City of Vancouver Archives

Jasper National Park - Edmonton - Banff - Lake Louise - Tommy Jang emergency ward - Keefer Wholesale under construction and grand opening

AM1601-S1-: 2012-010.13
Item
[ca. 1970]

Part of Harry Lin Chin fonds

Item is a family film containing scenes of a family vacation throughout Alberta, including Jasper National Park, Edmonton, Calgary, Banff National Park and Lake Louise. The film also documents the construction at Keefer Wholesale Florist at 310 Prior Street. Pre-formed concrete slabs are lifted and tilted to make the walls of a building. The construction process also documents the various companies working on the building: Lift and Tilt Concrete, Delta Masonry, B.C. Conveying Machinery, Viking Automatic Sprinkler. The final section of the film shows the opening ceremony of Keefer Wholesale with people gathering, a band playing, speeches (silent), and dancing.

Army convoy

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-2770
Item
1944

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

Photograph shows a Military Police speaking with an R.C.M.P.

Wishing well behind the post office - Banff

AM1450-S3-: 2004-004.288
Item
[1952?]

Part of John Girvan fonds

Kitsilano Boys Band at Banff, Alta. On their Canadian tour 1932

AM1376-: 2018-030.1
Item
1932

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph showing the Kits Boys Band playing outside with mountains in the background. Trumpet player Yutaka Uyeda is shown on the right, sixth player from the front row.

24 beautiful views of the Canadian Pacific Rockies

AM1052-: AM1052 P-853
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a folder containing a set of paper panels printed with images of sites in the Canadian Rockies. The folder also contains textual descriptions of the subjects of each image. The Canadian Pacific Railway's logo is printed on the folder's cover. Two images of scenery are also printed on the folder's cover.

Banff Springs Hotel and Bow Valley, Banff National Park

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1274
Item
[192-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Banff Springs Hotel, Banff National Park

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1273
Item
[192-?]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Cascade Mountain, altitude 9825 ft., from Administration Bldg., Banff

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1265
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Bow River Falls at Banff, Alberta

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1262
Item
[ca. 1935]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

This postcard includes personal correspondence. Sent to Mr. A.J. Harrison of Vancouver B.C. from Felix A Belcher.

Three Sisters, Canadian Rockies, Banff, Alberta - On Canadian Pacific Railway

AM1052-: AM1052 P-1235
Item
[ca. 1904]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard. An hand-written note on the verso of this postcard reads, "This is almost precisely the same scene as the most magnificent drop screen I ever saw or heard of; the stage drop screen of the old Vancouver Opera House, Granville St. Vandals destroyed it when the C.P.R. sold the Opera House. J.S. Matthews"