City of Vancouver Archives

AM54-S4-1-: CVA 4-36
Item
1887

AM54-S4-: LGN 463
Item
[1887?]

Photograph shows wharf, piles of timber, railway cars, the ship "Williamette" at dock, and buildings and forest in the distance. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[The first C.P.R. station and wharf]

AM54-S4-: Can P204
Item
1887; reproduced in 1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the "Pacific Express" being unloaded

[Small steam logging train at foot of Trutch Street in Kitsilano]

AM54-S4-: Log P15
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Burrard Inlet, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2381
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the C.P.R. wharf at the foot of Howe Street

General View of Docks at Vancouver

AM1376-: CVA 1376-375.18
Item
[1889 or 1890]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

C.P.R. Dock [at foot of Howe Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P193
Item
[1891]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[First train load of canned salmon leaving Vancouver from the C.P.R. dock at the foot of Richards Street]

AM54-S4-: Indust P1
Item
1892

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph includes a hand drawn man

[C.P.R. "Tea" train leaving dock at foot of Howe Street for Chicago World Fair]

AM54-S4-: Can P8
Item
1893

Part of Major Matthews collection

["Old Curly" and train load of logs at the Royal City Planning Mill's camp]

AM54-S4-: Can P49.1
Item
1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified: Bob Harvey in cab and Pervy Des Brisay in white shirt leaning on log.

["Old Curly" and train load of logs at the Royal City Planning Mills camp]

AM54-S4-: Can P49.2
Item
1894

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified: Bob Harvey in cab and Percy Des Brisay in white shirt leaning on log

[Woman and girls assembled on platform of C.P.R. station]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1093
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[C.P.R. railway station and wharf, showing trains and docked ships]

AM54-S4-: SGN 443
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[The first C.P.R. station yard at the foot of Howe Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P102
Item
[1898?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows horse drawn hotel buses

Indian Canoes [at] foot of Richards [street]

AM54-S4-: In P29
Item
[ca. 1898]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of the rear of the second C.P.R. Station at the foot of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-882
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Wat P31
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the waterfront between Columbia Street and Carrall Street including shacks on floats, the Oppenheimer warehouse, a C.P.R. trestle, the Dunn-Miller Block, the Sunnyside Hotel and Andy Litton's boats

[C.P.R. Station at the foot of Granville Street]

AM1376-: CVA 137-147
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a steam ship at the dock

[C.P.R. transfer wharf at foot of Thurlow Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P12.2
Item
1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[C.P.R. bridge crew at the foot of Carroll Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P175
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified: Thomas and Mrs. Stewart and their son.

Approach to C.P.R. Wharves, Vancouver

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2234
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing a horse-drawn wagon and steamboat funnels in the background

[View of the second C.P.R. station at the foot of Granville Street from the water]

AM54-S4-: Can P194
Item
1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

British Columbia Toothpicks

AM54-S4-: Mi P49
Item
[between 1900 and 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a C.P.R. car loaded with lumber

Hastings at Cambie [showing streetcar, Woodward's cart, and corner of the Court House garden]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-582
Item
[1905?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Vancouver East End

AM54-S4-1-S-3-: S-3-17
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snow for a day, scene on Inlet

AM1376-: CVA 229-10
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph showing railcars beside Burrard Inlet covered with snow with ships in the background.

C.P.R. locomotive #1140

AM1535-: CVA 99-1261
Item
[ca. 1911]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

C.P.R. Yard

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1040
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the second C.P.R. Station at the foot of Granville Street, the rear of buildings on Water Street, the S.S. "Camosun" at the Union Steamship wharf and the East End in the background

New Wholesale District and Trackage

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-728
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the World (Sun) Tower and other buildings and a C.P.R. yard

[62nd Overseas Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force departing by train]

AM54-S4-: Mil P67.1
Item
Mar. 1916

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows sign on train "Hulme's Husky Hun Hunters"

Evans, Coleman and Evans Ltd. Packard Trucks

AM1535-: CVA 99-5136
Item
Nov. 1917

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

Photograph also shows F.F.P. Steamship building and railway freight cars in background.

[View of man loading automobile freight car]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-139
Item
[1919]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the loading of an automobile freight car.

C.P.R. locomotive 2587

AM1535-: CVA 99-1316
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Stuart Thomson fonds

[View of Coal Harbour showing dredging, Pier A, the Immigration building and the site of Pier B-C]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N233
Item
1920

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows C.P.R. fuel oil tanks and cars and Pier D at the far right.

[Newly constructed Ballantyne Pier at the foot of Hawks Avenue]

AM1376-: CVA 157-1
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Panoramic view showing steam ships at dock and and Grain Elevator No. 2 under construction

[View of C.P.R. Pier "D" from the roof of the Post Office]

AM54-S4-: Wat P124.5
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of C.P.R. Pier "D" from the roof of the Post Office]

AM54-S4-: Wat P125.1
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the "Princess Charlotte" and the "Empress of Australia"

[View of C.P.R. Pier "D" from the roof of the Post Office]

AM54-S4-: Wat P125.2
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the "Princess Charlotte" and the "Empress of Australia"

[View of Terminal Dock showing a ship and railway tracks and cars]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N203
Item
1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows longshoremen at work.

[View of Terminal Dock showing ships and railway tracks and cars]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N204A
Item
3 Apr. 1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

One ship is identified as "Theodore Roosevelt".

[View of Terminal Dock showing ships and railway cars]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N204B
Item
20 Apr. 1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Terminal Dock showing ships and railway cars]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N204C
Item
Sept. 21, 1925

Part of Major Matthews collection

One ship is identified as the "City of Spokane".

[Vancouver Harbour Commission grain elevator number two]

AM54-S4-: Bu N304
Item
[4 Mar. 1926]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Terminal Dock showing a C.P.R. train and ships]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N205A
Item
[ca. 1926]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows houseboats along the shore.

[Canadian Pacific Railway Piers B, C and D and "R.M.S. Aorangi"]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N49
Item
1927

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph also shows the Immigration Building.

[View of Terminal Dock showing grain ships and railway cars]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N206A
Item
Mar. 22, 1927

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[View of Terminal Dock showing ships, railroad cars and dredging beside the partially complete dock extension]

AM54-S4-3-: PAN N206B
Item
Oct. 31, 1927

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing two barges with Canada Public Works rock cutter and breaker structures. One ship is identified as the "Achilles" and the dredge ship as the "Mastadon".

C.N.R. Steam, Pass. Eng. #2095

AM1506-S2-3-: CVA 447-757
Item
Aug. 5, 1928

Part of Walter E. Frost fonds

First C.P.R. Train arriving in Vancouver May 1887

AM1477-1-S5---: CVA 1477-421
Item
[192-?]

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

Vancouver 1886-1900

AM1477-1-S5--
File
[192-?]

Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds

File consists of images of early Vancouver, including Gastown, Hastings Mill, Granville Street, Burrard Inlet, Prospect Point, the first City Council, arrival of the first C.P.R. train, Cordova Street, and Mount Pleasant.

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