City of Vancouver Archives

[The McLennan, McFeely and Prior display car and van near the Canadian National Railway Station]

AM54-S4-: Trans P20
Item
1937

AM54-S4-: Port P1624
Item
[ca. 1898]

Group studio portrait showing: George, Edward, Richard, Thomas, Ann, Sarah Jane, Arthur, Susan (Mrs. George B. Kerfoot), William and John

[The new Hastings Sawmill]

AM54-S4-: Mi P71
Item
[ca. 1917]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The new Mountain View United Church beside the old church being demolished on East 28th Avenue]

AM54-S4-: Ch P70.1
Item
1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The new Post Offce construction site looking towards Homer Street between Dunsmuir and Georgia Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P476.7
Item
Sept. 8, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph. Photograph shows the Alcazar Hotel, the "W" on the roof of the Woodwards building and the Sun Tower.

[The new Post Office building site looking towards Georgia between Hamilton and Homer Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P476.9
Item
Sept. 8, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph

[The new Post office building under construction from Dunsmuir and Hamilton Streets]

AM54-S4-: Bu P476.30
Item
Apr. 5, 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph

[The new Post Office building under construction from the corner of Homer and Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P476.28
Item
Apr. 5, 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Construction progress photograph. Photograph shows the "W" on the roof of the Woodward's building and the Sun Tower.

[The New Westminster Trophy]

AM54-S4-: Mil P27
Item
1932

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The office and sales staff of Imperial Oil Company Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Port P1493
Item
[ca. 1913]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing (left to right): seated: R.M. Pidgeon, William Stormont, Charles M. Rolston, H.J. Guthrie, H.D. Averill and Mr. Woodland; standing: John E. Hayden, unidentified, unidentified, Mr. Griffiths, William Hof, A.M. Abbey, J.S. Matthews and unidentified

[The old brick power house of the Vancouver Electric Illuminating Company]

AM54-S4-: Mon P87.1
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The opening ceremonies for the British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Empire Stadium]

AM54-S4-: Sp P66.6
Item
July 31, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows members of the military marching across the field and the grandstand

[The opening ceremonies for the British Empire and Commonwealth Games at Empire Stadium]

AM54-S4-: Sp P66.7
Item
July, 31, 1954

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows athletes from Bermuda, British Guiana, England and others lining up on the field and the grandstand

[The opening of the B.C. Electric Railway Company bus line on Grandview Highway]

AM54-S4-: Trans P101.2
Item
Mar. 23, 1923

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portait showing (left to right): Mr. Scribbens, H.E. Almond, P.C. Gibbens, F.P. Rogers, W.R. owen, T.H. Tracy, George Kidd and His Worship C.E. Tisdall

[The organ inside Wesley Methodist Church on the southwest corner of Burrard Street at Georgia Street]

AM54-S4-: CVA 466-27
Item
[ca. 1901]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The police with the weapons confiscated after the murder of two men on a steamer]

AM54-S4-: Port P165
Item
[193-?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Item is a photograph showing, left to right, Chief of Detectives John Jackson, Detective Killeen, Mr. Joe Ricci, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Thompson, Mr. Donald Sinclair, and Detective Sergeant George McLaughlin.

[The Pratt and Gordon Real Estate office at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Trutch Street]

AM54-S4-: Str N32
Item
[ca. 1908]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Princess Royal Mary signs the visitor's book in the Mayor's office]

AM54-S4-: Port P1325.1
Item
Oct. 21, 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows His Worship Frederick J. Hume

[The Princess Royal Mary visits Mr. Mark Rutherford in Shaughnessy Hospital]

AM54-S4-: Port P1328.1
Item
Oct. 22, 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows His Worship Fred J. Hume in the background

[The Princess Royal Mary visits patients in Shaughnessy Hospital]

AM54-S4-: Port P1328.3
Item
Oct. 21, 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Princess Royal Mary's signature in the Visitor's Book]

AM54-S4-: Port P1325.2
Item
Oct. 21, 1955

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Reading Circle of Vancouver (King Edward) High School]

AM54-S4-: Sch N20
Item
1908 ; reproduced 1940

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Left to right: (standing): Ada Irene Vermilyea, Marion Otton, G.G. Sedgewick, A.E.W. Salt, Belula Vemilyea and Mon Mude; (seated): Jean Lougheed, Laura Cousins, Bernice Cousins, Harriet Chaffet; (front): Nellie Harris

[The remains of a street car near the south end of Main Street after a collision with a freight car]

AM54-S4-: Str P142.1
Item
[ca. 1915]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable Baron Byng and His Worship W.R. Owen leaving the C.P.R. Station]

AM54-S4-: Port P8
Item
July 28, 1924

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable E.C. O'Dea, Lord Mayor of Sydney is presented with a flag by Mr. C. Fraser Elliott]

AM54-S4-: Port P1162.1
Item
1950

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable E.C. O'Dea, Lord Mayor of Sydney, Mrs. John Stewart, Mr. C. Fraser Elliott and Mrs. O'Dea with the Canadian Red Ensign]

AM54-S4-: Port P1162.2
Item
1950

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable Louis St. Laurent greets a girl and her mother]

AM54-S4-: Port P1483.2
Item
1957

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Right Honourable Sir Percy Vincent, The Lord Mayor of London and His Worship G.G. McGeer after unveiling the statue of Captain George Vancouver]

AM54-S4-: Port P1010
Item
Aug. 20, 1936

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Robertson and Hackett Sawmill in False Creek]

AM54-S4-: Van Sc P26
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Royal Mail stagecoach on Granville Street near Pender Street]

AM54-S4-: Str P323
Item
1899

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Seaforth Highlanders Cadet Battalion No. 72 in front of Aberdeen School]

AM54-S4-: Mil P20
Item
[1913?]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows D.W. Brown, Stuart D. Armour, E.R. Sherman, Ian Cameron and cadets

[The Seaforth Highlanders train at Brockton Point]

AM54-S4-: Mil P70.3
Item
[between 1914 and 1918]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The second C.P.R. Station at the foot of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P117.1
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The second C.P.R. Station at the foot of Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Can P117.2
Item
[ca. 1899]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Senior Vancouver Lacrosse Club in front of the dressing quarters at Brockton Point]

AM54-S4-: Sp P4.1
Item
1899

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing: Al Larwill, James A. Smith, Sheriff Hall, Sid Sykes, Joe Fagan, R.C. (Bud) Mulligan, Billy Quan, Harry Walton, A.E. 'Bony' Suckling, Dave Smith, Milton, Oppenheimer, Percy Mason, Dick Thurston, Scuito, W.W. 'Billy' Boultbee, Walter Hill, Sandy Cowan, Joe Reynolds, Alf E. Foreman, Billy Templeton, Alex Allen, Ken Campbell, Frank Miller, Dick Carswell, 'Dummy' Fraser, George Matheson, Billy Chase, Matt Barr, Bob Hill and others

[The sunken garden developed in the old quarry at Queen Elizabeth Park]

AM54-S4-: Dist P146.2
Item
[ca. 1952]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The tower of Kerrisdale United Church]

AM54-S4-: Ch P77
Item
[ca. 1940]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The tugboat "Point Hope" beside H.M.C.S. "Skeena" at C.P.R. Pier B-C]

AM54-S4-: Bo N274.3
Item
[ca. 1936]

Part of Major Matthews collection

[The Vancouver Block under construction - 736 Granville Street]

AM54-S4-: Bu P502.1
Item
Aug. 21, 1912

Part of Major Matthews collection

Photograph shows the foundation of the Birks building under construction, the Dominion Bank building and the Steeple of Holy Rosary Cathedral.

[The Vancouver Eleven Cricket Team on the Cambie Street Grounds on Dominion Day]

AM54-S4-: Sp P6
Item
July 1, 1888

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing left to right: (standing): Charles Nelson, Al. Larwell, G.R.T. Garrioch, A. Goodwin, James Schofield, Ed McDougall, Michael Wilkinson Brighouse, Sam Prenter, W.E. Green; (sitting): W. Leonard, J. Loutit, H.J. Elwood (Sharpe) and A.E. Beck

[The Vancouver Exhibition Association near Hastings Park]

AM54-S4-: Port P1221
Item
[ca. 1910]

Part of Major Matthews collection

Group portrait showing Frank A. Barrs, Harry S. Rolston, E.S. Knowlton, Thomas Bell and Alderman J.L. McTaggert

[The Vancouver General Tent Hospital at the Vancouver Exhibition]

AM54-S4-: Bu P475
Item
1914

Part of Major Matthews collection

People identified (left to right): Fred Perry, John J. Banfield, Dr. Morley, Dr. Lavell H. Leeson, Miss Margaret Rose (Mrs. W.G. McIntosh), Dr Malcolm T. MacEachern, Dr. J.H. Carson, Bernard J. Wood, Dr. J.A. Smith.

[The Woodward's Department store beacon]