City of Vancouver Archives

AM336-S9---: LEG1762.1
Item
1976

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Item is an audio disc containing a recording narrated by Neil Cole. Record label lists the following contents on side 1: Capilano Canyon, Grouse Mountain, Granville Mall, Canadian Pacific Railway, Bloedel Conservatory, Record label lists the following contents on side 2: Maritime Museum - St. Roch, Stanley Park and Aquarium, Nine O'Clock Gun, Gastown, Mayor of Vancouver.

Cedar walk, Stanley Park, Vancouver, B.C.

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-986
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Attached label reads: "Thirty-seven years ago in Stanley Park. Along the trail to 3rd Beach, about 150 feet west of the clump of Fir trees called the Seven Sisters. This is the remains of an Indian dug-out canoe that was abandoned on account of "dry rot" in the log. What is left of it is covered with dense green moss. The newly chopped chips were lying about when I made the above photograph. Philip Timms."

[Military exercises at Cambie Street grounds]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-980
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows spectators watching canons being set off at grounds. Photograph also shows surrounding buildings, and three men sitting on top on an electrical pole.

[L. D. Taylor campaign poster]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-807
Item
[193-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a poster reading "Vote for L. D. Taylor for Mayor - a full dinner pail - fair play."

[Portrait of Louis D. Taylor]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-806
Item
[193-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows an oil painting of Louis D. Taylor by D. H. Ramsay.

Coaxing the blue jay, Stanley Park

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-779
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a young boy crouching by a tree, holding out his hand out to a bird.

The Empire's Commerce, S. S. Bellerophen

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-778
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows ships at dock.

[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]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-743
Item
Aug. 31, 1930

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

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.

Dining hall, Anglican College, Vancouver, B.C.

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-742
Item
1929

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows tables and chairs, window, ceiling beams, and other details of the room.

[Group portrait of the] Vancouver Natural History Society at the Botanical Garden, University of British Columbia

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-741
Item
[192-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a group of men, women, and children gathered on a lawn.

[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

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.

[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.

Bowen Island, B.C.

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-706
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows two boats near the shore of the island, as well as a house on the island.

[Sandstone cliffs at] First Narrows, Burrard Inlet

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-673
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a close view of the side of a cliff, with the inlet in the background.

Corner Hastings and Richards Streets. Time of the visit of our King and Queen

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-672
Item
29 May 1939

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows Hastings Street, looking west, decorated with flags and signs. Photograph also shows streetcars, automobiles, and pedestrians.

Pot holes drilled by running stream, Vancouver Island

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-671
Item
[1937?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows weathered rocks.

[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

[Man standing on sidewalk outside house]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-667
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.

[Pedestrians on sidewalk at Granville and Pender Streets]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-660
Item
[192-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows pedestrians, streetcars, automobiles, a C.P.R. sign, and the corner of the Rogers building, including O.B. Allan Jewellers.

[Pedestrians on sidewalk of 500 block of Granville Street]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-659
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

An accompanying label reads: "Commonwealth City Life, 50 years ago in Vancouver, Canada. No autos, no chewing gum bespattered asphalt roads, no radios or television. Memory recalls the sound of gentle footsteps along the 12 ft. wooden plank sidewalks. The long skirts and the "respectable" street cleaners of the period. Timms, Vancouver Natural History Society. 1904-1954."

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.

[Interior of] Timms Studio lab, 1842 Charles St. Vancouver

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-657
Item
[1910-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows various photographic equipment.

[Panorama view of Vancouver looking north from Nelson Street]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-656
Item
1936

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

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).

[City Hall and Carnegie Public Library buildings at Main and Hastings Streets]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-655
Item
[191-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows the exterior of buildings, and stairs to underground washrooms.

[Full length studio portrait of Philip T. Timms in band uniform with helicon]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-654
Item
[1908?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

A note on the back of one of the copy prints reads: "Philip T. Timms, Mt. Pleasant bandsman, 1908 (instrument: helicon E flat bass)."

[View of the 300 block West Hastings Street at Hamilton Street with a queue of people on the sidewalk lining up to purchase Shaughnessy lots from the C.P.R.]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-653
Item
[Sept. 1909]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows the Inns of Court Building (423 Hamilton Street at West Hastings) and the Debeck Building (336 West Hastings Street).

[Granville Street at Pender Street, looking south]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-652
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows streetcars, carriages, pedestrians, and businesses, including McIntyre's Cafe in the Imperial Life building.

[Hastings Street at Gore Avenue, looking west]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-651
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

An accompanying label reads: "Hastings Street looking west from near Gore Avenue. The last of the wooden sidewalks. The Fish Market next to the Bank. The new Public Library. The Japanese clothes cleaner on the bike. The tram to Central Park. Just a summer morning 30 years ago - Timms Photo."

[Granville Street at Pender Street, looking north]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-650
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a streetcar, pedestrians, and various buildings, including the Imperial Life building, and the Post Office and C.P.R. station in the distance.

Hastings Street at Columbia, looking east

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-649
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

An accompanying label reads: "This is Hastings Street East of Columbia Avenue. Many of the old wooden buildings have vanished. The barber poles and the bicycle racks and the old wooden sidewalks, with an occasional nail, kept us from going to sleep as we did our shopping. Timms Photo."

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church [694 Richards Street]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-648
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Hastings Street at Granville Street

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-647
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows pedestrians, streetcars, the Birks Clock, and a banner announcing baseball games.

[Langley exhibit at] New Westminster [agricultural] fair

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-646
Item
[190-?]; reproduced [194-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows a display of fruits, vegetables, grains, and preserves.

Fire at 680 Seymour Street, between Dunsmuir and Georgia Streets

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-645
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Photograph shows smoke billowing from buildings, and firefighters applying water to a nearby house. Photograph also shows spectators and other buildings in the area.

[Studio portrait of] Philip T. Timms, choir leader [in smock]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-644
Item
[193-?]; reproduced [197-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

Thanksgiving at [Grace Gospel Hall, 1519 West 8th]

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-643
Item
[192-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

A note on the back of the photograph reads: "Philip T. Timms and wife."

Hastings Street between Hamilton and Homer Streets

AM336-S3-3-: CVA 677-642
Item
[190-?]

Part of Vancouver Museums and Planetarium Association fonds

An accompanying label reads: "Hastings St. between Hamilton and Homer St. This block held its own for a number of years, but the march was always westward. Some of the well known names the businessmen are clearly seen -- Fit-Reform, Thompson Stationery, Buscombe, Clubb and Stewart, King Studio, Moore and Clarke and the Arcade. - Timms Photo."