Looking north from the Fraser Street Bridge showing the open swing span
- AM54-S4-2-F1-: CVA 371-905.5
- Item
- 1919
Part of Major Matthews collection
Looking north from the Fraser Street Bridge showing the open swing span
Part of Major Matthews collection
Fraser Ave. bridge over North Arm - Fraser River
Part of Major Matthews collection
Item is a photograph showing the gates of the draw bridge and bridge tender Thomas Dodson is standing far right.
Southern end Fraser Avenue Bridge
Part of Major Matthews collection
Looking north towards South Vancouver over Fraser Avenue Bridge
Part of Major Matthews collection
Vancouver Rifle Association Team - Defenders of Kamloops Challenge Cup
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.
[Canadian Pacific Airlines christening of the "Empress of Vancouver"]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Airplane identified as Canadair Four CF-CPR 404
[Richmond Presbyterian Church on Sea Island from the road]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Group portrait at the Richmond Rifle range on Lulu Island showing: (back row) A.J. Barwick, R.P. Latta, S.J. Perry, A. Graham, George Turnbill; (middle row) G.A. Boult, W.H. Forrest, J. Reynolds Tite, A.W. Currie, unknown, James Sclater, Tom Cunningham; (front row) Ralph Wilson, W.J. Sloan, J.S. Matthews and C.R. Porter
[Tom Goode, M.P. greets Hungarian refugee Helga in the Immigration Building at the airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Opening Day of Vancouver International Airport
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Muriel Cornish, Wilfred Cornish, and Mary Tait on Marpole Bridge near Grauer's Store]
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Commemoration plaque for the airport administration building]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Matthews inscription on negative "7802 Sea Island Airport May 5th 1931. Foundation Stone Sept 13, 1930. Official Opening 22 July 1931. Administration Bldg burned Feb 19, 1949. All records lost."
[Sea Island Airport Airdrome with hangar doors open]
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."
Part of Major Matthews collection
J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.
[Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Ashthorpe in front of a B.C. Airways Ltd. "Ford Transport" airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Mrs. Abraham (Mary Ann "Polly") Pinder]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[View from the Administration Building at Sea Island Airport looking north across the runway]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Looking north from the Fraser Street Bridge showing the open swing span]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Looking north across the Fraser Street Bridge]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[The first camp of No. 11 (A.C.) Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force at Sea Island Airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[The first non-stop flight to Mexico just after take-off]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows the judges checking the time
[Mr. Maclachlin, Miss Bow and Frank Way beside a United Airlines airplane]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Exterior of Alexander Mitchell's residence on Mitchell Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Item is a photograph. Notes written on the back include: " Alexander Mitchell residence on Mitchell Island, Richmond, B.C., in the Greater Vancouver area. My grandfather, Alexander Mitchell, was born at North Wakefield, Que., in 1847 and went to B.C. in the 1870's, pioneering in lumbering and farming. This house, built in typical ottawa valley style, was my mother's girlhood home. It was built about 1885 and burned about 1925. Alexander Mitchell died on the Island in 1931. Wessie M. Lamb"
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 Brisbane Aviation Company Limited building at Vancouver Civic Airport]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Riders and horses in front of the grandstand at Minoru Park]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[View of a horse race at Minoru Race Track]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[View of grandstand at Minoru Race Track]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Engine Control Panel - Test House - B.A.E.L and C.W.L. - Sea Island, B.C.
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Engine test house - B.A.E.L. and C.W.L. on Sea Island built by Major General John Peter Mackenzie]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Part of Major Matthews collection
[Aerial view of Vancouver International Airport looking south]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Oblique view showing runways and the terminal buildings
[Aerial view of Vancouver International Airport looking west]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Oblique view showing runways and the buildings at the South Terminal
[Fraser dairy farm - 225 Grauer Street, Lulu Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[North Arm Bridge, Sea Island]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows shoreline, river, and bridge.
Sea Island Airport Airdrome [hangar]
Part of Major Matthews collection
[First Nations men wearing regalia at Western Canada Air Show]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Men identified (left to right): Joseph (Splahk-tum), the sons of Chief Jack Stogen, Chief Jack Stogen (Semilano), Chief Moses Joseph, Chief Jimmy Jimmy (Swahsh), Stanley Joseph
[Looking north across the Fraser Street Bridge]
Part of Major Matthews collection
Opening day at Brighouse Race Track
Part of Major Matthews collection
Photograph shows Clark Gable, Jack Brighouse and others
Part of Major Matthews collection