City of Vancouver Archives

[Victoria Volunteer Rifle Corps also known as "The African Rifles"]

AM54-S4-: Mil P79
Item
[between 1860 and 1864]

AM54-S4-: LGN 459
Item
[May 1887]

Photograph shows arch, flags and other decorations for the completion of the C.P.R. line to Vancouver. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[The Bayview Hotel home to the first United States Consulate]

AM54-S4-: Str P75
Item
[ca. 1887]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Northeast view of Burrard Inlet from the top of the Lefevre building at Seymour and Hastings Streets]

AM54-S4-: Can P105
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the first C.P.R. office, the back of the Edward Bros. Studio and Hasitngs Mill

Cordova St. Vancouver B.C.

AM1376-: CVA 1376-91
Item
[1890]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the unit block of Cordova Street looking west from Carrall to Cambie with business enterprises: on the right the Boulder Saloon and George Lawson Allan, Boots & Shoes and on the left Dunn & Co., Hardware with the Knights of Pythias Hall on the upper level. The foreground shows the Vancouver electric street car travelling west and in the background a horse-drawn carriage travelling east.

[H.M.S. "Warspite"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P174
Item
July 1, 1892

Part of Major Matthews collection

St. Andrews Night, Dawson Y.T.

AM54-S4-: Out P1108
Item
Nov. 1899

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the interior of the Palace Grand Theatre

["Sons of the Empire" posed tableau]

AM54-S4-: LP 231.3
Item
Feb. 16, 1900

Part of Major Matthews collection

Individuals identified are: Mrs. C.H. Watsen, front row (L-R): Crossland Oddy, J.G. Gamon, Dugald Marshall, Dave Cross and Carey Pickles.

[The Courthouse decorated for the reception of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P21
Item
Sept. 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York arrive at Courthouse on corner of Hastings and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P13.2
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Columbia Street, New Westminster, decorated with banners and flags for visit of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York]

AM54-S4-: SGN 824
Item
[Sept. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[Anglo-British Columbia Packing Company's tugboat "Phoenix"]

AM54-S4-: Bo P159.2
Item
1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Firemen's ladder Arch across Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-: Arch P21
Item
1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows crowds awaiting the procession of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York and The Savoy

[The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York on podium in front of old courthouse on corner of Hastings and Cambie Streets]

AM54-S4-: Duke of C and Y P13.1
Item
Sept. 30, 1901

Part of Major Matthews collection

MacKinnon [Williams] Block, Granville and Hastings Streets Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Bu P350
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows signs on the building for a masonic temple, Drs. Gateway and Spencer, Dentists, Mutual Life Assurance Co., Federal Life, Pacific Coast Steamship Co.