City of Vancouver Archives

[Group portrait on porch of the Ellesmere Rooms at 439 Homer Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P141
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Man in derby hat identified as Frank M. Yorke.

[House at 1100 Haro Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P144.1
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of H.T.Ceperley's residence - 1116 Georgia St.]

AM54-S4-: Bu P290
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified (left to right): Mr. H.T. Ceperley, Arthur T. Ceperley, Mrs. Ceperley and daughter (Mrs. E.C. Hall)

[Exterior of the Ferguson Building - S.W. corner of Hastings and Richards Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P315
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows W. Reynell and Co., Cope and Young and Shelton and Co.

[Group assembled in garden in rear of 74 Cordova St.]

AM54-S4-: Bu P44
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the first electric light plant and the unit block Hastings between Carrall and Abbott Street. Individuals identified (left to right): Mrs. Percy Venables, Mr. Mazoni, Miss Thomas, Mr. Dizromi, unidentified, Mr. Gabe Thomas, Mrs. Brown, Peter Clair, Mrs. Thomas, Mrs. Vashon, Mrs. Mazoni, Mrs. Peter Clair, Mrs. Woods. Front: Mazoni boy.

[Exterior of the New York Block - eastside 600 block Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P79
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows (left to right) E.S. Scoullar Hardware, Carters Temple of Music, H. Collins Dry Goods and A.L. McMullen Dry Goods.

[Queen Brothers Stanley Park Stables - south side Georgia between Seymour and Granville Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P84
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Frank W. Hart's funeral hearse.

Vancouver San Juan Lime Co. Kiln [foot of Raymur Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu P94
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Interior Machine Shops of City Foundry [at the foot of Hawks Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Bu P95.1
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Interior of City Foundry and Machine works at the foot of Hawks Ave.]

AM54-S4-: Bu P95.2
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View from Hastings Street looking east towards Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1177
Item
1892

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view from the Lefevre Block showing the C.P.R. offices on Cordova Street and the roof of the Wulffsohn Block

Cedar tree 80 ft. in circumference, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-1480
Item
[1890?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a horse-drawn carriage backed into the Hollow Tree at Stanley Park

Mount Hermit Summit of Selkirks Height 9680 feet

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2375
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[View of Mount McDonald (MacDonald)]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2376
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows snow shed No. 14

Vancouver B.C. from the South

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-692
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view loking north from the corner of Westminster Avenue (Main Street) and 7th Avenue including the Westminster Avenue Trestle Bridge and False Creek in the background

C.P.R. STATION AND DOCK, VANCOUVER

AM54-S4-: Can P10
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

General View of Docks at Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Can P14
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Group portrait in front of C.P.R. repair shed and roundhouse near Pender and Carroll Streets]

AM54-S4-: Can P189
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Men identified: David Law, Mr. Steele and Mr. Charles Richardson

[The first C.P.R. roundhouse and machine shop crew on Drake Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P21
Item
[1888 or 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Steam powered fire engine " M.A. MacLean" on trial run]

AM54-S4-: FD P42
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Fire engine being filled with water on Granville Street and Dunsmuir Street]

AM54-S4-: FD P6
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows "Billy Hamilton", "Steamer No. 2" and the Rand Brothers Real Estate building (formerly the Anderson Block)

[The ladies' parlour of the Secord Hotel - corner of Dunlevy Avenue and Powell Street]

AM54-S4-: Hot P23.1
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[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

Squamish Indian Mission

AM54-S4-: In P10
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Indian Teepees at Mission

AM54-S4-: In P12
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Rustic bridge. Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: LGN 472
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Pioneer S.S. "Beaver". First steamboat on the Pacific having rounded Cape Horn in 1835

AM54-S4-: LGN 500
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the wrecked ship at Prospect Point, Stanley Park.

Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) [composite photograph]

AM54-S4-: LP 44
Item
[1887?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the interiors of social hall, reading room, office, assembly hall, hall and exterior of building.

[Hastings Mill Store]

AM54-S4-: Mi P14
Item
[ca. 1888]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait shows Calvert Simson and others

[The Caufield brothers in front of their cottage at Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P15
Item
[1888 or 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Simson cottage at Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P16
Item
1885

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Calvert Simson in chair, his sister in the door and the gardener and his son

[William Nahanee with a group of longshoremen on the dock of Moodyville Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P2
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

The man in the centre of the photograph with a laundry bag is William Nahanee. Four lumber vessels are in the background.

[Bachelor's residence on Dunlevy Avenue at Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P27
Item
[ca. 1890]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Henry J. Newton, James McColl, Ainslie Mouat and F.W. Watson

Employees Hastings Sawmill, Vancouver

AM54-S4-: Mi P4
Item
[ca. 1889]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing a group of mill workers. Persons in the front row identified are Yasukichi Yoshizawa (second from left), Rusty Pleece (third from left), and Tom Hunter (fifth from left).