City of Vancouver Archives

[Barnard's Express and Stage Line with Royal Mail enroute to Barkerville ]

AM54-S4-: Trans P170
Item
[ca. 1865] ; reproduced [193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[A stagecoach on the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Trans P128
Item
1905 ; reproduced [194-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Women and children watch road construction near Golden]

AM54-S4-: Trans P120
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

A Sample of B.C. Fir - Diameter 9'8" near Vancouver, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Tr P26
Item
[192-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men using horse-drawn carts to clear site for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1794
Item
18 Oct. [190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Team of horses in front of an outdoor mill]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1684
Item
[190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Horse dragging cart out of partially excavated tunnel for Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1675
Item
29 Sept. [190-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men standing with horses near C.P.R. steam shovel and flatbed cars in Selkirk mountains]

AM54-S4-: SGN 1469
Item
[189-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

[A team of horses at Buntzen Lake Dam construction site]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-68
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows a construction engine in the background

[Buntzen Lake Dam construction site]

AM54-S4-1-S-4-: S-4-19
Item
[ca. 1902]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Steam and horse-drawn harvesting machines]

AM54-S4-: Out P977
Item
[191-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

The 83 Mile House Cariboo Road, B.C.

AM54-S4-: Out P976
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Crossing Ferry

AM54-S4-: Out P909
Item
1868 ; reproduced 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men, horses and gear waiting to cross a river on a wooden barge controlled by ropes and pulleys

[Stage coach at Mile 70 of the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Out P900
Item
Sept. 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing J. Alex Walker on top of the stage coach

[Covered wagons on the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Out P895
Item
[ca. 1905]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Upper Sumas Creamery]

AM54-S4-: Out P891
Item
[between 1900 and 1910] ; reproduced 1958

Part of Major Matthews collection

On the Cariboo Trail [a] Coach

AM54-S4-: Out P63
Item
[ca. 1880] ; reproduced 1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Boyd's stopping place on the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Out P476
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The British Columbia Express Company's Royal Mail stage coach on the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Out P475.2
Item
1906

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Covered freight wagons on the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Out P475.1
Item
1906

Part of Major Matthews collection

William Keatley and Team [on the Cariboo Road]

AM54-S4-: Out P337
Item
1889

Part of Major Matthews collection

["Cariboo" Cameron's nephew and horse]

AM54-S4-: Out P222.1
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Boothroyd's - 36 miles above Yale

AM54-S4-: Out P163
Item
[ca. 1870]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows chuck wagons at a road house

[Officers, a civilian and a hay wagon]

AM54-S4-: Mil P290.20
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Soldiers training on horses near camp]

AM54-S4-: Mil P290.12
Item
[ca. 1914]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Rockies by Rail ; music and FX [effects] only offline

AM1553-8-S13-: MI-509
Item
1992

Part of Yaletown Productions Inc. fonds

Item is a version of "Rockies by rail" which has no narration, only music and effects. There is a time code reading at the bottom of the screen throughout. Footage includes some nice panning shots of the city of Vancouver. Michael Collier is sometimes one of the train passengers. Some footage was shot in Alaska as well as British Columbia.

[Team of horses hauling logs on skid road]

AM54-S4-: Log P25
Item
1904

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Men stacking logs by rolling them up a ramp using chains, pulleys and horses]

AM54-S4-: LGN 515
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

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

Decking logs

AM54-S4-: LGN 513
Item
[1912?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows men stacking logs by rolling them up a ramp using chains, pulleys and horses. J.S. Matthews' notes with print or negative in Archives.

[Four scenes regarding construction of Buntzen Lake power lines]

AM54-S4-: LGN 1145
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph negative is a copy of four photograph prints, showing: men clearing land in forest; horses and supplies next to small dock; power poles and lines; rowboat and supplies in lake near dock.