- AM1108-S4-: CVA 689-56
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- [ca. 1910?]
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Archival description- AM1108-S4-: CVA 689-52
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- [ca. 1900]
Photograph shows the Wing Sang Building prior to its expansion in 1901. Yip Sang is on the far left.
[Yip Sang with children and family members in front of Wing Sang Company building at 51 East Pender]
- AM1108-S4-: CVA 689-51
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- [ca. 1900]
Item is a photograph of a photograph showing the Wing Sang Building prior to its expansion in 1901. Individuals identified are: Yip Sang (far left), his number seven son Yip Kew Hong (holding Yip Sang's hand) and his number six son Yip Kew Gin (second from the right).
[Mel Yip standing in front of window of the Wing Sang Company Building at 51 East Pender Street]
- AM1108-S4-: CVA 689-164
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- [ca. 1945]
Mel Yip is a grandson of Yip Sang.
Sheet 21 : Burrard Street to False Creek and waterfront to Robson Street
- AM1594-MAP 682-: MAP 682.23
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- July 1945
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a section showing Burrard Street to False Creek and waterfront to Robson Street. Includes streets and roads; blocks, lots and legal descriptions; the locations of hotels, court house, businesses, parks, and schools; crown leases; C.P.R. land and the company's Piers B and C, yards, sheds and depot; the B.C. Electric Railway Carrall Street Yard; and the Union Steamship Company.
Sheet 22 : Stanley Park to Burrard Street and waterfront to Robson Street
- AM1594-MAP 682-: MAP 682.24
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- Oct. 1945
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a section showing Stanley Park to Burrard Street and waterfront to Robson Street. Includes streets and roads; blocks, lots and legal descriptions. Map shows the locations of Stanley Park, Deadmans Island, marine filling stations, the dredged channel, harbour headline, C.P.R .yards and Pier A, businesses along the waterfront, government buildings, land leases and quit claims.
Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer
Sheet 21 : Burrard Street to False Creek and waterfront to Robson Street
- AM1594-MAP 779-: MAP 779.23
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- [July 1945?]
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a section showing Burrard Street to False Creek and waterfront to Robson Street. Includes streets and roads; blocks, lots and legal descriptions; the locations of hotels, court house, businesses, parks, and schools; crown leases; C.P.R. land and the company's Piers B and C, yards, sheds and depot; the B.C. Electric Railway Carrall Street Yard; and the Union Steamship Company.
Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer
Sheet 22 : Stanley Park to Burrard Street and waterfront to Robson Street
- AM1594-MAP 779-: MAP 779.24
- Item
- Oct. 1945
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a section showing Stanley Park to Burrard Street and waterfront to Robson Street. Includes streets and roads; blocks, lots and legal descriptions. Map shows the locations of Stanley Park, Deadmans Island, marine filling stations, the dredged channel, harbour headline, C.P.R .yards and Pier A, businesses along the waterfront, government buildings, land leases and quit claims.
Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer
Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C.
- AM1477-1-S5-: CVA 1477-641
- Item
- [ca. 1896]
Part of L.D. Taylor family fonds
Photograph is a view of the 600 block of West Hastings Street, looking west from Granville Street. S. Blackson, Tobacconist, at 636 West Hastings Street is visible.
Sheet 21 : Burrard Street to False Creek and waterfront to Robson Street
- COV-S303-MAP 343-: MAP 343.23
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- [ca. 1925], with revisions to [ca. 1945]
Part of City of Vancouver fonds
Item is a section showing Burrard Street to False Creek and waterfront to Robson Street. Includes streets and roads; blocks, lots and legal descriptions; the locations of hotels, court house, businesses, parks, and schools; crown leases; C.P.R. land and the company's Piers B and C, yards, sheds and depot; the B.C. Electric Railway Carrall Street Yard; and the Union Steamship Company. Map is hand coloured to show tax sale property for sale, property with no water, street widening and drainage, replotting, reserved land for schools, reserved land for parks, sundry land, capital assets not including schools and parks, schools, and parks, as applicable.
Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer
Sheet 22 : Stanley Park to Burrard Street and waterfront to Robson Street
- COV-S303-MAP 343-: MAP 343.24
- Item
- Oct. 1945
Part of City of Vancouver fonds
Item is a section showing Stanley Park to Burrard Street and waterfront to Robson Street. Includes streets and roads; blocks, lots and legal descriptions. Map shows the locations of Stanley Park, Deadmans Island, marine filling stations, the dredged channel, harbour headline, C.P.R .yards and Pier A, businesses along the waterfront, government buildings, land leases and quit claims. Map is hand coloured to show tax sale property for sale, property with no water, street widening and drainage, replotting, reserved land for schools, reserved land for parks, sundry land, capital assets not including schools and parks, schools, and parks, as applicable.
Vancouver (B.C.). Office of the City Engineer
- AM1108-S4-: CVA 689-54
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- [ca. 1902]
Yip Sang is the fifth person from the left.
- AM1594-: MAP 654
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- 1889
Part of City of Vancouver Archives technical and cartographic drawing collection
Item is a copy of sections of a November 1889 fire insurance map that have been pieced together. Includes the area between Seymour and Dunlevy Streets, from the south shore of the Burrard Inlet to Keefer Street. Map shows Chinatown, part of False Creek, and buildings and their uses (commercial, residential, industrial). The name of the business, business owner, or type of business is noted for most commercial and industrial buildings.
- AM1590-: 2011-016.2
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- [1926-1932]
Part of George Thompson fonds
Item is a film made up of several films that have been spliced together. The film documents the Wood family’s trip to England and contains footage of the steamship journey, the Queen’s Guard parading, a war memorial, St. James’ Park, Buckingham Palace, the Thames, horse races, family scenes, a church, and a wedding. Film also documents locations and events in Vancouver, including the exterior and interior of Wood’s Jewellery Store (Arthur Wood & Co., 2511 Main Street), family gatherings at a house, possibly the Wood family home at 1656 Robson Street, and a troop of cavalry riding in dress uniforms. The stock date years of the film are in the following order: 1926, 1931, 1929, 1931 and 1932.
Exploring Vancouver’s Chinatown
- AM1068-S16-F01-: LEG550.17
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- 1990
Item is an educational video produced by the Vancouver School Board for use with a textbook entitled ‘Exploring Vancouver’s Chinatown: A Resource Guide’. The film has no narration, but a background score with Chinese instruments, and scene noise in some places. It opens with footage of the sun rising over Chinatown from a rooftop vantage point. It lingers on vendors and storefronts preparing to open, a Tai Chi class in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden’s main pavilion, Tai Chi in a local park, scenes of residential streets, houses, schools, and playgrounds. The film includes footage of a variety of local businesses, such as a barbershop, an apothecary, a school, calligraphy, tailor, fire department, auto repair, and a newspaper printer. It concludes with footage of the musicians playing the background music and street scenes of the sun setting over Chinatown.
Linking schools with the community
- AM1068-S16-F01-: LEG550.22
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- 1991
Item is a promotional film developed to support and promote the Vancouver School Board’s Partners in Education program. The film presents testimonials and success stories from various businesses and schools who have taken advantage of the program, discussing what benefits the partnered schools and businesses were able to bring to each other. The film begins with school administrators and business people talking about the program. The film then presents a number of success stories with various business and schools. The partnerships profiled include: The Port of Vancouver, Chevron Canada, Unisys Canada Inc., University Hospital, the Dr. Sun Yat-Yat Sen Classical Chinese Gardens, the Champlain Mall, the Pan Pacific Hotel, and Vancouver Community College.
The film involves testimonials and short interviews with a number of teachers, school administrators, and business: Jim Matkin (President, BC Business Council), Sheila Tripp (School Principal), Ken Haycock (School Principal), Ken Harvey (Director, Vancouver School Board), Dr. Dante Lupini (Superintendent of Schools, Vancouver), Gwen Smith (School Principal), Barbara Duggan (Vancouver Port Corporation), Gary Ryan (Chevron Canada Ltd), Bill Strachan (Chevron Canada Ltd), Neil Prinsen (Teacher), Maris Pavelson (Unisys Canada Inc.), Sheila Tripp (School Principal), Arlene Cook (Teacher), Lesley Bainbridge (University Hospital), Diane Bolton (Champlain Mall), Joyce Anderson (School Principal), Anne Shorthouse (Program Manager, VSB), Gail Smith (Program Manager, VSB), and Darcy Rezak (Vancouver Board of Trade).