City of Vancouver Archives

[The vacant area behind the businesses on the north side of the Unit Block of West Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2109
Item
July 1, 1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hastings Street looking west from Homer Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2111
Item
1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Hastings Street looking east from Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2112
Item
1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Hadden Block on the northeast corner of Granville Street and Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2113
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows George E. Trorey's shop

[The Hadden Block on the northeast corner of Granville Street and Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2115
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows George E. Trorey's shop

[Exterior of the Duncan Building at 119 West Pender Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2125
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows road works in front of the building and a sign stating "This building designed and erected by H.L. Stevens and Company"

Hastings Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2130
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the north side of the intersection of Hastings Street and Main Street including the Dawson Building, Owl Drugs and part of the Union Bank of Canada

[Looking west on Hastings Street from Granville Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2178
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Williams Building, Cunningham Drugs, the Melrose Cafe and the Pacific Building

Southwest corner West Hastings Street and Granville Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2179
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Williams Building, Zieglers Chocolates, Fifth Avenue Millinery, Cunningham Drugs, Melrose Cafe and the Pacific Building

Granville Street Looking North

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2180
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Calhoun Hats, the Williams Building, Vanity Style Shop, Linforth's Hats, Zieglers Chocolates, Cunningham Drugs and the main Post Office

Southwest corner West Hastings Street and Granville Street

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2181
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Calhoun Hats, the Williams Building, Vanity Style Shop, Linforth's Hats, Zieglers Chocolates and Cunningham Drugs

West Hastings Street looking east

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2182
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Winch Building, Melrose Cafe, Cunningham Drugs, the Canadian Bank of Commerce and other buildings

West Hastings Street looking east

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2183
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Winch Building, the main Post Office, and the Royal Bank of Canada building

[View of Main Street and Logan Avenue]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2187
Item
1897

Part of Major Matthews collection

C.P.R. Station at Vancouver

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2233
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the second C.P.R. station at the foot of Granville Street and George E. Trorey Manufacturing and other businesses on the corner of Hastings Street

Vancouver, B.C. from Hotel Vancouver

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2382
Item
[ca. 1893]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the east side of the 600 Block Granville Street including the Hudson's Bay Company stores, the New York Block, the Bank of Montreal and other buildings and part of the C.P.R. Park

Exhibit No. 7

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2436
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows an unidentified street with a bus stop and a railroad crossing sign

Hastings Street Looking East [towards Homer Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2502
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Royal Bank of Canada building and the Metropolitan Block

[Looking west from Cambie Street along Hastings Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2711
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Flack Block, the Bank of Hamilton, the Dominion bank and other buildings and the clock tower of the Post Office

[Vancouver Fire Department members and vehicles assembled for a Labour Day Parade at the C.P.R. freight yard on Pender Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2748
Item
Sept. 1, 1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Deputy Chief Thompson in a car and The City Junk Company and other buildings in the background

[A City of Vancouver Float at the corner of Granville Street and Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2786
Item
[between 1915 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the Georgia Pharmacy at 699 Granville Street

Fraser Valley Train

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2840
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

When Traffic Went to the Left

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2865
Item
[ca. 1920]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view of Hastings Street looking east from the Unit Block

Corner Main and Hastings in 1905

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2869
Item
1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows McDowell Atkins Drugs and the Blackburn Hotel on Westminster Avenue and a banner across the street advertising a baseball game at Recreation Park

Columbia Street in 1888 New Westminster

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2873
Item
1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Model of proposed civic auditorium, theatre and C.B.C. building superimposed onto an aerial view of the proposed building site between Howe, Hornby, Robson and Smithe Streets]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2881
Item
1949

Part of Major Matthews collection

Oblique view showing the Hotel Vancouver, the Court House, the Medical-Dental Building, the Immigration Building, the Manhattan Apartments and other buildings, H.M.C.S. Discovery on Deadman's Island, Coal Harbour and Brockton Point

Sydney, Australia from Hyde Park

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2883
Item
[ca. 1949]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Martin Place, Sydney Australia

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2893
Item
[ca. 1949]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sydney, Australia - Overlooking Hyde Park and the War Memorial

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2894
Item
[ca. 1949]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Sydney, Australia - Overlooking Circular Quay

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2895
Item
[ca. 1949]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Looking north from Georgia Street showing the area between Bute Street and Homer Street and across Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2900.1
Item
[ca. 1923]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[Looking north from Georgia Street showing the area between Bute Street and Homer Street and across Burrard Inlet]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2902
Item
[ca. 1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view

[Exterior of Malkin's Wholesale Grocers at 57 Water Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-496
Item
[between 1940 and 1948]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Exterior of The Royal Bank of Canada (670), Kingsway Cleaners and Dyers (666) and a vacant store (662) on Kingsway]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-499
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is exhibit "E" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-500
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is exhibit "B" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-501
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is exhibit "F" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

[Interior of 662 Kingsway showing the box used to conceal a hidden tunnel]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-502
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph is exhibit "F" in a court case regarding the building of a tunnel from 662 Kingsway to the Royal Bank Kingsway Branch.

Notes written on the back include: " Mushrooms. These four [refers to CVA 371-499, CVA 371-500, CVA 371-501, CVA 371-502] came from the Court House, Georgia street, and were used in the prosecution of bank robbers who had attempted to rob the Royal Bank of Canada, 670 Kingsway, in 1936. They rented the store No. 662, --two doors from the bank-- and announced that they were going to grow mushrooms by some special artificial process they had discovered. The box, or cabinet like structure in the photographs was supposed to be part of the apparatus, and, of course, was 'secret', (lest others find out the process of growing the mushrooms, they said). Actually it was to conceal the entrance to a tunnel, and the earth excavated to make a passage underground to the bank, which they hoped to gain access to by coming up under it. How the deceit was discovered I do not know, but the case came up in the Vancouver police court, March 27th 1936"

Cordova Street, Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-60
Item
1890

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a view looking west from Carrall Street showing the Dunn-Miller Block

[The customs examining warehouse (146 Water Street) from the C.P.R. yard]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-721
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the building housing Royal Transfer Company, Crickmay Brothers, Briar Pipes and George H. Hees Son and Company

[Looking northwest from Granville Street near Georgia Street towards the north shore]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-725.1
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Hotel Abbotsford and other buildings and Coal Harbour and Brockton Point

[Looking north along Granville Street from Georgia Street towards North Vancouver]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-725.2
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing billboards for Fletchers Pianos and Empress Coffee, the Bank of Montreal, the Post Office Clock tower, the C.P.R. Station and the North and/or West Vancouver ferries

[Looking east from Granville Street at Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-725.3
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing Holy Rosary Cathedral, the World (Sun) Tower, Fox Motor Truck Company, the New England Hotel, the Northwest Trust building and Hastings Sawmill in the background

[Looking east from Water and Cordova Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-726.1
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view of intersection of Water Street and Cordova Street showing Gault Brothers, the Leckie water tower and other buildings

[Looking southwest along Cordova Street from Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-726.2
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Dominion Building, the World (Sun) Tower, the rear of the Woodward's building, the front of the Carter-Cotton building and other buildings

[Looking southwest from Cordova Street at Carrall Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-726.3
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the side of the Carter-Cotton building, the Dominion Trust building and other buildings

[Looking southwest from Hastings Street at Homer Street]

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-727.1
Item
1913

Part of Major Matthews collection

Panoramic view showing the Dominion Trust Building, the clock on top of the Vancouver Block, the spire of Holy Rosary Cathedral, part of the Hotel Canada, the Northwest Trust Company, a rooming house and other buildings