City of Vancouver Archives

[Joe Fortes diving into water at English Bay]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-591
Item
[ca. 1906]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph also shows bathers on shore, boys on diving board, and a building under construction in the background.

Our Friend "Joe", English Bay, Vancouver, B.C.

AM1052-: AM1052 P-38
Item
[ca. 1906]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives postcard collection

Item is a postcard printed with an image of lifeguard Joe Fortes diving head-first into the water of English Bay from the diving platfrom. Young swimmers are pictured on the platform watching Fortes. A bathhouse and other buildings are shown in the background.

Our First Fifty Years 1886 - 1936 Vancouver, Canada. View Looking North From Nelson Street

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3177
Item
1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

Prominent buildings in photograph are: Manhattan Apartments (784 Thurlow Street), Marine Building (355 Burrard Street), Hotel Vancouver (900 West Georgia Street), Provincial Court House (750 Hornby Street); Second Hotel Vancouver (Granville Street), Vancouver Block (736 Granville Street), First Baptist Church (969 Burrard Street) and St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church (1012 Nelson Street).

Street Scene in Vancouver showing block of shops at 432 Westminster Avenue (Main Street)

AM1376-: CVA 166-2
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Item is a photograph showing block of shops at 432 Westminster Avenue (Main Street). Annotation on verso: "A gift from Philip Timms when I visited his shop on Commercial and was shown his printing press. Just before he closed shop 1967."

Cor. Cambie and Hastings Sts.

AM376-: CVA 506-05
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Gordon Brown fonds

Item depicts Woodward's Department Store's wagon and electric railway car on street.

St. Michael's Anglican Church

AM362-S7---: CVA 468-007
Item
[ca. 1900]

Part of Wilson family fonds

Site of Central City Mission

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-542
Item
[ca. 1906]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Item is a photograph showing view of Abbott Street at Water Street, with the corner storefront for H. Solomon & Co. at 221 Abbott.

[Parade on 100 block of West Hastings Street]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-523
Item
1906

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

The photograph is accompanied by a label stating: "Hastings Street, the New Business St. Crowds watching the Parade go by. Note Vancouver's first tram car turned into a float for the day. Vancouver Business College. Chinese Mission in the last wooden building."

Bootahnie Valley Camp - V.N.H.S.

AM505-S1-: CVA 660-735
Item
[ca. 1912]

Part of John Davidson fonds

Panorama photograph of the Vancouver Natural History Camp

[The west side of Carrall Street looking north towards Cordova Street]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-634
Item
[ca. 1909]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows pedestrians, carriages, and buildings, including the Hotel Rainier at 303 Carrall Street.

Fancy diving, English Bay, Vancouver, B.C.

AM1029-: CVA 1029-4
Item
1908

Part of Stanley H. Warn fonds

Photograph shows the English Bay Club building.

[View looking across the water towards Siwash Rock]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-737
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[View looking south showing the Dominion Building and the dome of the old Court House]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-736
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[Child feeding bird in Stanley Park]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-735
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

[Wesley Choir's last stand - flashlight taken Sunday evening, August 31, 1930, following the singing of "Handel's Hallelujah" - henceforth Wesley and St. Andrew's are one]

AM54-S4-: CVA 371-3187
Item
Aug. 31, 1930

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the choir of the Wesley Methodist Church posed in front of the church organ before the church's amalgamation with St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church to form St. Andrew's Wesley United Church.

Granville Street at Hudson's Bay [on Georgia Street]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-723
Item
1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a horse-drawn wagon and the C.P.R. Station in the background

Hudson's Bay corner - Granville [Street] and Georgia Street

AM1376-: CVA 1376-722
Item
1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a carbon electric light and a street car in the background

Granville Street just north of Dunsmuir [Street]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-728
Item
1935

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows the Post Office clock tower in the background

Granville Street at Robson Street

AM1376-: CVA 1376-724
Item
1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a policeman in a "Bobby" style hat and uniform and W. Cosman and Son Hardware

Granville Street at Hudson's Bay [on Georgia Street]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-727
Item
1935

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows street cars and the Post Office clock tower in the background

Cordova Street in its Prime July 1st 1904 Naval Parade

AM1376-: CVA 1376-719
Item
July 1, 1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

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

Hastings [Street] and Cambie Street [on] Labor Day

AM1376-: CVA 1376-720
Item
Sept. 1, 1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows a view looking west along Hastings Street including a V.F.D. No. 4 horse-drawn fire wagon, The Arcade building and other buildings and businesses on the north side of the street

Hastings Street west of Cambie [Street]

AM1376-: CVA 1376-721
Item
1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows signs for More and Clark, Club and Stewart, F. Buscombe, Thompson Stationary and Fit Reform

Hastings Street west of Homer Street

AM1376-: CVA 1376-725
Item
1908

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows banners across Hastings Street reading: "Many men making money means much for Vancouver," "Hurrah!! Tell our Tale. Talk our Town," and "Vancouver 100 000 in 1910." and a horse-drawn wagon and a street car in the background

Hastings Street west of Homer Street

AM1376-: CVA 1376-726
Item
1935

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows an Observation Car, Spencer's Department Store and the Marine Building in the background

Hastings Street West of Seymour [Street] Dominion Day

AM1376-: CVA 1376-718
Item
July 1, 1904

Part of City of Vancouver Archives photograph collection

Photograph shows people lining the street to watch a parade including a horse-drawn fire wagon and the Bank of B.N.A., Standard Furniture, David Spencer and Molson Bank

[Shoreline of Stanley Park, showing Siwash Rock in the distance]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-670
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

George Young Timms, father of P.T. Timms, and wife, at 3008 Westminster Avenue [14th Avenue and Main Street]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-669
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows an older couple standing in a doorway of a house.

[Man standing next to steps outside house]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-668
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[A gathering of the Gaelic Society of Vancouver]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-666
Item
[1909 or 1910]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Group portrait showing Anne Gillies Macdonald (Smith) in the middle of the group next to a man in a flat straw hat and others

[Group of young women assembled on lawn outside house]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-665
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[Young boy watching a squirrel climb a tree at Stanley Park]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-664
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

A note on the back of the photograph mounting board reads: "Stanley Park c. 1902. Boy is probably Harold Timms."

[Woman and girl looking at large tree in Stanley Park]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-663
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[A. H. Timms family in car outside house at 240 East 14th Avenue]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-662
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows two men and a girl in the car, and another man on the front steps of the house. A sign on the side of the house reads: "A. H. Timms. Job Printer."

[Timms exhibit displays]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-661
Item
[197-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows museum displays at the Centennial Museum (later the Vancouver Museum), including display boards from a display entitled "The World of Philip Timms." Contact sheet also appears to include images of other displays.

Interior of A. H. Timms Printing office

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-658
Item
1923; reproduced [197-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows various printing machinery.

[Abbott Street at Hastings Street, showing corner of Woodward Department Stores building]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-635
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

An accompanying label reads: "Abbott Street. Woodward's new store, having moved from Main St. makes its start on Hastings St. Looking north by the lane is the old Hotel Metropole, now the site is covered by the extension of the big department store. The wooden buildings have gone back to nature, and the City Mission occupies part of the block. No autos, just horseflesh, and shank's mare, and the bike. Timms Photo."

"English Bay in a Temper"

AM54-S4-2-: CVA 371-2925
Item
1905

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows waves rolling in

A glimpse of the city from Stanley Park

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-728
Item
1907

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a young boy standing behind a bench, looking across Coal Harbour to Downtown Vancouver.

Big spruce and cedar, Stanley Park

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-727
Item
1902

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a man on a path looking up at trees.

[Group portrait of Mount Pleasant Band assembled outside New City Market before first parade]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-729
Item
1909

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

[Partially demolished Wesley Methodist Church, 545 Homer Street]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-724
Item
1898; reproduced [192-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows the exterior of the church building in a state of partial demolition (windows removed, roof timbers exposed). Photograph also shows a passing cart, which appears to have been retouched.

[Crowd gathered at] New Westminster agricultural fair

AM336-S3-2-: CVA 677-739
Item
1904

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a large group of people gathered in front of the Women's building and the Industrial building, facing away from the camera. Photograph also shows three wicker baby carriages in the open space behind the crowd.