City of Vancouver Archives

[View of Canadian National Railway terminal and wharf from ship, Skagway Alaska]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-30.05
Item
Sept 1949

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

[Passengers from train viewing] Inspiration Point, Alaska [part of the White Pass and Yukon Route]

AM1545-S3-: CVA 586-32.02
Item
Sept 1949

Part of Williams Bros. Photographers Collection

The Loop, C.P.R. in the Selkirk Mountains, B.C.

AM54-S4-: SGN 1514
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. line through tunnels in mountain]

AM54-S4-: LGN 612
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Hermit Range, from summit of [Selkirks, C.P.R.]

AM54-S4-: LGN 642
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Ross Peak (winter) C.P.R. in Selkirks

AM54-S4-: LGN 755
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows three men standing next to snow shed over railway tracks.

[Pedestrian overpass over railway tracks near Nanaimo Street]

AM54-S4-: Br N23
Item
[30 Nov. 1925]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Pedestrian overpass over railway tracks near Nanaimo Street]

AM54-S4-: Br N24
Item
[30 Nov. 1925]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buildings west of the Marine Building]

AM54-S4-: Bu N19
Item
[Sept. 1932]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows buildings near railway tracks behind the Marine Building, including the Quadra Club, a bunkhouse from Spratt's Oilery, and the Blue Ribbon Tea and Coffee building. Photograph also shows trees and bushes in a vacant lot, and an entrance to a C.P.R. tunnel. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[527 Granville Street, Canadian National Railway business offices]

AM54-S4-: Bu N315
Item
[192-]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Canadian National Railway offices, Pacific Great Eastern Railway Company and Union Steamships Ltd. agent, and Belding-Corticelli Ltd., silk manufacturers.

Plank road [to Canadian Northern Railway] Vancouver freight shed

AM54-S4-: Bu N540.068
Item
30 Nov. 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows two men walking on plank road by freight shed.

[Plank road to Canadian Northern Railway freight shed]

AM54-S4-: Bu N540.075
Item
2 Jan. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

False Creek fill, Main St. E.

AM54-S4-: Bu N540.081
Item
31 Jan. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows plank road to Canadian Northern Railway freight shed over filled area of False Creek.

[Team of oxen pulling logs]

AM54-S4-: Log N9
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows oxen pulling logs in Kitsilano as part of steam logging railway. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

Sandon, B.C.

AM1589-: CVA 2 - 33
Item
[189-?]

Part of Richard H. Trueman fonds

Image shows Hotel Sandon and Hotel Reco.

C.P.R. crossing Skuzzy River, Fraser Canyon

AM1589-: CVA 2 - 42
Item
[189-?]

Part of Richard H. Trueman fonds

Beaver Canyon, B.C.

AM1589-: CVA 2 - 71
Item
[189-?]

Part of Richard H. Trueman fonds

Image shows C.P.R. line to the left of the canyon.

Beaver Canyon, B.C.

AM1589-: CVA 2 - 72
Item
[189-?]

Part of Richard H. Trueman fonds

Image shows C.P.R. line to the right of the canyon.

Loop, C.P.R. Selkirk M[oun]t[ain]s, showing four tracks

AM1589-: CVA 2 - 95
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Richard H. Trueman fonds

[C.P.R. main line Port Moody, section foreman]

AM54-S4-1-M-3-: M-3-14.4
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a man operating a handcart on a section of railroad tracks.

Fleet Laid Up During High Water

AM54-S4-1---: M-1-35
Item
June 20, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing barges and dredges moored along the shore and the tugboat "Sea Lion"

Fleet Laid Up During High Water

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-35
Item
June 20, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing barges and dredges moored along the shore and the tugboat "Sea Lion"

The Loops, C.P.R.

AM54-S4-1-S-3-: S-3-9
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Kicking Horse River, C.P.R.

AM54-S4-1-S-3-: S-3-14
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A flat car on rails near Buntzen Lake]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-9
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Floating rails on Buntzen Lake]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-15
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Elevated rails at the Buntzen Lake Dam construction site]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-31
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Buntzen Lake Dam under construction]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-34
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. eastern tunnel portal near the Georgia Viaduct]

AM54-S4-: Can P16
Item
[ca. 1932]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Waiting [on the C.P.R. platform] for the Atlantic Express

AM54-S4-: Can P42.2
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Lord Strathcona driving the last C.P.R. spike]

AM54-S4-: Can P111.1
Item
Nov. 7, 1885, reproduced 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified: 1. Frank Brothers, 2. Major Rogers, 3. M.J. Haney, 4. Sir William Van Horne, 5. Sir Sanford Fleming, 6. Hon. Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona), the boy is Edward Mallandaine, 7. H.J. Cambie, 8. Mr. Miller, 9. John McTavish, 10. George R. Harris, 11. J.M. Egan, 12. James Ross, 13. Jimmy French, 14. Arthur Piers