City of Vancouver Archives

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

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.

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.

[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.

[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.

[Emily Matthews at table with nurses and soldiers]

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3141
Item
[between 1915 and 1919]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Miss Emily Edwardes, Nursing Sister, No. 5 Canadian General Hospital

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3150
Item
[between 1915 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Emily Edwardes, probably while she was working at the No. 5 Canadian General Hospital.

Miss Emily Edwardes

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3151
Item
[between 1909 and 1919]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Snapshot shows Emily Edwardes sitting in front of tree.

Miss Emily Edwardes on trip from Vancouver to Seattle, to visit Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3153
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photo on postcard shows Miss Emily Edwardes and friend on trip from Vancouver to Seattle, to visit Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

Miss Emily Edwardes at Cultus Lake, Sardis, B.C.

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3154
Item
[between 1900 and 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows full-length portrait of Miss Emily Edwardes sitting in the forest near Cultus Lake, BC. J.S. Matthews describes it as "pre-war".

Miss Emily Edwardes at Cultus Lake, Sardis, B.C.

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3155
Item
[between 1900 and 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows full-length portrait of Miss Emily Edwardes and friend sitting in the forest near Cultus Lake, BC. J.S. Matthews describes it as "pre-war".

Miss Emily Edwardes at Cultus Lake, Sardis, B.C.

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3156
Item
[between 1900 and 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows full-length portrait of Miss Emily Edwardes and friend sitting in the forest near Cultus Lake, BC. J.S. Matthews describes it as "pre-war".

Miss Emily Edwardes and friends on trip from Vancouver to visit Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3158
Item
1909

Part of Major Matthews collection

Mrs. Silson, No. 4 Summerhay St., Palmerston, New Zealand

AM54-S11-3---: CVA 371-3167
Item
[between 1926 and 1928]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Woman feeding] Major J.S. Matthews Golden Jubilee bank account cake 1909-1959

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3038
Item
Sept. 16, 1959

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photo professionally taken at the Imperial Bank of Canada Hastings and Abbott Branch for the branch's 50th anniversary.

[Proof sent for inspection for oil painting of Mrs. Emily Matthews by Sydney March]

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3039
Item
Sept. 1952

Part of Major Matthews collection

The late Mrs. J.S. Matthews, obit. 1948

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3040
Item
Oct. 1952

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Clay model for bronze bust of Emily Matthews]

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3160
Item
[1952]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Clay model for bronze bust of Emily Matthews]

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3161
Item
[1952]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Clay model for bronze bust of Emily Matthews]

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3162
Item
[1952]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Attendees of ceremony for Captain George Vancouver's grave look on as Earle Westwood speaks]

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3164
Item
May 9, 1965

Part of Major Matthews collection

[Attendees of ceremony and Captain George Vancouver's grave]

AM54-S11-4---: CVA 371-3165
Item
May 9, 1965

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken photo of George Vancouver's grave and ceremony for its repair. Earle Westwood in centre.

[Miss Emily E. Edwardes (Mrs. Emily Matthews) holding Sam Kenworthy]

AM54-S11-: Port P1021.2
Item
1904

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken studio portrait shows Emily Edwardes holding baby Sam Kenworthy, son of John Kenworthy, related to Mrs. Col. Woodward of Woodward Department Store.

[Mrs. J.S. Matthews]

AM54-S11-: Port P949.1
Item
1938

Part of Major Matthews collection

Professionally taken head and shoulders portrait shows Emily Matthews in evening gown. This portrait was used as the basis for Sydney March's oil painting of Emily Matthews.

Completing Substructure

AM54-S4-1---: M-2-46
Item
Oct. 24, 1903

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph showing the last block of masonry being put into place under the watchful eye of some well-dressed ladies, W.H. Armstrong, Robert Balfour and others