M-8-: M-8-7
Item
[between 1938 and 1944]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Sea Island Airport Airdrome with hangar doors open]

AM54-S4-: Air N33
Item
[5 May 1931]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' inscription on negative "7797 Sea Island Airport Airdrome. 5 May 1931. Foundation stone Administration Bldg laid 13 Sept 1930. Official Opening 22 July 1931."