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Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds Timms, Philip T. Buildings
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Georgia Street at Hornby Street

Photograph shows horse-drawn carriages on street, including one for the Badminton Hotel; Christ Church Cathedral; and a building containing both a grocery store (Kyle Grocery) and a picture framing store (Timms Art Emporium), later the site of the Georgia Medical - Dental building, then Cathedral Place.

Hastings Street between Hamilton and Homer Streets

An accompanying label reads: "Hastings St. between Hamilton and Homer St. This block held its own for a number of years, but the march was always westward. Some of the well known names the businessmen are clearly seen -- Fit-Reform, Thompson Stationery, Buscombe, Clubb and Stewart, King Studio, Moore and Clarke and the Arcade. - Timms Photo."

[Panorama view of Vancouver looking north from Nelson Street]

Prominent buildings in photograph are: Manhattan Apartments (784 Thurlow Street), Marine Building (355 Burrard Street), Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia Street), Provincial Court House (750 Hornby Street); Second Hotel Vancouver (Granville Street), Vancouver Block (736 Granville Street), First Baptist Church (969 Burrard Street) and St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church (1012 Nelson Street).

[View along Granville Street looking south from the waterfront]

  • An attached label reads: "Looking south on Granville Street, during the 'Klondyke Boom,' 1898-9. The Williams stone buildings on the right gives the key to the picture. The Royal Bank and Post office are now on either corner. - Philip Timms."
  • Notes on the back of the photograph contain information regarding the purchase of the photograph by the Hudson's Bay Company.