City of Vancouver Archives

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3013
Item
[1951?]

This photo postcard is a professionally taken ground level view of girl on bicycle in Wales. Matthews' note on the photo describes the location as "near Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales, where my beloved Father and Mother lived". The po...

Christmas Day dinner at the Cameron's (4444 West 8th), 1964

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3014
Item
Dec. 25, 1964

Part of Major Matthews collection

Shows Christmas dinner party at which Major Matthews is present.

Sunset, Bowen Island

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3016
Item
Aug. 2, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

This photo postcard is a professionally taken ground level view of a sunset between the trees on Bowen Island. The postcard was sent to Major Matthews from Vera Matthews.

Graig Fawr from Roundwood

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3017
Item
May 31, 1946

Part of Major Matthews collection

This photo postcard is a professionally taken ground level view of Graig Fawr and the surrounding houses and countryside. Matthews' note on the photo describes the location as "Prestatyn, North Wales, where H.L. Matthews, father of J.S. ...

The wedding of Miss Kathleen Helen Scott and Robert Boscawen Matthews, Canadian Memorial Church, Vancouver, Feb. 6, 1954

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3018
Item
Feb. 6, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

This photo is a professionally taken ground level view of Robert Boscawen Matthews and Kathleen Helen Scott signing the marriage register while a minister looks on at Canadian Memorial Church.

Mark 2 1/2 yrs. old

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3019
Item
Jan. 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Mark Walser, son of Don and Evelyn Walser nee Matthews, on a rocking horse in front of the Christmas tree.

Laurie Lyn, 6 weeks old

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3020
Item
Jan. 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Laurie Lyn Walser on couch.

[Mark Walser and Laurie Lyn Walser sitting on chair]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3021
Item
Apr. 14, 1964

Part of Major Matthews collection

The Chapel of Camp Artaban [on Gambier Island]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3022
Item
[Aug. 22, 1958?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

This photo postcard is a professionally taken ground level view of the Artaban Outdoor Chapel at Camp Artaban on Gambier Island. The postcard was sent to Major Matthews from Evelyn Walser nee Matthews.

[Mark Walser with toy at 16 1/2 months]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3023
Item
Jan. 5, 1962

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Mark Walser with toy printed as a Christmas and New Year card that was sent to Major Matthews from Don and Evelyn Walser.

[Neil Raymond Walser]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3024
Item
[Oct. 16, 1965?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken head & shoulders portrait of Neil Raymond Walser for birth announcement produced by Dominion Birth Announcement Co. Born at Burnaby General Hospital on October 16, 1965 by parents Don and Evelyn Walser.

[Laurie Lyn Walser, 3 days old]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3025
Item
[Dec. 1962?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Laurie Lyn Walser at 3 days old sent to Major Matthews by Evelyn Walser for Christmas. Photo has a short note on verso by Evelyn Walser that describes the picture.

Laurie, 3 months and Mark, 2 1/2

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3026
Item
Apr. 1963.

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Mark Walser holding Laurie Lyn Walser.

Laurie, 3 months

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3027
Item
Apr. 1963

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Laurie Lyn Walser crawling on bed.

Wendy Ann Abbott

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3028
Item
Mar. 5, 1953.

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Wendy Ann Abbott with her first birthday cake.

Wendy Ann Abbott

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3029
Item
Mar. 5, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Construction of] 3260 Thompson Crecent, Westmount, West Vancouver

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3030
Item
June 5, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of construction of home for Richard and Hazel Valentia Abbott.

Ashley May's 4th birthday, June 11, 1953

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3031
Item
June 11, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Ashley May Abbott opening her birthday present from her great-grandfather, Major Matthews.

Ashley May's 4th birthday, June 11, 1953

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3032
Item
June 11, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Ashley May Abbott opening her birthday present from her great-grandfather, Major Matthews.

Ashley May's 4th birthday, June 11, 1953

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3033
Item
June 11, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Ashley May Abbott opening her birthday present from her great-grandfather, Major Matthews.

Major Matthews and his granddaughter Hazel, Mrs. Abbott, going to the "Vogue" to see the colour pictures of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3034
Item
June 20, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Bruce's 1st birthday, Feb. 13, 1956

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3035
Item
Feb. 13, 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Bruce Abbott "looking at his birthday card from his Grandma and Grandpa Matthews" at "Five Cedars" according to description on verso.

Bruce, Wendy & Ashley [Abbott] taken on the back veranda against the dining room windows

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3036
Item
Jan. 29, 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

[School portrait of Evelyn Matthews]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3052
Item
1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows professionally taken head & shoulders school portrait of Evelyn Matthews (later Evelyn Walser) during her first year in high school in 1956. Photograph was gifted to Major Matthews.

[Robin Ann Hodges and Bonnie Lee Hodges, twins born Dec. 27, 1958]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3053
Item
[1959]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Major Matthews' great-grandchildren Robin Ann Hodges and Bonnie Lee Hodges, twins born to Amy Letitia Hodges and Marvin Hodges on December 27, 1958.

[Abbott and Hodges families] taken at Hazel and Richard Abbott's home, 100 King George Terrace, Victoria, B.C. Aug. 28th 1964

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3054
Item
Aug. 28, 1964

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows group portrait of Abbott and Hodges families, taken at Hazel and Richard Abbott's home, 100 King George Terrace, Victoria, B.C., on August 28, 1964. From left to right, top row: Ashley May Abbott, Florence Vera Matthews, Evelyn...

[School portrait of Theresa Hodges, 1968]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3055
Item
[Oct. 24, 1968]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken head & shoulders school portrait shows Theresa Leslie Joy Hodges in 1968.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3056
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street house on September 10th, 1960.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3057
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis, seated.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie or Eileen Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3058
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie or Eileen Willis holding a cat.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3059
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3060
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie Willis or Eileen Willis, Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis, and Major Matthews]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3061
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis or Eileen Willis, Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis, and Major Matthews.

[Portrait of Major Matthews with Florence Vera Matthews, Hazel Valentia Abbott, and Ashley May Abbott]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3062
Item
[1950]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group portrait shows Major Matthews with his daughter-in-law Florence Vera Matthews, his grandchild Hazel Valentia Abbott, and his great grandchild Ashley May Abbott.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3063
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt in front of flagpole. Photograph is annotated to note the location of Major Matthews.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3064
Item
1908 or 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph postcard shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews outside officers' quarters while "attending Royal School of Instruction". Back row: Selater, J.S. Matthews, Ward, Turner, Maxwell, unknown, unknown, Latta. Fr...

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3065
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews outside officers' quarters while "attending Royal School of Instruction". Back row: Selater, J.S. Matthews, Ward, Turner, Maxwell, unknown, unknown, Latta. Front row: ...

[Hugh Matthews in baseball uniform]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3066
Item
[between 1906 and 1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Hugh Matthews in baseball uniform on wharf in front of water. Uniform has letters R and P emblazoned on front.

[Loading bales of wool onto an ox team wagon on an Australian sheep station]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3067
Item
[between 1889 and 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken ground level view of loading bales of wool onto an ox team wagon on an Australian sheep station.

Mrs. Cook, wife of Mr. Cook, schoolmaster who educated James Skitt Matthews before Oct. 6th, 1887, [when] he left Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales, for Christchurch, New Zealand

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3068
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken full-length studio portrait shows Mrs. Cook, wife of Mr. Cook, schoolmaster who educated James Skitt Matthews before Oct. 6th, 1887, when he left Newton, Montgomeryshire, Wales, for Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mountain View Cemetery - Masonic and family plot [at the burial of Hugh Boscawen Matthews]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3069
Item
Nov. 1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken photograph shows the Matthews family plot at Mountain View Cemetery and the burial of Hugh Matthews, the youngest son of Major Matthews, who died in an elevator accident in Vancouver, November 5, 1922.

Christchurch and war memorial, Prestatyn

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3070
Item
[c. 1923]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken ground level view of Christchurch and war memorial in Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales where Herbert Lewis Matthews was buried.

[Speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point in April 1918]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3072
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group photograph shows speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point near Forest Hall roadhouse on the Columbia River Highway (near Portland) in April 1918. From left to right: Major Matthews, General Green of the...

[Speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point in April 1918]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3073
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group photograph shows speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point near Forest Hall roadhouse on the Columbia River Highway (near Portland) in April 1918. Major Matthews notes on photo that "the mission add...

[Group portrait of speakers for the] Liberty Loan Mission to Idaho, Washington, Oregon, [taken Forest Hill, near Portland, Oregon in] spring (about April) 1918

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3074
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group portrait of speakers for the liberty Loan Mission to Idaho, Washington, Oregon. Photograph was taken at Forest Hill roadhouse (built 1915) on the Columbia River Highway near Portland, Oregon in the spring (about April) o...