City of Vancouver Archives

[Albert C.J. Weeks, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.1
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[George Wainborn, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.2
Item
[ca. 1956]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Donald Malcolm Stewart, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.3
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[Charles Edward Tisdall, Park Commissioner]

AM54-S4-: Port P1663.4
Item
[ca. 1904]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Head and shoulders portrait

[The Board of Park Commissioners]

AM54-S4-: Port P1666.1
Item
1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing (left to right): standing: F. Drewe Pratt and Charlie Stephens; (seated): Ebbie Bowering, Arnold Webster, Robert Maitland, Iris Hardwick and Bill Calder

[The Board of Park Commissioners]

AM54-S4-: Port P1666.2
Item
1961

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing (Left to right): Margaret Jack, Stan Donaldson, Ebbie Bowering, Theo DuMoulin, George Wainborn, Arnold Webster and Charlie Stephens

Vancouver Cricket Eleven

AM54-S4-: Sp P11
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group studio portrait showing left to right: (back row): C. Nelson, H. Laurenson, H.H. McKay, J.T. Williams, A. Mc C. Creery; (middle row): W. Miles, R. Mackay Fripp, J. Boultbee, F. Chaldecott, E. Griffiths; (front row): H.J. Walton and W.E. Green

[Dominion Day yacht races, English Bay]

AM54-S4-: Bo P81.2
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of downtown Vancouver looking northeast from the tower of the Baptist Church at Burrard and Nelson]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc N61.1
Item
[between 1925 and 1927]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows houses and apartment buildings in the West End, the courthouse, Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver Block and other buildings in the downtown area.

[Apartment buildings on Granville Street and 16th Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Str N38
Item
Sept. 1928

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Woman being led out of English Bay by the Reverends Christmas and Fair]

AM54-S4-: Be P64.2
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the English Bay Club building under construction

[Exterior of Glasgow Hotel - 501 Westminster Avenue (Main Street)]

AM54-S4-: Hot P84
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver Pageant

AM54-S4-: Fl P5.6
Item
June 12, 1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a parade on Hastings Street from Carrall Street

[Windsor Hotel, 52 East Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-: Hot N67
Item
8 Mar. 1935

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of First Baptist Church - corner of Nelson and Burrard Streets]

AM54-S4-: Ch P174
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Mayor Gale and other dignitaries assembled around car decorated for the campaign to build the Trans Canada Highway]

AM54-S4-: SGN 998
Item
[1918?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[James, Herbert and Hugh Matthews]

AM54-S4-: Dist N15.2
Item
[1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Staff of first Hotel Vancouver gathered in the Georgia Street entrance]

AM54-S4-: Hot P3
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait

[Exterior A.1. Aluminum Foundry Ltd. building at 5 West Second Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Indust P8
Item
[ca. 1943]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View across the C.P.R. park towards] Granville Street and Georgia Street

AM54-S4-: Hot P9
Item
1893

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Hudson's Bay store under construction, Lord Strathcona Block, Lord Durham Block, Lord Elphinstone Block and the first Hotel Vancouver

[The newly constructed Sir Donald Smith (Lord Strathcona), Lord Durham and Lord Elphinstone Blocks on Granville Street between Georgia Street and Robson Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P73
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited dredging False Creek for new water main]

AM54-S4-: Dist P28
Item
Aug. 17, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

[McKenzie Barge and Derrick Company Limited dredging False Creek for a new water main near the foot of Fir Street]

AM54-S4-: Dist P27
Item
Aug. 17, 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Tudor Manor

J. Coughlan & Sons. Ship yards. Vancouver, B.C. May.9.1918.

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N73
Item
9 May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows a group of workers in the ship yard at False Creek.

[View of Vancouver from Ninth Avenue (Broadway), between Ash and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: SGN 444
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives state, "Ninth avenue between Ash and Bridge Sts. before 1899 showing CPR Stores Building, Vancouver Opera House, Congregational Church, Leamy & Kyle Sawmill (closed before 1899). Ash Street on left. Ninth Avenue road tip lower left corner. House in centre on eighth avenue."

[Congregation of Evangelistic Tabernacle - Hastings and Main Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P175.1
Item
May 12, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of J. Coughlan & Sons Ship yards in False Creek destroyed by fire]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N74
Item
May 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

[German barque "Pallac" in Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-924.1
Item
1898

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Troops on parade on Burrard Street at Melville Street]

AM54-S4-: Mil P64.3
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing spectators watching the parade. Also visible in the background are Wesley Church, Glencoe Lodge and the Ailsa Lodge.

[Exterior of the Hudson's Bay Co. store - corner of Granville and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P414
Item
[between 1949 and 1952]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View from Thurlow and Melville Streets looking east]

AM54-S4-: Bu P508.100
Item
May 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Georgia Medical Dental Building and the Hotel Vancouver and a house behind trees

[Exterior of Hamilton Hall (formerly First Baptist Church) at the corner of Dunsmuir Street and Hamilton Street]

AM54-S4-: Ch N29
Item
31 Jan. 1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Barbara Howard]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1643
Item
[ca. 1938]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group portrait of construction workers and the congregation at the Evangelical Tabernacle building site]

AM54-S4-: Bu P175.2
Item
May 12, 1917

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Central School in the background.

[Men and a boy at a makeshift shelter in the 'jungle' at the City dump]

AM54-S4-: Re N3.2
Item
Sept. 1931

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Mrs. Josephine Sullivan's house - N.W. corner of Gore Avenue and Oppenheimer (E. Cordova) Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P73
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing the house of the Sullivan family, early Black settlers in Vancouver.

[Joe (Seraphim) Fortes in his swimming costume]

AM54-S4-: Port P114.1
Item
[between 1915 and 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An unidentified group in front of a C.P.R. observation car]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1045
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[An unidentified group in front of a C.P.R. car]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1046
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Joe Fortes in front of his cottage at the foot of Bidwell Street (1700 Beach Avenue)]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1977
Item
[191-?] ; reproduced 1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Vaudeville actors who performed at the Orpheum Theatre]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2163
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

"Opening Game Base Ball Season 1915" "Vancouver vs. Victoria"

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N14B
Item
1915

Part of Major Matthews collection

The game was played at the Athletic Park at 5th Avenue and Hemlock Street.

[Joe Fortes in front of his cottage on English Bay at the foot of Bidwell Street (1700 Beach Avenue)]

AM54-S4-: Bu P111
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Two portraits of Fielding William Spotts, age 78, at 217 1/2 Hogan's Alley, Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Port N3.1
Item
[28 May 1935]

Part of Major Matthews collection

See J.S. Matthews' notes on prints (border and verso) in Archives.

[Two portraits of Fielding William Spotts, age 78, at 217 1/2 Hogan's Alley, Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Port N3.2
Item
[28 May 1935]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Mrs. Edward Boynton (102 years old) smoking a cigar]

AM54-S4-: Port P1622
Item
[ca. Feb. 15, 1960]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a portrait of Matilda Boynton. Inscription on verso states "Mr. and Mrs. Edward Boynton 4195 Fraser St. Mrs. Boynton will be 103 years old Feb. 13th 1961. Born, Victoria, Tennessee. Ed. Boynton was born [Aurora] Ontario March 10th 1876. She still use no glasses, no hearing aid, does her own house work. Smokes the odd cigar and like a drink of Rum. Presented by Reuben Hamilton, Pioneer."