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[Various scenes regarding the activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints, showing: the head office building on Carrall Street; a woman sketching beside interurban railway tracks near Sumas Lake; the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one; the Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two; a parade for the Duke of Connaught passing by the B.C. Electric head office; and an assembly for the Duke of Connaught in front of the Courthouse. Negative was created in order to produce lantern slides of the six images.

Mayor McGeer

Bound volume includes includes photographs of Mayor McGeer's portrait, group portrait of the 1935 City Council, Council and staff at the temporary City Hall site (interior view), and McGeer turning the first sod at the new City Hall site as well as photographs showing McGeer reading the riot act at Victory Square, April 23, 1935, to disperse demonstrators involved in the sit down strike of 1935 and other views of demonstrators, and photographs of the May Day parade and events downtown at the Cambie Street Grounds and Stanley Park, including an effigy of McGeer at Victory Square.

[Motorcyclists entertain spectators before the Diamond Jubilee Parade]

Item is a photograph showing Hastings Street looking west towards the Marine Building. Text material with the photograph reads: "Vancouver Citizens' Diamond Jubilee Committee Press Release
Cut lines - Looking west on Hastings Street towards the Marine Building behind which stands a tiny shack which was the city's first building erected in 1852. The lads on motorcycles are amusing the waiting spectators who are are [sic] awaiting the arrival of the great Diamond jubilee parade on July 1, 1946, which inaugurated the city's two weeks' birthday celebrations."

[Various scenes regarding activities of the B.C. Electric Railway Company]

Photograph negative is a copy of six photograph prints, showing: head office building on Carrall Street; woman sketching next to Fraser Valley interurban line near Sumas Lake; view of Buntzen Lake Power Plant number one from Indian Arm; view of partially constructed Buntzen Lake Power Plant number two from Indian Arm; parade for Duke of Connaught passing B.C. Electric head office; and military inspection by the Duke of Connaught in front of Vancouver Courthouse. Negative was created to produce lantern slides of the six images.

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