City of Vancouver Archives

Lake Buntzen tunnel enlargement [showing] drilling close to 9 foot coffin valve at Coquitlam end

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-93
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Lake Buntzen tunnel enlargement [showing] tunnel camps and measuring weir at portal

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-94
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] fallers at work

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-95
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the method of cutting at ground level

Lake Buntzen tunnel enlargement showing Mr. G.S. Binkley's method

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-96
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the holes loaded and ready to blast

Lake Buntzen tunnel enlargement showing portion enlarged by Messrs. Hermon and Burwell near west portal

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-97
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] drag bucket entering tipple

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-98
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] east bank of river downstream from dam site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-99
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows tunnel adit on the right and thought to be the New Westminster watermain tunnel

Coquitlam Dam site

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-100
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] original intake

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-101
Item
1910

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-102
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the construction camp

[Two participants in the Pacific Northwest Golf Tournament at the Vancouver Golf and Country Club]

AM54-S4-: Sp P103.2
Item
July 5, 1920

Part of Major Matthews collection

Coquitlam Dam [showing] a "Doubtful Stump"

AM54-S4-1-L-17-: L-17-51
Item
1911

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a man with a measuring stick standing on a stump in a cleared site

Installing Machinery [at Gregory Tire & Rubber Co.]

AM1535-: CVA 99 - 3253
Item
[192-?]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Gregory Tire & Rubber Co. [exterior] Coquitlam Plant

AM1535-: CVA 99-3279
Item
1920

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Gregory Tire & Rubber Co. [interior] Coquitlam Plant

AM1535-: CVA 99-3278
Item
1920

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Gregory Tire & Rubber Co. [interior] - Coquitlam Plant

AM1535-: CVA 99 - 3277
Item
1920

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Heritage style living

AM1576-S6-21-F038-: 2011-010.88
Item
[1986]

Part of Vancouver Centennial Commission fonds

Item is a photographic reproduction showing a drawing of the PNE's 1986 prize home. Text on verso: "The PNE's Prize Home is designed and built by Otto Dovertel of Dovertel Construction (1982) Ltd. The house will sit on a view lot in River Heights Estates, Coquitlam."

Sketch of proposed interurban canal and harbour development for Greater Vancouver, B.C.

Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection

Item is a copy of a map depicting the approximate location of a proposed canal from Burrard Inlet to the Pitt River and the Canadian Pacific Railway line. The map also includes "Detail of wharves and locks at Second Narrows".

Coquitlam (B.C.). Engineer's Office

[Car with engine trouble]

AM640-S1-: CVA 260-158
Item
[ca. 1928]

Part of James Crookall fonds

Engineer William (Billy) H. Evans and Committee of Vancouver Pioneers Association

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-056
Item
July 3, 1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Ladies of the Woman's Auxiliary, Vancouver Pioneers Association

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-057
Item
July 3, 1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Special train carrying pioneer[s] and citizens of Vancouver at Coquitlam ready for departure for Port Moody and Vancouver, July 3rd 1936

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-058
Item
July 3, 1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Special train carrying pioneers and citizens of Vancouver at Coquitlam ready for departure for Port Moody and Vancouver, July 3rd 1936

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-059
Item
July 3, 1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Item is a photograph showing citizens of Vancouver in front of a train. Front row (L-R): Mesdames Eldon, Dixon, Lawson, Mahoney, W.H. Allen, Pike, nee Allan, F.W. Welsh. Back row: Mesdames Ross, Thorburn, [unidentified], Ingleman, Colin Murray, Newberry, McGovern, [unidentified], Cocking, Chas Parson; formerly Mayoress Templeton, W.F. Draney, E. Clark, Hanscombe, J.J. Hannah, A.B. McKelvie, president Woman's Auxiliary.

W.H. Evans, engineer, first train, July 4th 1886, at Coquitlam, July 3rd 1936

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-067
Item
July 3, 1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Peter Barnhart, conductor, first train, July 4th 1886, at Coquitlam, July 3rd 1936

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-068
Item
July 3, 1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

W.H. Evans, engineer, first train, July 4th 1886, at Coquitlam, July 3rd 1936

AM177-F01-: CVA 612-069
Item
July 3, 1936

Part of Vancouver Golden Jubilee Society fonds

Howe Sound - Burrard Inlet

AM54-S13-: MAP 450
Item
Feb. 1929

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a topographical map of the municipalities surrounding Howe Sound and Burrard Inlet. Municipal boundaries, roads and other transportation infrastructure, and radio stations are also included. The Greater Vancouver water supply areas and waterways are shown along with pipe lines, power lines and telegraph lines.

[View of Coquitlam Lake [water intake tower]

AM1257-S25-: CVA 275-31
Item
Apr. 18, 1929

Part of Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds

[View of water intake tower] on Coquitlam Lake

AM1257-S25-: CVA 275-32
Item
Apr. 18, 1929

Part of Greater Vancouver Regional District fonds

[Various scenes regarding the construction of the Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 982
Item
[1911?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: exploration cut at centre line of dam; partially cleared dam site; two men sawing tree stump on dam site; and partially cleared dam site covered in snow. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the four images.

[Various scenes regarding the construction of the Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 981
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints showing: view along centre of partially constructed dam, showing sluices; area around dam covered in ice and snow; excavated area on dam site; and water cresting over dam. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the four images.

[Various scenes regarding the construction of the Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 980
Item
[1911?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of five photograph prints, showing: water cresting over the top of the Coquitlam Dam; the clearing of the Coquitlam Dam site with a donkey engine; the roots of a large tree cleared off the Coquitlam Dam site; bridge over Coquitlam Dam; and two men sawing tree stump at Coquitlam Dam site. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the five images.

Anglo Canadian Warehouse Company Trucks (opposite Coquitlam Shipyards)

AM1535-: CVA 99-3579
Item
1925

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Anglo Canadian Warehouse Company Trucks (opposite Coquitlam Shipyards)

AM1535-: CVA 99-3578
Item
1925

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Anglo Canadian Warehouse Company Trucks (opposite Coquitlam Shipyards)

AM1535-: CVA 99-3577
Item
1925

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[Partially constructed Coquitlam Dam, looking east at edge of tree covered hillside]

AM54-S4-: LGN 865
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed Coquitlam Dam, showing downstream slope of dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 874
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed Coquitlam Dam, showing upstream toe of dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 873
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed Coquitlam Dam, showing floor of spillway cut]

AM54-S4-: LGN 872
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men operating monitor in borrow pit of Coquitlam Dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 871
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed Coquitlam dam, looking west along centre line of dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 870
Item
20 May 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Partially constructed Coquitlam Dam, looking east along upstream toe of the dam]

AM54-S4-: LGN 869
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Coquitlam dam site covered in snow and ice]

AM54-S4-: LGN 868
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows partially completed dam structures, as well as the lower end of Coquitlam lake before the completion of the dam raised the level by sixty feet.