City of Vancouver Archives

[Construction of] 3260 Thompson Crecent, Westmount, West Vancouver

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3030
Item
June 5, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of construction of home for Richard and Hazel Valentia Abbott.

Ashley May's 4th birthday, June 11, 1953

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3031
Item
June 11, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Ashley May Abbott opening her birthday present from her great-grandfather, Major Matthews.

Ashley May's 4th birthday, June 11, 1953

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3032
Item
June 11, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Ashley May Abbott opening her birthday present from her great-grandfather, Major Matthews.

Ashley May's 4th birthday, June 11, 1953

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3033
Item
June 11, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Ashley May Abbott opening her birthday present from her great-grandfather, Major Matthews.

Major Matthews and his granddaughter Hazel, Mrs. Abbott, going to the "Vogue" to see the colour pictures of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3034
Item
June 20, 1953

Part of Major Matthews collection

Bruce's 1st birthday, Feb. 13, 1956

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3035
Item
Feb. 13, 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Bruce Abbott "looking at his birthday card from his Grandma and Grandpa Matthews" at "Five Cedars" according to description on verso.

Bruce, Wendy & Ashley [Abbott] taken on the back veranda against the dining room windows

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3036
Item
Jan. 29, 1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

[School portrait of Evelyn Matthews]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3052
Item
1956

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows professionally taken head & shoulders school portrait of Evelyn Matthews (later Evelyn Walser) during her first year in high school in 1956. Photograph was gifted to Major Matthews.

[Robin Ann Hodges and Bonnie Lee Hodges, twins born Dec. 27, 1958]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3053
Item
[1959]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Major Matthews' great-grandchildren Robin Ann Hodges and Bonnie Lee Hodges, twins born to Amy Letitia Hodges and Marvin Hodges on December 27, 1958.

[Abbott and Hodges families] taken at Hazel and Richard Abbott's home, 100 King George Terrace, Victoria, B.C. Aug. 28th 1964

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3054
Item
Aug. 28, 1964

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows group portrait of Abbott and Hodges families, taken at Hazel and Richard Abbott's home, 100 King George Terrace, Victoria, B.C., on August 28, 1964. From left to right, top row: Ashley May Abbott, Florence Vera Matthews, Evelyn Walser, unknown baby, Letitia Hodges. Second from top: Mary Abbott, Wendy Ann Abbott, Theresa Hodges. Third from top: Unknown girl, Dean Hodges, Cindy Hodges, Howard Hodges, Gilbert Hodges, Bruce Abbott. Bottom row: twins Bonnie Lee Hodges and Robin Ann Hodges.

[School portrait of Theresa Hodges, 1968]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3055
Item
[Oct. 24, 1968]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken head & shoulders school portrait shows Theresa Leslie Joy Hodges in 1968.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3056
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street house on September 10th, 1960.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3057
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis, seated.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie or Eileen Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3058
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie or Eileen Willis holding a cat.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3059
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3060
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis, Eileen Willis, and Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis.

1414 Laburnum St. 10th Sept. 1960 [and Miss Marjorie Willis or Eileen Willis, Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis, and Major Matthews]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3061
Item
Sept. 10, 1960

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot negative shows ground level view of 1414 Laburnum Street garden on September 10th, 1960 and Miss Marjorie Willis or Eileen Willis, Mrs. Mabel Agnes Willis, and Major Matthews.

[Portrait of Major Matthews with Florence Vera Matthews, Hazel Valentia Abbott, and Ashley May Abbott]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3062
Item
[1950]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group portrait shows Major Matthews with his daughter-in-law Florence Vera Matthews, his grandchild Hazel Valentia Abbott, and his great grandchild Ashley May Abbott.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3063
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt in front of flagpole. Photograph is annotated to note the location of Major Matthews.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3064
Item
1908 or 1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph postcard shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews outside officers' quarters while "attending Royal School of Instruction". Back row: Selater, J.S. Matthews, Ward, Turner, Maxwell, unknown, unknown, Latta. Front row: Unknown, Melhuish, Scharschmidt, J.E. Ward.

[Officer group portrait including Major Matthews at Work Point School, Esquimalt]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3065
Item
1907

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows officer group portrait including Major Matthews outside officers' quarters while "attending Royal School of Instruction". Back row: Selater, J.S. Matthews, Ward, Turner, Maxwell, unknown, unknown, Latta. Front row: Unknown, Melhuish, Scharschmidt, J.E. Ward.

[Hugh Matthews in baseball uniform]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3066
Item
[between 1906 and 1922]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows Hugh Matthews in baseball uniform on wharf in front of water. Uniform has letters R and P emblazoned on front.

[Loading bales of wool onto an ox team wagon on an Australian sheep station]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3067
Item
[between 1889 and 1892]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken ground level view of loading bales of wool onto an ox team wagon on an Australian sheep station.

Mrs. Cook, wife of Mr. Cook, schoolmaster who educated James Skitt Matthews before Oct. 6th, 1887, [when] he left Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales, for Christchurch, New Zealand

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3068
Item
1887

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken full-length studio portrait shows Mrs. Cook, wife of Mr. Cook, schoolmaster who educated James Skitt Matthews before Oct. 6th, 1887, when he left Newton, Montgomeryshire, Wales, for Christchurch, New Zealand.

Mountain View Cemetery - Masonic and family plot [at the burial of Hugh Boscawen Matthews]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3069
Item
Nov. 1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken photograph shows the Matthews family plot at Mountain View Cemetery and the burial of Hugh Matthews, the youngest son of Major Matthews, who died in an elevator accident in Vancouver, November 5, 1922.

Christchurch and war memorial, Prestatyn

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3070
Item
[c. 1923]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken ground level view of Christchurch and war memorial in Prestatyn, Flintshire, Wales where Herbert Lewis Matthews was buried.

[Speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point in April 1918]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3072
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group photograph shows speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point near Forest Hall roadhouse on the Columbia River Highway (near Portland) in April 1918. From left to right: Major Matthews, General Green of the United States, unknown woman, American delegate.

[Speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point in April 1918]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3073
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group photograph shows speakers for the 4th Liberty Loan Mission at Lookout Point near Forest Hall roadhouse on the Columbia River Highway (near Portland) in April 1918. Major Matthews notes on photo that "the mission addressed scores of audiences in churches, halls, schools, raising enthusiasm for the 4th Liberty Loan". From left to right: Major Matthews, General Green of the United States, French delegate, American delegate, and two unknown women.

[Group portrait of speakers for the] Liberty Loan Mission to Idaho, Washington, Oregon, [taken Forest Hill, near Portland, Oregon in] spring (about April) 1918

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3074
Item
Apr. 1918

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken group portrait of speakers for the liberty Loan Mission to Idaho, Washington, Oregon. Photograph was taken at Forest Hill roadhouse (built 1915) on the Columbia River Highway near Portland, Oregon in the spring (about April) of 1918. Black row: Major Matthews, French soldier, American soldier, Lieutenant Alex MacDonald of Canada, unknown, unknown, French soldier, unknown. Front row (seated): Unknown, unknown, General Green of the United States, and "Mrs. Major Matthews, the first "Catherine Valentia Maud Boscawen Matthews.

[Emily Matthews in 1158 Arbutus Street garden in 1922]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3075
Item
1922

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Emily Matthews in 1158 Arbutus Street garden in 1922, soon after she and Major Matthews moved in.

[Major Matthews and Emily Matthews at Granville & Robson]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3076
Item
1945

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken candid shot of Major Matthews with cane and Emily Matthews dressed up for a day out in Vancouver in 1945.

[Girl, Emily Matthews, and cats Jack and Jill in 1158 Arbutus Street garden]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3077
Item
[1935?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of girl (possibly a relation of Mrs. Matthews), Emily Matthews, and cats Jack and Jill in the 1158 Arbutus Street garden.

[Emily Matthews and cat Jack or Jill in 1158 Arbutus Street garden]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3078
Item
[1935?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot of Emily Matthews and cat Jack or Jill in the 1158 Arbutus Street garden.

[1158 Arbutus Street] residence of Major and Mrs. J.S. Matthews, built 1920, taken in summer 1932

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3079
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Emily Matthews in chair in 1158 Arbutus Street garden]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3080
Item
[c. 1935]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Emily Matthews in chair in 1158 Arbutus Street garden around 1935.

Emily Eliza Edwardes (Mrs. J.S. Matthews)

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3081
Item
[1904?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken head and shoulders portrait of Emily Edwardes, later Mrs. Emily Matthews. Major Matthews notes that the photograph was probably taken "shortly after she nursed [him] (typhoid) from June to Sept 1902 in the Vancouver City Hospital. This photograph must have been taken in New York whilr she was matron of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat Hospital in Brooklyn".

Nurses and patients at Napsbury Hospital around 1918 during the first World War

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3082
Item
[ca. 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

This professionally photographed group portrait shows British Army nurses and patients at what is likely Napsbury Hospital around 1918, during the First World War.

[Nursing sister Emily Edwardes]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3083
Item
[1903-1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Proof of professionally taken head and shoulders portrait of nursing sister Emily Edwardes (later Emily Matthews), possibly while she was a matron of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

[Portrait of unknown nursing sister]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3084
Item
[1903-1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Proof of professionally taken head and shoulders portrait of unknown nursing sister, possibly at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

[Portrait of unknown nursing sister]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3085
Item
[1903-1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Proof of professionally taken head and shoulders portrait of unknown nursing sister, possibly at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

[Portrait of unknown nursing sister]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3086
Item
[1903-1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Proof of professionally taken head and shoulders portrait of unknown nursing sister, possibly at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.

[Portrait of unknown nursing sister]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3087
Item
[1903-1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Proof of professionally taken head and shoulders portrait of unknown nursing sister, possibly at the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.